Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Save Our Stereotypes!

I think it's very important that nobody gets carried away with making jokes out of unfortunate situations.

For example you might be a celebrity chef, you're doing a bit of shopping and yes, you fancy a bit of cheese and wine but there's a problem with immediate funding.
Maybe you decide to have some anyway and pay later, is that such a crime?
Is it not the fault of the supermarkets who took away manned checkouts in the first place?

Anyone having a little bit of a joke at somebody's medical condition - a medical condition that a little bit of brie and perhaps a small glass of Chablis might well have alleviated should take a good long look at themselves.

People with a medical condition are not fair game for these jokes. That's why we have the gays and the blacks. They don't have a medical condition. And more importantly they don't mind if you take the mickey out of them. (Though for god's sake don't mention their skin colour or homosexuality or the police will be round. And quite right too!)

So if any of you find yourself reading a text such as "Why did the chicken cross the road? His head was stuffed in Anthony Worrall Thompson's pocket" and wrongly think it even vaguely amusing, or having a so-called "laugh" in the pub about poor old Anthony seeking treatment, and then claiming that a simple hair dye should cure the ginger prat, then shame on you!

When it comes to illness, I think we have to draw a line in the sand.
See it for what it really is.
He might have picked up a little Camembert and a drop of Chablis in Tesco but this wasn't an act against our society.
This was Wozza fighting back against the dirty womanising French.

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