http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 13:42:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98345 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:20:31 +0000 GreenCross 98345@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'll defend your right to write something that's in extremely poor taste. The joke itself was moderately funny, but I think the reason this doesn't go down well is because the unfortunate butt of the joke is a chap who was universally liked. People are less sensitive about more controversial figures.</p> <p>I was flabbergasted by the roasting I got when I wrote something about most British men finding the kissing/choking erotic and therefore Tabak's defence not being plausible.</p> <p>Am gradually learning where the line is! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98325 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:14:05 +0000 reforse 98325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I am looking good now </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98320 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:36:29 +0000 Coldstream 98320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ryan Giggs was quoted as saying his thoughts are with Gary Speed's wife at this time.</p> <p>For fuck's sake Giggsy, he's only been dead a few hours! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98318 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:30:34 +0000 Coldstream 98318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Speed's wife has released a statement saying that after everything that's happened, they can take consolation from the fact he'll always be looking down on them.</p> <p>Bit sick if you ask me, leaving him up there. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98211 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:21:50 +0000 SingingHinny 98211@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>So this one went quietly, then! <a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3598#post-10371">It is a times like this, that I always defer to a higher authority.</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98170 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:12:53 +0000 Bryan with a Y 98170@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And so shall I as Mrs 'Y' just bollocked me for my comment... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679&page=2#post-98165 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:03:33 +0000 reforse 98165@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I often do Bryan, I often do </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98164 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:01:53 +0000 Bryan with a Y 98164@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Reforse, you should hang your head in shame... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98155 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:47:55 +0000 Username 98155@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@reforse<br /> - If your Thatcher gag is good, I'll give it stars.<br /> Everytime I hear the name Lady Gaga, I think of her anyway... (When I first heard the name, I thought what a brilliant idea - someone will have taken speech soundbites, etc. and remixed them with some hideous young person's music to make a dance track...)</p> <p>- I had to google 'Wales boss' to know what you'd written about, and was pretty grossed out when I found out. Bit Frankie Boyle for my genteel tastes, sorry.</p> <p>- Hope the debate over the comedy value of middle-aged suicides is settled soon. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98149 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:28:45 +0000 waylandsmithy 98149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It was a bad taste pun. I like puns. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98148 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:26:35 +0000 reforse 98148@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I appreciate that, it was the "not a good subject to joke about" bit, I only commented now as Bonjo had brought his post up, which was a joke about a gay man with pneumonia facing a last Christmas. Fair enough, you judged it as not funny, I am feeling a little defensive, but hey I will spend my time coming up with a Thatcher ticker, hopefully it will be unfunny and appear rushed when I post it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98146 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:19:22 +0000 waylandsmithy 98146@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Reforse, I thought the George Michael post was funny. As it happens, I was defending your right to say whatever you like, and other people's right not to like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98145 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:16:35 +0000 greg various 98145@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd rather think that all death is a tragedy but Stalin's death was a God-send. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98141 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:06:04 +0000 reforse 98141@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bonjonelson "Arsehole. You'll be making jokes about George Michael dying next."</p> <p>I was going to point out to wayland he had just given you a plus for your George Michael last Christmas post, but I thought it best to lie low. </p> <p>It just shows Stalin was correct about people, one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98137 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:17:29 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 98137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Where's Rikkor when you need him? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98133 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:54:55 +0000 greg various 98133@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Crikey!I find myself being propositioned by a couple of chaps I'm not allowed to called queers. Sorry Gerontious and Bongo, you carry on with your bottom sex but I'll pass on this one, if y'ud don't mind. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98120 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:23:30 +0000 MADJEZ 98120@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>George Michael will be ok, you gotta have faith.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98119 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:12:58 +0000 Coldstream 98119@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>George Micheal is dead? Brilliant! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98117 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:09:15 +0000 bonjonelson 98117@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Arsehole. You'll be making jokes about George Michael dying next. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98115 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:02:16 +0000 Gerontius 98115@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Greg Darling,<br /> I think you may have just ‘outed’ yourself.<br /> So...you know what it’s like to be involved in a pillow fight with a load of poofs, however you don’t know who the professional footballer is but then you are familiar with the pleasures of erotic asphyxiation.<br /> You scamp.<br /> Why not PM me </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98114 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:58:39 +0000 greg various 98114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I bet there's a term for that which some degenerate on this site invented. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98113 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:51:51 +0000 greg various 98113@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Christ! If you want an argument let yourselves go. You'll feel better for it. This is like a load of poofs in a pillow fight. I don't think I'd heard of the bloke before yesterday but I can say that most of these sort of hangings are of a sexual nature. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98109 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:40:40 +0000 Rootin Tootin 98109@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thought that it was acceptable on this forum.</p> <p>Can you imagine the traffic when Margaret Thatcher finally goes! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98059 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:46:25 +0000 charlies_hat 98059@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I got up this morning and was going to post something about people 'coming out as Speed-ophiles' over the weekend, given the desperate coverage of rolling out everyone and their grandmother to wax lyrical - but then decided not to post. Having said that, I do think people should be able to post what they like when they like - if it's poor then it will dissapear quickly anyway, no need for cheap insults. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98056 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:38:50 +0000 Sinnick 98056@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The sub isn't funny, and will offend the vast majority of readers. The guidelines say "Stories shouldn’t be unnecessarily offensive", and <u>almost</u> anything goes.</p> <p>As for abuse, I thought we'd got away from casual swearing at last. At least be subtle ! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98013 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:31:07 +0000 Shandy 98013@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I didn't find the post funny, and thought it was in bad taste, but people should be allowed to write what they want without receiving abuse. It's easy to call people a cunt whilst sitting at your computer - I doubt you'd be so casually offensive if you were speaking face to face. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98011 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:08:50 +0000 Mathna 98011@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I still think he is a cunt.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-98002 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:28:54 +0000 dvo4fun 98002@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I did a sub on this (very sad it must be said) subject, which related to the media reaction and not the death itself. When I saw it 'on screen' thought twice and decided to delete. </p> <p>The fact is we're never all going to agree on what is &amp; isn't good taste. Pushing the edges reveals where our own boundaries are - for me it was only after posting that I thought I might have gone past my own. Reaction - good or bad - is part of it but the personal abuse doesn't seem appropriate. </p> <p>Right. I'm off for the third large Scotch of the evening. Having had some 'bleak days &amp; nights' of my own in times gone by, thankful that I'm still breathing and have a supportive circle of friends and family. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-97996 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:22:59 +0000 SingingHinny 97996@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agreed. Who said this place was too nice, eh? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34679#post-97993 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:09:34 +0000 waylandsmithy 97993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't like it, it's not a good subject to joke about and I didn't find it funny. But I think the reactions are far too strong, there's no need to vilify someone for overstepping the mark. </p>