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[Aloysius]

djos, on Nov 2 2006, 03:42 PM, said:

Hello, comedy! seriously if you didn't see the show dont bother commenting!  

Thank you yourself

Now only those who may comment do so with your permission?

[DigitalObserver]

Now, a thinking adult can look at Basil Fawlty persecute Manuel for being "from Barcelona", and process the information under the category of:
humour
they may then file under a subcategory such as:
poor humour
or
undergraduate humour
or
dark humour
or any number of sub classifications affected by taste, values etc. etc.

What we can do is differentiate humour from inciting and from a proposed view or course of action.

Alan Jones has used humour within commentry to openly incite criminal actions. This is in addition to his proven cash for comments and other broadcasting misdemeanours.

When will the ACMA act?

Of course David Flint, Miranda Divine Andrew Bolte et al defend this stuff.

Others attack a funny little comedian making a rather poor taste joke about how fat Americans (how many US reality TV shows are the commercialisation of the pathos of the fat American) could have a use!

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John has a good answer. He says, “It seems the police and the council are impotent here. All rhetoric, no action. My suggestion is to invite one of the biker gangs to be present in numbers at Cronulla railway station when these Lebanese thugs arrive...It'd be worth the price of admission to watch these cowards scurry back onto the train for the return trip to their lairs...Australians old and new shouldn’t have to put up with this scum."
Peter's of Kensington's range of gift hampers are designed to contain useful goodies. Oh there’s a stack of them aren’t there?

— 2GB, Alan Jones, 7th December, 2005

John: …if the police can’t do the job then the next tier is us.
Alan Jones: Yeah, good on you John.
John: Now, my grandfather was an old digger and he used to say to me when we were growing up, "Listen, shoot one, the rest'll run!" Right? Right?

— 2GB, Alan Jones, 6th December 2005

Yvonne: And if we don’t have enough police what’s wrong with getting the army in? Get these blokes a bit of a rifle butt in the face and they’ll, they’ll back off, they’re cowards!
Alan Jones: Well if it gets to that we might have to do that, you follow what I’m saying?

— 2GB, Alan Jones, 7th December 2005

[Steve C]

Aloysius, on Nov 2 2006, 04:16 PM, said:

A bit difficult to see why anyone would want to defend a remark that talks about burning people, on the basis of freedom - hello wtf

There was probably similar jibes and jests made about solving the witch problem during that dark period of Europe's history... but they probably took the joke a little too seriously!!

If the population of the planet keeps on increasing, and the little tubs of lard keep expanding, we may just end up reaching for those redheads as an act of survival. Now that would be an ironic little joke wouldn't it?!

Just like people - humour comes in many shapes and sizes, and yearning for one size that will fit all is an abject waste of brain power for all but those who aren't willing to admit it.

[dJOS]

Aloysius, on Nov 2 2006, 05:06 PM, said:

Thank you yourself

Now only those who may comment do so with your permission?

Did you see the show? If you didn't then you missed the following:

* Context of the joke
* the banter of the panelists
* the JOKE itself !!!!

if you didn't see the show, then any opinion you have formed is imo invalid - yes on it's own it is a tasteless joke but in the context etc it was a very funny tasteless joke.  :ph34r:

[Austen]

djos, on Nov 2 2006, 03:53 PM, said:

if you didn't see the show, then any opinion you have formed is imo invalid - yes on it's own it is a tasteless joke but in the context etc it was a very funny tasteless joke.  :ph34r:

Sorry djos (and others), but it seems I'm all on my own here, As stated I did see the show, and no, sorry, in todays context Muslims talking about burning Americans is about as funny to me as the cartoons of The P______, M_______ were to the Muslims amongst us.

There are those amongst us who have connections to The Holocaust and also have American friends, and putting the two together just, IMHO, isn't funny. As a mate of mine would say, "About as funny as cot-death".

I promise I'll (try) to rant no more on this subject   .

Austen.

[dJOS]

Austen, don't get me wrong - Im not anti-American at all, in fact quite the reverse - I like living in the 51st US state,   I luv Nascar, Champcar, Unlimited HydroPlane, Tractor Pulls & like my Hamburgers with French fries.

