BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...

Subject: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:46 AM

...won't have a leg to stand on...as it were...in his upcoming divorce (sorry, I couldn't help myself!).

But really, what kind of 60+ billionaire marries a woman younger than his own kids without a pre-nup?!

And they said it wouldn't last...as the saying goes: "there's no fool, etc."!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:51 AM

with her divorce settlement, she'll be able to go out and celebrate and get.....

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:52 AM

...her leg over?!

BWAH!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Charmion
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:13 AM

Legless!

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST,Steve Austin
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:16 AM

.. a six million dollar bionic leg !

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:18 AM

"They can make it stronger, firmer, and more shapely than it was"!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:33 AM

Making bad taste jokes like that, honestly it's just prosthetic!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 18 May 06 - 12:09 PM

I am surprised to see you politically correct brigade taking the piss out of a disabled woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 18 May 06 - 12:11 PM

Yes Ted, if she finds out she'll be hopping mad.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 06 - 12:15 PM

This must be an example of Brit humour.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 18 May 06 - 12:59 PM

No fool like an old fool. I mean it's so easy for us to see. I watched George Best two years ago on telvision and that one he got with the thick make up and bleach. She was crawling all over him on the sofa, saying I never knew love like this. Christ the man was dying then. It paid her. Sorry ladies, it will have to be my looks that attract you !

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:02 PM

Is Paul selling his Lego shares?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:10 PM

More than 50% of marriages fail; more than 70% of second marriages fail. Paul's crime is fame, hers is being a cripple.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:30 PM

Thanks, BigPinkLad. Judging by this thread I don't get - or appreciate - Brit humour.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:36 PM

..as another catter puts it so well, ambulance-chasing.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Becca72
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:49 PM

I'm American and I think this thread is funny as hell!
But the Brits have always had a leg up on humor. :-)

For some odd reason the tune "Come on Eileen" is going through my head.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Cluin
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:53 PM

BFD

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 May 06 - 02:22 PM

With age, some very young people's tastes will change.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 06 - 02:27 PM

As you get older your tastes become dryer.
G. ☻

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: alanabit
Date: 18 May 06 - 02:31 PM

Looks like none of my business. Cheerio from me to this thread folks.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST,A 'Brit'
Date: 18 May 06 - 02:33 PM

Funny really. Martin got vilified for ridiculing the disabled by the same people enjoying the sport on this thread.

No Ebbie, Brit humour is dry and clever. This is neither.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:12 PM

There a hell of a diffrerence between being nasty and poking fun.

As for her disability, I did not see one joke about her mental capacity.

And, as far as a pre-nup, she offered to sign one and Paul wouldn't hear of it. Then again, Paul doesn't even know what a map is. Sings pretty good though.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:27 PM

To those who are determined to be offended , no reason however valid is good enough.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:31 PM

Sounds like more gossip to me. This place has lots of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:39 PM

Poor taste whether you like it or not. Same kind of shit which got and still does get stirred up about anyone famous.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:16 PM

Indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:27 PM

To those who are determined to be offended , no reason however valid is good enough.
G.

Thats right giok. No reason is valid enough to take the piss out of a woman who lost a limb in a road accident. Says much more about you.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:37 PM

I was sorry to read of their split. One hoped he would find a second marriage as stable and long-lasting as his first.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 06 - 05:12 PM

I'll marry him and I demand a PRENUP!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 May 06 - 05:19 PM

I think most of the above is in poor taste too. Feel sorry for the kid.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST
Date: 18 May 06 - 05:44 PM

It is funny how much people like to discuss others while forgetting that they would absolutely hate to be spoken about by gossip groups. That includes some people who have posted above.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 May 06 - 05:59 PM

Prenups are void as a matter of public policy in the UK as tending to destabilise marriage.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:00 PM

But I advise all my male clients not to marry unless the woman is richer than them.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:01 PM

"No reason is valid enough to take the piss out of a woman who lost a limb in a road accident."

Shite, for $236M US cash, I'd consider gnawing my own leg off.

Of course, I would never take the piss out of her for losing her leg in an accident. But, for harrassing and trying to pet a seal? Well, I wish the pup had bitten her other leg off. Stunned bitch.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:05 PM

A pre-nup? Lord Jaysus... the man can't even read a map.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John O'L
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:05 PM

So gnu, can we assume that she really pissed you off with that stunt, can we?

