David Jason

[steve56]

The joke he told was a old one so why all the fuss i heard it on the radio Duggie Brown told it in the 80s

[randyandy]

Why all the fuss?

Because pricks can make gains out of it.

There are probably thousands of jokes which are plays on words for all types but nowt is said unless it includes or can relate to race and in turn can get a headline.

I had the misfortune of seeing Coronation Street the other night. The shopkeeper and his relative stereotype cast in terms of how they talk is more offensive than this.

[Peter]

We now have a situation where they're trying to ban 'homophobic' jokes, so "the only gay in the village" will be no more, yet 'those who must never be criticised for anything ever" are free to walk the streets calling for the execution of gays.

Welcome to NuLabour Britain.

[number 6]

Open all hours was a crime anyway. Pay back time.

[max_tranmere]

This sort of thing so irritates people. It proves that if you even cough in the wrong key around anything to do with ethnic issues, the wrath of the gods comes down on you. This gag was so harmless, no differnt than saying 'the achetypal Englishman can be summed up by a man in a pin-striped suit with a bowler hat and umbrella', or something similar to that. No English person (and I am one) would take offense to that if it was said by a person of a differnt ethnicity, and this gag cracked by David Jason is no more serious than that. What is strange with these things is that I doubt any ethnic minority people have actually complained, it was probably these leftie-liberal Guardian-reading middleclass people in Hackney and Dalston THINKING ethnic minority people would be offended so they thought they would make a big hoo-ha about it! And they have.

[Flat_Eric]

Max - you have to remember that in NuLabour Britain in 2009, the only group that's still fair game for jokes and ribbing is heterosexual, white, English men.

Direct your humour at anyone else, and you run the risk of being branded at best "offensive" and at worst "racist" (with a range of other "-ists" and "-phobics" in between, depending on who the joke is about).

- Eric

[steve56]

Woman on Whirligig didnt like my comment about Paul O Grady the other day Peter wrote:

> We now have a situation where they're trying to ban
> 'homophobic' jokes, so "the only gay in the village" will be no
> more, yet 'those who must never be criticised for anything
> ever" are free to walk the streets calling for the execution of
> gays.
>
> Welcome to NuLabour Britain.

[Steve R]

This was in my wife's 'newspaper'.

Yes, it beggars belief that this sort of thing is now deemed to be 'offensive'.

I despair.

[randyandy]

Lets getting fucking real shall we, just for a change.

These complaining cunts have been around long before Labour got elected.

They do it just because they can and know that when they do they get their headline.