I think when people stop laughing or being prepared to, then they start shouting, then people get hurt.
I've said it before, the purpose of a joke is not always mere crude entertainment.
Sometimes it's about saying what you could never say with a straight face, but still needs to be said.
Quote: Moonstone @ November 19 2008, 12:06 AM GMTThanks! I think? I dunno
Yes! I was being nice. (trying to be anyway.) 
Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 12:06 AM GMTI wasn't saying we can't make jokes about Baby P. I am saying, in answer to your question about "dead baby" jokes vs Baby P jokes, that jokes about an individual's suffering are more likely to be offensive than generalised jokes about suffering.
Ohhh okay. Fair enough then.
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 12:05 AM GMTBut I didn't consider there to be room for misinterpretation.
I'm lost. I really don't know what your point is.
Quote: zooo @ November 19 2008, 12:08 AM GMTYes! I was being nice. (trying to be anyway.)
Awwww, then thank you! <3
You are SO one of those nice people too
Quote: sootyj @ November 19 2008, 12:07 AM GMTI think when people stop laughing or being prepared to, then they start shouting, then people get hurt.
I've said it before, the purpose of a joke is not always mere crude entertainment.
Sometimes it's about saying what you could never say with a straight face, but still needs to be said.
Oo, very deep. And philosophical. And that.
Does it not depend on the angle? 101 Uses for a Dead Toddler is probably not going to go down well, but "George Parr you are Head of Social Services at Haringay Council" has the potential to illuminate.
Quote: Moonstone @ November 19 2008, 12:09 AM GMTI'm lost. I really don't know what your point is.
My point is that I don't know how you got that impression.
Now that is interesting.
If I was to write a sketch and I may yet do so it would be on the amount of computer time social workers have to do.
I think comparing that to a MMPORG.
Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 12:12 AM GMTTRANSLATION: People who don't laugh at Baby P jokes are Nazis innit.
It's true.
Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 12:12 AM GMTI think when people stop laughing or being prepared to, then they start shouting, then people get hurt.
TRANSLATION: People who don't laugh at Baby P jokes are Nazis innit.
No Griff not at all, every one has the right to dislike jokes.
But there's an ocean of diference between disliking a joke and thinking it shouldn't be there at all.
By the way you win the prize for first spurious mentioning of Nazism in this thread.
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 12:12 AM GMTMy point is that I don't know how you got that impression.
But it's not a big deal, so let's forget about it.
No it wasn't, there have been plenty of moral panics through out history.
You haven't started critiquing what you think I'm thinking?
And I thought I was the one who loved 1984.
I liked Sex crime, but the Eurythmics have done better.
I just saw a clip from Futurama that made me laugh out loud.
Pompous or not tis what I truly believe.
It's a bit one dimensional for a philosophy wouldn't you say?
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 12:12 AM GMTMy point is that I don't know how you got that impression.
Perhaps I read 'everyone' as 'anyone'? I don't know. These things just sometimes happen. K?
I think social workers are a waste of space.
