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Thread #142561   Message #3288261
Posted By: Backwoodsman
10-Jan-12 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: corpse found on the queen's estate
Subject: RE: BS: corpse found on the queen's estate
Gnu, the jokes involve the discovery of a (probably murdered) young woman's body on the Sandringham Estate. Whilst the jokes might appear to be aimed at the Royal Family, they are made against the background of the tragic death of a young woman in a country far from her home.

They are insensitive and tasteless, and would be just as insensitive and tasteless if the girl had been found on the White House lawn and jokes were being posted about which member of the Obama family did it. The girl was someone's daughter, and is being grieved over by those who loved her. Rather than thinking about tasteless jokes, it would be better if the 'comedians' thought about what she might have gone through leading up to her death.

Anyone who doesn't understand that really is a sausage short of a barbecue.