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  1. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    Knowingly or accidentally? If knowingly then it's a malicious action, but the card itself isn't malicious. Sending a Mother's Day card to someone who'd lost their child would be malicious, but that's entirely on the sender. Ideally, people would have the good taste to not buy and send rape...
  2. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    Yes, it says I believe in freedom of speech. Unfortunately that sometimes means defending silly things like this card, but so it goes. Look after free speech and it looks after you. She's entitled to complain about the card, but trying to get it banned is something else.
  3. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    And I've been out drinking with a few. As has been said earlier, this woman has decided that she's somehow the victim of a drearily unfunny humour card. As a result, she's shone a huge spotlight on it and given it far more attention than it would otherwise have got. I'm sure the manufacturers...
  4. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    Enhances stalking? No, it uses it as the subject of 'edgy' humour. Actual stalkers wouldn't use this card.
  5. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    Same reason Sun readers was lazy shorthand in the 80s and Daily Mail readers is now. Mine was a tongue in cheek reference, not intended to be serious. Loony left and PC Brigade are pretty dated terms. Trouble is, while we all know this type - overbearing middle class idiots who make worse...
  6. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    Yes, it’s a bit like someone decrying racism and then calling people gammons. There’s a lot of hypocrisy involved.
  7. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    I think “audiences wouldn’t stand for that now” was an excuse used by media executives in the 80s to ditch a lot of comics that they personally didn’t like and were embarrassed by but that the audience still found funny. When the very un-PC Little Britain somehow slipped through the net much...
  8. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    I didn’t find the card funny, but I didn’t find it offensive either. If others are offended, that’s their choice. The manufacturer should be free to sell it and customers should be free to buy or not buy it. Left to the free market it would’ve probably sold a couple of hundred at most and...
  9. RossyG

    [Humour] Is any subject taboo when it comes to jokes?

    The vast majority would laugh as individuals. In groups they’d go, “Ummmm, you’re not allowed to say that nowadays” as they’ve been conditioned to do so.
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