Obscene?

[R1Geezer]

http://www.dailymail....nguage-good-joke.html
or a good joke?

[4candles]

I didn't hear the programme, but if the reports are correct, the word wasn't actually uttered, so where's the problem?

[ummmm]

I can't understand why someone would be so offended by the use of the C word either. It's only a word.

[Sqad]

I never use the word, but I cannot see that it is offensive in the context of which we are discussing.

[Zeuhl]

<<I never use the word>>

But Sqad
You must hear it quite a lot

:-)

[Sqad]

Zeuhl.....LOL....I do, but I didn't think that they were referring to me ;-)

[Zeuhl]

Yo Ho Sqad

I'm sure that's the best attitude to take LOL

[Philtaz]

Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes:

Tommy Smith has not long left the Army and decides to join the local golf club as a 'Town' member

Having been there a few weeks and getting to know the faces, he spots a rather crusty looking old gent and recognises him as a Colonel from his old regiment. Tommy didn't have the best of times serving under him but decides to let bygones be bygones and approaches the old duffer.
"Remember me?" he says to the gent, who turns to look at him.
"Ah Smith" says the officer. "Didn't know you played. Have you joined as a Town or a Country member?"
Tommy informs him of his Town membership.
"Ah well, there you are you see, I'm a Country member".
"Yes" says Tommy. "I remember"!

[joeluke]

ummmm......'I can't understand why someone would be so offended by the use of the C word either. It's only a word.'

Same can be said of lots of 'offensive' words, but if we dare to use them the PC brigade soon jump on us

[ummmm]

I don't find any swear words offensive....

[craft1948]

I find the word distasteful perhaps because it's usually used in a nasty way, whereas most swear words can be used lightheartedly.

[jackthehat]

Like the best of 'jokes'; it's not what your ears hear, it what your mind imagines........
I think the issue with swearing is the appropriateness of the situation/company.

I'd be far more offended by casual usage of the sort of words which it appears some folks would like to use, rather than a good old-fashioned expletive !

[ummmm]

I think being brought up in a pub didn't help with my attitude to swearing....

[jackthehat]

I tried to curb it when you were about...........:o/

[jno]

I would probably be offended if I herard the word on radio or TV, but the 'joke' is that she didn't use it. I find it kind of hard to be offended by something she didn't say.

[Gromit]

// the Tories have put the N into cuts //

More clever than funny. Not obscene, and because she did not say the C word clearly acceptable.

[Gromit]

I first heard this on Steptoe on the radio at noon 40 years ago.

// crossword clue, Albert: four letter word- found at the bottom of a bird cage ending in IT.
Harold: GRIT
Albert: have you got a rubber?

Now if he had said SH IT 40 years ago it would never had been broadcast. Same with the 'joke' in the question.

[anotheoldgit]

Absolutely obscene and as offensive to women as the 'N' word or the 'P' word is to others.

Yet if either of those two words had been woven into a joke, I am sure some on here wouldn't have had such a relaxed attitude then, as they have over this word.

[ummmm]

I shouldn't laugh.

[Zeuhl]

you know you want to ...