"What have I admitted lack of ability to understand? — I am not conscious of having made any such admission"

You aditted it as follows:


    "'You see?'

    No. "


i.e - no I don't see = no I don't understand.


Please try to remain conscious.

More conscious catters seem to have had no difficulty realizing that "Pignant" is "Poignant" misspelled.

But you can have a gold star if you can stay awake long enough.

Lighter.

"The crux is what happens next. What if the joke ends with PA stoned to death by an angry mob?"

It didn't.

The joke was the image of PA poledancing in a mosque.

the rest was YOUR addition.

The bits you added weren't funny.


"Worse, what if the *real* PA really had been stoned to death by an angry mob?"


hmmm interesting ... your imagination is indeed a fertile place.


You may need to clarify your point though unless you meant to draw a paralell with the Ann Frank joke, in which case I may need to repeat that Mr Frank never did buy a drumkit, and drumkits never played any part in the reality of their story, neither does a joke about a drumkit in relation to ann Frank say anything about whether or not the Franks were or weren't stupid as they never had any interest in Drumkits...

... that coincidentally being an essential part of the joke being criticized.


So to clarify your line of thinking for you, as PA has never poledanced in a mosque, much less been stoned to death for it, the PA joke remains inoffensive regardless of your curiosity about what happens next.

Likewise, the Ann Frank Joke is not offensive as Mr Frank never bought Ann Frank a drumkit, and her death had nothing to do with playing the drums.

Her death was the result of the Nazi policy of murdering Jews, and her diary is a heart rending account of human refusal to lose ones optimism, positivity, irreverence, sense of Irony and sense of humour no matter what the circumstances.

Ann Frank ultimately died of Typhus according to surviving witnesses. She was also cannibalised by them, which was something they had no choice over.


That isn't funny either.



The joke never at any point refers to any of those things.



You might ask "what if it did?" just as you asked "what if PA had poledanced in a mosque?" etc.

Well then it would be a different joke.