The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

She's a comedian and it was said on a comedy show. Also, from the context, she was also criticizing the whole milkshake thing as being pointless, which it is.

I don't mind Jo Brand at all. Wouldn't watch a whole show, but I'm very much not her target audience.

[Eoin McLove]

I've actually gone from disliking her to finding her quite amusing in recent times.  Totally agree with Chris's post above,  and as for Farrage playing the victim? Well that is funny enough on its own.

[Emphyrio]

Q, I and A have been added to LGBT it seems. I'm all for equal rights but is this whole thing not going too far? U.L. are looking to introduce "Rainbow" housing where members of the above community would have housing specifically for themselves. I would have thought that self-segregation is the opposite approach they should be taking.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Give a G an inch and he'll take yards.

[Emphyrio]

 

[101_North]

Comedian tells tame Edinburgh Fringe joke, people get upset.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49395718

[Eoin McLove]

That joke is as inoffensive as it gets!

[Juggz]

Those bastarding cunts can fuck off. Cunts.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Comedian tells tame Edinburgh Fringe joke, people get upset.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49395718

Jesus wept. Saw Jerry Sadowitz there, dread to think what they'd make of him.

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

The amount of times I've started typing replies to things on this thread and give up in the end because it's utterly pointless putting the effort into these utter cunts.

I give up.. on everything

[Scáthach]

It was a tourettes advocacy group that complained, they are just trying to drum up publicity on the back of the fringe festival. But yeah, utter nonsense, the joke was a pun and never even mentioned tourettes. I actually preferred another joke in the top 10. Something to the effect of "So someone stole my antidepressant pills, well I hope they're happy now.".

[DeletedUsermNqGIiIuGy]

"So someone stole my antidepressant pills, well I hope they're happy now.".

I feel attacked 

[Scáthach]

But how do you think the big pharma companies feel, they're just trying make an honest billion from people's misery? God help any of these "I'm offended" types if they saw a Jimmy Carr show!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

As you said yourself, it was an advocacy group drumming up some publicity. In the end, everyone wins: more people know about them and more people know about the comedian too, whatever his name is

Jasper Carrot (remember him!) had a bit about people getting offended by his jokes about Alzheimer's. "I never received so many envelopes!" 

[Scáthach]

  That's brilliant. There was a Frankie Boyle joke recently saying I think the Irish must be enjoying watching brexit, it'd be nice for them to see Britain go through a famine for once. I loved it, half the audience did also, the other half, not so much. I do enjoy a comic that plays with the boundaries of what's "acceptable", providing it's not just cheap shots or punching down.