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Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function
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Whats wrong with them? Why are you defending rapists from mockery?
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I think we get who is funny and who isnt.
Its ok. Not everyone gets it.
BTW, ever heard the expression "laughter is the best medicine" ?
How about "Making light of a bad situation" ?
"Make the best of a bad situation" ?
Life is littered with examples of using humour to deal with bad/sad events.
Its not new. Shakespeared wrote comedic tragedies a few years ago or more. But he wasnt any good either. Certainly not at the Foxx level.
You ever been to a Wake? Or never actually had anything good or bad happen in life?
Oh if the butt of the joke is the rapist, go for it.
Never? Not even between friends?
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Why do you think every journalist keeps referencing Jarryd Hayne, Blow up sex doll and 'skits' as the reason Josh Fahey is going to get 6 weeks?
I've been at plenty of Footy & Cricket Wind Ups & the 'Private Venue' being hired has Terms & Conditions & if any 'inappropriate' behavior & or things happen, you are asked to leave.
Were any of the GWS players asked to leave by the Venue?
All this Faux Outrage will do, is lead to the AFL going down the NRL route. Teams will just hire a venue or Air BnB etc.... in the Middle of nowhere & it will just be the players enjoying themselves.
Then the fwitt Media will whine about it, because AFL players dare to have a piss up the middle of nowhere, nobody knows about, but the players.
Were any of the GWS players asked to leave by the Venue?
All this Faux Outrage will do, is lead to the AFL going down the NRL route. Teams will just hire a venue or Air BnB etc.... in the Middle of nowhere & it will just be the players enjoying themselves.
Then the fwitt Media will whine about it, because AFL players dare to have a piss up the middle of nowhere, nobody knows about, but the players.
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I should have said shouldn't make a joke about it.
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If you went to Jimmy Carr youd probably need to answer this.
But what would he know about funny vs not funny.
For Norm MacDonald, check out his Steve Irwin jokes just after Irwin died.
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So that's 100% what happened? Who's your source?
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There's a big difference in making fun of your own bad experiences, vs making a joke out of traumatic experiences others have been through.
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This is how lines get crossed because no one speaks up. A blind eye is turned because it’s a “mate” and no one wants to be the killjoy or dobber.
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The Twin Towers?
They dressed as Bossman and Akeem?
They dressed as Bossman and Akeem?
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A few years my boss had a bucks night that ended up in a strip joint. There was a mixture of work colleagues and his mates. His mates paid for him to be 'intimate' with one of the strippers. Should his employer have been told if someone at the club had made a complaint?
Ok so never make a joke EVER, because someone, somewhere, might have experienced that traumatic event you are joking about?
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Dont watch any Roast with Pete Davidson. You may not survive being so horrified on his behalf.
Im sure he thanks you though.
Mel Brookes was asked is it ever too soon to make fun of any tragedy, the Holocaust and 9/11 being 2 examples. His answer was simple. Comedy helps people heal but if youre making fun of a tragedy it better be funny.
Some colourless dour people will want their whining to be heard, but for the majority, this is completely true.
Of course, we will laugh and move on to the next laugh, the whiners will quickly forget and move on to the next outrage to compete over.
As for Brookes, he probably doesnt know comedy. He did make that movie which used the N word. So he deserves to die.
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There are jokes other than racism, rape, and events that killed thousands of people etc.
So that rules out basically EVERY funny Comedian of the last 100 years LOL.
Do you ever leave your House? Must be tough living a Life, looking out for everything & anything that has the potential to 'offend' you
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Catholic Church and Islam okay by you ?
Maybe you should give us a list of what is okay, and perhaps a couple of examples to steer us down the noble path. We woulddnt want to upset anyone.
I assume jokes about men being dumb are still cool.
But you can speak up, my line however is different to your line and that is where the world will always be at.
What I call funny you might be upset about. You don't get to set the rule because you are upset.
I think some havent dare ventured into the realm of standup shows.
The responses have been utterly bizarre
He probably Loved Everybody Loves Raymond
A privileged White Male, being the but of every joke
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