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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Just to drag the conversation back, I'm relatively sure that Billy Connolly was mocking 1) the media & 2) those people for whom their sympathy is dictated by whatever event it's deemed fashionable or acceptable by others (the media) but who really feel deep down "isn't Bigley dead yet?".
If he expressed it in a particularly inappropriate way then he's obviously open to criticism but I don't think his intention was as described /implied earlier.
succinctly put BenDToy.
Dark Angel your answer from Friday highlights the hypocrisy and inconsistency of the ultra-pc mob. you'll laugh at fatties or racist jokes but not at tsunamis, cos you're affected by one but not the others. That is the way of humour. If your mother had died of obesity, maybe fatties eating lots wouldn't make you laugh...DO YOU SEE????
And we can only say it once more for the hard of thinking...THE JOKE ONLY TAKES THE P1SS OUT OF BECKHAM. NO ONE was laughing at 250,000 people dying. the word tsunami existed for a long time before Boxing Day 2004 rolled around.
Practically every joke is offensive to someone or other; so should we ban jokes altogether? Political correctness is great up to a certian point - but certain people in this conversation have gone way over my pc boundary.
What is a suitable waiting period before one can crack a joke bout one thing or another? Hmm? The fact is he wasn't even being offensive towards the victims of the tsunami - he was being offensive towards stuipidity.
The memorable joke from Falty Towers; "Well you started it" "No I didn't, you were the ones who invaded Poland!" is renowned. The war was a great tragedy; but its fine to joke about that is it? Falty Towers is a big hit in Germany. They didn't mind.
To all good, law-abiding, practically pc in every way citezins; over-sensitive sense of humour failures are seemingly the way forward
Well, Ben D Toy was being offensive using words like 'idiocy', 'hypocrisy' 'jobsworth' 'PC' 'Tosh' etc. If you read my post I didn't use any of those insulting words, much less say that Rodney Marsh should have been sacked - I only said he could have been made aware that people are suffering and it was not an appropriate joke.
Well, maybe I was a bit harsh on you EI D, without meaning to be. and yes, laughing at fat people is not nice either, or people of different races but I didn't do it on national TV, its only jokes in general, among friends.
And Jills, its bad manners to use capitals in posts as that indicates shouting.
Finally, I'd like to say I am not PC, because I have got told off for taking the side of the person who is being beaten up for saying something out of line.
I am upset about the tsunami because even one month later, people in my country are still talking about it and the media is full of it.
Also, I didn't know that RM just made a pun on the word tsunami, until Stevie said something about it. Please forgive me for my ignorance.
And finally, I promise its finally, just to let you know that I have never been accused of being pc before on this site or anywhere else for that matter. Its always been friendly banter and mutual imparting of knowledge on AB where I am concerned, so it is extremely upsetting to be called pc by you. Can we just drop this subject and move on?