Thread: [Update] Ofcom raps Channel 4 over Frankie Boyle's Harvey Price 'joke'
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Old 15-12-2010, 14:10   #106
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Re: Katie Price complains to Ofcom over Frankie Boyle gag
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Originally Posted by simples145 View Post
True, you can have an opinion about anything you like. However an informed opinion is likely to be worth listening to, whilst one based on hearsay is likely to be prejudiced by public opinion.
There are many things that I do not want to watch, or hear, that would be swayed by public opinion in order for me for me to dislike it. For example, I wouldn't want to watch a public execution, but by me objecting to it, doesn't mean it is because lots of other people don't like it either.

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I have agreed, and will agree again that the joke was tasteless and not funny. But people on here are trying to claim some sort of moral high-ground as if Mr Boyle was a public servant.
I can't see that to be honest. Everyone seems to be objecting to it, because they find the ridicule of a disabled eight year old boy, to be rather unpalatable.

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He's a comedian, well known for his offensive humour. If you can't take what he is saying as a joke (however offensive that may be) then it is your problem, not his.
No, the issue is rather very much his problem. He is the one who seems to find the thought of disabled children to be offensive, otherwise why make fun of them.
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