Cancel Culture

[TD_LFC]

48 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

That's only true if you're a hypocrite.

Aren't most people?

 

I don't think the joke is that funny, I think it's punching down and isn't that clever.

 

I've also, rightly, been conditioned to think that the subject of the holocaust is so horrific that it's not something you really joke about unless it's really tame and/or aimed at the perpetrators rather than the victims.

 

I've laughed at some really darkly humoured jokes on other subjects in the past though, his aids joke I found funny because it subverted my expectation of where the joke was going but it's still about a virus that's killed millions and millions of people, I think that probably makes me a hypocrite.

[Rico1304]

PB must be turning in his grave. 

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

PB must be turning in his grave. 

Oy what did I do on the Maddie thread ?? 

[Arniepie]

4 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

Jimmy carr trending on Twitter for this Holocaust “joke” 
@jimmycarr 'No one ever wants to talk about the thousands of Gypsies killed by the nazis, because no one wants to talk about the positives'

 

I think that’s gone too far. He’s joking about 500,000 people, mainly women and young  children shot in Eastern Europe. Be interesting to see how Rachael Riley reacts to it. 

He has done a holocaust joke before.

I find it a bit odd that him and frankie Boyle can both be very near the knuckle but they have completely different reputations.

[Rico1304]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Oy what did I do on the Maddie thread ?? 

Not you mate. There’s some jokes in there that ultimately are about a kid being kidnapped and likely raped and murdered.  

[Rico1304]

The best Holocaust joke is the one that ends ‘you had to be there’.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Just now, Rico1304 said:

Not you mate. There’s some jokes in there that ultimately are about a kid being kidnapped and likely raped and murdered.  

Did Wolfie kick off about them in that thread?

 

 

[Strontium]

5 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

He has done a holocaust joke before.

I find it a bit odd that him and frankie Boyle can both be very near the knuckle but they have completely different reputations.

 

Boyle is much worse in my opinion, because he frequently takes aim at named individuals, which basically constitutes bullying. I mean, what did Katie Price's disabled kid do to deserve to have the shit ripped out of him by Frankie Boyle? But he gets away with it, because he hates the Tories.

[SasaS]

Boyle is also funny.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Just now, SasaS said:

Boyle is also funny.

He’s a very poor man’s wannabe Doug Stanhope. 
 

 

[Arniepie]

8 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

Boyle is much worse in my opinion, because he frequently takes aim at named individuals, which basically constitutes bullying. I mean, what did Katie Price's disabled kid do to deserve to have the shit ripped out of him by Frankie Boyle? But he gets away with it, because he hates the Tories.

But he doesnt really get away with it as he was banished off the tele for about a decade.

He was also changed a lot now and he does a lot more political stuff now.

We saw him at the everyman and loads walked out..

I've seen jimmy Carr a few times and he can often be as controversial as frankie.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Some people just can't write good jokes.

[Rico1304]

Just now, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Some people just can't write good jokes.

His ‘no you’re fattest’ is genius. 

[SasaS]

5 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

He’s a very poor man’s wannabe Doug Stanhope. 
 

 

I think he is funnier than Stanhope.

[sir roger]

Isn't Carr aiming the joke in the main at the hypocritical attitudes of the audience / society ?

[Skidfingers McGonical]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Fuck me, that's a world of wrong in one post.

 

You can, as you say, choose not to give a fuck when people other than yourself are attacked, dehumanised and victimised - even when the Government is in the process of passing laws to increase the already abhorrent discrimination against them. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? 

 

It's not clear why you can understand one non-GRT group being offended, but you "don't get" non-Jews (including Gypsies?) being offended.

 

If you want to know why people should take offence at stuff that doesn't directly affect them, ask Pastor Niemoller. Basic human empathy is the stuff that makes life worth living.

 

When people call out racism - as they absolutely should, always and everywhere - you shouldn't assume that they're pretending to be offended, just for effect. (Think that one through. The suggestion is fucking stupid.) It's best to assume that they recognise that bigotry is dangerous and just plain wrong. 

 

And I don't need anyone to tell jokes laughing at genocide for me to realise that genocide isn't fun.

I was talking about people like me and you Wolfie.

 

I should have elaborated a bit more on that particular point. And worded it far better.

 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

I think he is funnier than Stanhope.

Mate, you have very questionable tastes and one concerns me, that music video you nominated into Stigs tournament. Grade 1 nonce alert that. 

 

[SasaS]

3 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Mate, you have very questionable tastes and one concerns me, that music video you nominated into Stigs tournament. Grade 1 nonce alert that. 

 

Stanhope would get that video.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Boyle's closing speeches on New World Order are excellent.

[Arniepie]

I remember Robin Williams,of all people doing a gag about Eric Claptons kid.

[cloggypop]

16 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

He’s a very poor man’s wannabe Doug Stanhope. 
 

 

He's a shite Jerry Sadowitz without the magic. 

[SasaS]

11 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

He's a shite Jerry Sadowitz without the magic. 

Luke 4:24

[Captain Howdy]

50 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Boyle is also funny.

He’s a disgusting piece of shit 

[Geoff Woade]

2 hours ago, sir roger said:

Isn't Carr aiming the joke in the main at the hypocritical attitudes of the audience / society ?

That’s how I took it 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, Grinch said:

It’s not hate speech.

 

I wish I had as little to worry about as you do.  Maybe then I could spend my days getting all uppity about words that have zero effect on mine or anyone else’s life.

 

It is hate speech.

Words lead to actions.

 

Pull your head out of your arse and learn something.