Racist or not?

[Groupie]

2 lrishmen are hammering floorboards down in a house.
Paddy picks up a nail, realises it's upside down and throws it away.
He carries on doing this until Murphy says
"Why are you throwing them away?"
"Because they're upside down!"
says Paddy.
"You daft Snag" replies Murphy
"Save 'em for the ceiling" .

[Whickerman]

No. I'm Irish - we tell the same jokes about Kerrymen.

Actually, that joke. For about 80 years.

[askyourgran]

I think you'll find this joke buried in these pages somewhere? lol

[Groupie]

First time for me tho.

[wildwood]

Irish jokes always bring a smile to my face. God one :-)

[MarkRae]

It is racist in the true meaning of the term, i.e. making fun of a group of people because of a (supposed) collective trait, in this case the utterly ridiculous notion that all Irish people are mentally subnormal...

But even if it weren't, it isn't even remotely funny. If anyone finds this humorous then they are, in my opinion, very easily amused indeed - Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson DVDs are available in from the usual outlets...

[MarkRae]

I most certainly do, though not by standing up in front of groups of people and insulting other groups of people - I'm sorry you find humour in that...

Got Frankie Boyle's latest DVD yet...?

[MarkRae]

All mine to...? Do you mean all mine too...?

[MarkRae]

> No i mean as its typed,,do you read English ?

No, I mean as it's typed; do you read English?

Capitalising the first person singular pronoun, spelling "it's" with an apostrophe since it's a contraction of "it is", removing the second comma and the space between English and the question mark.

So, you "have all mine to..." What? To play over and over again...?

[MarkRae]

> to be a Belgium.

How's the Mastermind application coming along...?

[owdhamer]

Grow up you two

[trt]

I can imagine you are hilarious to live with MarkRae, no sense of humor what so ever!!!

[trt]

Which reminds me of the.....

Vicar's Salary

At Sunday church the local Vicar explains that he must move on to a larger congregation that will pay him more.

There is a hush within the congregation. No one wants him to leave because he is so popular.

Fred Smith, who owns several car dealerships, stands up and proclaims:
If the Vicar stays, I will provide him with a new Holden every year and his wife with a Honda mini-van to transport their children!'

The congregation sighs in appreciation and applauds.

Sam Brown, a successful entrepreneur and publican, stands and says,
If the Vicar will stay on here, I'll personally double his salary and establish a foundation to guarantee private secondary school education of his children!'

More sighs and loud applause.

Agnes Jones, age 88, stands and announces with a smile,
If the Vicar stays, I will give him sex.'

There is total silence.

The Preacher, blushing, asks her:
'Mrs. Jones, you're a wonderful and holy lady, whatever possessed you to say that?'

Agnes's 90-year old husband, Joe, is now trying to hide, holding his forehead with the palm of his hand and shaking his head from side to side, while his wife replies:


'Well, I just asked my husband how we could help, and he said, ' "F*** him'"

[Mamyalynne]

No sense of humour are you kidding Mark is well there!

[MarkRae]

> what so ever

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whatsoever - all one word..

So, if you don't find racist "jokes" funny, it's because you don't have a sense of humour...? How does that work, exactly...?