As a fellow idiot, I can slightly see selwyns intentions. He finds taboo things funny

Nothing more taboo than cancer. I really don't think he was being malicious just being an idiot. The trouble is, if no one reacted, if no one was entertained by the thread (we have to admit even though his comments were not in good taste the thread as a whole made for entertaining reading albeit for the wrong reasons) then he wouldn't post such things, but they cause a stir. Please don't think I'm condoning his jokes/comments though but I do think irony was intended but selwyn has a knack of disguising the irony and pissing people off.

It does bring up quite an interesting subject though, on taboo comedy and what is acceptable and what isn't. This board has quite a high threshhold of controversial jokes etc but cancer seems to be where the line is drawn. We have had jokes about incest, bum rape, people who have died, beastiality, even perhaps aids. But cancer seems to be where the line is drawn. Can cancer ever be funny? can rape? can aids?

Posted By: stringersrevenge on July 17th 2009 at 10:18:37

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In case you missed last night on here, this sums it up pretty well... (General Chat) - Brandonio, Jul 17, 09:41:50
- selwyn, selwyn selwyn what are we going to do with the snoutmaster (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Jul 17, 09:52:07
  - he seems to want to be disliked, could have easily backed away from those comments (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jul 17, 10:00:37
    - As a fellow idiot, I can slightly see selwyns intentions. He finds taboo things funny (General Chat) - stringersrevenge, Jul 17, 10:18:37
      - Anything can be funny, if it's actually funny. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 17, 10:32:51
      - rape is not funny, but grape is... (General Chat) - NCFC4life, Jul 17, 10:29:01
      - I posted something about not thinking John Hartson had (General Chat) - duke of york, Jul 17, 10:21:28
- Ha ha! I was going to post that exact link last night, but decided against it. (General Chat) - shoddy, Jul 17, 09:50:01
- can't beleve people actually bothered responding (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 17, 09:42:48
  - evil triumphs when good men do nothing (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jul 17, 09:47:48
    - not on the internet when one weirdo is talking shit (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 17, 09:49:18
      - if hitler were alive today he'd have started on the internet first (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jul 17, 09:50:23
        
        and that would have been as far as he'd got (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 17, 09:51:19
        
        I'm working on some Hitler/twitter related punage... (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jul 17, 09:52:58
        
        yep before SCC got hold of him (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Jul 17, 09:52:20
        
        Imagine Churchill's Finest Hour speech (General Chat) - Brandonio, Jul 17, 09:56:09
        
        i prefer the term 'prove we are correct' to fight (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jul 17, 09:57:11
        
        he'd probably appear relatively 'moderate' compared to your average oinkun poster (n/m) (General Chat) - dear prudence, Jul 17, 09:54:26

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