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well done to the telegraph for finding a story worthy of front page news

MAN TELLS IRISH JOKE

whoopee bloody dooo

they guys in a wheelchair ( if teh guy in the picture in a wheelchair is the councilor in question)i bet hes heard his fair share of jokes about wheelchair bound people

dvd's are on sale in the shops with comedians telling irish jokes , jew jokes , pakistani jokes , terrorist jokes , retard joke etc etc

we should get this menace to society locked up indefinatly and as soon as possible before all friendly ties between ireland and england are severed and war breaks out

my advice to the councilor is get a hotmail account so that no one complain and if you have any more good jokes please forward them to me

note to telegrapgh - get a grip and try putting somthing better on teh front page like photographs of muggers been taken down to the cells after sentancing it will look a lot better than a man in a wheelchair whos told a joke and also let everyone know what they look like its nice to put a face to the name

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i was planning to bomb the council offices on behalf of all irish people that i know are offended so much

*btw i wasnt really going to bomb them - i was just being sarcastic - pls i dont want any raids in my house. my porn collection is too extensive to b destroyed.

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telegraph headlines tomorrow

MUSLIM PERVERT TERRORIST PLANS ATTACK ON TOWN HALL :D

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*LMAO*

nooooooooooooooooooooo

i knew i shud've bought my collection from someone else

i had an inkling once i'd bought ur collection you'd be the one selling me out!

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sory you have me mistaken with someone else , i dont sell gay porn :rolleyes:

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ur not garinda?!

damn u two are just toooooooo similar

joined at the hip, waist or wherever it was in those pics... ;)

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Found the story.

http://www.lancashireeveningtelegrap...irish_joke.php


Quite right it made the papers. He shouldn't be sending jokes, offensive or not, to fifty other people from a council owned email account.

He should have known better, but that's the Liberals for you. Then to try to blame it on his disability, and medication is hilarious, probably more so than the joke he sent.

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This was a much more entertaining story in the same edition of the LET.

All the traffic police in Blackburn, Hyndburn, and the Ribble Valley were off last Friday...to attend a party together.

http://www.lancashireeveningtelegrap...irish_joke.php

Sweet.

Hope they had a nice jolly, as the carnage in the area carried on regardless.

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Front Page is a bit much though.

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Might have been a quiet news day.

The sort of day when they couldn't quite scale the normal heights of jounalism to rival the Washington Post.

You know, the sort of day were the mother of a pregnant Darwen school girl, decided not to keep her off school, because she felt ostracised because the school was providing her with too much care, after all.:D

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Shouldn't that be "Muslim Pervert Terrorist with Suspected IRA Connections" ? :D

Reading the article it does sound like a rather small story to deserve headline news. I bet plenty of AccyWebbers have posted similar jokes (or worse) on here and forwarded similar emails.

It doesn't come across that he offered his medication as an excuse:
More like the interviewer asking him if it could be that and him saying it's possible.

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Are you sure you meant the council office yesterday and not the DVLA :D:D


Nice little letter bomb.

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Wonder what the DVLA did then to become a target? Now that wont make the LET front page as its too news worthy.

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Apparently listening to breaking news this afternoon, there have been a few over the last couple of days in different areas. :mad:

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This does not deserve to be front page news, as Rindy pointed out, it may have been a quiet news day. I don't think that it's the actual joke that is the issue but the fact that it was sent using a council e mail address. I would assume that by using this address the guy was supposed to be doing some sort of council work, therefore he was dossing on work's time so to speak.

I see no harm in telling a joke. Jokes take the pee out of people whether it is Irish, Mother-in-law, blondes etc and IMO should be seen as harmless, as I'm sure that most jokes are intended to be. Unfortunately, large organisations such as government, NHS, Emergency Services etc are having large crack downs on the amount of e mails sent which are non-work related, so that the workers are not being paid to send jokes to their mates in works time. I know some smaller companies which do this too..:rolleyes:

All of my jokes are sent from home, I have very little time to send e mail from work anyway but by the amount of jokes that I receive from my mates who work in offices for other companies.....there isn't much work going on out there..:D

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I have to laugh at this as we at work send jokes on email using our works mail servers. We even set up a jokes alias which people can sign up to if they so wish providing they follow a few guidelines.

If the LET needs to find something for front page then they need to look harder or was it a case of lazyites that brought this on?

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Like garinda said nothing else newsworthy to print, so anything will do it's, known as silly season news in the trade. The Lancashire Telegraph went a long way round the houses to inform it's readers, that a public owned email account was being used for a purpose other than what it was intended.

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Would you prefer a bit of political scandel thst was on an email?

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No spuggie i'd like to know what the Irish joke was:D

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Now I wonder why they didnt print it. Oh yes they would have been hung drawn and 1/4'd.

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Ill nip over to Blackburn247 see if anybody over there knows.

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i watched an old episode of have i got news for you the other night with ian duncan smith as guest presentor

a subject came up about political correctness and offending different nations and it was mentioned that you could no longer call the irish paddys

he then said so if asked about paddy fields you now had to say those fileds that the chinks grow their rice in :)

anyway from my experience of teh council all teh departments dont have any idea what each other are doing so i doubt anyone got this email anyway :rolleyes:

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When we were in N. Ireland we saw a holiday coach and the name of the company emblazoned on the side was "The Paddy Wagon" - wish we'd taken a photo.

Found one:

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1170978561

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When William Hague was on Have I got News for You, he called the French cheese eating surrender monkeys, Ian Hislop said 'Youre really not going back in to politics are you?'

Hes now the Shadow Foreign Secutary :p

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Is being the Shadow Foreign Seceretary really being back in politics?

The head barman in the Commons bar is probably more influential.:D

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"Jokes take the pee out of people whether it is Irish, Mother-in-law, blondes etc " and the English as well i hope they can take plenty of jokes about themselves