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Andrew Neill show.
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Denburybob | Report | 3 Nov 2017 19:19 |
Harriet Harman told an offensive joke on the show last night. She said it was intended to show the sort of jokes that she was offended by. She wanted to tell another but Andrew told her to shut up, and turned his back on her. Comments? |
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Denburybob | Report | 3 Nov 2017 19:49 |
This was a really REALLY offensive joke. How anyone who is Jewish can even think of voting Labour is beyond me. How she could use the excuse of it being something that she found offensive, well... |
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LaGooner | Report | 3 Nov 2017 19:51 |
That and Corbyn's comment about why should we remember the WW1 dead, I for one would not vote for the cretins but hey ho I never have :-| |
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Rambling | Report | 3 Nov 2017 20:18 |
I didn't see it because I can't stand Andrew Neill...not that keen on HH either come to that but... |
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Rambling | Report | 3 Nov 2017 20:34 |
I should add that there have been very few offensive jokes on here in recent times so maybe the previous posters of such have decided it's not worth the hassle :-) |
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Denburybob | Report | 3 Nov 2017 20:35 |
She didn't need to tell the joke. She could have made it perfectly clear what type of jokes that she, and most decent people, find offensive without actually telling them. I could say that I find jokes about the Irish, or Pakistanis offensive without actually telling them. If it had been Boris in this situation his effigy would be burning as we speak. Perhaps HH's is. |
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Rambling | Report | 3 Nov 2017 20:52 |
No she didn't... nor do people have to use outdated and now considered offensive terms for various minorities...but they do unfortunately. When is too soon after a tragedy to make a joke about it? That was something that surfaced after 9/11 (to me the answer is never). |
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Kay???? | Report | 3 Nov 2017 21:52 |
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Rambling | Report | 3 Nov 2017 21:55 |
Sorry hadn't realised I'd posted twice . |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 3 Nov 2017 23:13 |
My OH mother was born in the Jewish quarter of Montparnasse, Paris. My late partner, a Harvard alumni, was also Jewish. If Bob thinks the *joke" quoted by HH was really bad he has not heard much. Such banal jokes were common currency until fairly recently and certainly have not vanished. Tottenham Hotspur supporters use an insult against themselves as a rallying cry, the Yid Army. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 4 Nov 2017 20:57 |
..... And until now she (and we) thought she was a politician - not any more! :-S |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Nov 2017 08:07 |
On what basis do you make such a claim? Who are "we"? What do you mean by "a politician"? |
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Guinevere | Report | 5 Nov 2017 08:55 |
I'm with Rose and Rollo, they've said it all. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 5 Nov 2017 09:31 |
On the basis that a person with any political nous at all would have kept schtum - no one needed to spout crass jokes because, as you have written, Rollo, Fallon had already begun to fall on his sword. I find the fact that any so-called politician felt the need to do so depicts a certain lack of integrity (in public, with an audience, even stupidity) unless, of course one is courting the limelight or has a book to promote and we all know that it goes on - yes, I am using the 'we' word again, Rollo, because I am certain that I am not the only who thinks that way. |