This subject has been popping up in conversation a lot recently on the web and in real life so fuck it ...... I am going to talk about one of the things you shouldn't bring up at a dinner party .......
This Morning i got into work and i was having breakfast when i was asked by a colleague if i had any good jokes?? Then i remembered a joke i read on here by DCG ( reference ) and i thought fuck it , it made me laugh and the colleage in question is a good bloke and we rip on each other a lot ! ( let's call him Ronald or Ron for short ) so i told it .............
"What do Nike, Addidas , Reebok and the KKK all have in common ? ....... They all make black people run like the clappers!" BOOM BOOM !
Now Ron Himself is a Black guy and is ghanaian ( but he sounds more cockney than Dell boy ) and when i delivered the punch line he burst out laughing and then proceeded to call me a cunt !( You can probably see why we get on ). Anyway we were laughing about it and then someone went up to Ron said "good morning" and then had a chat that i could't hear and quite frankly i couldn't care less about. Then trundles over to me and says that i cant say things like that because it offeneds her because its racist! Right this bird if i am putting it bluntly is White,Welsh , fat and annoying! . She is stood there looking at me waiting for a reaction , whilst all i can do is try and comprehend what has happened !! Ron my mate, the ghanaian is fine , but i am offending HER?! (Ron in the mean time is laughing out of her line of sight and jesting at me ).. To be honest i apologised to HER and got on with my day and Ron thought it was funny to tell me how us white people are to up tight and should relax! but this episode made me question "ism's" and when is crossing the line? and when is it just arseholes sticking their noses in?
Ron after a morning full of "Banter" ! He loves it !
It makes me worried that people who stick their noses in "the P.C brigade" are going to have us ALL walking on egg shells!. I worry that i wont be able to call my mate a "fat bastard" just in case i offend someone who was listening in who once sat by a fat person on a bus but felt a connection with them ( even thought i am guessing that during the fateful bus journey the fat person was physically impeading on their seat?. Maybe the fat person secreated hormones through her skin and passed them to her?!! let's be fair! How much do we really know about them? ) anyway what i am trying to say is that i worry that this banter may one day be taken away because we may hurt someone's feelings even if your not directing it at them! Has the world gone mad !!! Try and put yourself in a world when you couldn't take the piss out of a friends short comming for fear of offeneding someone who should really be keeping their noses out!? Because lets face it ,we all poke fun at people ! Whats the difference between ripping on someone for getting drunk and making a complete tit out of themselves and taking the piss out of them being Bald, fat , smelling like a Hobo or being Cuban ?? I think if you boil it down enough its all the same thing in the end !
Pass me the butter !!!...... I'm hungry !
Personally i think its all in the context of what and how you are saying what ever you are saying ( unless you are calling someone a "smelly pirate hooker" And then it personal and it's WAR !!!!!)
I think what i am trying to say apart from fat people take up more than 1 seat on a bus seat is .....................................................Keep your nose out of my business !
I would also like to say that i dont condone Bullying at all and that Ron has finally been promted to the KFC expert at our office! cause you know how all black people love fried chicken............. Just kidding ;)
This Morning i got into work and i was having breakfast when i was asked by a colleague if i had any good jokes?? Then i remembered a joke i read on here by DCG ( reference ) and i thought fuck it , it made me laugh and the colleage in question is a good bloke and we rip on each other a lot ! ( let's call him Ronald or Ron for short ) so i told it .............
Now Ron Himself is a Black guy and is ghanaian ( but he sounds more cockney than Dell boy ) and when i delivered the punch line he burst out laughing and then proceeded to call me a cunt !( You can probably see why we get on ). Anyway we were laughing about it and then someone went up to Ron said "good morning" and then had a chat that i could't hear and quite frankly i couldn't care less about. Then trundles over to me and says that i cant say things like that because it offeneds her because its racist! Right this bird if i am putting it bluntly is White,Welsh , fat and annoying! . She is stood there looking at me waiting for a reaction , whilst all i can do is try and comprehend what has happened !! Ron my mate, the ghanaian is fine , but i am offending HER?! (Ron in the mean time is laughing out of her line of sight and jesting at me ).. To be honest i apologised to HER and got on with my day and Ron thought it was funny to tell me how us white people are to up tight and should relax! but this episode made me question "ism's" and when is crossing the line? and when is it just arseholes sticking their noses in?
Ron after a morning full of "Banter" ! He loves it !
It makes me worried that people who stick their noses in "the P.C brigade" are going to have us ALL walking on egg shells!. I worry that i wont be able to call my mate a "fat bastard" just in case i offend someone who was listening in who once sat by a fat person on a bus but felt a connection with them ( even thought i am guessing that during the fateful bus journey the fat person was physically impeading on their seat?. Maybe the fat person secreated hormones through her skin and passed them to her?!! let's be fair! How much do we really know about them? ) anyway what i am trying to say is that i worry that this banter may one day be taken away because we may hurt someone's feelings even if your not directing it at them! Has the world gone mad !!! Try and put yourself in a world when you couldn't take the piss out of a friends short comming for fear of offeneding someone who should really be keeping their noses out!? Because lets face it ,we all poke fun at people ! Whats the difference between ripping on someone for getting drunk and making a complete tit out of themselves and taking the piss out of them being Bald, fat , smelling like a Hobo or being Cuban ?? I think if you boil it down enough its all the same thing in the end !
Pass me the butter !!!...... I'm hungry !
Personally i think its all in the context of what and how you are saying what ever you are saying ( unless you are calling someone a "smelly pirate hooker" And then it personal and it's WAR !!!!!)
I think what i am trying to say apart from fat people take up more than 1 seat on a bus seat is .....................................................Keep your nose out of my business !
I would also like to say that i dont condone Bullying at all and that Ron has finally been promted to the KFC expert at our office! cause you know how all black people love fried chicken............. Just kidding ;)