Gransnet or Nannynet?

Ooh are you trying to get me banned!!! I can only say it concerned 2 celebrities, one no longer with us,the other incarcerated. I proposed the latter as a minister with responsibility for looking after an area of the population he is now considered totally inappropriate for, and added it was a pity the other wasn't available. Of course 10 or 15 years ago both might actually have been given such a job!

Oh, go on, tell us it again

Soutra I have no objection to you having delicate sensibilities and if there was a warning system you could stay away from things that upset you. What I don't understand is why your feelings should stand in the way of what was actually a real comment on society, the standards that we set, the way things have changed and the present government- all in a one line joke I quite liked!

Modern comedy uses a lot of jokes that are passed off as cutting edge but are actually just plain offensive.
Even with a warning, I'd be against having those sorts of jokes on Gransnet.
Can't comment on yours, tho, trisher.

Yeah well, Souta. You found the whole thing disturbing to your precious sensibilities.

I'm really miffed that got deleted.

Oh! It was on that threa d! I must have read that. Read all the replies. Didn't noticed anything wrong. Can't remember what is said!

But as I said bad taste and saying the unacceptable as a joke have always been part of political debate in the UK Why is Gransnet afraid of this?

If you admit it was a very bad taste joke perhaps you have answered your own question?

PM me and tell me what you said!

Gransnet mods will have their reasons.I didn't see the post so don't know what the 'joke' was about, but maybe they thought there has been enough of this sort of thing on the political threads already, or that what you posted was libellous.