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I'm aiming to collect some nice steering wheels to decorate the workshop.
Two of my favourites that i have had.
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Wattie

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MarkMas said:
Ah yes, beat someone up for something they didn't say. And then go, "Well it may not be true, but it's funny and he's rich, so what the heck?"

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Did you take a double dose of “serious” pill this morning MarkMas?
I fear you may have missed the “humour” and are possibly more offended than Mr Gates would be.
 
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Wattie said:
Did you take a double dose of “serious” pill this morning MarkMas?
I fear you may have missed the “humour” and are possibly more offended than Mr Gates would be.
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Yep. I'm a critic, what can I tell you? I'm not really 'offended', just disappointed and a little concerned.

It was a clever play to re-word the original statement, and I get the inventiveness and the humorous intent.

But it bugs me that the joke relies on a slanderous untruth and on being powered by envy and cruelty.

Apart from the clever inventiveness, the 'humour' is basically: "I'm going to claim that Bill Gates said a horrible thing, and I can target him because he is rich, and it's funny that he is sad."

The building blocks of humour do include 'lies', 'cruelty', and 'juxtaposition' like this, and it can work well. But when we think it is funny just to take a public figure, attach an untruth to them and then be mean, I think we are going down a very corrosive path. Radio 4's 6:30 'comedy' slot seems to be mostly, "It would be funny if Boris/Thatcher/Gates fell down a well and broke their leg, because they are rich."
 
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Yep. I'm a critic, what can I tell you? I'm not really 'offended', just disappointed and a little concerned.

It was a clever play to re-word the original statement, and I get the inventiveness and the humorous intent.

But it bugs me that the joke relies on a slanderous untruth and on being powered by envy and cruelty.

Apart from the clever inventiveness, the 'humour' is basically: "I'm going to claim that Bill Gates said a horrible thing, and I can target him because he is rich, and it's funny that he is sad."

The building blocks of humour do include 'lies', 'cruelty', and 'juxtaposition' like this, and it can work well. But when we think it is funny just to take a public figure, attach an untruth to them and then be mean, I think we are going down a very corrosive path. Radio 4's 6:30 'comedy' slot seems to be mostly, "It would be funny if Boris/Thatcher/Gates fell down a well and broke their leg, because they are rich."
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I gotta be honest - like you, when I first read Phils post I too shared your concern and like you, was also disappointed.
But I quickly got over it and laughed my nuts off.
 
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