Ireland's worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a small two-seater plane crashed into a cemetery just outside Dublin. Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 1826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.
Boots - do you really think that in 2017 people find "thick Paddy" jokes funny? Tired, lame and offensive - it's like you're stuck in a timewarp of Wheeltappers & Shunters & Bernard Manning.
Thick Conservative jokes, thick Jeremy Corbyn jokes, thick Dianne Abbott arithmetic jokes. People need to get away from politics and have a laugh at themselves.
I actually laughed. I have some Irish friends and asked them whether they found the joke funny. They did. I'm not sure that so many people would find that sort of joke offensive. Jokes about neighbouring nations are a staple of national humour. For example in the Netherlands we have: 'How do you spot a Belgian in a submarine? He's the one wearing the parachute. '
Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Jonathan Swift Samuel Beckett Edmund Burke Seamus Heaney James Joyce John Ford Spike Milligan W B Yeats Mary Robinson Richard Sheridan C S Lewis Van Morrison Phil Lynot Brendan Behan Frank Delaney Edna O'Brien Yeah - all thick Irish paddies from beyond the Pale. Suggest you read this - I can lend you my copy if you wish.
So many others from science & engineering - including Harry Ferguson (of tractor fame!) The list is almost endless.
I work with a great many bright Irish people. I would happily live there. I enjoy visiting Ireland - and viewing my posts I'm sure that you will see that I often object to material that I find offensive. I just try to be balanced. I have no wish to support over political-correctness any more than overt racism or xenophobia. Surely there has to be a middle ground? If my Irish friends didn't find the joke 'offensive' then I don't see why we should be offended. I would speculate - whether the Scots see this as being more offensive because they historically have felt marginalised by the English. Does this lead to a greater sensitivity perhaps? Or is it that we English have become so used to putting other people down that we find it amusing and are blind to the hurt it causes? I'm not sure. I'm not particularly offended by the French calling me a 'Rosbif', or by the English, Irish, Scotsman jokes that sometimes even turn the tables. Such is the staple and nature of Humour. For example is this offensive? An Irish man, an english man, an old woman and a attractive young girl were riding in a train car. When the train went through a tunnel there was a loud SMACK! When the train came out the englishman had a huge red hand print on his face. The old woman thought, "He must have grabbed that young girl." The young girl thought, "He must have grabbed that old woman thinking it was me." The englisman thought, "She must have slapped me thinking I was the Irish man." The Irish man thought, " I can't wait for another tunnel so I can smack that english man again." I'm ready to accept that the above joke is indeed offensive but I need more reasoned argument than that which has been posted so far.
Two Irish couples decided to swap partners for a sex session. After 2 hours of unbelievable satisfying sex, Paddy turns to Seamus and says "I wonder how the girls are getting on"
Are you insinuating that lame people are somewhat less? And what have you got against railway workers? And Bernard Manning? Actually, wait. I take your point about Bernard Manning. Pa**y comes down the stairs one morning to see an envelope on the mat. He notices a warning sticker on the front. DO NOT BEND. It took him two hours to scoop it up with his foot.
Perhaps your relative age excuses you for not getting the W&S cultural reference. It was a popular 1970s Brit variety show. Bernard Manning was a repulsive, bigoted, slug - like Royston Vasey. I appreciate however your ironic tone!
What next? Jokes about grasping Jews, thieving Gypsies or promiscuous females? Sheesh - thought this was supposed to be a forum for all.
I think you need to better understand the history of anti-Irish prejudice and discrimination - fostered by Britain's colonial involvement in the island of Ireland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment No different really to the Nazi's attitude towards Slavonic peoples - untermensch. Ridicule & humiliation and an attitude of superiority - all prevalent in anti-Irish bigotry.
This is the HUMOUR section. Kindly respect that and confine your political rants and enforcing your uber-political correctness to the Politics section. Thank you.
