Has No One Got A Sense Of Humour Anymore?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49395718

[Mamyalynne]

A bit sweeping to say no one.

Some won't find those jokes funny but many do and comedians with disabilities etc use humour regularly.

[dannyk13]

I don't think that it is a lack of humour, more like people having a predilection for complaining at the slightest thing. We are becoming a nation of whingers.

[spathiphyllum]

I think it is a lack of humour.. also people taking things fully up the but instead of just letting it spank them.

[Rockrose]

My friends adult son has this condition and for many years has suffered from depression not helped by the fact he feels that he is being laughed at.

[Mamyalynne]

Include me out (I know, dreadful phrase) of that 'we'- I get heartily fed up of whinging on here for a start .

[ludwig]

The joke doesn't even laugh at the condition itself or anyone that has it.

It's a pun.

[spathiphyllum]

I agree ludwig. How is it offensive?

[Mamyalynne]

It's surprising really, those with Tourettes I have met have been amongst the wittiest people I know, whether that's a coping mechanism I don't know.

[Togo]

Suzanne Dobson chief executive of the Tourettes Action Charity( very well paid it is too) said we are about to launch a campaign to discourage people from making fun of people suffering with Tourettes and instead just laugh at people with Dyslexia.

[ummmm]

I don't think humour has changed just that the grumpy people have more outlets to let the world know they're outraged.

[Denton]

So very true,ummm.

[douglas9401]

You live, you learn.
Until now I'd thought that Tourettes were half-day trips.

[ludwig]

There's a castle where I live that keeps shouting out rude words.
I think it has turrets.

[Old_Geezer]

That was my thought immediately, where is their sense of humour. To say it isn't funny is fair enough. One sees what the joke creator was trying for but it doesn't quite make it. But relating it to their specialist area as though it were insult rather than just the necessary setting for the joke, is oversensitivity at a high level.

I think they have embarrassed themselves and need to sit down and consider their overreaction. No one is mocking the actual issue of Tourette's syndrome, it's merely fertile ground for an innocuous jest.

[pixie374]

It's slightly ironic that a Tourette's charity is complaining about people saying offensive things in public...
Jokes are not meant to be taken seriously... it's kind of the point.

[melv16]

Who said; 'let the effing *** eat effing cake'?
Mary Ann Tourettes

[ToraToraTora]

melv, that's better than the broccoli one!

[Ellipsis]

Funny how nobody found it funny yesterday but now they're getting funny about someone who's gone funny over it ...

[woofgang]

I think if people with the condition are finding it offensive then its offensive. Its not up to people who haven't got the condition to decide whether or not its offensive....and if that's the "best joke" of the fringe then I wonder what the worst joke was like?

[Ellipsis]

Not all jokes are harmless, but this one was ... a harmless joke that maybe gets people talking about Tourette's and brings it to wider attention and understanding.