Off Topic The Newcastle banner

Whatever the banner meant to say wasn't clear.

IF it was meant as any sort of 'banter' then you would need to be a first class idiot not to have realised that many supporters from any Team, anywhere would find it in, at best, poor taste.

In that crowd will have been many thousands who have had relatives die of Cancer.
There's nothing at all humorous about that illness.

 

Nobody has attempted to make cancer 'humourous' though.

I think this is one of those things that comes down to interpretation.

It's not something I'd have signed off personally, but I'm struggling to see how people are not being able to distinguish the good part from the sly dig.

It's like saying 'Don't do comic relief, we can't mix tragedy with comedy'.

In the end, I think common sense has to prevail and you have to look at the intentions and only the most ridiculous of persons would insist that this was done with the intention of causing distress to sufferers of cancer.

 

To be fair, comic relief uses comedy to raise money for the third world . They don't do it via starving kids sketches. So what a ****ing ****house Bob Geldof is singing about them.

 

They do use starving kids scenes to raise money though, people are not handing over money because Harry Hill's just that good.

It's separate but on the same TV show, 5 minutes of Mrs Brown attempting to crack a bog-standard joke, then cut to some kid drinking out of a swamp in a Somalian slum.

It's possible to have two messages on the same platform, I'm not saying they've executed it well but I'm not seeing the gargantuan **** up some folk are seeing.

 

I quite agree but the point I failed to make was that any reference to Cancer, however well meant, has no place in 'banter'.

However, in terms of the banter, as Sunderland Fans CURRENTLY in The Premier League we can hardly complain that our neighbours, CURRENTLY in the Championship want to emphasise that fact.

 

Dude I was only cracking a joke.

 

Many cancer sufferers make light of their horror with humour.

One guy who had to leave work last year was the funniest bugger taking the piss out of his own blood cancer.

It's all in the context.

 

Yeah, don't laugh AT it obviously, but to say humour can't be associated with it is a bit far for me.

I don't think it's necessarily in banter, I'd say it's more with banter, i.e. it's not the subject of the banter.

I hate the word banter again now.

 

They should make the 3rd world kids earn it to be fair, give them a chance to appreciate the value of money.

They could do little shows, or dances.

 

I can see both sides here but I sit on the side that it was obviously done in good intentions but its execution was a bit iffy.

 

They should have tied the banner to the back of Thunderwing Doomslayer, then it'd have been funny.

 

Id go with that.

 

Harrier jumpjet.




Oh had on.

 

nah ya dirty rotten tell tail...........