General Chat

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?

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)

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.

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.

:-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 ).

*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.

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' :-)

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

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!

"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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Wow! back of the net Jonesey! :-D

*likes*

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

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............... ;-)

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

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!