No, he has a different sense of humour to you. That is all.
Henning Wehn
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
No-one has said that racism doesn't exist in this country. It most assuredly does.
You appear, though, to be so personally bound up in the effects of racism, that you're seeing phantoms of it reflected in situations where it isn't actually present.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Onket
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Again for the 3rd page-
For fucks sake.
I posted this on the last page, in case anyone missed it in the stream of bollocks that then got posted-
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's probably his schtick about a squirrel fucking his ear that gets them going, as most racists are also sciurophiles. Jealousy plain and simple.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Why do you feel the need to repost that?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He's Onket.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The argument is of interest though. I don't think anyone will miss the other stuff.
They can read.
They can read.
Onket
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Eh?
Only I am interested in publicising opportunities for people to go and see comedians for free?
Thanks, but it's not quite the case.
Onket
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It's not particularly of interest.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Not to you perhaps.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
No, you re-posted it because you are who you are, not because of the above.
Onket
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For fucks sake.I posted this on the last page, in case anyone missed it in the stream of bollocks that then got posted-
Its not a stream of bollocks when your kids have to move house due to racism. Please return when you've returned to the real world, or failing that, let's see how you deal with a continued and ongoing campaign of racist harrassment and threats.
Empathy is an underrated skill, I find, and lacking in a lot of people.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
What has henning wehn got to do with your kids moving house?
Do people who use forbidden words or play with people's perception of national stereotypes lack empathy?
Do people who use forbidden words or play with people's perception of national stereotypes lack empathy?
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
This thread was definitely a slow burner.
Onket
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You have entirely missed the point. That is perfectly fine, people can and do. But don't try and link your experiences with Henning Wehn's humour.
And please don't come out with things like "let's see how you deal with a continued and ongoing campaign of racist harrassment and threats" in some kind of revenge lust frenzy for me finding the humour in different things than you do.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It's as if he's the only person on U75 who's experienced racist bullying towards his family.
Reinforcement of existing prejudical stereotypes enforces prejudice and ignorance. Does it not? By this logic:
Thus, all Germans wear leiderhosen (hello Henning!) unt all Germans reference Hitler (hello, My Struggle - translated into German as mein kampf).
Obviously, I don't agree with the above statement, being devils advocate here. I don't find racism or racist humour amusing. Possibly a more sore point for me than most due to the effect its had elsewhere in my life. But trying to point out how racism has affected my own life, failing to see how that might affect someone else does show a certain lack of empathy. for those affected.
Was 'Heil Honey, I'm home' ever in good taste? Seriously? No. So Why is such casual racism and prejudice amusing now? I don't find it excusable. If you do, Jim Davidson and his friend Chalky might be on tour soon. I won't be going.
If a comedian has to resort to such base and formless racial / national stereotypes rather than relying on their own wit and observations, there's no finesse or intelligence or wit or observation to their comedy, just a lazy dumb music hall schtick. To say otherwise is being a mere apologist. Fuck it, who needs intelligence, wit or originality in comedy when you can just resort to a string of cliches about cheese eating surrender monkeys, all Germans being nazis, all irish beign stupid? It's obviously too much to ask for someone to be original or show any intellect . Might as well do that whole 'only gay in the village' or blacking up shit you saw on Walliams / Lucas's effort the other Christmas.
if you see something you find is wrong - racism, for example - call someone out on it. Either you stand for something, or you don't. I stand by my beliefs. The rest of you can be spineless if you like and look the other way when people say 'Nigger', I won't.
Onket
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This is deliciously ambiguous.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Wow, so much projection in one post. Where to start?
Again, stop it with the martyrdom. You're not the only person here whose life has been affected by racism and bigotry.
You are confusing jokes about racism/bigotry with racist/bigoted
jokes.
Again, stop it with the martyrdom. You're not the only person here whose life has been affected by racism and bigotry.
You are confusing jokes about racism/bigotry with racist/bigoted
jokes.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
It's absolutely barmy that you lump in Richard Pryor and the like in with racist comedians. Either you've got the wrong end of the stick or you're on a windup.
I'm not looking the other way when Richard Pryor says nigger, I'm watching and enjoying the comedy.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't think SAQ has seen any of the comedy he is criticising.
Seen? Some of it on you tube. Heard? lots of it. I can't escape Mr Wehn off his appearances of R4 comedy - such as the News Quiz amongst many other shows - and The Richard Herring Edinburgh podcasts. His appearances on R4 are so omnipresent I'm surprised they haven't offered him his own show. He's on it almost as much as Jeremy Hardy or Punt / Dennis.Christ, if he turns up on R4 any more often, I'll get a restraining order. He's like Brian Cox.
It's not martyrdom to live your life by a moral code and adhere to it.
And as for stating I'm wrong Onket - you'd might have a different opinion on racism if someone had threatened the lives of your kids because of the colour of their skin. You think thats excusable? If you think that racism is excusable, or right - then you sir, might want to re-consider your life from the ground up. I don't give a shit for your post count.
Onket said:
Maybe one day you'll need an organ transplant, or an ambulance to take you to hospital. Would you turn them away because their skin is a different colour? Would you? We all bleed the same colour under the skin.All of us.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Did you really just write that?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
He must be on a wind up, surely? 
Schmetterling
I saw something nasty in the woodshed!
Applied! Thank you.For fucks sake.
I posted this on the last page, in case anyone missed it in the stream of bollocks that then got posted-
Sorry; got distracted by trying to work out what the hell SOQ is on about.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
If you find Wehn/Pryor funny, you tolerate racism, or are indeed racist apparently. Or did I read him wrong?
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