Anti-Irish Jokes in British Prison paper prompts complaints

getz

jerseyeire wrote: »

Lived in England for three years, jokes a joke and I never took it to heart. At least we're not the pricks in jokes like them across the water are

I'm sorry lord Bastard shall I put another small child on the fire?

thats more offensive than a ethnic joke,or dont you understand that ?

drkpower

dlofnep wrote: »

I'm all for a joke every now and again, but routinely joking about a nation of people as dumb, ignorant arse-backwards people gets a little tiring.

Relax, its only a bland stereotype. Just like the Americans are vulgar, stupid and fat; the Brits are tight assed and crap in bed; the French are arrogant and smelly; the Aussies are lazy, oafish and drunken; the Germans are boring and ruthlessly efficient; the Japanese are very excitable and travel in herds; the Brazilians are bikini-clad hotties; the Saudi's are chauvinistic and partial to a bit of suicide-bombing; the White South Africans are authoritarian and racist; ...... and the Irish are drunk and a little bit clueless.

Now, anyone with a bit of sense know that the above is not even close to the reality for most inhabitants of each country (except the Brazilians); so why are we getting upset? The idiots who believe these silly sterotypes arent worth worrying about.

NothingMan

drkpower wrote: »

Relax, its only a bland stereotype. Just like the Americans are vulgar, stupid and fat; the Brits are tight assed and crap in bed; the French are arrogant and smelly; the Aussies are lazy, oafish and drunken; the Germans are boring and ruthlessly efficient; the Japanese are very excitable and travel in herds; the Brazilians are bikini-clad hotties; the Saudi's are chauvinistic and partial to a bit of suicide-bombing; the White South Africans are authoritarian and racist; ...... and the Irish are drunk and a little bit clueless.

Now, anyone with a bit of sense know that the above is not even close to the reality for most inhabitants of each country (except the Brazilians); so why are we getting upset? The idiots who believe these silly sterotypes arent worth worrying about.

I dunno, that seemed like a pretty accurate summation of the worlds cultures to me.

twinytwo

if you cant laugh at yourself , who can you laugh at

Captain Havoc

jerseyeire wrote: »

I never took offense to an Irish joke but then again I have a very un PC sense of humour anyway.

getz wrote: »

thats more offensive than a ethnic joke,or dont you understand that ?

I make jokes, I take jokes.

DamoDLK

......how often do you really look at a mans shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of sh!t smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.

Great Movie.

Paddy Jokes belong to a day when we simply were outsiders/or a bit backwards. These jokes aren't anti Irish, they could easily apply to any race or culture globally.

I actually laughed(ol) at the electrician one!

Captain Havoc

In French they make fun of the Belgians.

NothingMan

jerseyeire wrote: »

In French they make fun of the Belgians.

Only in French? What if I wanted to make fun of the Belgians while speaking Flemish?

Captain Havoc

NothingMan wrote: »

Only in French? What if I wanted to make fun of the Belgians while speaking Flemish?

I'll rephase, Belgian jokes are the French language version of Irish jokes. That Lord Bastard thing was said by Ben Elton who I believe is English.

Jesus Juice

Not only we're they not offensive,they werent even funny!!!...See:Tommy Tiernan.:pac:

Prof.Badass

koth wrote: »

They're upset that the jokes are calling them stupid.

But yet they can't understand something as simple as don't break the law??

Maybe the chances they'd get caught were exceedingly slim and they thought they'd get away with it. One of them may have enganged in a victimless crime and thus chose to ignore the law they saw as oppressive.

Fratton Fred

drkpower wrote: »

Relax, its only a bland stereotype. Just like the Americans are vulgar, stupid and fat; the Brits are tight assed and crap in bed; the French are arrogant and smelly; the Aussies are lazy, oafish and drunken; the Germans are boring and ruthlessly efficient; the Japanese are very excitable and travel in herds; the Brazilians are bikini-clad hotties; the Saudi's are chauvinistic and partial to a bit of suicide-bombing; the White South Africans are authoritarian and racist; ...... and the Irish are drunk and a little bit clueless.

Now, anyone with a bit of sense know that the above is not even close to the reality for most inhabitants of each country (except the Brazilians); so why are we getting upset? The idiots who believe these silly sterotypes arent worth worrying about.

are you sure?

pickarooney

Clearly, Paddy was pointing out that whoever threw the switch would be at risk of severe injury, if not death. And who'd be laughing then?

