Irish burial at Sea

[Rooster-UK]

A PC joke.

 

A **** walked into a ++++ and asked the ++++>>> for a %%%%%.

The ++++>>> said, " you can't have one because you are too ^&$+!

 

(The future of British humour?)

[MARTIN3030]

Your not jesting there Rooster....its a sobering thought (no disrespect to recovering alcoholics)

[kiptower]

it was a milk shake

 

what were you thinking it was

[MARTIN3030]

Am afraid to ask just in case I get it wrong...I mean was the milk shake made with Goats milk or Cows milk ?

Was it full fat low fat or half and half...and is it morally right to be mentioning fat when talking about Cows ?

She may be trying to lose some weight for Christmas..............

[Rooster-UK]

 

I'm sorry! It was only a joke!

[zither]

NEVER NEVER EVER JOKE its just not done!.

[Bookworm]

I think like everything else, it's all about context...

 

When Tez says on an other thread that I am "a little too French for his liking" and "with weird ideas about vegetarianism", I know it's an in-joke we have been carrying on cross threads for a while and that's ok.

 

OTOH, we had a member since long departed to pastures where they do put up with his kind of crap (come to think of it, I believe he had to create a new site so he would be let in, lol) who once posted a whole page full of hateful, nasty, xenophobic rants thinly disguised as "jokes". It was offensive because he MEANT them to be.

 

In my younger days, no-one laughed as much to my Arab jokes than my Arab friends. But if a member of the National Front had told the same joke, he wouldn't have got much of an appreciative audience.

 

Come on folks. A bit more of the festive spirit (more whisky, vicar? ).

 

Let's not gang up on someone who felt upset by a comment, it may be she read more into it or it caught her at a wrong time than was meant. On the other hand, we need to be vigilant because it IS a fine line and on an internet forum, you don't get the whole social context and body language to guide you through understanding what is a joke or not ( a bit like it's for Asperger's people all the time in real life...).

 

On that line, and to upset everyone British (not really! it's a joke!)

 

- How many condoms are in an Italian pack?

- 7, one for each day of the week.

 

- How many condoms n a French pack?

- 10. One for each day of the week, and a little bit extra for the week-end.

 

- How many condoms in a British pack?

- 12!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One for January, one for February, one for.......

[MARTIN3030]

Good to see you are observing Bookie-I was wondering when you would come.As always some food for thought.

 

Come on folks. A bit more of the festive spirit (more whisky, vicar? ).

 

erm vodka if its ok with you....Whisky gives me a headache...just the same as those I had having to read our former members zenophobic rants;)

[Tezcatlipoca]

I think like everything else, it's all about context...

 

When Tez says on an other thread that I am "a little too French for his liking" and "with weird ideas about vegetarianism", I know it's an in-joke we have been carrying on cross threads for a while and that's ok.

 

Absolutely, although you started it, stinkyhead

 

To footnote what Bookie says, it's also worth remembering that context is made trickier in an online forum, where you don't have the benefit of tone, inflection or body language to convey intent.

 

Oh, and why are Irish jokes so idiotic?

 

So the English can understand them.

[maroondevo52]

Have you heard the one about the Scottish 'spendthrift'

[Rooster-UK]

No, how does it go?

[maroondevo52]

No, how does it go?

 

It dose'nt

[Rooster-UK]

[MARTIN3030]

Every country has stereotype minded jokes about other countries-in my travels in Russia and Ukraine they tend to tell jokes about English love of Tea and Sherlock holmes.

In turn I have learned to return a few to them most of which relate to Stalin Putin Vodka or snow..but heres one of my favourites ;

 

 

A Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian are viewing a painting of Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden.

 

"Look at their reserve, their calm," muses the Briton "They must be British."

 

"Nonsense," the Frenchman disagrees. "They're naked, and so beautiful. Clearly, they are French."

 

No clothes, no shelter," the Russian points out, "they have only an apple to eat, and they're being told this is paradise. They are Russian."

[kiptower]

no more drinking for you now

 

[Rooster-UK]

Hi, Cousin!

[ODC]

have you heard the one about the black irish ? muslim blind dwarf with one leg

[locutus]

have you heard the one about the black irish ? muslim blind dwarf with one leg

Heard it? I think I dated it!

[Desperate Daniella]

Yes, they are the ones who get special grants to allow them to train as bus drivers or firefighters, and then special grants to fight discrimination if they don't get the job on the basis that they are incapable of doing it. Consequently they get shedloads of money as compensation and the joke is on the lot of us.

[Mungypup]

The Paternal side of my family is Irish and I don't find most jokes about Irish people offensive at all. I think there is a big difference between somebody being humerous and light hearted in their intentions and somebody deliberatley putting someone or a culture down, whilst trying to be humerous. It is the latter I take offense too, and this was very obviously NOT the intention of this joke.

[Bookworm]

Anyway, it's obvious it was a joke and no relation to a real situation.

 

 

 

 

 

I mean, sober enough to actually row a boat to the middle of the ocean?

 

 

 

 

 

*Bookie ducks for cover. Fast.*

[ODC]

Why do divers roll backwards off a boat into the sea

 

 

Because if they rolled forwards they would roll into the boat

 

 

 

 

Sorry to any divers who find this offensive