[Humour] Is this joke offensive?

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

"I went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got little Henry Cecil stablemate of Slip Anchor priced at 1000/1 that comes everywhere with me now”

There you go, sorted

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Yes, in these current testing times I don’t like promoting the idea that somone should own a field [emoji35]


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Perhaps I shouldn't mention the elderly field owners name....................McDonald.

 

[Russconha]

I'm a Kenyan 110m hurdler and I find this offensive.

 

[birthofanorange]

After a while of fairly reasonable discourse over an ostensibly silly post, it's almost comforting to see the children having a play.

 

[mikeyjh]

Rule of thumb, if a joke needs to mention a person's nationality, race, gender etc then yeah, it's probably offensive. It's not rocket science.

 

[Chicken Run]

Why did the scarecrow win an award?

Because he was outstanding in his field.

Anyone offended

Actually I’m further offended on behalf of the ‘Traveling Community’, how are they ever going to win an award outstanding in other peoples field?


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[Chicken Run]

"ISeb Coe went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got Steve Ovett that comes everywhere with me now”

There you go, sorted

Edited for you, I hope that Steve Ovett fans are offended…


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[Guinness Boy]

After a while of fairly reasonable discourse over an ostensibly silly post, it's almost comforting to see the children having a play.

This is what happens when the Bear Pit becomes largely obsolete and Chicken Run has an eight hour lunch break.

 

[birthofanorange]

This is what happens when the Bear Pit becomes largely obsolete and Chicken Run has an eight hour lunch break.

Is it possible to start a Sand Pit?

 

[hart's shirt]

I'm a Kenyan 110m hurdler and I find this offensive.

You'll get over it quickly.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Rule of thumb, if a joke needs to mention a person's nationality, race, gender etc then yeah, it's probably offensive. It's not rocket science.

Judging by the posts comparing the OP’s quoted joke to other jokes about animals or inanimate objects, it clearly is like ‘rocket science’ to some of our more straight forward contributors.

 

[Lever]

I was working in pub.

A young woman came in and asked for a double entendre; so I gave her one.

Sexist? I don't know.....

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm afraid you are 'wrong off the bat' there though. The 'little Kenyan' reference is an essential part of the joke. It is the visual humour. You have to be able to see the two characters in your mind's eye to appreciate the idea that this is not a heart pacemaker, so the Kenyan character is active.

Do we need to even reference his nationality? For example...

"I went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got this little bloke in running shorts in front of me everywhere I go."

The answer is there six hours and six pages ago, but I guess certain people gotta keep doing what certain people keep doing

 

[portlock seagull]

Rule of thumb, if a joke needs to mention a person's nationality, race, gender etc then yeah, it's probably offensive. It's not rocket science.

We have to combat such ridiculousness for the survival of the human race

 

[birthofanorange]

We have to combat such ridiculousness for the survival of the human race

Whereas others strive to move forwards and away from such laziness - or become 'woke', as I believe it's currently termed.

 

[grubbyhands]

Of course it's funny. I laughed.

 

[Guinness Boy]

We have to combat such ridiculousness for the survival of the human race

People do that shit all the time though. Think of football. Two teams playing, one with a very big white player up front (we'll call him Wout Weghorst) and one with a very big black player up front (we'll call him Adebayo Akinfenwa). In the stands there will inevitably be people who refer to Weghorst as the big lad up front and Akinfenwa as the big black lad up front. Why? It's totally unnecessary. It's not some kind of woke yoghurt knitting to point out this disparity, you literally get small, almost insignificant, casual racism in the stands of this sort all the time. Is it enough to get the game called off and people thrown in jail? No, of course not, that would be ridiculous. It's just enough to put off a BAME fan at their first game from returning, or a copper overhearing it, stopping and searching an innocent black youngster because they were on the large side and wearing a hoody.

The "joke" isn't offensive, per se. Nor is it particularly funny. It is, to quote Pink Floyd, just another brick in the wall.

 

[Chicken Run]

This is what happens when the Bear Pit becomes largely obsolete and Chicken Run has an eight hour lunch break.

[emoji23] Still smarting over getting caught out earlier [emoji6] “It was just a gag your honour, promise”

Right I’m off for a late supper, that Pot Noodle won’t cook itself [emoji112]

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[Sirnormangall]

I was working in pub.

A young woman came in and asked for a double entendre; so I gave her one.

Sexist? I don't know.....

I don’t know either……but I was told that joke a few years ago by a female who thought it was hilarious and she couldn’t stop laughing.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Attended a dinner in London night.

One of the Comedian's gags was...…

"I went to the Doctors last week and he said I've now got to have a pacemaker, so I've a got little Kenyan bloke comes everywhere with me now"

As one of the organisers of the dinner I was approached at the end and told by a guest they found that gag had crossed the line.

No doubt I will get flamed on here by some, but sorry with all that's currently going on in the country and the world in general, are we danger of becoming a little too precious?

It sounds like the sort of dinner I would pay to avoid.

Yes it is racist.