[bots]

i would judge the message by whether it was successful or not. If it had the required effect ... great, if it didn't then it was inappropriate

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i would judge the message by whether it was successful or not. If it had the required effect ... great, if it didn't then it was inappropriate

...do you mean if it had been particularly noticed that many in that local area weren’t wearing masks ../...not socially distancing etc...and then they were after the ad in a marked way....?...

[Cherie]

I was thinking about this yesterday as there is a campaign to stop speeding, and it has Dad driving the kids around... when women speed too, you would never think we were in 2020

[user104658]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i would judge the message by whether it was successful or not. If it had the required effect ... great, if it didn't then it was inappropriate

I'm not sure I agree with the logic in that . The ends justify the means, essentially?

"Hey everyone, there's a demon worshipper here who says that killing puppies will reduce Covid!"

"Hmmm well if it has that effect then great and fine but if it doesn't decrease cases then it's a bit of a waste of perfectly good puppies isn't it."

[MTVN]

Aren't mother-in-law jokes mainly just based on the idea that they have this rose tinted view of their own child in contrast to their partner and that makes them overbearing and impossible to please etc. It can apply just as much to wives as husbands I'd have thought (as in women can also find their mother-in-law very frustrating)

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Aren't mother-in-law jokes mainly just based on the idea that they have this rose tinted view of their own child in contrast to their partner and that makes them overbearing and impossible to please etc. It can apply just as much to wives as husbands I'd have thought (as in women can also find their mother-in-law very frustrating)

and as most comedians were men it was the MIL that was targetted

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Aren't mother-in-law jokes mainly just based on the idea that they have this rose tinted view of their own child in contrast to their partner and that makes them overbearing and impossible to please etc. It can apply just as much to wives as husbands I'd have thought (as in women can also find their mother-in-law very frustrating)

yes but why not the Father in law he could equally think no one is good enough for his Princess

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Cherie

yes but why not the Father in law he could equally think no one is good enough for his Princess

Indeed; if the aim of the joke is what's been said, why not "your in-laws are around the corner".

[Ammi]

...it could have been ‘father in law’ just easily, but it wasn’t...because there hasn’t really been father in law ‘humour’ in the same way...as in, inferring father in laws are bit monstrous and stereotyping them in such a negative way...it’s not providing any ‘equal, why ‘in law humour at all’...and it’s definitely not progressing in any way by using a ‘humour’ that has become out dated for a reason...

[Ammi]

...I mean, one of the very things that ‘father in law humour’ hasn’t been a thing is what should have told them that this was an awful regression...