Bewick:
I will hold my hand up and admit that I shouldn’t have launched this thread ! The UK is slowly becoming dominated by the PC Brigade which has even permutated into TNUK, not totally, as some Lads that are on the site, like me, will always maintain our well developed and hard won sense of humour! The craic from within the industry is a law unto itself and the PC Brigade will never extinguish it until the last of the old timers are long gone ! So all I will say to the PC 'ers is Bollox ! if you don’t like the craic ■■■■ off onto a PC site because you won’t brow beat us Lads, you’ll only get more of the same ! Bewick.
Hiya Dennis.
As I was one that commented on some of the content on this thread, I reckon I should respond to you.
Personally I’m one of the least pc blokes you could meet.
I wasn’t coming at it from a pc perspective at all.
As I said I was not ‘‘offended’’ in the true sense of the word, why would I be? I aint one for jumping on the
bandwagon of being offended on behalf of others,.and I aint some delicate wallflower either.
I also believe in free speech, but my opinion is if something aint too decent or appropriate, and could cause a lot of ag, I tend to keep what could be termed ‘‘offensive’’ to myself…but everybody’s different.
I once got picked up on here when I said something along the line of ‘‘Some drivers are bordering on special needs’’ then some guy who was involved with special needs kids had a go, and I apologised, after thinking…Yeh, if I had a young kid like that I would maybe feel the same.
Also nowt wrong with black humour either, you can make a joke about anything, but I suppose it’s a case of getting the balance right between black humour and bigotry, and I just thought (for what it’s worth) that line had been crossed, with the other guy’s ‘‘half chat to boot’’ crack,.as if that was the ultimate in being ashamed of.
I used my mate’s little girl as an example, and tbh it was the thought of him and her that urged me to comment…, not as I say ‘‘offended’’ just a bit of empathy with a mate, he has had a few nasty experiences in the past, and he aint the most reasonable of blokes.
Anyway, hope that explains what I was getting at.