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Except you well know he won’t be. He often indicated he will just remove anything that’s flagged from this thread.
As ever, re. moderation of the jokes thread, it’s difficult to be judge for all cultures, backgrounds, race and gender, so it’s up to the members to flag anything up to mods that they find highly offensive here.
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Fair enough.
I’m interested to hear a reason why it’s ok to post a joke like this one:
In my view it is sexist and feeds into a culture of excluding women from erstwhile male pursuits, and as a consequence I would be surprised if Naim wanted to permit it, but I’m open to arguments to the contrary.
(Before anyone says ‘lighten up,’ don’t worry, I’m not worked up about it. Just curious to hear a defence for why it should stay.)
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znai, you have explained why you feel it is sexist, but I note that you have not flagged it up. Does this mean you aren’t sure?
If I had to judge, I would say that it likely is not particularly derogatory to any one sex, although if anything it perhaps makes the golf pro the butt of the joke here (no mention of whether a man or woman) for the misunderstanding. On the scale of offensiveness, I’d say this one is pretty mild. I’m open to other ideas though for the reasons I cite above.
In contrast, at least one of the other jokes I did remove was plainly sexist and derogatory to women.
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I’m not going to try to defend that particular joke (for what it’s worth, I smiled when I first read it) since, as Richard pointed out above, what each of us finds funny is largely instinctive and very culturally- and context-predictated. Any attempt I’ve ever seen to explain humour usually fails.
If you don’t like the joke, that’s fine: as Richard says, flag it and it will, most likely, be removed.
Mark
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I do think it crosses the line, I was just open to input on why it should remain. I think many would at best roll their eyes at it, “between the first and second holes” and all that.
I noticed a few others had gone, cheers for that 
Ian
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Unfortunately tasteless immature humour from an apparent adult is not a reason for deletion.
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As many times as you like…
…you just have to start from 100 again!
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“If you get offended by any jokes, by the way, feel free to report your outrage on a mobile phone made by a ten year old in China.”
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Because it’s really funny.
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To paraphrase Mervyn Griffith -Jones
"Is this a joke you would wish your wife or servant to read ? "
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Not to me.
I forwarded it to my wife, and the servants have the day off.
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If a bunch of people like a joke (6 hearts so far), and one is offended, does the joke stay? How many hearts equal a swivet?
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7 now
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It would be a shame if this thread were ‘woked’ to death.
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Change the caption to,
“Mum & Dad attempting to give Zebedee a pill.”
and it epitomises every morning’s “cat torture” session**!
**his words……but it’s Mum & Dad who end up with the scars, and dripping blood (this evening!)…….go figure that one.
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