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   Perks
   

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   I was listening to coverage of the hillsborough disaster today and a line came into my head that made smile. However, it is not a line I would publicly say because most people would call it at best misguided and at worse sick and quite rightly so.

   However in the context of my own thoughts and if it wasnt related to an appaling disaster it could be slightly amusing. So do you stay true to yourself, or to those that could be offended. Do you hold back to keep a sense of decency and morality, or if something raises a smile should you risk it and hope that some take it as the flipant remark it is. How do you choose?

   As a side note, is it just me that thinks of things that are highly inappropriate/offencive etc?

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   Midfield Diamond
   

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   Run it past dvo4fun ...

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   bonjonelson
   

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   By even thinking it you're a very very bad man.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   Perks
   

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   Oh I know that. Publicly I'm a lovely responsible father of 2. Mentally I'm a c**t

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   Dickens or Shakespeare
   

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   We'll never sell another copy NewsBiscuit ever again in Liverpool.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   I think we're all prone to thinking inappropriately at times.

   I have thought of some extremely sick jokes, but generally keep them either to myself or within the confines of my family, who know I'm twisted.

   But dvo's the go-to man for all matters of taste.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   I think if you are going to joke in public about certain things then that joke can't just be a little amusing it has to be brilliant. I also firmly believe that there's nothing that isn't a target for a gag or two, nothing.

   In the privacy of your own mind, or with good friends, especially after a few Jack Daniels, then anything goes.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   I censor myself in here quite a lot. It seems...prudent.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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   dvo4fun
   

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   Come on Perks - send it on PM and I'll give it the once over. If it's really good I'll probably nick it.

   Posted 8 months ago #
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    JohnA
    

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    A lot of us have sick jokes come to mind when there are tragedies, which must be a psychological coping strategy bequeathed by our evolutionary history. But never share them - for some people its the proverbial "red rag to the bull"

    There are still events that I still can't see the funny side of, such as the events of 9/11/2001 (I was in the US at the time).

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    charlies_hat
    

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    It happened to me very recently, at the time of Winnie Johnson dying, and I'm still feeling self loathing about my comedy tourettes thought.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Ironduke
    

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    Dvo used to have his finger on the pulse of moral sensitivity.

    Now he's managed to get his hand round its throat.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Scroat
    

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    I was thinking about doing a sub about a GLT Olympiad. The problem is it would rely on so many unacceptable stereotypes that I would be universally derided. Then I would have to have a flounce. The best part was the name. It was going to be called the Gaymes.

    If that was the best part, the rest must have been crap.

    I put this here though because I wouldn't go that far. So please don't deride me universally.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    dvo4fun
    

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    And what about the 'B' in GLBT?!

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    The B is for 'bacon', DVO.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    dvo4fun
    

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    Ah, you mean you grill it on both sides?

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Perks
    

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    @wayland very good. Although it would be coming from you. 10 stars

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    iRonA
    

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    I can't see the funny side of Hillsborough. (I was in Britain at the time).

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Golgo14
    

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    I really want to know what JohnA got up to on the 9-Nov-2001. Sounds awful.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    charlies_hat
    

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    Heard someone on the radio refer to 'Hillsboroughgate' today...

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Scroat
    

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    Yes sorry GLBT was the thingmy I was after there. Typo.

    Sorry all you B's - didn't mean to exclude.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    The All New Jeni B
    

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    Duke, some tourists committed a terrible attroci thing.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    HIGNFY
    

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    My personal take on "sick" jokes is I won't do them if they involve:

    1. A tragedy where innocent people died.
    2. Any subject involving children.
    3. Any subject involving a named individual who can not or is not in a position to respond or counter.

    Therefore jokes about people in the public eye, unnamed mongoloids, unnamed spastics, ethnic groups (not individuals), dwarfs, unnamed homosexuals, Ricky Gervais and other freak shows are okay by me.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    dvo4fun
    

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    @HIGNFY:

    Does that mean you wouldn't sub something involving the way the Hillsborough victims' families were treated? i.e. not making a joke [that's the wrong word - say 'comment'] about the event but of the subsequent response of 'authorities.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Golgo13
    

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    ...but unnamed mongoloids/spastics would be OK, so...

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    ramblesid
    

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    I haven't heard a good Black Death joke for middle ages.

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    button
    

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    Q. What did the unnamed homosexual dwarf say to the unnamed mongoloid?
    A. Who do you think you're looking at?

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Gerontius
    

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    Oh come on HIGNFY, not all homosexuals belong in a freak show.
    One or two of us are really quite nice.
    Yes, I know the world would be a better place without us (and obviously the mongoloids and spastics) and I apologise that you find us distasteful but I'm sure with good people like you around our days are numbered.
    Take no notice of what the others say.....that swamp is no place to live and you should never need to go back there.
    I would always give up my seat on the bus for you.
    xxxxxxx

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Ironduke
    

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    Who'd want to take a seat a homosexual has used?

    I just asumed they had seperate buses, or something. Surely that's just common sense?

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    Perks
    

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    Be nice, we are a gay sapiens here

    Posted 8 months ago #

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