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:07 PM

Always sad to see a marriage end for anyone. The sadest thing is expect the Sunday papers to run the stories of what happened in private. The guy is known to be tight with money,she said this was a fault, nothing wrong with that. This marriage was never going to work in my opinion he never got over Linda's death and thought happiness could be found again, impossible if you don't or can't let go of someone who was simply everything to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: gnu
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:07 PM

Yeah... I know. It's just that I can't get over that one. I mean, $1.5B and not even a GPS... or a brain. But, he sings pretty good, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:08 PM

oh sod it they're rich.....they can take care of themselves.

a good part of their millions is due to the glare of publicity that they court.

think of all those hours of crap television, when he has churned out an album, knowing full well that the completists will buy it - even though he's got sod all to say artistically. the adulatory interviews.

as for Long Jane Silver, well would you have known she had one leg if you hadn't been informed of the fact with brain buggering regularity.

And did you really need his daughter's dress designs to know that ladies look nice in silk lingerie.

If you want to accord him reverence whilst his late wife's awful sausages are still giving you indigestion. so be it. you're daft.

as someone who has been married to a disabled lady for god knows hows long, I can say with some authority that if you expect the marriage to be a normal (hi honey I'm home) gig - then you're daft again.
as parkinson is always saying, tell us Paul, what makes you so wonderful and nice and talented. and look at the breadth of your humanity, you've married a disabled woman. wot a nice bloke. hats off to the mop top........

bad taste......give me a break, but no, not one of those bloody sausages.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John O'L
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:18 PM

He was just a passenger on the bus that Lennon drove anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John O'L
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:21 PM

...and Harrison was conductor...

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:21 PM

Harrison always my favourite Beatle, never really a fan of Paul, or those sausages weelittledrummer !

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 May 06 - 06:53 AM

Does taste have to be compulsory with humour?

There go most of the jokes I know ...

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 May 06 - 07:13 AM

It depends on two things Hrothgar.
1 is whether the person criticising the joke has got a sense of humour themselves.
2 is whether the person criticising the joke likes or dislikes the poster involved.
I for instance have a regular anonymous [they think] Guest who trys to put me down, and I hope one day she will realise it is a waste of her time.
So it boils down to whether you find something funny or not.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Betsy
Date: 19 May 06 - 07:13 AM

Apparently she'd hopping mad about the whole business

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 May 06 - 07:51 AM

Giok & Hrothgar

This humour thing is very complicated - I know that sometimes my Australian sense of irony flys right past people from some other countries (at present I'm staying in austria) and I have to be careful. I noticed on another thread Ebbie commenting about people's dismissive comments of epileptics, voicing her concern at implications that they were mentally ill. I wanted to comment on that thread but didn't - it's a bit like black jokes and Irish or Polish jokes - the attitude of the person commenting rings through.

As the recent purchaser of a new hip, I think Giok is in a good position to make one legged jokes, and i always enjoy his outrageous jokes. I hear many dreadful jokes that I laugh at and find funny. But sometimes there is an element of cruelty or ridicule - whenever a joke moves into ridicule or sadistic enjoyment of someone's hurt, that's when my politically correct hackles rise. In this case, yes, I loved the Beatles and and it seemed too personal.

and BTW, an Irishman came into the pub, and shouted drinks all round because his wife had just given birth to a big, healthy baby boy. The new father was very proud, the baby was a beautiful baby and weighs 25 pounds. Everyone was very impressed (though his wife was still finding it difficult to walk properly) and drinks continued all through the evening.

The next week the man came back again, even happier because the baby had been given a thorough check by the doctor and was doing very well, and was weighed at 17 pounds! The people in the asked why the baby had lost so much weight, if he was doing so well, and the father explained that he had just been circumsized..

freda (running out the door)

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 19 May 06 - 09:00 AM

Interesting thing here, we're always told disabled people want to be treated exactly like other human beings, if that's the case why can't we take the piss out of them occasionally? (In a light hearted non-threatening way of course!) Or should we ban humour once and for all as being politically incorrect?

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 May 06 - 10:38 AM

I don't see anyone taking the piss out of her disability here. For her for taking Macca to the cleaners? Yes. For having only one leg? No. For Macca being a plonker? Yes. For him marrying someone with a disability? No.

Serious business out of the way...

South African miner loses his leg in a terrible accident.

"Jeez," he says "Where can a one legged gold digger get a job nowadays?"

"Try Paul McCartney..."

Cheers

:D (TG)

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: redsnapper
Date: 19 May 06 - 11:09 AM

Like Ted, I find all this in slightly bad taste!

RS

Subject: RE: BS: Looks like Paul McCartney...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 May 06 - 11:12 AM

It is! Slightly.