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I have answered the question. Read the post about Billy Connolly. Generally speaking, I think that it is possible to have different reactions to an event- humour is a natural coping mechanism. It's a question of taste though. Posting sick jokes on an internet forum then shedding crocodile tears about the same event is a bit strange in my view.

When you tell a joke, you are telling it because you think it's funny. Now why don't we wind in the hard talk and try and have a decent conversation.

No I don't. I found the jokes on that thread deeply offensive and you all rallyed round saying it was fine. I got the piss ripped out of me for daring to go against the herd. If you want to take potshots then fill your boots but it's a bit rich to then accuse ME of taking over a thread. I addressed my point to catmag and not you. You chose to wade in acting like the voice of reason. If you can find a way of tallying jokes about something awful, then subsequently saying how appalling it is, then make your fucking point. If you can't (which I strongly suspect) SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Well done on missing the point. You have to show genuine dismay at a similar news story. You really aren't very good at this argument concept are you!

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeaas." 41849[/snapback]

somebody please get me a "bangheadofftable" smilie. 41961[/snapback] Was I talking to you? What are you adding to the debate? Would you find it AT ALL strange if I told a paedophile joke on one thread and then linked to a story about a child molesting case on another? For fuck sake at least try to make an argument.

Black mans cock. 41949[/snapback] And you'll also understand why that joke was told by David Brent rather than Neil!

Kuyt seems to be the better bet IMO.

Sarcasm doesn't travel well on the internet. Whenever I have omitted the madatory , people have taken it the wrong way. I must admit I have misunderstood people too when they have missed out a smiley. 41939[/snapback] I absolutely agree. Smilies do what a tone of voice or expression would do in conversation. It's incredibly hard to get subtlety across as it is and people can easily get hold of the wrong end of the stick.

*waits for feverish hunting down of bad taste jokes in The Office and Peter Kaye*

Because we're British, and this is what we do! Just as the Londoners (and the rest of the uk industrial city's citizens) made jokes when the bombs were falling all around them during WW2. There is so much shit going on in the world that we make jokes about things in order not to walk around with a fuckin' miserable expression all the time. To think that someone who makes a joke doesn't care, or is immune to the pain that relatives are suffering, would be a totally wrong assumption to make imo. 41931[/snapback] I agree. But I can watch The Office or Peter Kaye to amuse myself. This idea that we HAVE to joke about everything is neither here nor there. I don't like jokes that need to be in really bad taste to be "funny". Billy Connolly made a joke about Ken Bigley before he was murdered. How sincere would you think he was being if afterwards he went on about how barbaric it was? (although if there was some TV exposure going I'm sure he'd sign up to be part of the benefit gig. )

Here we go, you really do make a rod for your own back 41883[/snapback] I'd like to know how she can simultaneously laugh at something one day and then find it appalling the next. I'm sure my "reputation" will degenerate this conversation into a slanging match, but I think it's a fair enough point. "tbh"TM etc

Catmag, I honestly can't understand why you told jokes about suicide bombers when you seem genuinely upset by what happened in Bali? I'm not having a go, it just seems strange.

You leave Souness alone for making these decisons mate, he's doing a great job 41846[/snapback] *timewarps back 15 years* "YOU WOULDN'T LET IT LIE!!" *returns to the present* I agree with luckypierre though, you can't blame Souness entirely for this one. Every manager since Gullit has fallen for this little prick's ability to pass himself off as a "world class player"TM. Funny how he always manages to pull out the stops round contract time And yes, Shepherd decides the terms of contracts doesn't he?

So what do you say Wacky? Put down your stotty and lets go dancing! 41807[/snapback] Your craic leads me to suspect your about as hard as that wifey on your avatar. 41810[/snapback] Fighting's for idiots. I'm 6'2" and 14stone though, so I can handle myself ta! 41814[/snapback] The very fact you had to point out your alleged height and weight suggests you can't! 41816[/snapback] Internet facts- like Wacky's 10" cock tbh! In real life, I'm a black belt in karate too....etc etc

So what do you say Wacky? Put down your stotty and lets go dancing! 41807[/snapback] Your craic leads me to suspect your about as hard as that wifey on your avatar. 41810[/snapback] Fighting's for idiots. I'm 6'2" and 14stone though, so I can handle myself ta!

Every 3 months, NUFC give Dyer a million pounds. WHAT THE COCKING FUCK FOR??

So what do you say Wacky? Put down your stotty and lets go dancing!

Ah yes, but Wayne Rooney is thick as shit.

As Alan himself says, "Every goal's a great goal"

Yup. Shola and Taylor playing, Bramble out an'all. 41615[/snapback] Sheesh! Still they're without Robert and Lua Lua at least....

Still, Ameobi's ok isn't he?

Much as I respect Cruyff, I don't particularly like former managers criticising current managers. It sounds bitter IMO. It reminds me of Venables. Not quite man enough to carry on putting his neck on the block for fear of failure, but able to pick apart the minutiae of someone elses tactics. Having said that, Mourinho probably couldn't give a toss what anyone else thinks and that's exactly how it should be.

7-nil. To them. All Owen own goals.

Did you lose any weight? Congratulations by the way