Gone anon to avoid the abuse
Why do people not realise that ‘Irish’ jokes are racist? ‘Ginger’ jokes are racist too. Irish people aren’t all thick!
Would you post a joke poking fun at a black person?
Now you know that people find Irish jokes offensive, are you going to stop posting them, Hazel?
Or just carry on being insensitive and ignorant?
I dont know where some people hang out I’m Irish live and grow up in Ireland and when out and about either when I was working at school or in a bar I heard jokes like this all the time never did I hear or see anyone affended by them maybe its just this part of Ireland we can all take a joke.
Everytime Hazel tries to have a joke about the Irish she gets hounded for it I’ve sent her many a joke Irish jokes and everything not so many lately my main source isn’t around anymore (sorry Hazel lol)
Is it just because she’s not Irish people have a problem with? it doesn’t bother me.
Well I’m off to enjoy myself now
mark
i dunno if u have ever met hazel in person-i have,several times cos she ignores the injunction order
the pc world has truly gone mad! one of my friends refers to me as her gimpy friend. does it offend/upset me? no-of course not. i know she cares very much and she knows that i have no time for ‘labels’. i know who and what i am-and so do my true friends. life is difficult enough without creating more issues.
i dont understand why folk read jokes if they dont want to-they are clearly marked as such.
ellie x
ps i have read the joke-funny-but now my pizza is more important!
I feel terribbly oppressed, being Ginga,part Irish,middle aged, hetrosexual(given the chance) disabled,etc,but I’m willing to be a Big Boy and tell all the lovely people fighting my corner to be worried about SOMETHING THAT MATTERS.Apparently there are things happening on the planet which are causing the death(of humans) and destruction of The Earth.
Thanks eversomuch all the good folks that are worrying about me,but please re-direct your abundant heartfelt energies to those that need it.Hazels are under pressure,but they are only trying to spread a bit of laughter and distraction.It was hard enough to get the Hunting of Hazels by Dogs banned,and now the concern is ‘Ink Flicking’,and ‘Reckless use of Adjectives in an Enclosed Space’.
If you have been affected by any of the issues in this reply please send a blank signed cheque to:
Herr Paddy’o’Ginga’
Help the Oppressed Celtic Throwback Society
69 Badger Cull Road,Tb Kills
War Crimes Tribunal
Rockall
Wb (part of the 5% of fearful Gingas)
OK…
A huge thank you to my supporters, even the cheeky, verticaly challenged, ginga, 4 leaved clover munching, big booby bashing & crazy onion friends.
As has been said…IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE EASILY OFFENDED or JUST LIKE HAVING A DIG at me because there is little else for you to do now you’ve ironed the wrapping paper…you need a hobby!
This PC world has gone barmy & some people just make it worse. There is just nowhere to turn anymore without others stricking out against you.
Have any of you considered that accusing me of being racist is offensive to me!
No I am not going to change & if a handful of you don’t like me for who I am then that’s your problem, NOT mine.
If you want to pick on me & make jokes about me, carry on, I will happily give you details about me to aide your endevours. As they say ‘don’t make jokes about others if you can’t take them about yourself’.
I always make it as clear as I can as to the content of the jokes, if as I often say ‘If you don’t want to be offended, don’t read this’…NOW…I DO NOT plan on stopping because some people will be offended, that could leave me with jokes about eggs cups with green spots & little else.
Please grow up or shut up & rather than starting a row over nothing, report me, better that than making offensive comments about me or those on here who are my very special friends & have been for sometime.
Hazel
PS…How do you know I’m not one or a mixture of black, yellow, ginga, brunnet, blonde, tall, short, fat, thin, clever, thick, fox hunting, ect, ect, ect…you know nothing about me.
PPS…I would have replied sooner, but my dinner was more important!
Nice one H,very well put. Thing is that if a certain type of person will be mortally offended by a post,THEY SHOULDN’T OPEN IT,similar to the On/Off switch on the telly. You will remember The ‘Bi-Ped’ on the old Bored.I never opened
his posts
'cos he was
full of it.
The PC 'ollocks was invented for the people with no manners,Social Graces or Common Sense.That is my opinion and I invoke my right to ignore any correspondents who are looking for an alternative to counting the rice.
Cheer H, S xx
Explain about the big booby reference please,as I’ve done the rice and aren’t doing the sugar 'til tomorrow.
Steve…do you not remember the ‘booby bashing’ club…
Very well put yourself sir & thank you.
xx
You would only deserve abuse for hiding behind anon.
However…
The ginger people (of which our adopted daughter is one) are not a race…use of that term says you mark them out…how rude.
I wouldn’t poke fun at a ‘black’ person, but i might post a joke about an Indian, African, Arab or any other colour, but I certainly would not be so rude as to call them ALL black…again, how rude.
Now I have not hurled abuse at you, although you’ll maybe claim that, I have simply replied to your comments.
Happy New Year.
If that’s what you think I am, then yes I will.
I am happy if I entertain the people with a wider veiw of the world.
Happy New Year.
Oh good grief.
