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Originally Posted by Niamh.

You're joke called black people monkeys, I pretty sure any black people on TiBB would have found that personally offensive.

And your jokes are mocking children that are being abducted, tortured and murdered. When you put that alongside the context of my joke which didn't actually mock the death of someone, I'm pretty sure the jokes in this thread are of a much more serious nature.

You see the problem is humour and offense is all subjective. I could quite easily say that I'm offended by jokes about the chicken crossing the road, or 'yo mama' jokes, but would those jokes then be banned? Of course they wouldn't, yet I'm offended, right? Surely you either ban all jokes or you ban none, because they after all are only jokes, and are not supposed to be taken seriously? Just my opinion of course, it just seems a little unfair that's all, and what's allowed is down to a subjective opinion of humour. Oh, that's funny...that can stay, that's not funny...infraction. To be honest maybe a specific thread where jokes can be told, with warnings given about 'potentially offensive content' should be created, I'm pretty sure we had one before. That way, and maybe I'm the only one in thinking this, but if you've been warned, and have the opportunity not to go looking for places to be supposedly outraged, then you have no right to claim to be offended.

As a side note, maybe this could be an interesting debate thread to start.