Posted on 12/16/2014 1:41:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’ve been trying to come up with a list of nationalities or ethnic groups—even subgroups—about whom it is still safe to make a joke publicly, since political correctness is shrinking the domain down to the vanishing point. Before long you won’t be able to make jokes about “little green men” from Mars, for fear of offending illegal aliens “undocumented” immigrants. I’m not even sure you can joke about white people any more, like Martin Mull and Allen Rucker did 20 years ago in A History of White People in America. Not even Sony would risk publishing this right now.
So here’s my list of groups or subgroups you can still safely make public jokes about:
1. Jewish mothers.
2. That’s it. (And Scott will have to tell me if Item #1 is in fact correct. But to this point I haven’t heard the ADL react the way FAIR reacts to anything satirical about Islam.)
Well yes, maybe you can make jokes and the French and Germans and the British, but fashionable opinion holds it against you.
The great John Cleese appeared on Bill Maher’s show last weekend, and offered an intelligent discussion of why you can’t joke about Mexicans or Muslims, and why it’s condescending. Plus this: “If you make jokes about people who are going to kill you, there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little.” (About four minutes long.)
You can tell polish jokes and I won’t mind. (but you have to explain them to me)
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If you insist....
There will never be a Major Sporting event in Warsaw.
Most everyone will be sitting behind a Pole..
Why did the Germans have such an easy time overrunning Poland?
They marched in backwards and everyone thought they were leaving.
Ah, you and your Polish jokes. Can YOU speak Polish?
NO.
Well, how does it feel being dumber than a whole country full of people.
..Moans and groans...
Deprechauns.
Hey some of my best friends are blonde.
Conservative bloggers, evangelical Christians, and Mormons.
So here goes nothing ...
A conservative blogger, an evangelical Christian, and a Mormon walked into a bar. Only one had the foggiest idea where he was.
Rednecks.
Because we don't give a rat's ass.
And now you have another! (-:
One of favorite Polish jokes (and yes, I am of Polish descent):
Two Polish pilots try to land an airplane in the states. They start descending and as they touch the ground one pilot screams to the other pilot : “Get the airplane up, the runaway is ending...”.
The second pilot swiftly gets the plane back up in the air.
They make a big turn and start descending again. The moment they touch the ground, the pilot scream again “Get the plane up, the runaway is ending...”
The second pilot swiftly gets the plane back up in the air. They make a big turn and start descending again. This goes on again and again...
During their fourth descent the pilot says : “Look at those stupid Americans, they build this huge & expensive airport but with such a short runaway.”
“I know” answers the second pilot, “But look how wide they made it.”
That seems to be true up here as well. My former boss was Irish, and he made the best Irish jokes going. Actually, because he made jokes about his own kin, he felt it gave him license to make jokes about everyone else as well, and he did. Some of them were pretty good lol.
Plus we’re funny.
Can we still make fun of lawyers?
Suits me!
It wouldn’t offend anyone to tell a pollack joke.
It just wouldn’t make any sense to infer that they’re stupid. I think that went away just about the time that Lech Walesa kicked the commies out of Poland and Polish John Paul II helped kick the commies out of the rest of Europe.
But they are still good jokes:
Q: What did the Pollack give his wife on their wedding day that was long and hard?
A: His last name.
Scots. But the jokes aren’t that funny so you don’t hear many of them.
LOL!
Redneck humour is good, but it’s ALWAYS open season on mothers-in-law. There’s nothing funny about mine because she’s evil incarnate, but they’re pretty good joke material, as a rule.
They aren’t an ethnicity but on the other hand there aren’t too many asian, black or otherwise third world blondes.
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If one of the above or a Redhead or brunette etc does something outlandish just comment on how a LOT of women dye their hair blonde.
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You must dye your hair and you did a great job with the roots....
You will have a couple of minutes to ‘clear the area’....
Bald guys are pretty much fair game.
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