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"Can you all donate some fairy liquid..."

...apparently there's thousands of people washing up on the beach in Indonesia...


Wonders if this has been put up before...

But if this was never to be read by someone who has actually lost someone then it would be ok?

Let's face it; we all have double-standards about this kind of thing.

We'll act all high-and-mighty about this joke, then go and laugh at something that could be equally offensive to some.

1. Freedom of speech is a very, very important thing, and we all have the right to say what we want.

2. However, that doesn't mean this is not offensive. YH is a mong for posting something like that. Had this happened one year later I would have been out there. My girlfriends family has friends travelling out there, and they don't know what has happened to them. A good friend of mine was out there until about a month ago when he moved on to Oz. It's akin to joking about someones dead family, TO THIER FACE. There are people here, in this country, who might be reading this message board, that actually have lost someone.

Your Honour wrote:
> Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Hmm... perhaps wait until people actually weren't still
> washing
> up on the beach? Everyone knows Comedy = Tragedy + Distance but
> there ain't a whole lotta distance just yet.
>
>
> So when would there have been enough 'distance'?
>
> When you decide there is?

In this particular case, I'd say when dead people actually weren't still being found where they were thrown by the waves, rotting in the streets? Jokes are just that, jokes, and I have no problem laughing at sick stuff - I'm usually the first to say something offensive in jest - but there's a time and a place, and it ain't just yet, sorry. At least, not for me anyway.

There's no rule about this sort of thing anyway. Some people still get offended about Princess Di jokes.

I have to say, that did make me chuckle.

Hell, maybe I'm just sick.

2 strands of the S.A.R.S virus are out on the lash one night. after staggering out of a club one turns to the other and says "i don't know about you, but i could murder some chinese"




boom and, quite literally, boom.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Hmm... perhaps wait until people actually weren't still washing
> up on the beach? Everyone knows Comedy = Tragedy + Distance but
> there ain't a whole lotta distance just yet.


So when would there have been enough 'distance'?

When you decide there is?

I didn't find it funny. But to be fair, I've heard worse. Well that's not really being fair. It just means I know some bumholes.

Didn't find this funny at all.

gamesfreak wrote:
> Remember the joke about the plane in the window from 9/11?

Never heard that.

Carry on.

Thats true!