IN BAD TASTE

God bless Ian you will be missed.I'm happy to hear the Internet is available in the after-life so he can read this heartfelt wish

God bless Ian you will be missed.I'm happy to hear the Internet is available in the after-life so he can read this heartfelt wish

No one has ever come back let us know but if you are offering.

[lonelywombat]

God bless Ian you will be missed.I'm happy to hear the Internet is available in the after-life so he can read this heartfelt wish

I have enjoyed your many posts over the few years I have been a member
I feel you have gone too far this time and feel ashamed that I have supported you.

God bless Ian you will be missed.I'm happy to hear the Internet is available in the after-life so he can read this heartfelt wish

I have enjoyed your many posts over the few years I have been a member
I feel you have gone too far this time and feel ashamed that I have supported you.

Thank you Lonely wombat it is good to see that we have some one with class on line.

I have enjoyed your many posts over the few years I have been a member
I feel you have gone too far this time and feel ashamed that I have supported you.I have never claimed to write in good taste. As Malcolm Muggeridge once said "Humour lies in the difference between human aspiration and human performance". I was hearing Princess Di jokes and Challenger jokes within half an hour of the deaths of those respective parties. It's life - and we're the living. Get over it

And Muggeridge's defininition explains why sex is such a topic of humour, and why pointing out the absurdity of englishrose's statement is appropriate. It made no comment about the dead whatsoever (note use of the word "dead", not the genteelism we've had so far in this thread)

Because we hear jokes that are in bad taste does not make them either funny or right. The number that were going round about Gays and A.I.Ds offended many perhaps you would think of this in future. It is a common fact that people who joke about everything are insecure and please stop the misquotes .

[Smiles]

" ... It is a common fact that people who joke about everything are insecure ... "
I have never heard this before.
In fact I was always under the impression that the dynamic would (should?) be pretty close to the opposite ... with some exceptions of course ~ Jerry Lewis for one. M. Homintern perhaps another :blackeye:

Was your statement above based on some poll or academic study?

Cheers ...

... the number of rationalisations people come up with about why people make jokes - usually by people who have no sense of the ridiculous. I haven't yet heard a rib-tickling joke about AIDS but I'm sure one exists and I look forward to hearing it - it will be most likely delivered by someone who has the disease. I'm pretty much convinced there is no subject that is exempt from humour, but I realise that many, many people are po-faced about one thing or another. If I have offended them ... tough

[Impulse]

I haven't yet heard a rib-tickling joke about AIDS but I'm sure one exists and I look forward to hearing it - it will be most likely delivered by someone who has the disease. This is a joke that Bob Hope used. "I heard the satue of liberty has aids,they dont know if she got it from the mouth of the hudson river or the staten island fairy"

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jon boating..

you are a complet asshole. are u relly that selfich and uncareing?

get a life.

-M

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However, I find it disgusting (and typical of some of the regular posters to this Forum) that they have found the announcement of Ian'S Death an excuse to indulge in levity and to make jokes about gays and AIDs. A shame on all of you!That sort of thing would never have happened during Lady Davina's time as Under Woman of the Chamberpot at Kensington Palace

Do you think the deceased will go to heaven or hell?

Do you think the deceased will go to heaven or hell?Is this a new poll? On the balance of probabilities - neither. Life extinguishes at death. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes ... but there is no resurrection, no after life, no reincarnation - nothing

Do you think the deceased will go to heaven or hell?Is this a new poll? On the balance of probabilities - neither. Life extinguishes at death. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes ... but there is no resurrection, no after life, no reincarnation - nothing

Nonsense! Im coming back as Frank Lampard!

And doesn't Brian Bonkers (aka. Prince Charles) want to come back as Camilla's tampon?