ewe2
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What is offensive ? Are Thatcher ,Clakeson ,Brand and Ross frozen relics or is there a facist word police out there.....watch what you say mind .....!!!
I can't stand it when some get offended on behalf of others.
What is offensive ? Are Thatcher ,Clakeson ,Brand and Ross frozen relics or is there a facist word police out there.....watch what you say mind .....!!!
I think half the problem is that no-one knows what really is acceptable and what isn't, and now we have people looking out for any slight wording / slip of the tougue etc to condemn, because they think that it may cause offense, not that it will cause offense.
It's like health and safety, people live in fear of breaking the rules, but don't know what is and what isn't deemed against health and safety, and as a result society suffers - eg, school trips cancelled as seen too high risk and the fear of being sued.
As people don't know the true boundaries, do gooders take it to extremes to be on the safe side and take it too far, (see Clarksons comments for one) and most people have now been subdued into accepting what these self important do gooders say or do. - they should have been laughed out of toen years ago imo.
So much for freedom of speech or free will, where people are entitled to their own views, reguardless as to whether anyone else agreed or not.
I think its also a reflection on todays society that with so little to worry about in normal life (war, famine, disease, etc) these trivial matters gain so much importance
On Have I got news for you they take the piss out of Blunkett being blind. They also take the piss out of Heather Mills for having one leg, but this is considered ok. I find it much more offensive what they say on Have I got news for you than what Clarkson said about brown.
Indeed. The famed British sense of humour is dead.
RIP
You will now be told what to think/how to speak/when to laugh - infrequently unless at a politically acceptable and minority supporting (but humourless) in joke.
sad times - consider that the likes of Shakespeare would surely have been vilified and potentially silenced under this regimen - sad indeed
I find it much more offensive what they say on Have I got news for you than what Clarkson said about brown.
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