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not a good move posting a joke about any earth quake considering on an asian board where most likely a lot of the members are pakistani and have probably lost family and friends in the earthquake in pakistan

i dont think the joke its self got you in trouble but more your lack of tact :)

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The fact is........we all tell jokes and receive jokes. Some of them are directed at particular people, races or incidents and can be considered un-PC. Some of them are groaners and some are as funny as a joke can get...... The ultimate aim of these jokes is to make light of a bad situation and it is human nature to hide anguish in laughter. I receive loads of jokes on a regular basis by text and e mail. Some of them are downright sick and some are hilarious, but I take all of them as how they were intended. Not as racism, sexism, ageism, dwarfism or any other form of ism........I take them as jokes..:D

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chav - no i used to mexican one

i think they were too stupid to realise that it was a fictious earthquake and not a real one

though one guy seemed to think i was talking about the tsunami

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A large number of people have lost their sense of humour and as such its a shame. Humour is there to cheer people up not make them reel back in shock.

Without humour the world is a sadder place. :(

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Political correctness hasn't stopped people using humour to diffuse difficult situations, and there is certainly no current legislation in place in the UK to forbid it, as the opening thread of this post suggests.

Far from being the wooly liberal some people might assume me to be, I know and have laughed at some very unsavoury jokes, but I think it's the context and place where they are told. I wouldn't tell a 'spaz' joke to someone with a disabled child, or a 'lard arse' joke to a fat man. Happily though I will be the first to tell a 'queer' joke, and it will probably be funnier than any you know.;)

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Think Mr C has hit the nail right on the head here. I pride myself on being politically incorrect but I'm certainly not a racist, because if I was, I wouldn't be married to a non-white immigrant (a non-white immigrant, I might add who tells people she's going on holiday to warmer climes to get a sun tan!). :)

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Happily though I will be the first to tell a 'queer' joke, and it will probably be funnier than any you know.;)[/quote]
tell us the queer joke garinda..no race stuff

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Let me add a little bit please. if black brown yellow or any other colour want to come and live in our country please do so under the BRITISH law. You see so many drugs and gun crimes being commited these days that(being from a democratic country and freedom of speach) im allowed to air my views. what is happening my kids cant walk the streets at night.Please dont take this statement the wrong way but Well you know! Thankyou for reading

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so its the color of the people you don't like? I'm not taking it wrong.. are you saying you have to be white to be British?

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No i appologise my wifes family are from India so i cannot be racist! its just that watching crime watch(other programmes available) that makes me a little bit scheptical if thats how you spell it! Thanx Lee

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I am sure it would be Garinda - but YOU are allowed to openly say gay jokes simply because you swing that way, The Irish can can laugh at themselves, likewise, Black Americans can openly use the word nigg** but with the exception of Eminem, whites can't!

I can't believe you were naive enough to come out with the following statement:

Who is the 'PC brigade'? It isn't an actual body, it's just a term banded about in the press.

Don't you READ the papers? Was it the "press" that put an ex cop in jail for 24 hours and then in court because he hinted that a woman high up in the force was a "dyke?" There are examples almost daily of the abuse of innocent people caught up in the trap of being or saying something politically incorrect.

Have I done something to upset you Garinda? - or is it just the wrong time of the month! Ooh, is that politically incorrect??:eek:

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do you read the daily mail? i reckon thats were you get your info from.. wise up bruv.. people are here from somewere else.. and you don't like it..if they break the British law they should be outlawed and deported..as for people being jailed or celled for the stuff you say .. sort you life out.. I doubt it

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You are wrong again, I have never said that I'm gay on this forum. I'm not, but I'm not prepared to pigeon hole myself into a little box for your benefit. More than that I don't wish to share with you.However with my of knowledge the subject it's usually the biggest homophobes, who have something to hide and unresolved, usually a desire to be buggered, and no lavender marriage is going to hide that fact. However some supposedly 'straight' members of this forum's interest in my love life on here does make me nervous.

Your presumtiveness is what I expect from someone who reads the type of press that talks about this so called 'PC brigade.' You still haven't answered my question about who 'they' are, or indeed what legislation exists in this country to prevent the discussion of racism, which the first sentence of this thread alluded to.

Answer the questions, I'm waiting, and have also noted that you haven't asked any other member's on here to start their own thread, who have talked about racism in general and have veered off the course of your thread- whatever that was.

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I'll wait until you answer my two questions............

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1/ What legislation is there in the UK that says racism cannot be discussed? We are doing it now.

2/Who are the PC brigade?