Sue Sanders wrote:Give Alec a break. Charlie's comment in isolation isn't the 'infantile ridicule' - it's the combination of that, Jon deciding to make a 'your mum' joke and Matt choosing to reveal he was in tears of laughter. And then there was Mike Lear. An acquired taste, I guess.
I've chosen specifically to remain silent on numerous occasions where I have been forced into tears of laughter by a post which was quite obviously offensive. As much as I might enjoy the post, I certainly don't want to look like I'm ganging up on someone when I have no interest in offending the person the joke was made about. In those cases, I'll laugh, enjoy it, and keep silent.
But in this case, I'm quite happy expressing how much I enjoyed Jon's "yo momma" joke because
it quite clearly was a joke and so obviously not meant to be offensive. I'm pretty sure people don't actually genuinely still use "yo momma" jokes to try and offend people do they? Certainly not people as intelligent as Jon, and certainly not a bunch of white boys on a Countdown forum - it's all laughs.
I actually like Alec. Whether or not I agree with what someone says, or even if I haven't even bothered to think seriously about it for long enough to come down on either side, I certainly appreciate reasoned, detailed, intelligent debate on this forum. And he mentioned depression too a few posts back, I can certainly identify with him on those levels too, and that would be even more reason not to make a comment if I thought that comment would come across as offensive. Jon has been making jokes like this since forever as far as I'm concerned, and maybe Alec should know his audience better before being offended by something that so clearly was not meant to be offensive. In fact, until all this arguing kicked off, when Alec said
Alec wrote:Fuck the lot of you.
I thought he was mucking around too, I never thought for a moment he was being serious. C4C is not the place to be if you get offended easily, methinks. Some people should take a leaf out of George Jenkins book. He's been shot down a ton of times by Charlie et al, and never once truly been offended. George is 80-something (I think?) and if a man of his years can adapt to a biting Internet forum so easily without taking things over-seriously, I don't think anyone else has an excuse to not be able to hack the pace. Jenkins is a legend.
And after writing all that, I still can't believe anyone takes "yo momma" jokes seriously.