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TheCOLDEST PLACE IN AMERICA ...
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is apparently a university in virginia ...minus 32!
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"i know but she's got a bleedin' ugly face" ...says my mate.
lol.
What's the commonest material in the world??
Jim Davidson's.
Pops in. Kicks the hornets nest then fucks off.
:yippe:
come again soon
I know life is to be laughed at etc, but c'mon. Those victims are barely in the ground and already there're insensitive jokes about the situation....
Pretty disgusting imo.
I know, I was going to say that too and I really am fond of those kind of jokes, but it's still so soon after!
I just saw that bloke's video on telly last night and now this? Uncalled for.
cringeworthy
Jeez, life's too short to walk on eggshells.
LMAO personally.
Doesn't really offend me, these things happen and its not the first time. If it was someone i knew then i suppose it'd be a different story but life goes on, you deal with it and move on.
Doubt you'd be saying that if it was your own kids though...
Still, I find offensive humour the best kind, so I'm all for it!
Definitely :thumb: nothing better than a good laugh at things you know shouldn't really be said.
Reminds me of something Ed Byrne said;
"You know, in life, you should always say the right thing. But the wrong thing is always, always funnier."
still laughed tho
I'm all for free speech, laughing at this kind of thing etc etc, but tbf this is really below the belt. Maybe further down the line this kind of thing might be funny, but it really has the feeling of dancing on someone's grave.
It's the last I'm going to say on it, cause I know that trying to get people to change their minds/alter their stance/etc is like trying to change the tides.
No point getting offended. Fuck, me and my flatmate were ripping the piss on the day it happened because on the news there were pictures of a big fat polis man running down the street and how it was no wonder he got to the second campus when all the polis in America did was sit in their cars and eat doughnuts all day.
Everybody thinks it's a shame, but nobody on here knew anybody involved so it's not like anybody's grieving. Just as bad things happen all over the world on a daily basis anyway. People nowadays seem to get offended just for the sake of it.
its not so much being offendsive, its showing respect. such jokes are anything but respectful
I thought it was over and done with the shootings, but then you got the video of the killer rubbing the parents', friends and families noses into it yesterday which ultimately didn't help their grieving.
I totally sympathise with them, but that joke was wholly inappropriate whether I know or don't know anyone from there - it's called compassion since the situation's still so bloody raw.
I do think it's inappropriate to joke about it, just cos i thought the prozzies under trees jokes were in really poor taste. It's not about being PC, it's about having the empathy for other people's grief. If you had known someone involved, then wouldn't you be offended and upset if people went around making jokes like that?
I was very drunk when I made that post but yes, just generally. :razz:
You said earlier in the thread that you usually like this sort of humour, but you felt it was a bit soon. But there you've just said it's about compassion for the families - irrespective of however much time passes the families would be unlikely to find it funny.
Of course if somebody I knew died there I wouldn't find it funny. It's not even a funny joke and if I was from anywhere near Virginia then it maybe would be a bit dodgy (like I would about Dunblane). Guaranteed nobody would get this annoyed about it if somebody made a joke about Diana or the Queen Mum, but who's to say The Royal Family's grief should be respected any less than any of the Virginia families?
It's still too soon. What's hard to understand? I've laughed at Michael Jackson jokes, the bloke who killed the prostitutes in the space of a month, Steve Irwin and all that but it's been after it's happened where it's not so speculated by the media. It's good manners I reckon to wait a while before all this.
Defeats the purpose of those jokes. They're designed to be really controversial and inappropriate, and what's more inappropriate that joking about something less than a week after it's occured. They're not laugh out loud jokes, more like a guilty laugh at how bad it is. Bit like dead baby jokes - you laugh and cringe at the same time.