Sorry, I'm not letting it go. It's the rant section after all.
luckyman wrote:
snapper wrote:
I think the only offensive thing about the whole scenario is the amount of attention given to what was a pretty crap joke. I think a lot of people are offended *far* too easily over insignificant things.
Well snapper I wonder what would happen if one of your nieces or daughters (don't know if you have any) happened to be abused and drugged , and a 'comedian' happened to make a 'joke' about the abuser as the court case was going on ....you would call it 'insignificant things' ?? Seems people get more worked up about me daring to question why this arsehole's books are still getting sold in WH.Smith (how very alternative! - more like Establishment!), why he still has a tv contract and why his 'award' has not been removed ?
He made an unfunny joke about the abuser's appearance - that's all. Didn't go into detail about the case. It will not affect the sentencing, of that I'm certain.. If I had a child who'd been abused and someone in public made an idiotic comment that upset me (and it wouldn't have been this particular one), sure I'd be very angry. And I'd make a point of it by contacting them myself and *shaming them personally*. I wouldn't expect anyone else to do it and I think this would make the person think twice about doing it again.
I'm still struggling to figure out what was particularly offensive about his comment. Is it what he said? I've read through it a few times - it's a crap joke. Or the timing? - So it would be ok in a few months?
My bemusement at occurrences like this comes from the fact that a lot of people will get *very* worked up, write letters, make phone calls etc to complain about something that has nothing to do with them other than them being offended on someone else's behalf ie: the whole Andrew Sachs thing. But when there is something very serious and what *I* would call significant - oh, off the top of my head as an example.... saw something on the news the other week reiterating the fact that it would cost the West, as a whole, $25 billion to establish clean drinking water systems to everyone in the world who needs it - but our govts won't do it, despite all the positive knock on effects for everyone, us included. The US alone has spent $12 billion a *month* in Iraq since 2003. *That* gets me angry. But no one complains about stuff like this, they save their complaining for, yes, insignificant things like comedians.
It is often said that our culture has dumbed down. On this evidence it's the public who are dumber and getting the culture they deserve.
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....... anyhoo 
... so am going to have to settle for the whole tin of Roses instead 
