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Lenny Rider

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Sep 15, 2010
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Attended a dinner in London night.

One of the Comedian's gags was...…

"I went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got little Kenyan bloke comes everywhere with me now"

As one of the organisers of the dinner I was approached at the end and told by a guest they found that gag had crossed the line.

No doubt I will get flamed on here by some, but sorry with all that's currently going on in the country and the world in general, are we danger of becoming a little too precious?
 


Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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How is that offensive? It's quite amusing to me :shrug:
 












Bold Seagull

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Mar 18, 2010
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Hove
You're definitely too precious! :lolol:

Every single time someone gets offended, you get offended and start a thread about it.

It's a shit joke period.
 


mothy

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Dec 30, 2012
2,094
As offensive as the adebayor chant. So you're either offended by both or neither
 






Lenny Rider

Well-known member
Sep 15, 2010
5,377
You're definitely too precious! :lolol:

Every single time someone gets offended, you get offended and start a thread about it.

It's a shit joke period.

When the guy came over I thought he was joking, I told him not to complain in writing as the binmen have only just gone back to work in Worthing and there's a backlog of waste.
 


Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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This is going to turn into a binfest isn't it?
 












Live by the sea

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Oct 21, 2016
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It’s not inciting hatred or violence against Kenyans or suggesting they are in any way inferior to other people so no it’s not offensive. Perhaps it might be to some Guardian readers who are looking to get offended every time someone makes a joke done in the right spirit but not to most sensible people who are intelligent enough to understand what is innocent humour and what is something more unkind .
 




Bry Nylon

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Jul 21, 2003
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Playing snooker
Attended a dinner in London night.

One of the Comedian's gags was...…

"I went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got little Kenyan bloke comes everywhere with me now"

Surely there's been a mix up between the GP and the hospital? I imagine what the after dinner speaker required was a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to cause the heart muscle chambers to contract and therefore pump blood to regulate the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart? Still, I imagine the company will be nice.
 


Mackenzie

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Nov 7, 2003
33,508
East Wales
Surely there's been a mix up between the GP and the hospital? I imagine what the after dinner speaker required was a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to cause the heart muscle chambers to contract and therefore pump blood to regulate the function of the electrical conduction system of the heart? Still, I imagine the company will be nice.
Who pays his wages? no wonder the NHS is so short of cash.
 
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m@goo

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Feb 20, 2020
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It's racial stereotyping, so yes it's an offensive racist joke that you'd expect to hear from Jim Davidson and it's depressing that no one else can see it.
 


Shropshire Seagull

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Nov 5, 2004
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Telford
There are some people on this planet that make it their business to find offence in everything they possibly can.

I don't read this as a slur on doctors, Kenyans or little people.
Could of changed "Kenyan" for "bloke in trainers, running shorts & vest" to smooth the snowflakes
 



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