I didn't see wry humour. I saw a version of something that generalises and insults and which, if it had been aimed, for example, at New Orleans, might justifiably called racist.

I was taught in my youth to ask "Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary?" before making statements like that. I think it failed. "Is it funny?" doesn't excuse applying those standards.

I'm sure a genuinely funny version of that could be produced with a bit of tweaking.

It seems very odd to me that both in this case and in the case of Folkestone, the opportunity was seized by people (mostly on the BBC)to be nasty.

Penny