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At the National Art Gallery in Dublin , a husband and wife were staring at a portrait that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black willies, but the one in the middle had a pink willie.







The curator of the gallery realized that they were having trouble interpreting the painting and offered his assessment. He went on for over half an hour explaining how it depicted the sexual emasculation of black men in a predominately white, patriarchal society. 'In fact,' he pointed out, 'some serious critics believe that the pink willie also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society.'





After the curator left, an Irishman approached the couple and said, 'Would you like to know what the painting is really about?' 'Now why would you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of the gallery?' asked the couple.





Because I’m the guy who painted it,' he replied. 'In fact, there are no black men depicted at all! They’re just three Irish coal miners, but the guy in the middle went home for lunch.'

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

Well, there's a new twist on the Irish joke.:p

I think the guy in the middle was Tin Lizzie, sitting with twa Scottish Were-Corbies.

(there's no coal in Ireland.)

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl How very norty of you BTS ! :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

Love it, love it, love it. :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Clodhopper;1168672 wrote: (there's no coal in Ireland.)
It's got me flummoxed too. Last time I saw it on FG it was miners in Kentucky which made rather more sense given the sexual emasculation of black men round those parts compared with what little they experienced in Dublin (where racial discrimination usually consisted of "wow, that's huge!"). I suspect any cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society is rather more rampant in Kentucky too, Dublin's a pretty well balanced sort of a place.

No doubt BTS had his reasons, he usually does. They're rarely palatable.

Geesh and here I was, all innocent, just enjoying a joke. :-2

morning Spot

fuzzywuzzy;1168687 wrote: Geesh and here I was, all innocent, just enjoying a joke. :-2

morning Spot


If it's got darkies and gays and "cultural and sociological oppression" and "sexual emasculation" then, believe me, it has an agenda. It usually involves trashing anyone who improves society, by attempting to mock them. It's invariably done from a position of banal evil.

Good morning fuzzy.

spot;1168689 wrote: If it's got darkies and gays and "cultural and sociological oppression" and "sexual emasculation" then, believe me, it has an agenda. It usually involves trashing anyone who improves society, by attempting to mock them. It's invariably done from a position of banal evil.

Good morning fuzzy. Can i remind you to take your specs this time on your trip?

oscar;1168704 wrote: Can i remind you to take your specs this time on your trip?


This time I have two pairs.

spot;1168724 wrote: This time I have two pairs. Good..... have a great trip and hurry back.... we'll miss you.

BTS;1168639 wrote: At the National Art Gallery in Dublin , a husband and wife were staring at a portrait that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black willies, but the one in the middle had a pink willie.







The curator of the gallery realized that they were having trouble interpreting the painting and offered his assessment. He went on for over half an hour explaining how it depicted the sexual emasculation of black men in a predominately white, patriarchal society. 'In fact,' he pointed out, 'some serious critics believe that the pink willie also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society.'





After the curator left, an Irishman approached the couple and said, 'Would you like to know what the painting is really about?' 'Now why would you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of the gallery?' asked the couple.





Because I’m the guy who painted it,' he replied. 'In fact, there are no black men depicted at all! They’re just three Irish coal miners, but the guy in the middle went home for lunch.'


:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Will have to tell hubs this one:yh_rotfl

qsducks;1168729 wrote: :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl Will have to tell hubs this one:yh_rotfl


He's Irish? Black? Gay? Republican?

spot;1168740 wrote: He's Irish? Black? Gay? Republican?


No, he's just your average white horny Irish guy:sneaky::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

qsducks;1168741 wrote: No, he's just your average white horny Irish guy:sneaky::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl


That was a yes then??

One day, we will be able to tell colour-of-skin jokes and they won't matter. At present they do.

Clodhopper;1168766 wrote: One day, we will be able to tell colour-of-skin jokes and they won't matter. At present they do. Look at the trouble D avid Jason is in.

Sheesh.........Us poor little ol Americans try to reach out to other countries and include them in our jokes and we are shouted down?

I bet variations of that joke were used back in the 19Th century by our great grandparents. It is only mutating and I thought it was a different angle.



Quote spot:

"No doubt BTS had his reasons, he usually does. They're rarely palatable."



Come on spot, get off your high horse, all those big words over a joke:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

My reason was that it struck me as funny.... and yes I had seen the Kentucky version of the joke...:driving:

BTS;1171723 wrote: Sheesh.........Us poor little ol Americans try to reach out to other countries and include them in our jokes and we are shouted down?

I bet variations of that joke were used back in the 19Th century by our great grandparents. It is only mutating and I thought it was a different angle.



Quote spot:

"No doubt BTS had his reasons, he usually does. They're rarely palatable."



Come on spot, get off your high horse, all those big words over a joke:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

My reason was that it struck me as funny.... and yes I had seen the Kentucky version of the joke...:driving: No problem here mate. This pc stuff is getting out of hand. We have a much loved actor here in Blighty who has just been crucified from the pc department because he made a joke about an Indian on radio.

Besides, The British have always joked about the Irish and the Scots without starting a war over it.

