miserableoldgit

Monkees

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imogen too late again

Bedlam

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Leaf

trumpet telling-bone

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Is that what the tractor was for??

I think that you could expect nothing less.:mad:

Let`s put this in context. Up until 17thC, it was acceptable to cut peoples heads off as punishment for various crimes. Nowadays we think that it is barbaric and unacceptable. In the 70`s Bernard Manning, Love Thy Neighbour and (the Blessed Spikes) Curry and Chips were acceptable and were mainstream. Times and attitudes change but we can`t say that people in the 70`s were wrong. They are wrong compared with todays standards that`s all. I wonder what people will think of us in 30 years time!

Rightly or wrongly it has always been a British trait (and strangely something that I admire) to make jokes/fun in adversity. For example, I remember jokes appearing within hours of 9/11. Good taste? No, obviously, but it`s what we do and what we have always done. It may be in bad taste but very rarely is it done to be deliberately nasty.

I think you will find that the Club has said that they will do it on "All Saints Day" which they do every year to remember all Saints related "departures". Let`s not pillory the club just yet.

Try listening to Australians being interviewed if you want to hear that a lot!

To a degree isn`t that the point? I saw Frankie Boyle last year and found him extremely funny. I left my sense of delicacy at the front door because I knew what to expect. I personally like "clever" comedy, with plays on words/language (Milton Jones, Stewart Francis etc) but I can sometimes find "offensive" funny as well. As I said on an earlier post, it is comedy/humour, NOT serious racist, sexist, homophobic or whatever -ist or -ic comment you wish to name.

plague

I wonder how many times we will see "TCWTB" this afternoon??

Where do you draw the line though? Women are "different" to men. Should men not tell jokes about women and vice-versa? Is it wrong to tell jokes about, for example, Portsmouth fans, Essex girls, Jedward etc? Virtually every joke is at someones expense. Surely it depend on your definition of "offensive". I don`t find any particular problems with Irish, Scots, Welsh, French or Australian type jokes, and am not offended when people tell jokes about the English. This is humour for goodness sake. Providing that there is no "nastiness" in the joke, what is the problem

I have this. Excellent. Always thought of him as the architypal troubled genius, but he certainly was very influential. I love anything by Emmylou Harris but especially "Pieces of the Sky" and "Wrecking Ball" and have most of her albums.

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1812

Blitzkrieg (Bollix! too late!)

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