BS: Irish jokes!

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 01:35 PM

My favourite foreigner joke, harmless to boot!

I was at the Olympics and I met a bloke carrying a very long stick.

"Are you a pole vaulter?" I asked him.

"No, I'm a German, but how did you know my name is Walter?"


(It's a shite joke unless you pronounce "Walter" in German, by the way)

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 01:22 PM

Well I dived in as well, just after Jim.

Georgiansilver, don't forget I'm half English too! hee hee

I well remember in my Uni days giggling like anything at various very rude 'Rasta' jokes. (Wasn't his lady friend called 'Liza?) and watching the Black and White Minstrels (who were boring but my parents liked the old songs)
Nowadays, stereotype-jokes are avoided, and perhaps it's for the best.
I like a good laugh, but I'd never want to offend or upset anyone.

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 12:10 PM

"And the fact that you were the first to respond, "
Thought I might nip it inthe bud
Mea culpa
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 11:37 AM

If you did that, people might have the same opinion of you that they have of Bonzo.

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: meself
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 11:05 AM

Would anyone mind if I start a thread about jokes about Black people? I remember some from my childhood - they seemed funny back then ....

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 10:44 AM

Senoufou... this ones for you!.
Two English guys walk into an Irish pub. One goes to the bar, orders drinks and says to the barman 'Hey Mick, did you know that your Saint Patrick was an Englishman' ?. The Irishman being wise, played it down by saying ' To be sure sir, I didn't know that!'. English went back to his seat and told his friend he had tried to wind up the barman but had failed. 2nd Irishman goes to bar half an hour later. Says to the Irish barman, 'Did you know that your Saint Patrick, was the thickest idiot that ever lived'~? The wise Irish barman replied ' To be sure sir, your friend already told me that!

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 10:18 AM

And the fact that you were the first to respond, lets him know he hit his target.

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 10:16 AM

The title that Bozo chose for the thread says all that needs to be said about his objective
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 10:08 AM

We have B'zo who enjoys winding people up, and then, we have people who enjoy being wound up. Seems consensual.

The first "Irish" joke has nothing to do with "Irish". The thread title was intended to poke vulnerable people, and was slightly successful.

The joke wouldn't have been less funny as:
A person was smoking outside the door of a pub.
A police-person approached them and said that they had to be at least 6 feet from the premises they were drinking in when smoking.
The person said "It's okay, constable. I'm drinking in the bar across the street."

(I took the liberty of fixing the gender specificity. You're welcome.)

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 08:12 AM

interesting!

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 07:42 AM

The joke bit of it has already been removed...

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 07:31 AM

Well, if Bonzo likes winding people up, there's no reason why he can't do it. It's a rather easy game to play I would have thought.
And we're not at each other's throats (not yet anyway!)
Jos is right, one can remove the 'Irish' and 'man' from the joke and make it PC.

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 07:00 AM

My protest was based. not so much on the joke, which was not particularly funny, not particularly offensive, but on the intention it was put up
Bozo is a somewhat mindless wind-up merchant whose 'very small brain' restricts him to making outrageous remarks to get people at each others throats
Racism is popular ploy with him, as is a fatuous dispay of assumed superiority
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jos
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 06:18 AM

The joke would be just as effective, maybe more so, without the drinker being Irish. To remove the racism, and avoid accusations of 'gender bias', it could be:

'A group of people were drinking outside the door of a UK pub ... A police officer approached them ...'

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 06:14 AM

The barman looks up and says "Schindler's pissed"
can you explain what is the slightest bit racist about that? - in the mind of a racist maybe
IN YOUR HEAD....
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Ernest
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 05:59 AM

copied from the 2017 joke thread:

"Date: 06 Apr 17 - 12:09 PM

German industrialist in a bar sstands up to walk ot and falls flat on his face
The barman looks up and says "Schindler's pissed"
Jim Carroll "

So you are a racist, Jim?

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 05:42 AM

Hahaha Jim, you beat me to it!

Bonzo, those sort of jokes are avoided nowadays. We Irish (well, I'm half Irish) don't appreciate being mocked as stupid and thick.

Subject: RE: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 04:39 AM

Let's see how far this racist attempt at a wind-up gets before a forum fairy puts it where it belongs
Jim Carroll

Subject: BS: Irish jokes!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 01 Feb 18 - 02:45 AM

An Irishman was smoking outside the door of a UK pub.
A policeman approached him and said that he had to be at least 6feet from the premises he was drinking in when smoking.
Paddy said "It's okay, constable. I'm drinking in the bar across the street."