... and I still found it funny, I've seen quite a few of Akmals routines on TV etc and he is the first person to take the piss out of Arabs and himself so that is why I find the joke to be "mostly harmless" and amusing, even tho a bit on the tasteless side.

[Harru]

Lyle, on Nov 2 2006, 04:11 PM, said:

Can I cut and past this and send it as well.

What's a good address?

Although I'm sure you already have, please feel free.

[bailyflah]

And here we have it, another great aussie show taken off the air because someone can't take a bit of humor.

If it was liberal pressure on the ABC board to cut the show, its hypocrisy at its best, cos every day in question time in canberra, there are over 100 'adults' acting like 5 year old's whilst happily earning shitloads of the aussie workers tax money.  Now, that to me, is the biggest joke!  

putting that aside, one would seriously have to question this decision by the ABC.  A program rapidly growing in popularity, a steady timeslot (which in itself is a rarity on Australian TV!) and a great solid panel.

As will anderson said "I have a shitload of fat jokes for when beasley gets the PM job"

Does the ABC really care that they are about to lose a very popular show?  Apparently not.

As for anyone writing a letter of complaint to the ABC about this, dont waste your time, you see the ABC would delete your email or bin your letter because you're showing bias towards the ABC...  bias (or humor as us ordinary folk call it) is not something the ABC like too much...

It is absolutely crazy to think that the ABC would effectively tell the Australian people what they deem is suitable for us to watch.  And i see they are paying someone 280K a year to 'weed' out bias in their programming...

whats next ABC, tv licensing to pay for all your high salaries?  Just like the BBC?

then i suppose the BBC at least has some good programs, not that the ABC show any of them, except the b and c rated ones, which are quite often a few years out of date.

Australian TV, at best, is absolute crap!!!!

shows like the Glasshouse, brightened up a dull wednesday night.  What are the ABC planning to use to fill that timeslot?

tell you what ABC, why not move 'Parliament time' to that slot?  So we can all watch the bias coming from the liberals at Question Time... as well as watching 'adults' behaving like children, whilst making huge wads of taxpayers money!  Now that would be funny!  In a twisted sort of way....

ABC, after 29th November, another channel that will be deleted from my Set Top box!

enjoy the ratings slump from then onwards ABC... back to what you're used to i guess...

[aztec]

djos, on Nov 2 2006, 07:09 PM, said:

Austen, don't get me wrong - Im not anti-American at all, in fact quite the reverse - I like living in the 51st US state,   I luv Nascar, Champcar, Unlimited HydroPlane, Tractor Pulls & like my Hamburgers with French fries.

... and I still found it funny, I've seen quite a few of Akmals routines on TV etc and he is the first person to take the piss out of Arabs and himself so that is why I find the joke to be "mostly harmless" and amusing, even tho a bit on the tasteless side.

Moral of the story, one man's joke can be another man's insult (irrespective of context, etc.).

[50MXE20]

aztec, on Nov 3 2006, 07:42 AM, said:

Moral of the story, one man's joke can be another man's insult (irrespective of context, etc.).

Is THIS why the show was axed??

[aztec]

Lyle, on Nov 3 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

Is THIS why the show was axed??

[Foggy]

Akhmal Saleh MC'd at my brother's wedding about 10 years ago. He told countless Lebanese jokes to a room half full of Lebanese people.... no one wanted him to put down the microphone, or ban him from talking.

[Austen]

aztec, on Nov 3 2006, 09:28 AM, said:

Today all is revealed.

The managing director of the ABC says ........the ABC wants to extend the same opportunity to other comedy shows like The Chaser.

So there you go, the real reason The Glass House was dumped, to move Chasers to a better time-slot !!!!

Someone, somewhere probably believes that       !!!

Austen.

[DrP]

I wonder what the excuse will be when The Chaser gets the chop too?  Maybe Play School is going to make a come back in the 11:30pm time slot - perfect for those late night todler TV bingers!

[Foggy]

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 03:03 PM, said:

Someone, somewhere probably believes that       !!!

Austen.