I’m glad I don’t know you in the real world. Which is fine as you’d probably avoid me too.
Well Ellen we agree on one thing, there is always common ground if we search for it.
If people think the worst of me, without knowing me, then so be it I refuse point blank to fall into this PC mad world where everyone is afraid to step left or right of the line.
Oh well at least some wonderful people love/like me, I’m content with that.
unfortunatly the mojaraty of this pc bull c**p is started by white english do gooders with too much time on their hands. I am from an irish fammily on one side and jewish on the other, and i am also a proud member of the ginger clan. I love these sort of jokes and spred them at will. People like elen and anon are why towns in england a predominantly christian contry no longer have christmas lights sorry xmas lights. Grow up and get over your slefs if any one here should be taking offence its me wb and you know what we are some of the people sticking up for Hazel. Go find your own problems to fight for and stop fighting our battles for us we are big boys and can look after our selfs if we so desire. Hazel keep them coming and ignore those idiots. As already said if offended dont read.
Thank you jms.
You are correct in mentioning christmas lights, has anyone thought about offending people for whom they are traditional…both our comments on that one will get us branded as racist.
On the other hand I suppose if they are having a dig at me they are leaving some other poor soul alone. It is amazing how they read them when the warning is there, are they looking for something to moan about!
By the way I see you are from York, we were down there staying in our caravan at the CC Rowntree part site, we enjoyed it.
H
xx
I was bullied as a child, with the kids making similar (but not Irish or Jewish) jokes at my expense as it was ‘just a joke’. I didn’t find it funny.
I am not going to apologise for commenting on the same kind of joke.
People who are really upset by these ‘jokes’ are sometimes too afraid to make their feelings known because it may just provoke a huge onslaught. Having been that child, I try to support the bullied*.* If that’s PC madness, so be it.
l am part lrish [Granny side Kennedy] and my once chestnut hair is now blonde - but l do still have my green eyes. And l have never had my ‘funny’ bone amputated - thank heaven.
l certainly do not take offence when anyone laughs at me for any reason - l usually laugh along with them.
Last night - at the ‘Shoot’ dinner at local pub - l was trying to get down the steps to the restaurant - and as l looked a bit like Julie Waters doing the ’ two soups’ sketch. l called out to all in the restaurant - ‘‘Two Soups’’ as l limped in - and everyone burst into laughter. l would rather have that then folk feeling sorry for me - or even rushing up to help me.
Laugh and the world laughs with you —Cry and you cry alone.
F.
Ellen, that was very sad for you as a child.The jokes on here are not directed at an individual.Anybody who experiences emotional trauma from the content of the written word must lead an apalling life and should seek medical attention.
Wb
Hi Ellen
I just wanted to say I totally support what you are saying.
I honestly don’t think that the ‘jokes’ are posted maliciously, often people who make these them have no idea of the impact they can have. To transfer how they would feel onto others is at best naive.
I respect you for saying what you think in the face of such opposition. I suspect there are many silent readers of the boards that totally agree with you.
Take care
Anne x
P.S. Incidentally if you knew me Hazel I am far from grumpy (with reference to your other racist ‘joke’)
One Chink says to another, “Christmas is on a Friday this year”…
The second Chink says "Let’s hope it’s not the 13th…
Yep, it is racist. And I feel awful even typing it.
It doesn’t matter whether it is Irish, or a far more racist term put in there instead… it is a racist joke because it assumes ALL people of a particular race are stupid.
And I repeat my comment from your Jewish post, Hazel, stating that it may offend some people doesn’t give you catre blanche to racially villify people. All it does is make you and your supporters look ignorant and bigoted.
B
Sigh, here we go again.
Thick Irish and drunken Irish jokes died out in the 1990’s when average Irish earnings became higher than UK average earnings, when Irish folks, once characterised as country thickos, only good for getting drunk, fighting and digging roads were earning more than those who were predominantly making the ‘jokes’, old hat Hazel, find some new material.
But more importantly, the place where your ‘joke(s)’ come from is one of historic ignorance, discrimination, deep seated prejudice and gross intolerance of Irish people, specifically, Irish catholic immigrants.
Your ‘joke’ is based on fear, creating and spreading fear amongst ‘the natives’ against an incoming group.
Anywhere in the world where a large group of people is forced to move en mass to another country (look at the Holocaust, famine in different parts of Africa, the potato famine in Ireland, people fleeing with their families to escape war and discrimination), the arrival of a large group of immigrants creates fear amongst the ‘natives’ who view them as an economic threat. And gather together to demonise them, to make jokes, point the finger and divide ‘us’ against ‘them’.
In Northern Ireland sectarian conflict was an ultimate outcome. ‘The Irish’ were viewed by many in England as an enemy of ‘The English’, with the resultant ‘jokes’ against the Irish which for far too many years supported the view of genetic Irish stupidity and drunkenness which has allowed widespread discrimination and varying levels of bullying.
And incidentally, and all of my grandparents were Irish, I’d feel the same abhorrence to racist jokes whichever group of people they were aimed at.
I don’t lack a sense of humour, but racism, widespread bullying of one group by another is never funny.