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<blockquote data-quote="Triniquint" data-source="post: 123777"><p>So how would you know, or are you just saying what you think you have to in order to avoid being branded racist?</p><p></p><p> [/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I've not actually ever seen any kiddie-porn...is it okay if I find that distasteful?</p><p></p><p>I've seen & read plenty of Manning's work, I've heard people talking about what a good stand-up he was.</p><p></p><p>I just don't think racist & anti-minority jokes are anything to write home about. If he was a good stand-up but still chose to tell that sort of jokes it just makes it worse.</p><p></p><p>The way he's being held up as some sort of straight-talking champion of the pc-oppressed masses is pathetic.</p><p></p><p>SB</p><p> [/b][/quote]</p><p></p><p>Y'see, Wigan RFLC, this is precisely why the country is in the state it's in. Bernard Manning was fabulously funny. Here's a couple of quotes from his own obituary he wrote before he died, courtesy of The Daily Mail:</p><p></p><p>...."in their obsession with turning comedy into a branch of Left-wing politics, they forgot that the only point of jokes is to make people laugh. And that was what I was good at, whether I was on the cabaret circuit in Manchester or at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas......"</p><p></p><p>...."What they never understood was that I was an equal opportunites comedian. Unlike them, with their little checklists and taboos, and easy targets. I never discriminated against anyone or anything. I was quite happy to get a laugh out of any situation. All that mattered to me was whether the gag was funny or not.</p><p>'I had a distant German relative who died at Auschwitz. He fell out of one of the watchtowers'. Now that's humour, precisely because it's close to the edge, unlike so many of the tired, comfortable, right-on lines about George Bush in which modern comics indulge, massaging the consciences of their middle-class audiences instead of giving them raw entertainment.</p><p>Oh I can see the other obituaries already: 'Bernard Manning, racist bigot', the smug types will say when they hear of my departure. But that's not what the great British public, especially in Lancashire and the rest of the North, will say. They knew that I was a funny bloke. That's why they kept flocking back to my own cabaret club, even when I was barred from the airwaves.</p><p>And I was never a racist. That's just an easy, catch-all term of abuse bandied around by the media elite against anyone who does not follow their agenda. It was just meaningless.</p><p>When told by some toffee-nosed southerner that I was prejudiced, I used to say; 'Have you actually seen my act?' they would then admit they hadn't. 'Then you don't know what you are talking about. You're the one who is prejudiced because you are pre-judging me'.</p><p></p><p>Racist? Rubbish, Did these self-righteous critics know that Clive Lloyd, the great West Indian cricket captain, asked me to perform as part of his testimonial? Or that I did a fund raising event for the Lancashire and India wicket keeper Farokh Engineer and another for the great black boxing champion, John Conteh? For goodness sake, I was multi-racial myself, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Sevastopol. Thourhgout my life, a sign with the Jewish greeting 'Shalom' hung by the door of my home in North Manchester......"</p><p></p><p>I'd take one of Bernard Manning for fifty of these modern tossers any day of the week. And here's another thing: almost 60% of the country (England - representing 85% of the UK) agree with me i.e. the majority, the ones who can't be bothered voting anymore, us workers with families. </p><p></p><p>'Royal Blue Stuey', eh? Far from making me laugh, his ilk make me want to weep.......</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Triniquint, post: 123777"] So how would you know, or are you just saying what you think you have to in order to avoid being branded racist? [/b][/quote] I've not actually ever seen any kiddie-porn...is it okay if I find that distasteful? I've seen & read plenty of Manning's work, I've heard people talking about what a good stand-up he was. I just don't think racist & anti-minority jokes are anything to write home about. If he was a good stand-up but still chose to tell that sort of jokes it just makes it worse. The way he's being held up as some sort of straight-talking champion of the pc-oppressed masses is pathetic. SB [/b][/quote] Y'see, Wigan RFLC, this is precisely why the country is in the state it's in. Bernard Manning was fabulously funny. Here's a couple of quotes from his own obituary he wrote before he died, courtesy of The Daily Mail: ...."in their obsession with turning comedy into a branch of Left-wing politics, they forgot that the only point of jokes is to make people laugh. And that was what I was good at, whether I was on the cabaret circuit in Manchester or at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas......" ...."What they never understood was that I was an equal opportunites comedian. Unlike them, with their little checklists and taboos, and easy targets. I never discriminated against anyone or anything. I was quite happy to get a laugh out of any situation. All that mattered to me was whether the gag was funny or not. 'I had a distant German relative who died at Auschwitz. He fell out of one of the watchtowers'. Now that's humour, precisely because it's close to the edge, unlike so many of the tired, comfortable, right-on lines about George Bush in which modern comics indulge, massaging the consciences of their middle-class audiences instead of giving them raw entertainment. Oh I can see the other obituaries already: 'Bernard Manning, racist bigot', the smug types will say when they hear of my departure. But that's not what the great British public, especially in Lancashire and the rest of the North, will say. They knew that I was a funny bloke. That's why they kept flocking back to my own cabaret club, even when I was barred from the airwaves. And I was never a racist. That's just an easy, catch-all term of abuse bandied around by the media elite against anyone who does not follow their agenda. It was just meaningless. When told by some toffee-nosed southerner that I was prejudiced, I used to say; 'Have you actually seen my act?' they would then admit they hadn't. 'Then you don't know what you are talking about. You're the one who is prejudiced because you are pre-judging me'. Racist? Rubbish, Did these self-righteous critics know that Clive Lloyd, the great West Indian cricket captain, asked me to perform as part of his testimonial? Or that I did a fund raising event for the Lancashire and India wicket keeper Farokh Engineer and another for the great black boxing champion, John Conteh? For goodness sake, I was multi-racial myself, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Sevastopol. Thourhgout my life, a sign with the Jewish greeting 'Shalom' hung by the door of my home in North Manchester......" I'd take one of Bernard Manning for fifty of these modern tossers any day of the week. And here's another thing: almost 60% of the country (England - representing 85% of the UK) agree with me i.e. the majority, the ones who can't be bothered voting anymore, us workers with families. 'Royal Blue Stuey', eh? Far from making me laugh, his ilk make me want to weep....... [/QUOTE]
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