IS IT RIGHT TO TAKE MICK OUT OF DISABLED

to me it depends on context.

i went to see jimmy carr last week, he told alot of jokes mainly sick ones, but i laughed along with about 3000 other poeple. i knew what i was going to see, and i paid to see it.
on the other hand if i saw someone going into a pub and bullying a disabled person id feel like punching them.
but im pretty sure jimmy carr for example wouldnt wank into a pub see someone with a disabliltity and think aahh il go and take the piss out of him. im sure he is a very down to earth friendly family man. who makes a living telling jokes along with all other comedians.
if all comedians walked on and told jokes about chickens crossing the road, who'd laugh apart from me

its all about situation and context.

excellent post milly.
re. the returning squadies joke.
my brother-in-law has done several tours of northern ireland, where he saw friends blown up, and 2 tours of iraq, where his best mate lost his leg by being blown up. i can tell you that he laughed at the joke. squadies have a wierd sense of humour, they've got to with all the shit they go through.
i am disabled, my son is classed as special needs and we have both laughed at jokes made by comedians aimed at our problems, the point is the comedian is making a joke to thousands, some will laugh some will be appalled, on stage. he is not having a go in the street, in a pub or anywhere apart from his platform.
life is too serious to be offended at everything, take a step back and laugh at yourself.

Two cracking posts. Take a bow gentlemen

i agree..

all depends on the context, i went to see jimmy Carr and found him hilarious, i also love Frankie Boyle. if i saw someone taking the piss out of a disabled person it would anger me and i wouldn't find it funny. but thats the difference, malicious attacks on individuals compared to telling jokes. Frankie Boyles harvey joke is dangerously near to the wrong side, although i must admit i did find it funny. but i'm sure he wouldn't take the piss out of him to his face etc

No, how would you feel if either yourself, or a spouse or member of your family was disabled [in any way]???

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to me it depends on context.

i went to see jimmy carr last week, he told alot of jokes mainly sick ones, but i laughed along with about 3000 other poeple. i knew what i was going to see, and i paid to see it.
on the other hand if i saw someone going into a pub and bullying a disabled person id feel like punching them.
but im pretty sure jimmy carr for example wouldnt wank into a pub see someone with a disabliltity and think aahh il go and take the piss out of him. im sure he is a very down to earth friendly family man. who makes a living telling jokes along with all other comedians.
if all comedians walked on and told jokes about chickens crossing the road, who'd laugh apart from me

its all about situation and context.

excellent post milly.
re. the returning squadies joke.
my brother-in-law has done several tours of northern ireland, where he saw friends blown up, and 2 tours of iraq, where his best mate lost his leg by being blown up. i can tell you that he laughed at the joke. squadies have a wierd sense of humour, they've got to with all the shit they go through.
i am disabled, my son is classed as special needs and we have both laughed at jokes made by comedians aimed at our problems, the point is the comedian is making a joke to thousands, some will laugh some will be appalled, on stage. he is not having a go in the street, in a pub or anywhere apart from his platform.
life is too serious to be offended at everything, take a step back and laugh at yourself.

Two cracking posts. Take a bow gentlemen

well thankyou kind sir

all depends on the context, i went to see jimmy Carr and found him hilarious, i also love Frankie Boyle. if i saw someone taking the piss out of a disabled person it would anger me and i wouldn't find it funny. but thats the difference, malicious attacks on individuals compared to telling jokes. Frankie Boyles harvey joke is dangerously near to the wrong side, although i must admit i did find it funny. but i'm sure he wouldn't take the piss out of him to his face etc

Just curious, please indulge me.

What precisely is funny about referring to preventing a mentally handicapped, blind child from having sex with his mum?

when you put it like that its not funny...

its the way you tell'em

No, how would you feel if either yourself, or a spouse or member of your family was disabled [in any way]???

My wife is registered disabled but that does not stop me from being the least PC person in the world. You see disabled people do have a sense of humour you know !! But that dosen't include my MRS

all depends on the context, i went to see jimmy Carr and found him hilarious, i also love Frankie Boyle. if i saw someone taking the piss out of a disabled person it would anger me and i wouldn't find it funny. but thats the difference, malicious attacks on individuals compared to telling jokes. Frankie Boyles harvey joke is dangerously near to the wrong side, although i must admit i did find it funny. but i'm sure he wouldn't take the piss out of him to his face etc

Just curious, please indulge me.

What precisely is funny about referring to preventing a mentally handicapped, blind child from having sex with his mum?

Thats easy mate.

Nothing.

And yet....

I laugh at paedo jokes and the like, even though I'd dearly like to batter the life out of
a kiddy fiddler with a brick.

You have to have a sense of humour otherwise life will be boring, but fact is if you are funny 99.9% of the time it is at the expense of others. One Bloke asked me in work the other day how my wife got on at the hospital ? i said they have given her pain killers for her hands, then someone said did they give her anything for her pain in the arse Witty ? or was that insensitive ? I f*cking laughed and so did the MRS when i told her.
The old joke about the para Olmpics and you quip cant wait for the 110 metre hurdles whilst slapping your head. But the irony is my MRS could end up in a wheelchair tomorrow. The idea of a comedian is to take the piss and i bet disabled people do laugh even if it is at there expense.