dont b offended

[mnko]

Illegal Immigrants Poem
I cross ocean, poor and broke,
Take bus, see employment folk.
Nice man treat me good in there,
Say I need to see welfare.
Welfare say, "You come no more,
We send cash right to your door."
Welfare cheques, they make you wealthy,
NHS it keep you healthy!
By and by, I got plenty money,
Thanks to you, British dummy.
Write to friends in motherland,
Tell them 'come fast as you can.'
They come in turbans and Ford trucks,
I buy big house with welfare bucks
They come here, we live together,
More welfare cheques, it gets better!
Fourteen families, they moving in,
But neighbour's patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away,
Now I buy his house, and then I say,
"Find more aliens for house to rent."
And in the yard I put a tent.
Send for family they just trash,
But they,too,draw the welfare cash!
Everything is very good,
And soon we own the neighbourhood.
We have hobby it's called breeding,
Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills?
We get free! We got no bills!
Britain crazy! He pay all year,
To keep welfare running here.
We think U.K. darn good place!
Too darn good for the white man race.
If they no like us, they can scram,
Got lots of room in Pakistan.
Please take in the way it was written
Light heartedness

[noxlumos]

Dassie, the white population of Pakistan is negligible, the poem refers incessantly to "the white man" and is clearly supposed to be written from a non white perspective, if you haven't understood even that why are you jumping up and down congratulating him on posting it, since it's yet another thing you don't seem to understand? Just read it properly.
Madarlow, my blood pressure never goes over what it should be, certainly not over what other people think, who are of course entitled to their opinion, nor am I perpetually offrended, but I am in this instance, and I don't think I need your permission to be so, and neither do all of the other reasoned people who have posted that they too have found it offensive, or is it ok for them to be offended yet not me? I'm slightly confused by your reply to B00, indicating she's allowed to be offended and I'm not in your little world. Working on the principle of equality as I do in my yogourt knitting, left wing, freedom for all utopia , I don't quite understand what the difference is, so maybe you'd like to enlighten us?

[mnko]

mnko shouts " I'M SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

[Rupert Fever]

What's happening to the good old british humour??
Gone are the Monty Python times where a persiflage on Jesus' life was funny - what would you say about the Life of Brian nowadays? Would all the christians have to feel offended?
Who of you watched little Britain and found it hilarious??

Don't make this here bigger than it actually is.

[fee-is-me]

Ok, well this has totally stumped me.

What the hell has Little Britain got to do with this poem...?!?!

Lol... get a grip Rupert Fever...!

That mnko... "he's a very naughty boy."

[bednobs]

you are right, its a silly little poem, nothing to make a big deal about.
however
1) its not funny
2) its not original
3) its clogging up the body and soul section, when it has nothing to do with either
4) its not a question, and this is a question and answer site
5) mnko writes his posts from a white male perspective (nothing wrong with that if you are a white male, however, im guessing more than 1/2 this site isnt white or male and so find his "jokes" about women/periods/nagging mother in laws/nagging wives/immigrants a bit off colour) and while he makes his views on women and immigrants so clear i dont see anything wrong with making my views about his posts clear : i dont find them funny
6) i still cant report this damn post, why not??????? does anyone else have the ability to? (not that i want you to, unless you do find it offensive, but just curious as to whether anyone else has a report this post function on this post?

[Rupert Fever]

Fee - if you would just try to think logically then you would not have to ask this... BUT - as I am a nice person I shall explain it - especially for you.
In Little Britain they are actually getting sick when i.e. a cake is made by a black person, a homosexual person etc... and all you are complaining about is racism... now have I made myself clear enough for you??

Don't be so bitter - get a life!!

[fee-is-me]

Ah, thankyou!

NOW i understand!

I haven't seen those particular sketches. I'm more aware of Vicky Pollard and Andy and Lou to be honest. Please relax your grip Rupert Fever... certainly don't tighten it.

You're SLIGHTLY patronising, but please don't apologise. I teach rather aggressive teenagers so am happy to converse with the younger, ever so slightly dim-witted individuals who have an attitude problem.

Bitter...? In what way...?

Get a life...? Oh, boy, do i have a fab life!

Lol...

[Rupert Fever]

Good Fee, I kept it simple ... just for you!

And... stay calm... you seem to get more wound up... fab life you are having :-))

[Pippa68]

Little Britain isn't a good example..considering what it is actually doing is taking the pee out of racists/homophobes etc ~ hasn't everyone got the irony of LB yet??

mnko has apologised, and whilst it isn't my job to accept his apology (I just pointed out I didn't like the poem) I think it can all be put to bed & forgotten.

Take care, mnko :o) x

[Rupert Fever]

Pippa - I certainly have got the brain to understand the irony of Little Britain.
BUT - there are people and I hate so this now - they are mostly foreign - who don't understand the irony.
I had 2 french guys working with me - they absolutely hated Little Britain because they did not understand what it was all about. So should LB be banned because it could offend the people who do not understand the irony?

I just feel that this here has been taken far too seriously!

[Pippa68]

I didn't say you didn't have a brain.

Neither did I say mnkos post should be banned.

[fee-is-me]

Oh Rupert Fever, you are a cheeky wee thing!

Thankyou for keeping it simple JUST for me.

Would like to reassure you (because i realise you must be worried) that i am perfectly calm... lol...

I am a grown-up so feel that i can enter into such topics without having a hissy-fit and dropping dead.

But i REALLY do appreciate your concern.

Lots of cyber love x

:0P

(PS. i wonder how well thought out your 'they are mostly foreign' comment was...?)

[bednobs]

i just wanted to say thanks to mnko for apologising

[admarlow]

Obnoxious, is was only refering to you and not BOO because all you posts are about how some other ABer has offended you. Well maybe you should leave being offended to somebody else for a day?

[Rupert Fever]

Fee - my pleasure - I love to look after the ones that need looking after.

My "mostly foreign" comment was very well thought through, as I was referring to the irony in LB. Nothing is harder to translate than irony, it is very difficult to understand if one's english is limited and that is mostly the case if you were not born and bred in the UK or an english speaking country ...but to understand that one has to be a bit broader minded my dear.

Just chill and stop picking holes...