Bad Taste Jokes, censor them because someone may be offended
Discussion
Title says it all.
Should the tradition of bad taste and offensive jokes (even topical) be censored because they may offend someone ?
Are they offensive, who has the right to be offended, should that offence be used as a reason to censor/delete
Where does this leave us, does it effect free speech, should they be "posted and be dammed"
Do they show people do care and are thinking/reacting about the event or are they just an indicator of a less sensitive modern world.
Should the tradition of bad taste and offensive jokes (even topical) be censored because they may offend someone ?
Are they offensive, who has the right to be offended, should that offence be used as a reason to censor/delete
Where does this leave us, does it effect free speech, should they be "posted and be dammed"
Do they show people do care and are thinking/reacting about the event or are they just an indicator of a less sensitive modern world.
Guessing you're on about this little display of Pistonheads at its finest?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
Stickyfinger said:
Title says it all.
Should the tradition of bad taste and offensive jokes (even topical) be censored because they may offend someone ?
Are they offensive, who has the right to be offended, should that offence be used as a reason to censor/delete
Where does this leave us, does it effect free speech, should they be "posted and be dammed"
Do they show people do care and are thinking/reacting about the event or are they just an indicator of a less sensitive modern world.
What WAS wrong with Bernard Manning, anyway?Should the tradition of bad taste and offensive jokes (even topical) be censored because they may offend someone ?
Are they offensive, who has the right to be offended, should that offence be used as a reason to censor/delete
Where does this leave us, does it effect free speech, should they be "posted and be dammed"
Do they show people do care and are thinking/reacting about the event or are they just an indicator of a less sensitive modern world.
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: Guessing you're on about this little display of Pistonheads at its finest?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
The people who make 'funny' remarks show themselves for what they are: makes it easier to identify the ahttp://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
holes.bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Guessing you're on about this little display of Pistonheads at its finest?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
....I accept the home owner doeshttp://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
So, if your offended you just need to make so much fuss/shout/scream and swear till the home owner shuts the party down ?....welcome to the new world where you just make so much fuss your actions have the effect you wanted.
A bit like a child having a tantrum
Reminds me of Paedogeddon https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7FaEEzNU except it was hilarious.
I think the jokes in the other thread were in poor taste. Misjudged.
I think the jokes in the other thread were in poor taste. Misjudged.
Some people just cannot accept how other people deal with grief or tragic cicumstances. It's amplified by the facebook and twitter generation; everyone thinks their opinion is important when really they should just switch their laptop off and get on with daily life.
I remember years ago going to a family friends funeral. He had been married to a Tunisian woman for about 6 months at the time and a normally reserved Christian funeral was turned into complete chaos with her and the relatives frantically wailing and hugging the Coffin in the middle of the Ceromony. Very strange but I guess thats just the way she wanted to grieve.
I have worked in the NHS for the last few years and still remember visiting our first expected death. It kept me up for most of the night but in the hundreds since we now use humour to deal with it. If someone from the "outside" heard our comments I'm sure there would be a complaint, but you do what you need to so you can keep going to work every day.
As said on that thread. Using humour to deal with grief or bad news has been a British pasttime since god was a boy. (hoping that term won't offened anyone of course...)
I remember years ago going to a family friends funeral. He had been married to a Tunisian woman for about 6 months at the time and a normally reserved Christian funeral was turned into complete chaos with her and the relatives frantically wailing and hugging the Coffin in the middle of the Ceromony. Very strange but I guess thats just the way she wanted to grieve.
I have worked in the NHS for the last few years and still remember visiting our first expected death. It kept me up for most of the night but in the hundreds since we now use humour to deal with it. If someone from the "outside" heard our comments I'm sure there would be a complaint, but you do what you need to so you can keep going to work every day.
As said on that thread. Using humour to deal with grief or bad news has been a British pasttime since god was a boy. (hoping that term won't offened anyone of course...)