I, for one, hope the Irish never go down that road of being humourless ***** about whom nobody is allowed say a word.

orourkeda

Irish people offended by Irish Jokes. Whatever Next?

They were probably made up by Irish People.

orourkeda

twinytwo wrote: »

if you cant laugh at yourself , who can you laugh at

Everybody else.

getz

pickarooney wrote: »

Clearly, Paddy was pointing out that whoever threw the switch would be at risk of severe injury, if not death. And who'd be laughing then?

I, for one, hope the Irish never go down that road of being humourless ***** about whom nobody is allowed say a word.

the irish started it by inventing the bagpipes as a joke to give to the scots,but so far they still havent spotted it.and the english have to suffer.

ScumLord

oeb wrote: »

I think the point is more along the lines of:

What would happen if you substituted every instance of 'paddy' with a middle eastern name, and replaced the word 'Irish' with 'Arab'?

Would the jokes all be ok then?

(I am not offended by the jokes, just trying to see it from their point of view)

That's because we can take a joke, any English people around here get loads of stick and can give as good as they get. I don't think the Irish and English will ever stop taking the piss out of each other which is a good thing because when two of the best and darkest sense of humours go head to head it's always classic.

twinytwo wrote: »

if you cant laugh at yourself , who can you laugh at

Midgets?

Bill-e

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enda1

NothingMan wrote: »

Only in French? What if I wanted to make fun of the Belgians while speaking Flemish?

Flemish people speak Dutch.

And in The Netherlands, the Belgians are also the butt of their jokes!

scribs

Who gives a flying f#ck whats published in a prison newspaper. The jokes were sh!te anyway.

drkpower

Fratton Fred wrote: »

are you sure?

Yes; everyone knows that not all French people are arrogant and smelly. The Parisians are arrogant. And the country people are smelly. Its only the occasional creature who are both.

ch750536

A Paddy Irishman, Paddy Englishman and Paddy Scotsman were playing Russian roulette.

Paddy Englishman used a gun with six chambers and no bullets;

Paddy Scotsman used a gun with six chambers and one bullet;

Paddy Irishman used a gun with six chambers and six bullets - but he put The gun to Paddy Englishman's head.

Offensive?

drkpower

ch750536 wrote: »

Offensive?

No, just poor.
Sounds like a joke at a Wolfe Tone's gig (followed by hurrahs, up ye boya's and a few 'up the Ra's)

ejmaztec

ch750536 wrote: »

A Paddy Irishman, Paddy Englishman and Paddy Scotsman were playing Russian roulette.

Paddy Englishman used a gun with six chambers and no bullets;

Paddy Scotsman used a gun with six chambers and one bullet;

Paddy Irishman used a gun with six chambers and six bullets - but he put The gun to Paddy Englishman's head.

Offensive?

The only offensive thing about it is that it isn't funny.:P

Ponster

Size=everything wrote: »

Republic of where?
Because despite what FIFA have named our soccer team this country is not known as The Republic of Ireland it is simply Ireland.

Excezt of course in France where it is referred to as Eire

tony 2 tone

gerTheGreat wrote: »

I had a conversation with a Brittish company today where they told me that they don't deliver in to Southern Ireland. I asked if that was near the Republic. They didn't like that question but tbh I didn't like the term "Southern Ireland", so I guess we're even.

Had the same problem, "oh we don't deliever to southern Ireland" "Thats ok I'm in Dublin, that's on the East coast" cue long silence.

Bottle_of_Smoke

I don't mind the jokes, and I think they are wrong about IRish being the only group targeted. Obviously Muslims/Blacks would get very angry but there's different political background there.

I seriously doubt there'd be an issue with French/Scottish/English/Italian jokes.

That aside, I think its a bad idea to stir up any conflict amongst prisoners. If these jokes were in a normal newspaper fine, but in a prison I tihnk its very silly

dlofnep

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

I don't mind the jokes, and I think they are wrong about IRish being the only group targeted. Obviously Muslims/Blacks would get very angry but there's different political background there.

But is there?

Joey the lips

There has to be a strange irony that many wont get in the fact that the irish times is actually quoteing an article that shows how much a paper has been critical of the irish.