David Jason's "racist" joke...

[Baby Huey]

Absolute seem to be going for maximum publicity on this story, not that shocking as they have lost many thousands of listeners since rebranding from Virgin.

[Ganglandboss]

esselte said:

What do you call an Indian Karaoke singer..?




Gerupta Singh...

I know an Indian guy who does karaoke called 'Patelvis - the Indian Elvis'. He does the karaoke in one of my locals in full Elvis Get-up. He was on the Big Breakfast a few years back on Elvis's birthday. He only does Patelvis at the weekend though - if he does a mid-week gig, he does it in his civvies and goes by the name 'The FBI' (fking Big Indian).

[theboyfold]

Baby Huey said:

Absolute seem to be going for maximum publicity on this story, not that shocking as they have lost many thousands of listeners since rebranding from Virgin.

My thoughts exactly...

BBC Website said said:

The comment was edited out of the show before it was put on the Absolute website as a podcast.

From that comment the interview was pre-recorded, so they knew about the comment. So they took it out of the main show as it might 'cause offence'. However they saw it fit to put it in the podcast, this way they can then publish an apology for a non-story and people then go to the website to download the podcast, which ups the traffic they get.

They knew what they were doing all along, it's just a ploy to get some free marketing and website traffic.

How about this for an idea, they don't keep telling us who they are sponsored by today, stop playing so many adverts, get DJs who don't sound like are reading everything from a script and maybe listeners will be interested in the station. Christian O'Connell was 10 times better when he was on XFM, FFS he is still running ideas they first played out on XFM years ago!

[ben_reza]

Sounds to me like it went out on the airwaves... so approx 3 people heard it.

Then it was removed for the podcast.

That would seem a little more logical?

[theboyfold]

ben_reza said:

Sounds to me like it went out on the airwaves... so approx 3 people heard it.

Then it was removed for the podcast.

That would seem a little more logical?

Ahhhh I read the report wrong then. I read it as the comment was removed from the show before it was inserted into the podcast.

Still don't like the station mind you...

Edited by theboyfold on Thursday 26th March 16:40

[carl_w]

What do you call a man with a plank of wood on his head? Edward.
What do you call a man with three planks of wood on his head? Edward Woodward.

[TheEnd]

ben_reza said:

Chinese car thief?
Tommi Tuk a mota

That would be Japanese

A Chinese one would be

"A man was walking down the street and noticed a sign reading: "Hans Schmidt's Chinese Laundry."

Being of a curious nature, he entered and was greeted by an obviously Oriental man who identified himself as Hans Schmidt.

"How come you have a name like that?" inquired the stranger.

The Oriental explained in very broken English that when he landed in America he was standing in the immigration line behind a German. When asked his name, the German replied, "Hans Schmidt."

When the immigration official asked the Oriental his name, he replied, "SAM TING."

[ShadownINja]

• groan*

There's the Chinese golfer... Ho Lin Won.

[otolith]

zax said:

Did anyone do "Angus McCoatup" yet?

Which is precisely the same joke as the one that offended the handwringers, but aimed at the Scottish. And it would have passed without comment.

[snuffle]

You can call someone a freckled faced ginger Celt in as angry a tone and with as much malice as possible and that's fine

waves back .. hello from a ginger not offended person

[esselte]

otolith said:

zax said:

Did anyone do "Angus McCoatup" yet?

Which is precisely the same joke as the one that offended the handwringers, but aimed at the Scottish. And it would have passed without comment.

What? With some of the Scottish posters on here? You must be joking.....

[Bushmaster]

Heard about the gay Indians?

Pran Singh, Min Singh, Pon Singh and R. Singh.

Their brother Dan joind the ballet.

Edited by Bushmaster on Thursday 26th March 21:39

[Brown and Boris]

I am thinking nobody coud really be offended except the white hand wringers. It is a play on words surely?

I know a host of simiar ones I woudn't hesitate to use: Cliff, Edward Woodwood, Bernadette, Russell, etc all which have English connotations.

[eldar]

carl_w said:

What do you call a man with a plank of wood on his head? Edward.
What do you call a man with three planks of wood on his head? Edward Woodward.

And a man with 4 planks on his head?


No idea, but Edward Woodward would.


And, to get back on topic, what do you call a man with a TVR on his head?

Jack.

[Alexj800]

Calling the joke racism merely belittles the suffering of those who have truly suffered from racism.

[V8A*ndy]

what do you call a pakistani microwave sales man

Pah-Ting.

Crap joke maybe but RACIST???????????

Is this racist? What do you call an Irish double glazing salesman "Paddy O'Doors"

However I like this

what do you call a pakistani lesbian wearing a bullet proof vest
mingeeta pting ptang

[Colonial]

Ok, I'm usually pretty flag waving left wing about these things

It's not overly funny, but it's sure as hell not racist,

[thehawk]

Bushmaster said:

Heard about the gay Indians?

Pran Singh, Min Singh, Pon Singh and R. Singh.

Their brother Dan joind the ballet.

Although if I'm not mistaken, that sort of 'joke' will in fact become illegal with the proposed -anti-homophobic' laws that are going through at the moment, and I 'm being serious.

[catmartin]

Just bookmarking this so I can come back to it for all the jokes!

[GingerWizard]

A Man. With a Spade in his head. Called Doug.
A Man. In a bush, having a fit/seizure. Called Russel.

Do i win?