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Sylvia brought it back to jokes in her post

though why should I have to explain
why I posted to anybody
it was what the thread was about :-(

Right, I see. The thread was about people not liking iffy jokes. Seemed strange to post one.

what turned out to be iffy about something
that turned out to be an innocent joke a child told

Innuendo .

You aren't that naïve, surely?

Guinevere stop it now
your comments say more about you than me :-D :-D
if you don't like what I post feel free to ignore ;-) ;-)

Stop it?

I hear and I obey, oh queen of GR.

No wait, I don't. :-D

Don't tell me what to do, please. It's rude. I asked why you posted something that seemed odd in the context of the thread. You answered.

if I said the world was round you would say it was flat
bullying does not become you

It isn't bullying to ask why someone posts something that seems odd to you. You explained why. I really didn't understand why - which is why I asked.

Isn't telling someone to stop posting bullying? Actually it isn't, any more than what I asked was bullying. People cry "bully" far too easily. It's a disagreement. Nothing more.

telling some body to stop it means stop bullying people
I run a bullying clinic for 5 years in a school

it doesn't take rocket science to spot when people are trying it on

no wonder so many have left GR :-( :-(

You know it wasn't bullying, Joy. It's OK to disagree with people.

I've run bullying workshops for 20 years. I'm a qualified counsellor of young people. And I have taught children with challenging behaviour.

One of the first things we teach is what is bullying and what isn't. We teach that it's ok to disagree. We teach that it's ok to stand your ground and defend your opinions. We teach that it's ok to ask questions.

I would hope that you did the same.

Edit to say that if you are feeling uncomfortable with the conversation it's ok to leave it or to politely tell me that I am making you feel uncomfortable.

Like I said feel free to ignore :-D :-D

edit to say
You are no better than anybody else on here
now have a nice day :-D

Never claimed to be, Joy.

:-D :-D :-D :-D

I don't know anybody who has never swore in their lives :-D
Though I do know people

Who have hardly ever swear or cursed

My grandfather - an elder in the Presbyterian Church - never swore in his life. His strongest word was "Dash".

His wife, daughter and granddaughter however ... were a great disappointment.

I also never heard my grandfather, grandmother OR mother use a swear word.

My mother was absolutely horrified when I used a mild swear word in my mid-teens, and came down on me like a ton of bricks ............. included in the outraged castigation was the phrase "No daughter of mine will ever be heard swearing"!


I just do not like to hear the words that the youth and many other young people use today as part of their regular conversation ........... and I cringe inside when I hear a girl or woman using some of those words


obviously mother's teaching had a lot of effect on me!

Joy

I did indeed bring this thread back to its original topic, the telling of overtly rude, sexist and offensive jokes

you seemingly took that to mean that this was therefore a thread on which to tell a joke. That is incorrect ............. or at least that was not MY intention.

The only word I really don't like is the C word
When I lived in Kent this was the most popular swear word I heard there
Which made me cringe


The rest I just let go over my head and ignore :-D

I didn't Sylvia
I just added it to show sometimes something sounds bad to start with
But turns out to be innocent
and you don't get much more innocent that what comes out of a child's mouth :-D

it was nothing you inferred hun nothing at all :-D :-D :-D

I have to admit to an aversion to the C word as well. It's misogynistic and often used as a term of abuse to women.

Don't know many people who use it - even so-called "blue" comedians.

I learnt some new words when we moved over here, and still more as OH became more involved with the university rugby community, a sport that I had never been involved with previously .................. and I think most of those words would also be unknown to most of you.

Yes, I ignored them, and gradually the lads stopped using the worst ones in front of me, even though this was the late 1960s to 1980s when we were expected to "take it".


The big objection voiced earlier on this thread is the seeming inability of youth and people into their 30s to have a conversation without using the "f" word at least every second or third word.

No-one really mentioned, or was concerned about, those older people who also swear a lot ............ but not usually every other or every 2nd or 3rd word, and usually there is some variation in the swear words used!