General Chat

See Rose? If we can all put up with John I'm sure you can turn a blind eye to a 'smutty' joke. ;-) :-D

*whispers* what's he on about? :-S

Mock the Week. Now that really is a puzzle, Rose. Just asked my son who it might be and serious reply was Dara O'Breen. He didn't have to think about his answer.:-D

I am seriously ROFL.

Stewart Francis and Milton Jones are my favourites :-) :-)

Rose, you put up with the 20% that you find unfunny.

Wend,

I would love to post a joke for you but I dare not. If Rollo's guess that the phantom referrer is a D C Thomson employee is correct then they may even now be watching this space. Their mouse pointer aimed at "Report" and their finger poised ready to spring into action should they spot anything likely to cause offence or corrupt.

It has taken me too long to cultivate my persona of a virtuous, upstanding pillar of society and totally all round nice guy for me to risk it being sullied on the whim of a completely humourless nerk.

On the subject of Mrs Brown's Boys, I confess that I cannot stand it but my wife thinks that it is very funny. I don't however switch the TV off so she cannot watch it as I know that it does not cause her any offence and at her age she is unlikely to be corrupted by its content. It is what I believe is known in some circles as tolerance.

Yes you can turn over when a programme starts that you have seen before and know it's not for you, but on here you may have to just ignore every post by that poster and there may be some really funny clean jokes you miss or a 'serious' topic even.

Like watching 'Mock the week' you may find some of the comedians very funny and one that really isn't ( I don't know his name but there is one on there who is, imo never funny), so do you skip the 80% that does make you laugh or put up with the 20% that you find unfunny or crude?

*loikes*

On the rare occasion Jonesey puts up a joke/jokes, he always makes me laugh :-D

More please Jonesey :-D

With my rubbish short term memory, yes! :-D

OOO that's a hard one............once you've seen something, how can you ignore it?

been watching too many American court cases............." strike that from the record, and the jury will ignore it!!?"

We have no desire to watch 'Mrs Brown's Boys'; we turn over to something else.
Similarly, if I read a joke that I consider off colour, I turn the page.

Once you see where it's going, ignore it!

so what ?
shows I write stuff out from scratch and don't just copy it

Although I have a rellie in Dundee recently retired from the Uni. I don't know any of the Thomson crowd. There are better things to do on a long trip north.

More to the point ( Jonesy utterly offside ) is that the Thomson love of quizzes, gentle humour and light fiction is very well known. It is also well known that they take an active interest in all their print and online titles reading carefully both content and balance sheet. Hence the T&C. Hence third form jokes tend to evaporate. I have no evidence but my guess is that the "phantom rr'd" is a D C Thomson staffer.

1+1 usually makes 2 except for Shrodinger's cat.

enjoy

All I will say is that if you don't like jokes of any kind don't read them.

Having said that it did contain a word that has been classed as risqué on GR............... ;-)

A bovine excrement detector can occasionally be an extremely handy gadget to have. ;-)

Wow! back of the net Jonesey! :-D

*likes*

Rollo,

I am a little surprised that as you know the owners so well including their likes and dislikes on the humour front that you do not know how to spell their name.

It is D C Thomson, not Thompson.

It may amaze some people but D C Thompson remains a family owned company controlled by the Thompson Bros and they don't like saucy seaside postcards, MrMagoo's humour and even less Bill Connolly, Steve Martin or Lenny Bruce.
Hence the T&C.

Well known house titles include the Beano and "People's Friend" if you want a style guide.

http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/about-us

Never mind Paula, somebody else decided that you would be :-D

I always seem to miss when the original jokes are posted, so I never know if I would be offended or not.

Jonesy, I was thinking chocolates :-D I don't like the hard ones, give me a coffee cream and I'm happy :-)

"That's a hard one."

Hands up all those who think that the sentence contains a sexually explicit statement.

Freud would have had a field day with you lot.