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Spurs sign Mr. Bean as new manager.

Add into the above Trump’s clear and rapid cognitive decline and the situation is not looking good. The number of clips showing Trump stumbling over his words is growing. His boasting about taking three tests has also backfired. These are not IQ tests as he liked to pretend. They are checking his cognitive state. https://www.inquisitr.com/former-white-house-doctor-criticizes-trump-for-bragging-about-dementia-tests/

Trigger alert. This article uses the term “far right.” https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/3/28/hundreds-of-thousands-march-through-london-in-stand-against-the-far-right

As I said, things change. Blazing Saddles wouldn’t get made now despite it being anti racist. Alf Garnet was set up for us to laugh at a bigot but you couldn’t make a programme with a main character like that now. However, we actually have a bigot in the White House supported by millions of Americans so god knows what is going on.

Has anybody told him that there isn’t a Nobel prize for starting wars?

Surprise surprise. Farage’s claim of voter fraud was all bollox. https://www.ft.com/content/8c6c4ff0-68d9-4e08-a9a5-a317742d112e?syn-25a6b1a6=1

If there is one thing Farage is useful for it’s giving us a laugh.

They might not be brilliant at the moment, but they are certainly an improvement on the previous government and are far better than Farage’s grifter party alternative.

I don’t get why you don’t usually get the running commentary regarding Trump. He hasn’t only gone insane regarding Iran. He is insane, full stop.

Well known failed Apprentice, Z list celebrity, “influencer”, and flag shagger Tom Skinner represented Reform on QT last night following a long line of failed Tory MPs on the programme. Farage seems to attract failures like moths to a flame. He could barely string two words together. Not sure what the purpose of putting him on the panel was although it does make a change to see a typical Reform voter on the panel rather than the rich grifters who are out to exploit them.

You can laugh at what you like Badger. If you went to live in Africa and were one of the few white people living in the town, would you feel comfortable if the locals made fun of you because of your colour? Blazing Saddles was making fun of racism wasn’t it? Just as Mel Brookes poked fun at the Nazis in The Producers. I am sure you are bright enough to know the difference.

Don’t you know people outside of your own house and family? Well of course you do. Although I can imagine that many of them would rather avoid you.

We (the forum) has had this discussion before. Black people have appropriated it for their own use. When white people use it it is racist. I used to laugh at a lot of things in the 60’s and 70’s that aren’t remotely funny in 2026. Times change and most change with them don’t they? I know we still have some posters rooted in the last century though. Is the first joke funny? No. It is just not remotely funny even if it were told in the 1970’s. Is it offensive? Not to me. Maybe to gay people, but then the ones I know don’t have a problem with making fun of their sexuality. It raises another point. Just because something is not offensive to one person, it doesn’t mean it isn’t offensive to someone else? Where do you draw the line? For the younger generations, they won’t know what humour was like in the 60’s and 70’s so will have a completely different attitude towards what is socially acceptable. We would probably sit stony faced through comedy acts from the 20’s and 30’s. Is there anything intrinsically funny about people with different colour skin or sexuality? Of course not. It is all about attitudes. Attitudes change.

Would you laugh at a joke using the n word? There are plenty of things we laughed at in the 70’s but we wouldn’t dream of laughing at now. Bob Monkhouse was of that era. We have no idea about the content of the book, but someone has made the call that some of the jokes could be seen as offensive now.