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Went passed a protest in London today with people who suffer from Alzhiemers disease.
They were all chanting…
What do we want?
We dont know.
When do we want it?
Want what?Police have finally admitted they got it wrong in the shooting of Jaen Charles de Menez.
It was his naughty little brother Dennis they were after…..Do I really need to explain it to you?
Would you make jokes about cancer sufferers or disabled people?
Do I really need to explain it to you?
Would you make jokes about cancer sufferers or disabled people?
Bit harsh Paul ~ a huge number of jokes get their appeal from their injudicious nature. Tasteless they may be, but they do their job. I remember one about Ronald Reagan which involved both cancer and alzheimers. I think you can work out the punchline.
Rory – believe me I have laughed at and told many jokes that are deemed tasteless by some.
Nor would I want to ban the telling of such jokes – I abhor any form of censorship.
It’s just this particular subject touches a nerve and having seen the consequences of it I am loath to crack jokes about it.
Regarding the Regan joke it could be argued that is different as the joke is aimed at Regan and he has put himself in a position where he is there to be shot at. BTW I think that is a funny joke.
Perhaps I’m just a bit tired and sensitive today
Not as good as your nuts and tits joke LM, but quite funny in a Bernard Manning sorta way.
Sick jokes are intended to amuse some and offend others aren’t they?
edit: crossed post Max. No real surprise Manning sprung to both our minds eh?
Sorry paul. The last thing I woud ever want to do is offend anyone. This joke just tickled me and I thought some might like it.
I’ll change it for you.
Lolly don’t change it please – I wasn’t offended by it – I just didn’t find it funny – a subtle difference.
Believe me there is very little that offends me.
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I had a friend at school whose father was killed in a traffic accident. A drunk driver had taken a bend at ‘excessive speed’, mounted the payment and put the man through a shop window. Obviously everyone who knew her, and him, were devastated and offered all the support they could, but could we not talk about our own fathers around her? Would it not be needlessly upsetting and, potentially, offensive? Would making a smile-rousing comment about the man, even if highlighting a character flaw, be taking things too far?
With experience of the condition you are, obviously, more likely to take any form of comment to heart, but not everyone can know that and ‘tippy-toe’ around it as a result. I’m not suggesting for one moment that it is OK to make jokes about any subject, taboo or otherwise, but everything we say will doubtless offend someone, somewhere – the key is to interpret the sentiment behind it
Jokes about any form of disability or illness are potential disasters, but do we believe for one second that there was any vicious intent in what LM said? I very much doubt it. Now compare that to the songs some football fans sing about the Busby Babes, Hillsborough or even Ronaldo’s recent accident – vile, sadistic and thoroughly detestable verse next to a light-hearted, if dark, play on condition.
Not in the same league.
My mother is a teacher and works in a school next door to an institution for disabled children. I have taken the time to meet one or two of the students there, one of them a blind six-year-old. For whatever reason we were watching a news item about those with impaired vision playing football. The idea is that there are bells in the ball which alert players as to its position, and everything goes from there. The footage showed two boys playing the game and somebody said something along the lines of:
A: "Pass. Over here."
B: "Where?"
A: "I’ve got no idea."Potentially tasteless, but everyone giggled – the children, the parents and the teachers. There was no malice in what was said and people took it for what it was. That said, the six-year-old I met was being read a story by his teacher and, when asked what he thought of one of the characters, replied ‘he sounds like a ******* b*stard miss’.
You just reminded me Clivex.
Last night I shagged a girl with brittle bone disease.
What a little cracker!!!
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