Quote: youngian @ January 28 2012, 12:47 PM GMTBut it would still be an unacceptable word to use up North,
Well obviously it's not nice, but if your nine and your friend does something stupid, you're going to call them a spacker, aren't you. Well, you might call them a dick, or a spoon, amongst others.
I'm sure in the the DVD commentary on Alan Partridge, Coogan talks about how they were discussed in the To Kill A Mocking Alan episode whether using the word "mental" to describe the nutty stalker would be offensive. I wonder if Gervais has ever had any similar discussions about anything in his shows?
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 28 2012, 12:30 PM GMTJesus, you make one stupid little joke using the word "Gervais" and people start taking offence.
Lighten-up, people! The meaning of the word "Gervais" has changed over the years. It doesn't mean the same thing it used to.
Bullying of the disabled is definitely not on, but...I don't think you can stop the ignorant by changing the language. I think sooty truly underestimates the creativity of the hateful.
When the Spastics Society re-named themselves Scope, within a few hours, kids were calling each other 'Scopey' - it was a different word but had exactly the same derogatory meaning. Same with racial epithets - I've heard some really colourful original adjectives to describe members of our multi-culutural society.
Personally, mong is up there with tard, fag, gay, etc. They have become general catch all terms of abuse and don't specifically refer to their original roots. With so many children born out of wedlock, I'd always thought that bastard would be the one term under pressure to change.
Quote: sootyj @ January 28 2012, 12:11 PM GMTExcept women, asians, Jews can make some claim that hate crime against them is starting to abate. The same can not be said of disability hate crime.
Murdering someone because of their race is a hate crime. Making a joke about it is in poor taste and offensive, but it sure ain't no crime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDl_R8Zp2E
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The ocean-going cargo vessel used to transport rocket stages from the manufacturing factory in Alabama to the two primary U.S. launch sites in Florida and California struck a bridge in southern Kentucky Thursday night, causing a section to collapse.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 12:58 PM GMT
Bullying of the disabled is definitely not on, but...I don't think you can stop the ignorant by changing the language. I think sooty truly underestimates the creativity of the hateful.
When the Spastics Society re-named themselves Scope, within a few hours, kids were calling each other 'Scopey' - it was a different word but had exactly the same derogatory meaning. Same with racial epithets - I've heard some really colourful original adjectives to describe members of our multi-culutural society.
Personally, mong is up there with tard, fag, gay, etc. They have become general catch all terms of abuse and don't specifically refer to their original roots. With so many children born out of wedlock, I'd always thought that bastard would be the one term under pressure to change.
I'm not suggesting for a minute that Riki Gervaise should start refering to "people who have a learning disability" in his act. All though that might be amusingly ironic.
Rather that if for the first time in perhaps forever a woman with a learning disability, rises up and almost wins a national contest. Then saying "ha ha she looks like a mong, oh wait she is a mong" isn't helpful. Maybe it's just rude, maybe it in an infentisimal way makes life a little harder for people with learning disabilities. Whats so politically correct about good manners?
Quote: DaButt @ January 28 2012, 2:07 PM GMTMurdering someone because of their race is a hate crime. Making a joke about it is in poor taste and offensive, but it sure ain't no crime.
The hate crimes I'm refering to are murder, rape, harrasment, robbery and intimidation. The police response in the UK to how these crimes are applied to the learning disabled in shameful.
Still it's better than executing them on trumped up charges eh?
I don't have the best memory, but I believe you have used Boyle as a punchline in several sketches, sooty. Which isn't exactly good manners either, to be fair.
Quote: DaButt @ January 28 2012, 2:41 PM GMThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDl_R8Zp2E
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Not a good month for ship captains!
Wel guess that makes me a hypocrite.
Except I think I stuck to comparing Gordon Brown to her. Which is sort of a diferent kettle of monkeys.
Also I didn't say Susan wasn't a subject for comedy. More refering to the normalising use of certain language in reference to vulnerable groups.
I bet that taught him eh?
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/298498/298498
Bloody suspended sentences. What's the point? Kick them out.
And well done Ricky.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/298395/Gervais-joy-at-lab-dogs-victory/
He fiddled his passport to get his step chidren out of Pakistan. That's actually pretty noble.
He's accused of being a "renta husband" a very specific crime where you help strangers get citizenship, through taking part in a sham marriage. The sentence for that is usually 2-3 years.
There is no evidence he commited this crime.
I hope if you're on trial for burglary Chappers you don't get accused of buggery as well.
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Michelle Mone said she would take her business to London in the event of a "Yes" vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.
She told the Sunday Times she feels Scotland could not survive on its own as "everything would go up".
'tits up' surely ?
Quote: Chappers @ January 29 2012, 1:49 AM GMTI bet that taught him eh?
The ringleader, Bagh Ali, 82, was described by a judge as a "rent-a-husband"
Sentencing Ali, Judge Macgill said... "I don't know whether you are rent-a-husband"
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Restrictions on bottled water on flights are being lifted next year and they're going to start using lasers to scan liquids and gels to work out what's in it in five seconds. Groovy.
Oooh, lasers... futuristic.