[Closed] Mocking the afflicted

Ok, education time, what’s the origin of window licker

It’s a reference to mentally disabled kids and minibuses eg. the Variety Club Sunshine Bus.

What is the repair shop? It’s a shop, where they repair stuff.

Bit like Bagpuss then!

Fair enough, but what words can I use to describe our current government and Prime Minister then?

Bunch of incompetent ****s

I must admit this has made me reevaluate some of the language I use, I only asked my wife the other day if she was having a stroke over some daft thing. As said, intent is probably 99% of the insult but when you have to live with it the 1% still makes a difference I guess.

Only time I remember Joey being used as an insult was an episode of Spaced, I never even noticed it at the time. Also never knew the origins of flid.

What does annoy me are the people who lambast someone for using a term that has fallen out of use for so long that only an exceptionally bored English language student with an axe to grind could be insulted. See idiot, moron etc. There is a marked difference between these words and those that still recognisably describe a disability.

I think that we are currently in a time in the western world of extreme liberal* censorship of the arts and comedy, despite what some comedians claim. The trouble is there is now a breed of mainly American comedians who seem to have learned their "art" on the bottom half of the internet, who seem to think that just being shocking and/or triggering groups with ill informed bullying rants is comedy, and have actually forgotten to be funny.

I listened to a 5-10 minute monologue by Bill Bur on youtube "reasons to hit a women" which in a discussion might have raised a couple of reasonable points, but it wasn't funny, maybe it was just intended to shock but it wasn't shocking either, it was just misplaced in a so called comedy show, and just seems to exist to bait incels into his audience.

However I find the likes of Jimmy Carr or family guy, rather different, and while they may use subjects that some find sensitive as a framework for their comedy, they are clearly defined as jokes, and not intended to victimise. They mock themselves as much as anyone else, and they don't just punch down.

*and by liberal I mean actually very little censorship, not politically "Liberal" in the American right wing narrative.

Apologies for the offence caused by the video I posted. The episode in which Peter has a stroke is caused by him gorging on 30 burgers - the episode wasn't poking fun at people who have had strokes but mocking Peters irresponsible behaviour. However, I can see that video lacked that context. I would draw the line at posting that video and wouldn't consider posting a video mocking someone with an inherited disability, although I do see value in making light of acquired health issues as gallows humour can help humans process their own mortality.

Family Guy is full of gallows humour. After 10+_seasons of it I would have thought people would know that and either watch it because they are not offended by it (me) or stop watching it because they are offended by it or don't find it funny..

As for insults, there are not really any nice insults are there as that is sort of the point of insults...

It’s a reference to mentally disabled kids and minibuses eg. the Variety Club Sunshine Bus.

Thankyou, I did not know that and thought it's origins were more akin to what Jim said. I won't be using that phrase in future.

I agree with the sentiment of this thread, but in all honesty I can’t recall strokes ever being much the subject of joking and ridicule over the years. And backing up the earlier comment, surely nobody watches Family Guy without expecting it to push the line of humour near to / over the edge on a regular basis?
That said there are very funny comedies these days that are inclusive and tactful without losing their edge. Brooklyn Nine Nine springs to mind.

‘Stroker’ means w a n * * * where I’m from.

What about bass players drummers?

Ok, education time, what’s the origin of window licker, ironically it’s a phrase I picked up on here

So you’ve never heard this, then?