Has No One Got A Sense Of Humour Anymore?

[ToraToraTora]

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

[pixie374]

I don't remember them, naomi. Everyone has a sense of humour and everyone's is different. Things change over time as to whether they are "acceptable" or not. But I wouldn't like the British sense of humour to be any more restricted.

[naomi24]

Pixie, Ernie fancied himself as a playwright but couldn’t string two written words together, and Eric claimed to play all the right notes on the piano - but not necessarily in the right order. Result chaos. Deliciously daft and very, very funny – and it seems most of the country thought so too. However, given today’s penchant for seeking offence, it could be claimed, quite ridiculously, that Eric and Ernie were ridiculing people with learning difficulties - just as some are now claiming that the joke in question ridicules people with Tourette's. That was the point I was making.

[Theland]

Bring back lavatories and innuendo.

[woofgang]

Arksided, i don't understand your post

[Mamyalynne]

Has someone stolen your lavatory Theland?

That's inconvenient.

[tonyav]

Mamya, the police are investigating. But they have nothing to go on yet.

[Mamyalynne]

....as I would expect, they'll get wind of something soon.

[Arksided]

Woofgang... Arksided, i don't understand your post

Which one?

[tonyav]

Yes Mamya, I'm sure they'll flush them out eventually.

[Theland]

I'm feeling bogged down now.

[Arksided]

.. If the person who had tourettes would have told the head to 'fluff off' if asked about the joke... head poncho didn't realise he/she meant it toward him/her...not the joke.

[anotheoldgit]

It gets worse the BBC received complaints over what Gary Lineker's 'bald men' joke.

/// He told viewers: 'It's a strong start to the premier league season. Real hair-raising stuff at times… unless you're Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy.' ///

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7377599/BBC-gets-official-complaints-Gary-Lineker-bald-men-joke-MOTD-hosts-Shearer-Murphy.html

[Mamyalynne]

It's becoming increasing obviously that a section of people have an achingly large part of their life that is unfulfilled and empty.

They should take up hobbies to benefit society - knitting hats for prem babies, litter picking or doing errands for their infirm neighbours.

Frankly anything to keep them away from a pen and paper or a keyboard.

[bhg481]

AOOG - Once again people being offended on behalf of somebody else; you can see from the video that Shearer and Murphey weren't in the least bit offended.

[teacake44]

Are all those unfulfilled people on AB, with their keyboard?

[ichkeria]

A lot of people get very offended when they see other people getting offended ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Not all of them Teacake, that's obvious if you've read the replies on this thread alone.

Most of us can see the difference between humour on stage or exchanged between pals to taunts and mockery in a public place for example.

[teacake44]

Good clean humour I'm all for, taking the pee out of someone's illness or condition is not humour. Put Bob Monkhouse (RIP) up against Jimmy Carr, and Carr would pull the bigger crowd, a good indication of how sick minded people are getting. Sick jokes have to get sicker to pull in the crowds, and that's whats happening.

[andy-hughes]

I haven't read every contribution, been away for a few days, but I am willing to guess that it follows the same format that this type of thread always does -

Some will say that people have no sense of humour.

Others will say that humour is subjetive and a matter of individual taste.

And someone, probably more than one, will use the phrase "Get a life …"

There, that's saved me about twenty minutes!

[pixie374]

Sums it up, really, Andy... not only does everyone else need to get a sense of humour, we should all have the same one:-)