General Chat

Frederick - I hope you didn't watch last night's 'On Benefits & Proud' on C5.

It was infested with swear words from male & female participants. And guess what - some of their offspring were equally linguistically deficient.

Apparently, there is another episode next week. Cannot wait!

BF & Island, I stand corrected. but not really to good at it, smut I mean,
call me old fashioned but what I can't stand is the present day so called
comedians who have to swear to get a laugh. F

Sorry Island missed your post there, yes that's true about FB.

I don't use it much, but I suppose if I were to post a joke I'd be aware that whilst a couple of friends might find it funny, others would be baffled lol, I tend to go for the 'quirky' :-)

*agrees with Rose and BC*

I don't like smutty jokes, haven't since I was a teenager, but that doesn't mean I have no sense of humour. I have a different sense of humour. Like BC I like wit and a bit of intelligence in a joke.

I wouldn't dream of telling a smutty joke in a room full of strangers (even if I thought it was funny). There is always the likelihood that someone would be offended. I feel the same about smut posted here - we aren't all friends gathered in the same room - we are strangers to each other and some people find smutty jokes offensive, as opposed to just not funny - which is where I come from.

:-D @ BC.

I think I've only reported one joke on here ...no sorry two, one that I felt was racist ( I find racist or homophobic jokes or comments are less often reported on any site than the smutty but not bigoted ones ? why is that? ) the other was very explicit ( and worse, wholly unfunny ).

Rose, posts can be reported by friends/members and removed on FB. the authors of pages have control over posts they do and don't want.

The biggest joke on here, is not any of the jokes we read, it is the finger on the report button hiding behind the anonymity of a computer screen, if it was not so sad it would be funny.

Frederick....It was I , and not Wend, who said you were 'only good for smutty jokes', but I am sure I put it in a more elegant fashion :-D

And several people agreed with me. Yes, I really love wit and humour but am not too keen on 'smut'.but then I have the choice to read or not to read and accept that some find it funny (like some folk love Mrs Brown's Boys! :-D :-D :-D)

I didn't see it, but it's kind of six of one and half dozen of the other here.... about the same number of people complain that the site is being 'trivialised' by becoming more of a social networking site rather than genealogy ...and the other half wanting what can be found on FB, ie you can say anything without it being reported or removed.

Fwiw, I don't think people who report are necessarily old, or young, or lacking in humour generally...but humour is so subjective, I laugh like a hyena at Mrs Browns boys..but I probably wouldn't want to watch it with a rather more straight laced friend ;-) she would find it offensive in the extreme and I would feel uncomfortable that she was being exposed to it lol.

maybe the RRer feels like that... feeling uncomfortable that it can be seen by others who may find it offensive?

OFIG singing with you <3

o f t g if there was a like button I would be using it

but idid think last night and said so it might be rr

how stupid can sone people be :-S

sally w <3

I admit it, I admit it - if it was not for the saving grace of the anonymous finger on the "Report Button" protecting my morals, I would have been exposed to all the disgusting, offensive and the lowering of the tone material that is allegedly contained in the jokes that get posted on GR.

After all I have lead a sheltered life being a wild rover for many years, from my time in the army to the times I frequented the nightclubs and bars of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Soho, and Amsterdam, but now I need to be protected at age 70 so I that I do not get corrupted ;-)

I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And, when they've caressed me as oft times before
I never will play the wild rover no more

And it's No, Nay, never,
No, nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover,
No never no more
:-D :-D :-D

Frederick, if I remember correctly Wend said 'what you are best at'. :-)

Ask WEND she seems to know all about SMUTTY jokes, that's
what she said I'm only good for. :-S :-S :-S

F.

Ah Jonesey, I am a slow typist. In addition to the point you make about 'young mothers' I can add - as most RRs apparently go on late at night......oh need I say more? I hoped John would work this out for himself ;-)

No John. I do not understand why some individuals take it upon themselves to decide what members of an ADULT site should and should not read. Neither do I have any idea who might be doing the reporting.

Your suggestion that 'they may be young mothers' falls down on so many points.

See? I have answered your question. Why could you not answer mine?

John,

In my opinion that is a load of rowlocks. Why would young mothers using GR to do their family history encourage or allow their young children to read the General Chat message board at GR? I am fairly sure that the young children would not find their own way there just to see if there were any "Dirty" jokes available to view. Equally why would "Normal" old people (Of either sex) be offended by a joke which contained nothing other than innuendo, no swearing, no graphic descriptions ect and a joke that the Two Ronnies or Morcambe and Wise have both used in their TV shows. I'm afraid that the individual who RR'd that post and possibly other similar ones has a serious disorder of some kind.

What exactly is a smutty joke any way?

Fitzherbert in his "Boke of Husbandry" 1523 describes the work a country housewife should do:

"First sweep thy house, dress up thy dishboard, and set all things in good order within they house: milk thy kine, suckle thy calves, sye up (strain) thy milk, take up thy children and array them, and provide for thy husband’s breakfast, dinner, supper, and for thy children and servants, and take thy part with them.

Ordain corn and malt to the mill, to bake and brew withall when need is, and meete it to the mill (measure out what you send to the mill), and from the mill, and see that thou have thy measure again beside the tolle (the proportion the Miller kept as payment). Thou must make butter and cheese when thou mayest, serve thy swine both morning and evening, and give thy poleyn meat (feed your fowls) and when time of the year cometh, thou must take heed how thy hens, ducks and geese do lay, and to gather up their eggs, and when they wax broody, to settle them where no beasts, swine, nor vermin, hurt them.

And thou must know that all whole footed fowls will (ducks) sit a month and all cloven-footed fowls will sit but three weeks. And when they have brought forth their birds, to see that they be well kept from the gleyd (kite), crows, fullymartes (polecats) and other vermin. And in the beginning of March, or a little time before, is time for a wife to make her garden, and to get as many good seeds and herbs as she can, and specially such as be good for the pot, and to eat, and as often as need shall require, it must be weeded."

In addition to this, she was expected to spin and weave, make clothes and blankets, winnow the corn and help make hay, shear the corn and if her husband needed her help to fill the muck waine or dung cart and also ride to market to sell butter, cheese, milk, eggs, capons, hens, pigs and geese.

She was, however, advised "sometimes thou shalt have so many things to do, that thou shalt not know well where is best to begin - so do that first that she will lose most by not doing".

Some get offended by smutty jokes. I never saw this one, and generally like a joke. But seems to be not the place to post them.

I can understand people reporting them. Can you, Island? There seems to be a genuine feeling that they are old and do not have a life (edit), but they may be young mothers doing family history, having a break and looking at chat, and who are worried that their children might see the jokes.

my threads dont read so no chance of being RRd!!

LOL

this is madness take of the button!!