Re: You stupid Mick

At one seminar for lawyers the host mentioned he was Irish, at which
point I immediately piped up, "Don't worry we'll all talk slowly."
Most people present, probably Jewish, looked offended until he and I
started laughing about it.

Brilliant! I try to be nice to the pc people, but always manage to
upset them! You and I, Rushtown, would probably have to help each other
up off the floor.
--
Yes,
John.

Rushtown wrote:
'foolsrushin.' wrote:
Rushtown wrote:
'foolsrushin.' wrote:
Why anybody would drive a Lexus beats me! They are totally lacking in
character - and, those seats: on a long run, your trousers, polished to
perfection must be changed unless you want dwarves combing their hair
behind you at the wine and nibbles. Rollers are even worse. I drove one
from Stockholm to Vienna - an unresponsive heap of conspicuous
consumption! Junk! The great Tomcat's comments would probably have got
us both arrested for obscenity! Unless you are piggy fat, you have only
the seat belt to keep you in place. Oh, and Gibson? In vino veritas?
Middle-class Catholics are guilt-ridden, sectarian, and orthagonally
paranoid, anyway, and with all the lights at red, go full speed ahead.

Nothing new at all!
--
'foolsrushin.'

Owners satisfaction ratings are higher among Lexus owners than BMW
owners.

Unsurprisingly! Additional rubbish!

But to get back to the subject.
Mel Gibson is very anti-English. Why didn't he let loose with an
anti-English (not anti British) diatribe?

See the movie! When Jesus was alive, a million years ago, he always
voted conservative - and Jesus ought to know.

Anti-Irish jokes are numerous, of course!

Nora: Doctor, this will be my 7th!

Doctor: He ought to get a Knighthood.

Nora: He has one, but he never uses it!

This, I suggest, is a seminal joke!

'A survey carried out as part of Discrimination and the Irish Community
in Britain by Mary Hickman and Bronwen Walter found that 70% of those
surveyed found such jokes offensive and only 30% accepted them as
"harmless fun".' Only in 1994-95 did the Commission for Racial Equality
commission this study, a move ridiculed by the Sun newspaper as "a load
of codswallop". It greeted the news with a page of Irish jokes "to give
the researchers a flying start".

I'm Irish American and a lawyer. And I like Lawyer jokes and Irish
jokes. I never heard one that offended me.
At one seminar for lawyers the host mentioned he was Irish, at which
point I immediately piped up, "Don't worry we'll all talk slowly."
Most people present, probably Jewish, looked offended until he and I
started laughing about it.

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