IS A SENSE OF HUMOUR NOW ILLEGAL?

What has occurred in the world where smiling is almost been outlawed? And having a joke with next guy is to be banished into history, something that our leaders seem intent on doing.

We know what happened in history. We know now it was wrong. Maybe if we, the people of today, had been around back then, many of those “crimes” would never have been committed, though I think that’s hardly likely as our voices are barely heard these days let alone in the days when only the rich, landed gentry, noblemen and royalty were running the whole caboodle.

But, in this, the 21st Century, haven’t we kinda let everything runaway from us. People are demanding compensation for this, that and anything they think they can get away with.

On British TV screens, we actually have big time commercial’s, ENCOURAGING people to claim compensation for everything from slipping on a pavement to taking on corporations because their windows are dirty from the dust of industry.

One commercial in particular irks me. A woman is walking through a lobby of a hotel or building complex and slips on a damp patch not cleared away totally, I’m guessing by the early morning shift cleaners. She proudly announces she was paid more than five thousand pounds for her trouble.

Excuse me but, what happened to watching where you are going?!!!

Another ad shows a chap climbing a ladder which consequently collapsed beneath him and he hurt his wrist. He said he had been given the WRONG TYPE OF LADDER yet he is an alleged tradesman, NO tradesman worth his salt would climb the WRONG type of ladder. If I have been judge; case dismissed, no award. Good bye!

This is the state of play in the 21st Century. Everyone wants to screw somebody else. Someone else ALWAYS has to pay!

I have seen and heard about several incidents where people have been upset by others telling jokes that involve certain words. OK, so pertaining to laughing at some people, it is time we grew up but is really necessary to cause carnage, start mini-wars and burn cities to the ground because someone, whether inadvertently or not, said something someone else didn’t like? Grow up!

It seems now, whenever anyone undertakes some things, the lawyers are beady eyed and waiting for the carrion to fall, then in they go, guns blazing and taking out the money. Some of these same lawyers defend criminals in court for a varied number of crimes and get their client freed, some of whom then go on to commit yet more crime or worse, actually kill someone.

Is that justice for the innocent victims? The lawyers get a hefty fee and they’re happy. Do they care if they’ve defended a known murderer or rapist and got them off? Of course not, they did it for the money. And that is what has happened to the world we live in. Money! Money speaks louder than anything else. Money creates power tho’ power corrupts – ultimately). So long as those with money get more, they will continue to abuse their positions of power. Tho', whether they'll live long enough to spend is another matter. Idiots!

When we were ‘allowed’ to have fun, even if it meant poking fun at other people, the world was a better place but a few and it is just a few, people, do-gooders, decided that the trend cannot continue and set out to abuse the Human Rights charter by taking some of the rules and distorting them. Now, as a result, people dare not even speak to some people of ethnic birth because there could be a crime in the making. People watch TV programmes and then complaint it's content was offensive right after. What's wrong with the off button. Or switching stations. Again. Idiots!

The British sense of humour is dry and sardonic. Get used to it. We ain’t gonna change it, it IS us.

Religion has had it’s troubles over many centuries. It has been the complete cause of loss of life on major scales. What happened to harmony and dog eat dog? Recently the Pope read from an ancient holy text and world war three almost began. Because one party was offended by what was written ABOUT THEM centuries before, it wasn’t something new or invented. An Irish comedian named Dave Allen made religion his watchword and joked about it incessantly. I don’t recall seeing thousands of Roman Catholics demonstrating and burning effigies of him after one of his funny shows. Everyone saw it for what it was, fun. He meant no harm, not at all, he was able to joke about because the followers of that religion allowed him to. And I could name so many comedians who are funny but offensive to some. If you don't like their form of comedy, don't watch them. Don't buy tickets to their shows or their DVD's. But people do so who are the idiots? Not the comics, they're getting revenue...

Political correctness has become an industry all of it’s own. People are not allowed to live their lives in their adopted countries because of age old beliefs. OK, so that’s OK to a degree but if the individual in question wants to live by the rules of the adopted country. They should be allowed to. They should not have to live in fear of reprisals pertaining to age old literature that demands they live in a particular manner. And they should not murdered because they can and want to be allowed to think for themselves. There is nothing humane about things like that. If a Westerner goes to live in say, an Arab state, they are expected to live strictly by their rules and traditions. Well, in Western countries, those who come to live should be allowed the same choices, to live as Westerners do, even if it may not be right or traditional. You cannot have one rule for one and another set for others. That’s why there’s no integration in communities. That’s why there’s so much discord.

Hatred is a sin in ANY religion so what’s going on? And comedy is a way of life. Dave Allen (and others) glued the two together. Comics don't set out to be offensive, OK, some do but in the main it isn't the comics who are offending but how their material is received and interpreted. Some like it. Some don't. That's life...

© tcmoon 2011 (2007)