I found the person who believes it.
This is where he's currently squatting

[ozlooper]

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 03:03 PM, said:

Today all is revealed.

The managing director of the ABC says ........the ABC wants to extend the same opportunity to other comedy shows like The Chaser.

So there you go, the real reason The Glass House was dumped, to move Chasers to a better time-slot !!!!

Someone, somewhere probably believes that       !!!

Austen.

The ABC logic doesn't stack up. If they really wanted to extend the opportunity to other comedy shows they would replace The Bill which has had much more of  "a good run" than The Glass House. In fact they could just get rid of one night of The Bill to solve the problem.

[Austen]

Foggy, on Nov 3 2006, 01:51 PM, said:

I found the person who believes it.
This is where he's currently squatting

Just a couple of questions Foggy, did you mean "squatting" as what one may do over a porcelain bowl, or squat as in move into some where uninvited ? Either may be appropriate.......

And why did you send me a picture of your next-door neighbors place ?

Austen.

[bighead]

****ING BASTARDS!!!!

They took away the 11:30pm Saturday Glass House now, so I've missed it for the week. I work Wednesdays, and the HDD was having a hissy fit this week.

[Foggy]

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 07:10 PM, said:

Just a couple of questions Foggy, did you mean "squatting" as what one may do over a porcelain bowl, or squat as in move into some where uninvited ? Either may be appropriate.......

perhaps "squatting" is what I feel like doing on the front lawn whenever I walk past.

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 07:10 PM, said:

And why did you send me a picture of your next-door neighbors place ?

Neighbour!!          ....Reminds me of the Kevin Bloody Wilson song, Living next door to Alan.

[Steve C]

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 03:03 PM, said:

Today all is revealed.

The managing director of the ABC says ........the ABC wants to extend the same opportunity to other comedy shows like The Chaser.

So there you go, the real reason The Glass House was dumped, to move Chasers to a better time-slot !!!!

Someone, somewhere probably believes that       !!!

Austen.

Actually; have you noticed how once a new grocery, confectionery, ice cream, biscuit type item of a particular brand becomes really popular, it disappears from supermarket shelves... while the less popular lines from the same maker remain?

Happens in Coles here in Katoomba all the time, and when I ask the staff about whether there'll be more stock of said popular item, they shrug and say "I know - it was really popular, but it's been discontinued"...

It's some sort of lame brained marketing whizz's solution to picking up sales of less popular product lines: namely; get people connected to your brand with a popular item, then when it's discontinued, it's theorised that the majority of customers will remain attached to the brand rather than the product... thereby offloading the investment already made in the less popular item.

If that's the sort of thinking behind the axeing of The Glass House... then we're in big trouble, because it's usual for the marketing gurus to be followed by the accountants - and we all know what barrels of laughs accountants are.  

[Austen]

Foggy, on Nov 3 2006, 09:57 PM, said:

perhaps "squatting" is what I feel like doing on the front lawn whenever I walk past.
Neighbour!!          ....Reminds me of the Kevin Bloody Wilson song, Living next door to Alan.

I'm not familiar with that one, I'll have to find someone who has it so I can listen to it......

On a related note, I have heard the Suzie Q song, where she questions just who is Alice   !!

Austen.

[tritnic]

noticed one of the reasons given for the axing is 'we can't keep doing what we've been doing' or something along those lines. In other words 'if we actually continue getting ratings someone here is going to die of shock'. This cancellation is ridiculous. The glass house is a prime example of that rare show with the ability to bring people together no matter what dissenting opinions may be present within a group. Within the last two weeks i've managed to form new friendships with people based solely on our shared affection for 'the glass house'. Take this show away and the country is on a fast train straight down to doomed. Do we really want to live in a censored country? Wonder what good ol' Johnny Howard would answer to that?

[dJOS]

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 11:59 PM, said:

I'm not familiar with that one, I'll have to find someone who has it so I can listen to it......

It's a pisser, I recommend it (just hope you don't mind a few native Aussie jokes?)  

Austen, on Nov 3 2006, 11:59 PM, said:

On a related note, I have heard the Suzie Q song, where she questions just who is Alice   !!

Austen.

do You mean "who da fcuk is Alice"?