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sp1814 | 19:29 Tue 12th Apr 2011 | News
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Joe Mott from the Daily Star commenting on Ricky Gervais' recent weight loss suggested that if he were a gay man, one would assume he's dying of AIDS.

http://twitpic.com/4jqkwn

Is this funny 'ha ha', or funny 'good God, how did they let this one get printed'?
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neither
19:30 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Have you put the right link up as i can't see aids mentioned.
19:33 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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It's a nothing comment, it's just people wanting to make more of that kind of thing as usual
20:27 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Bad taste.
20:28 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Not funny................what bloke would fancy Ricky Gervais?
20:32 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Macallan

Very much implied, don't you think?

What conclusion would you arrive at other than a reference to AIDS?
20:35 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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The words "Funny " and Ricky Gervais should not be used in the same sentence
20:35 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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oh yes you can only be "ill" if you're gay, i forgot that rule
20:36 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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I saw an ad in the paper the other day with the new super svelte RG in it... I put it down to bad Photoshop...
20:36 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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That is in bad taste. You have to be careful what you say, quite a few people commented on my SIL's weight loss and assumed she was dieting, but she had cancer, it caused a few awkward moments on both sides.
20:40 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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sp1814 my friends daughter died after losing a lot of weight and looking very frail she did not have aids people use to ask him has she got Anorexia Nervosa this made him very upset.
I forget the medical name for her problem.
20:45 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Mccluff

Seriously - can't you see what's implied?

Really???

Blimey.
20:49 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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triggerhippy

I think the 'joke' is in astonishingly poor taste...like the writer thinks that AIDS is somehow a great punchline.
20:51 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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I can't see on what planet that would be funny... and yet somehow, Ricky Gervais as the butt of a bad-taste joke somehow seems like karma to me. But then, I'm not a fan.
22:16 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Not funny . At bit like RG.
22:18 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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"we are not amused" - quote VR
22:30 Tue 12th Apr 2011
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Gay/AIDS jokes are so 80's.
Couldn't the Star columnist come up with something more original than that?

Of course not, that's why he 'writes' for the Star........
22:32 Tue 12th Apr 2011

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