Lighten up mate, it was a thread created so that those types of jokes weren't spread across various other threads. A sort of concentration of all the worst bits in one place. Yes, perhaps I should have put it on general chat, but my thinking was that if people were getting offended by all the stuff, they'd know not to read it.
Knowing that it's there, you clearly went out of your way to read it and be offended. The title was clear, the content was clearly going to be edgy so why do you insist that it was moderated incorrectly? It's closed now, which irked me a little, but it's fair enough I suppose. The mods do a fantastic job and at the end of the day, they're posters just like we are. The close season is always going to bring a lot more OT threads because there's sod all else to talk about. I shouldn't have to put a warning on every thread I write, but as it happens, I thought that the content would probably offend some people and therefore put a title up that was obvious.
You wouldn't buy a porn mag and then moan at the explicit content, so why read a thread titled "worst jokes ever" then moan that the jokes are offensive? Viewpoints about the McCanns, child abuse etc are irrelevant when making jokes. I'm pretty sure all blondes aren't stupid; jokes aren't meant to be taken seriously or literally, that's the whole point. It doesn't say anything about my political, religious or social standpoints and rightly so. Jokes are always contextual, people telling them assume that the person hearing it knows that the content isn't a true statement....I'll stop there, I can't believe I've had to explain how a joke works.
If we're going to have debates, OT threads and the like then people need to lighten up and have a bit less of a standoffish attitude.
Roll on July 15 when the kicking of a ball can begin in earnest.