Come on an irish art gallery?! You can't have cave paintings in wooden huts.

The best to deal with prejudice and stereotypes is laugh at them-remember love thy neighbour and till death do us part? arguably they did more for race relations than all the pc initiatives ever did. Things like changing the name of a blackboard to a chalkboard are just ridiculous. You have to be able to laugh at the differences to get over them. People are different and are funny-personally I think the cosmoc comedian put all the different races on earth to see if we could get the joke. The funniest religious jokes I've ever heard were on a course with guys from northern ireland from both sides of the conflicts. beer and laughter cures all ills.

So is this racist?

YouTube - Royal Variety Performance 2007 part 18

Making jokes about cultural icons like black beauty-terrible.

oscar;1171733 wrote: The British have always joked about the Irish and the Scots without starting a war over it.


The Scots, and some of the Irish, *are* British.

Bill Sikes;1172178 wrote: The Scots, and some of the Irish, *are* British. I know Bill, My father is Irish..... I was generalising :rolleyes::rolleyes:

ok pc corrected joke but i think i can make it work

right there was this person who was of no particular sex

actually she had to be a woman to make the joke work

i cant say she was fat coz that would upset fat people ... but she was not skinny or avarage body fat for her ideal BMI...

she worked in a coal mine of no country in particular oh and she was naked

she was walking down the road and this guy in a nice car pulled up and said i'll give you £50 pounds to sit naked on my new black leather sofa with your legs open ...she thought he was nice looking ...not that she was the sort of person that would of held being ugly against him so she said yes

he sat her down on the sofa she opened her legs ...

she said i spoze you want to make love to me now ...not that it would of been wrong if the guy had been gay

the non gay non coloured but not white or mixed race or not particularly good looking guy not that it would of mattered if he was ugly or if he was in a wheel chair or not guy said good lord no not that he was religious i just wanted to see what my black sofa looked like with pink cushions on it :o

There was a Scots man, an Irish man and the English man. They all got on very well and went for a nice cup of tea. :yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee

Farmer Giles::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

BTS:

Sheesh.........Us poor little ol Americans try to reach out to other countries and include them in our jokes and we are shouted down?

I bet variations of that joke were used back in the 19Th century by our great grandparents. It is only mutating and I thought it was a different angle.


In many respects you are ahead of us in race relations. We've not had a coloured head of the Armed Forces or Prime Minister yet.

My comment about it being difficult to tell colour of skin jokes was not meant to be shouting you down, just a rather sad awareness of that fact.

Clodhopper;1172361 wrote: Farmer Giles::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

BTS:



In many respects you are ahead of us in race relations. We've not had a coloured head of the Armed Forces or Prime Minister yet.

My comment about it being difficult to tell colour of skin jokes was not meant to be shouting you down, just a rather sad awareness of that fact.#

I know an English joke but it's not as funny as the Scots one sitting in number 10:-5:-5:-5:mad::mad:

oscar;1172215 wrote: There was a Scots man, an Irish man and the English man. They all got on very well and went for a nice cup of tea. :yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee:yh_coffee




There was this guy who was 1/2 Irish, 1/2 Scottish.

He wanted a drink but he couldn't bring himself to buy one



There was an Englishman an

Irishman and a Scotsman.....
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman were sitting in a bar, drinking, and discussing how stupid their wives were. The Englishman says, "I tell you, my wife is so stupid. Last week she went to the supermarket and bought £250 worth of meat because it was on sale, and we don't even have a fridge to keep it in." The Scotsman agrees that she sounds pretty thick, but says his wife is thicker. "Just last week, she went out and spent £17,000 on a new car," he laments, "and she doesn't even know how to drive!" The Irishman nods sagely, and agrees that these two woman sound like they both walked through the stupid forest and got hit by every branch. However, he still thinks his wife is dumber. "Ah, it kills me every toime oi tink of it," he chuckles. "Moy woife just left to go on a holiday in Greece. Oy watched her packing her bag, and she must have put about 100 condoms in there. And she doesn't even have a penis!"





An Englishman,Scotsman and Irishman were in a bar drinking somewhere is South America.They noticed a pot of money in the corner and asked the barman what was it there for. "Well" said the barman "that is there for the taking for anyone who can 1:Drink a full bottle of tequila in two minutes 2:Go into that box over there with a lion inside and pull a thorn from the lions foot. 3: finally go upstairs and make love to a 100 year old woman". What happens if we fail they enquired. "If ye fail and survive", the barman said, "ye'll be sold as sex-slaves to a local tribe". Despite the risks they said they would try it. The englishman goes first and after half the tequila he collapses drunk and is taken away to be sold. The Scotsman is next. He downs the tequila and staggers to the lion cage.The door is closed and there is a quick scream as he is eaten alive by the lion, unable to defend himself. The Irishman drinks the tequila and stumbles towards the lions den. The door is closed behind him and almost immediately there are the most spinecurdling screams and shouts coming from the cage which lasts all of ten minutes.There is banging up against the sides of the box and everything and then silence. The Irishman emerges battered,bleeding and torn - "now" he says " where is that lady with the thorn in her foot"