Edited by NelsonM3 on Saturday 13th August 11:08
Voldemort said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Guessing you're on about this little display of Pistonheads at its finest?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
The people who make 'funny' remarks show themselves for what they are: makes it easier to identify the ahttp://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
holes.Sad b
ds complaining.Looking at the comments, Ridgemont is especially dense. He said "I can't recall anyone finding child abuse funny" durrrr, the point of the joke is that the subject matter is particularly awful and extremely serious. That is where the comedy is found
Do people not get this.This oversensitivity is really starting to piss me off now.
Mr2Mike said:
Just another display of histrionics by the professionally offended.
What is this "professionally offended" crap? I don't think anyone is being paid to be offended on here - maybe they just find some peoples words offensive?
"professionally offended" seems to be this year's PH insult of choice of posters with dubious taste.
I thought the 'bricking it' gag was funny.
I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
AW111 said:
What is this "professionally offended" crap?
I don't think anyone is being paid to be offended on here - maybe they just find some peoples words offensive?
"professionally offended" seems to be this year's PH insult of choice of posters with dubious taste.
Recreationally offended is probably a better phrase. No subject should be off-limits for humour. Otherwise a line has to be drawn somewhere. That is where the real problems arise, where is the line & who decides where it is?I don't think anyone is being paid to be offended on here - maybe they just find some peoples words offensive?
"professionally offended" seems to be this year's PH insult of choice of posters with dubious taste.
Choose to be offended if you like, but don't assume everyone else should be too.
Edited by vetrof on Saturday 13th August 14:15
Disastrous said:
I thought the 'bricking it' gag was funny.
I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
Are you cool with jokes about any subject if sufficiently funny then ?I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
vetrof said:
AW111 said:
What is this "professionally offended" crap?
I don't think anyone is being paid to be offended on here - maybe they just find some peoples words offensive?
"professionally offended" seems to be this year's PH insult of choice of posters with dubious taste.
Recreationally offended is probably a better phrase. No subject should be off-limits for humour. Otherwise a line has to be drawn somewhere. That is where the real problems arise, where is the line & who decides where it is?I don't think anyone is being paid to be offended on here - maybe they just find some peoples words offensive?
"professionally offended" seems to be this year's PH insult of choice of posters with dubious taste.
Choose to be offended if you like, but don't assume everyone else should be too.
Edited by vetrof on Saturday 13th August 14:15
StottyEvo said:
Voldemort said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Guessing you're on about this little display of Pistonheads at its finest?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
The people who make 'funny' remarks show themselves for what they are: makes it easier to identify the ahttp://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
It's pretty simply in my book, if you're in someone else's house you abide by their rules - free speech doesn't come into it.
holes.Sad b
ds complaining.Looking at the comments, Ridgemont is especially dense. He said "I can't recall anyone finding child abuse funny" durrrr, the point of the joke is that the subject matter is particularly awful and extremely serious. That is where the comedy is found
Do people not get this.This oversensitivity is really starting to piss me off now.
You probably need to be less sensitive about having to respect ground rules;)
T5XARV said:
Disastrous said:
I thought the 'bricking it' gag was funny.
I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
Are you cool with jokes about any subject if sufficiently funny then ?I do wish people were able to divorce humour from the reality of the subject. It's pretty standard that in for example a co egg club, nothing is off limits and a joke about X, y or z doesn't mean for a second that the comic agrees with the view he's putting forward.
Child abuse = appalling
Jokes about child abuse = potentially hilarious if a good gag
You have to choose to be offended. I choose not to be.
I don't find anything said in humour offensive. Humour is one of the ways in which people deal with things, even unimaginable horrors. I don't think anything should be off the menu as a topic of humour.
If you feel the need for a safe space then maybe reconsider whether interacting on the internet is for you.
I don't find anything said in humour offensive. Humour is one of the ways in which people deal with things, even unimaginable horrors. I don't think anything should be off the menu as a topic of humour.
If you feel the need for a safe space then maybe reconsider whether interacting on the internet is for you.
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