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  • tay
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    Originally posted by Jubber View Post
    It was a joke FFS - I'll leave you to it.
    Dont let the TPD clique bully you!

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  • SallyAnne
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    Originally posted by Chugnut View Post
    What a bell end.


    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    I'm afraid if Dimprawn loses all he has, he also might kill himself. Of course, he doesnt have any friends or family so least thats a positive


    Originally posted by Jubber View Post
    With a name like that how come he didn't have his 14 cousins, 17 2nd cousins their kids and extended families in there too?



    Bravo men

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    I didn't attack him personally, I just made a sarcastic remark that his jokes aren't funny and he did tell racist (or at least very racially insensitive) jokes.

    Interestingly, he didn't tell mother in law jokes... apparently they're offensive to older women.
    So mother in law jokes: no,


    You need to check your facts a bit - this is a quote from his obituary (which he wrote):

    Oh, I know there'll be a few who won't mourn my passing, like mothers-in-law up and down the country. I'll never forget the day I took my own mother-in-law to the Chamber of Horrors in Madame Tussauds. Suddenly, one of the attendants whispered to me: "Please keep her moving. We're trying to do a stock take."

    The one bad thing about dying quietly in Manchester is that I cannot fulfil the solemn promise I made to the old battleaxe. "When you die, I'm going to dance on your grave," she once said. To which I replied: "I hope you do, because I'm going to be buried at sea."

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    What are you laughing at? Did you know him? Were you involved with any of the charities that BM helped?
    But the popularity of the 1970s gave way to opprobrium in the 1980s and 1990s when Manning's repertoire of jokes about "Pakis, Coons, Paddies, Scousers and Yids" fell out fashion.

    In 1995, he was secretly filmed by ITV's World In Action barracking a black officer at police charity dinner. His lines included: "Having a night out with nice white people? Isn't this better than swinging from the trees?"
    I didn't attack him personally, I just made a sarcastic remark that his jokes aren't funny and he did tell racist (or at least very racially insensitive) jokes.

    Interestingly, he didn't tell mother in law jokes... apparently they're offensive to older women.
    So mother in law jokes: no, paki, *** and any other racist term he can name: yes. Obviously people with a darker skin don't get offended in the same way that mothers in law do

    Whether or not he is racist I'm not debating, or his personal qualities as a man.

    And just because he's dead it doesn't mean he's above reproach.

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  • Jubber
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    an obvious racist troll
    It was a joke FFS - I'll leave you to it.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    What are you laughing at? Did you know him? Were you involved with any of the charities that BM helped?

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Bernard was a comedian from a different age. He was intelligent, witty and did a hell of a lot for charity.

    Bringing him into this conversation to try and rebuff an obvious racist troll is imo deeply offensive to that great man's memory.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    When I start finding Bernard Manning funny I'll know I've recieved it
    Bernard was a comedian from a different age. He was intelligent, witty and did a hell of a lot for charity.

    Bringing him into this conversation to try and rebuff an obvious racist troll is imo deeply offensive to that great man's memory.

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  • Jubber
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    When I start finding Bernard Manning funny I'll know I've recieved it
    If you find that sort of humour so offensive I'm surprised you haven't mentioned all the 'shooting MIL' jibes on this thread too? MIL jokes OK then? Bernard Manning told a lot of those.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Jubber View Post
    You're welcome. If you'd like a sense of humour I'll post you one.
    When I start finding Bernard Manning funny I'll know I've recieved it

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  • Chugnut
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Not sure it's worth dying for though.
    It's certainly not

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  • DimPrawn
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    Actually Indian families take debt, bankruptcy and failure very badly. Brings terrible shame to the community.

    Not sure it's worth dying for though.

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  • Jubber
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    What a well thought out and enlightened post

    My day has been made complete by your valuable contribution

    Thank you
    You're welcome. If you'd like a sense of humour I'll post you one.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Jubber View Post
    With a name like that how come he didn't have his 14 cousins, 17 2nd cousins their kids and extended families in there too?
    What a well thought out and enlightened post

    My day has been made complete by your valuable contribution

    Thank you

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  • Jubber
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    With a name like that how come he didn't have his 14 cousins, 17 2nd cousins their kids and extended families in there too?

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