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Old 05-14-2012, 02:47 PM   #10
Sundae
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I found the concept of an all-pork/ bacon/ ham restaurant funny as a way to avoid Jews and Muslims. If there was a good punchline. Can't think of one but Frankie Boyle probably could. 'Cepting he mostly targets white Brits.

My sneaky laugh would still be targeting a religious group, but not implying they are all killers. Maybe wrong. Probably. But the set-up has promise imho because I can certainly see my Muslim friends in Leicester finding it funny. With my imaginary punchline. I'm going nowhere with this, am I?

But I'd find a blood donor drive advertising "Free from Jehovah's Witnesses since 1945" [insert appropriate date] or a tyre shop "Free from Amish" etc etc. Not real adverts of course. Just jokes about the religions.

It's only those that denigrate a whole religion/ race/ culture which I dislike.
I can laugh at Catholic jokes. I couldn't laugh at IRA bombings.
Maybe I have a stick up my arse, but it's been there way before so-called political correctness.
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