Hell yeah! non of this pc lark for me. Beat them into submission LOL!

Sorry, I have a dreadful sense of humour that's probably quite unacceptable to some. But hey ho!

and the world continues to revolve

What does it really mean 'to demean'? Most jokes have a target. Many jokes make fun of the things people do, the things people say. Who decides whether a joke demeans someone or not?

I believe in free speech. I believe that the only arbiter of a joke is whether it's funny or not and exposes a truth, however uncomfortable.

Inciting people to hate is not funny, prejudice is not funny, but some jokes where the target is the behaviour of people to do with their race, their gender or their sexual orientation can be funny.

For example, Louis CK doing a bit on how some gay people with little dogs and outrageous clothes are funny and it's not homophobic to point this out.

Or Chris Rock's routine about Blacks vs N*******

Or Richard Prior's numerous observations on the behaviour of white people.

Let's not have censorship and a puritanical approach to comedy. Comedians are there to say the unsayable, to push boundaries. If you don't find it funny, then fair enough, walk away from it, but please let's not make blanket statements about what kind of comedy is 'wrong' because that way lies the thought police.

Stephen Fry summed up people getting offended quite well...

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so ****ing what."

How are you being gagged? By all means, say what you think and feel...but stop whining just because some people find it offensive.




Right, so finding it offensive when idiots tell bigoted jokes will lead to bigotry and resentment? Have a word with your good self.

Sod that. Can I laugh at David Cameron? Yes I can. 'Punching up' or 'punching down' is a good way of looking at what can seem ok/pc, but uncomfortably for some punching down can sometimes be just as funny. I didn't make the rules.

Oh, I quite agree Poppy. I would never intentionally go out of my way to upset someone, I'd be mortified, but I have put my foot in it quite a number of times I will confess.

I find I laugh at things I most probably shouldn't but I can't help myself. There is no malice in it, it's just how I am.

My friend fell over and broke her leg once. I was almost beside myself with laughter. The looks I got from passers by who went to help her was awful. I wasn't laughing because she'd hurt herself, it was the fact she'd done some kind of military two step on the way down that just tickled me LOL!

Well said.

I was rather hoping that with Linda being evicted, this type of bile being spewed all series on this forum would finally come to an end, and that we could all enjoy the final few days without banging on and on and on about Linda.

Regardless of the fact that consenting adults can, quite rightly, do what they wish...I think there would actually be very few married couples out here in the 'real world' who would be comfortable with watching their spouse having sex with another partner. I suspect in the World of showbiz a lot of these encounters are drug fuelled. Linda pissed me off by inferring it was a normal thing to do.

No one forces anyone to go and watch a comedian tell non PC jokes - if you know you're going to be offended, don't go. I've never had Jim Davidson phoning me telling me offensive jokes either

Who said that?

You can always avoid any threads that you feel are unacceptable to you.

It's not spoiling the rest of the show imo.

Quite harsh of you to want to rob Linda of her last few days of relevancy.

Excellent post, sums up my views exactly!

Yes so harsh of me wanting to deprive Linda of the relentless and nasty drivel that has been posted on here from day 1.

I certainly wouldn't want censorship and agree that the examples that you cite above are funny because they are either ridiculing the adsurdities of people who by their own actions leave themselves open to such ridicule or, in some cases, veer towards self parody. What IMO is wrong, is to try to humiliate people for things including the colour of their skin or their gender.

I hate to be the one to break it to you but...they can't. They may do so in the comfort of their own home but not in the High Street, not in Regent's Parl not in.....

Thankfully

Plus, I thought Linda was joking and that was a taste of her sense of humour

It is.

Did you not know she was benefits?

Couldn't agree more.

Nail. On. Head. Well done

Ha ha...

Apparently so, but you can go dogging instead! Yep, I am as confused as you.

I agree with this actually.

That's being a tad ridiculous.

Another ridiculous (in my opinion) post.
So old ladies that laugh along to Chubby and JD are hate filled racists now are they?

talk about lumping everyone in together.

You couldnt make it up.