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*agrees with Cynthia and Ann*

I prefer intelligent humour, with some wit. However, some of it can be quite graphic so I prefer to hear such jokes in adult company.

A rule for me would be whether or not I'd tell the joke in a room full of strangers, which also had children present. If I wouldn't, then it doesn't belong on GR either.

I love Prunes & Custard :-D seriously In this Day & age .things have changed so much every day,.we as a society have to choose to ignore the things we are not comfortable with .men have more than ladies .but should not be the brunt of jokes .many so called comedians .laugh & make fun of Men & woman .my main gripe is the way woman dress today .or not dress. .the so called pop artist & TV people .it seems to be a competition who wears less & shows more flesh,I was always told be a bit mysterious & keep um guessing . :-)

No nothing wrong with that at all Cynthia. I think some people like to think that because they can laugh at smutty school playground jokes they 'have a life' while those who don't like them being in the public eye don't 'have a life'.

My concern is not particularly with us being able to see these jokes, or even really children being able to see them, given that they probably heard them in the playground first. My concern is with children being able to see adults laughing at them and finding them funny and therefore making tham acceptable in public.

Thank you for your views.


As there are several vehement denials of being 'a prude', may I ask what people consider to be wrong about being 'proper and modest' ?


Is there something wrong with preferring clever and witty jokes to those based on seedy sex, genitals and bodily functions told in a schoolboy manner on a public forum?


Is the ability to be able to be find these jokes hilarious, really a sign that one is 'all grown up and very wordly'?


Does it mean that, because I prefer a different type of joke that I am bitter, frustrated and devoid of humour, sexual experience or life with all its foibles?

Some things are more offensive than jokes!

I'm not a prude. I have four mad brothers, spent my working life with men, in the office and on construction sites. I developed selective deafness.

a gay male friend usually has a homophobic joke to tell us!

Like most on this thread, I don't read joke threads if I think I will be offended.

I don't report them either.

Because I don't read the joke threads, I don't know if any have been racist or homophobic............. but those I would certainly have reported.


The threads I have reported in the past, and will continue to report in the future, are those that express racist, homophobic and objectionably sexist opinions.

then there was the Irishman that was considering his will and possessions, having words with his lifelong pal, Patrick, he says, when I've gone I want you to promise me that you will pour my entire collection of whisky over my grave.......
Patrick has a short think and says, of course I will, Seamus, but would you mind if I strain it through my kidneys first?

I'm not a bit concerned, I didn't get to see anything nasty if that were the case and the post was against the GR rules.

I'm not particularly prudish but it just looked as if it had been deliberately posted to shock and who wants the first thing they read to be a post about a description of an old man's private bits relayed in such an unsavoury way.

I just thought, Ugh.

I would be happy to discuss sexuality in a different context. It would appear that some oldies still have the toilet humour of a 6 year old, or they have reverted to their childhood!

Don't be a prude GP.........drop the p and you have...... rude.

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Dermot / Mr. M - I would like to tell a joke but I have this awful feeling certain individuals will take umbrage. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-0 :-0 :-0

GP

Bobtanian - I'm an expert on Irish jokes - so I am! Begorrah, I have the right accent too after 65 years of practice & happily for me, none of the jokes are crude or embarrassing. Try this old & well-worn one for size. Apologies for those poor souls who have read this before. You are bound to reach Heaven if you do so again - that’s a personal guarantee. See you up there in a little while. Amen!
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I had eighteen bottles of Irish whiskey in my cellar and was told by my wife to empty the contents of each and every bottle down the sink, or else... I said I would and proceeded with the unpleasant task.

I withdrew the cork from the first bottle and pored the contents down the sink with the exception of one glass, which I drank. I then withdrew the cork from the second bottle and did likewise with it, with the exception of one glass, which I drank.

I then withdrew the cork from the third bottle and poured the whiskey down the sink which I drank. I pulled the cork from the fourth bottle down the sink and poured the bottle down the glass, which I drank.

I pulled the bottle from the cork of the next and drank one sink out of it, and threw the rest down the glass. I pulled the sink out of the next glass and poured the cork down the bottle.

Then I corked the sink with the glass, bottled the drink and drank the pour. When I had everything emptied, I steadied the house with one hand, counted the glasses, corks, bottles, and sinks with the other, which were twenty-nine, and as the houses came by I counted them again, and finally I had all the houses in one bottle, which I drank.

I'm not under tha affluence of incohol as some tinkle peep I am. I'm not half as thunk as you might drink. I fool so feelish I don't know who is me, and the drunker I stand here, the longer I get.

its like a wet paint notice Mr M..........

SOMEONE will put their finger onto it...........


just to see if it still wet........

Having been posting on GR Chat for 7 years there is a need of late for some humour.
Not xxx type but x or xx funny.

The last joke was note xxx but as with joke it's what your mind makes of it.
I did post a warning but it was not taken notice of.

So we move on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Irishman's first drink with his son ......



While reading an article last night about fathers and sons, memories
came flooding back to the time I took me son out for his first pint.
Off we went to our local pub only two blocks from the cottage.
I got him a Guinness. He didn't like it, so I drank it.
Then I got him a Kilkenny's, he didn't like that either, so I drank it.
Finally, I thought he might like some Harp Lager. He didn't so I
drank it.
I thought maybe he'd like whiskey better than beer so we tried a
Jameson's.....nope!
In desperation, I had him try that rare Redbreast, Ireland's finest.
He wouldn't even smell it. What could I do but drink it!
By the time I realized he just didn't like to drink, I was so drunk I
could hardly push the pushchair home!

*The line is what is funny and what is hateful? Too many PC people with an RR tendency do not seem able to see that line.*

*shrug*

If it's racist or homophobic I will report it. The real problem is that there are too many people who think racist and homophobic jokes are funny. Not all jokes about race are necessarily racist. There is a difference.

?//yersst! er left hand down a bit, ever so gently, No. one

Sometimes somebody puts up an adult joke which is really funny so I don't think they should be banned or rr'd just for being poor.

OTOH those putting up ancient smutty jokes more suited to the playground and the back of the football/rugby bus are telling us something about their arrested development. Tedious but easily avoided.

It is very, very difficult to tell good jokes or draw cartoons without taking the p-s out of some group or ethnicity or the other. I am sure you have heard jokes when you were six that started "There was an Irishman, a Scotsman and an Englishman ..... or "There was a rabbi, a priest and an imam ... "

My late partner was Jewish and he had a memory of thousands of great jokes about his own community mostly picked up in the US. Maybe he'd get fired for telling them at work now. Or shot.

The line is what is funny and what is hateful? Too many PC people with an RR tendency do not seem able to see that line.

Jeremy Corbyn for instance who has no sense of humour whatsoever.

Je suis Charlie
censorship starts with "A"

ps: best ever radio humour "Round the Horne"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnilWWcJ46s

i look at some of them and think "very clever" some i may think are maybe a bit too near the knuckle , some are definitely teenage playground humour .

If i think one is bit "ORFE" I move on and leave it alone .

Am not a prude and can banter innuendo on a face to face basis but then i know who I am leg pulling with .

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