Dear Roy, Please please please ensure that John Terry is not in your squad come June. Many thanks Disillusioned England Mountain
I understand that, if someone continually gets offended by a joke that you say, you definitely shouldn't search for them to keep mocking them. But as you say its all about the delivery of the joke. If the person is truly trying to be offensive then thats wrong IMO but if its all in humour the person being offended really does also need to think about the individual nature of humour and just say to themselves they genuinely was not trying to be offensive. In my experience, you need to be able to laugh at yourself and not take yourself so seriously
But no-one IS laughing at themselves. Just others. This whole "if you don't find it funny, you have no sense of humour" attitude is very common among Leeds fans.
Josh - expect a little more humour from you ... the one liner 'so is donkey molesting' does sort of make you smile ... would have been far more apt aimed at Blackpool, Brighton or Scarborough fans admittedly ..
Bowie's lyrics, whilst controversial, were not aimed spefically at a particular individual or a member of that individual's family - your's were - and therin lies the distinction - now I've already made allusion to how funny I found particular sketches in Life Of Brian so am certainly not on the 'holier than thou' bandwagon when it comes to what is or is not acceptable in terms of humour ... but I can'f find anything humorous in mocking a disabilty of an individual with whom I have no familiarity or conection- or taunting a member of their family ...
He saw the chance to be offended and leapt on it. Christ, there are people with far more serious disabilities who aren't arsey about it, relatives of those people too. Being offended at Roy Hodgson's non-rhoticity? Pitiful. I thought the Sun headline was offensive because it was such a hackneyed and poor-quality joke. Not because it's so heinous an offence to mock a man who can't pronounce his 'r's properly. My own brother's the same, and I rib him for it all the time, and he takes it in good spirit/spiwit.
Great. You and your brother enjoy it. It's fairly clear that BigFox doesn't. Realise that people have different perceptions of humour.
Jerel - if you'd read further down the thread you'd have seen that BigFox had alreadyconceded that he had over-reacted (on the back of a few sherbets) ... hence your post came across as merely provocative rather than an attempt to make any sort of valid point about the dichotomy and breadth of humour....
Incredibly insensitive and cruel towards RH but I did have a little chuckle when I read the full line up. If that makes me an equally cruel bastard then hey ho, I will live with it. Is that what we Brits are famed for? laughing at ourselves and each other?
