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U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 Started conversation Jun 5, 2007
A joke I just heard on Jo Caulfield's new Radio4 show involved a competition at a Sci-Fi convention, where there are no winners and losers.
Just losers.
Is this sort of joke a form of unacceptable discrimination? She surely wouldn't make such a joke about any other minority, so why are us sci-fi fans fair game?
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Jun 5, 2007
Cause we are a bunch of nerdy geeks!
I positivly revel in my geek-ness!
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Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. Posted Jun 5, 2007
I heard that last night on the preview, laughed me bum off!
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Mister Matty Posted Jun 5, 2007
It's a crap joke based on a hoary old stereotype. I think you'll survive it.
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Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. Posted Jun 5, 2007
Having said what I did in post 3 and having listened to the programme on listen again, I can only say that that was the best gag during the whole half hour 
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U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 Posted Jun 5, 2007
...I liked the home-cinema thing.
She doesn't seem to bother with funny-endings to her sketches though...they just sort of........
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huzzah4knolly Posted Jun 6, 2007
I always like her stuff at the end best, not sure
I'd want to be in the audience though.
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Jun 7, 2007
A light-hearted comment like that only becomes discrimiation when people take it too seriously and get offended by it.
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Kaz Posted Jun 19, 2007
True. But let's face it-she has a point-we are all a little geeky, us sci-fi fans (myself included).
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U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 Posted Jun 20, 2007
It would seem that her joke was innacurate apart from anything else, if the replies here are anything to go by, self-assured, self-effacing, and ready to laugh at ourselves.
But what about those quieter fans, who might not be so confident? Shouldn't we be concerned for the less-confident people, who might be troubled by it?
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- 1: U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 (Jun 5, 2007)
- 2: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (Jun 5, 2007)
- 3: Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. (Jun 5, 2007)
- 4: Mister Matty (Jun 5, 2007)
- 5: Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. (Jun 5, 2007)
- 6: U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 (Jun 5, 2007)
- 7: huzzah4knolly (Jun 6, 2007)
- 8: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (Jun 7, 2007)
- 9: Kaz (Jun 19, 2007)
- 10: U7600750 Banned alt ID 4 (Jun 20, 2007)
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