Fried chicken implicated in extreme case of hydrocephalus.

Is the joke that the Colonel’s head has swollen due to a build up on fluid on the brain, and his little neck tie is, in fact, badly drawn arms and legs?

You know hydrocephalus is a really deeply unpleasant condition which causes brain trauma and is potentially fatal yeah?

Yes I get it. Yes it made me laugh. Yes I think it’s totally ok to make jokes out of serious things.

Crivens. I feel all told off.

*lip wobbles*

Yes – small body, big head but to call it a joke is pushing the boundaries of comedy! 😉

I didn’t get, had to google the condition, didn’t find it funny. Since you ask!

I’d have had to google hydrocephalus. If I’d *known* what it was then I’d have found it funny.

I find it not just acceptable but incredibly important that there’s *nothing* considered off the table when making jokes.

Offence is taken, not given. That’s an important distinction.

I find it not just acceptable but incredibly important that there’s *nothing* considered off the table when making jokes.

Offence is taken, not given. That’s an important distinction.

+2

Offence is taken, not given. That’s an important distinction.

J’aime ça

Yeah I’ve heard it before without the none offensive medical context but I think that’s what’s made it less funny, the fact you used the medical term.

Crivens. I feel all told off.

Sorry, I’m not much fun today. #grumpy

A bit “high brow” for me.

Got it. But shit joke.

Over sized head jokes are swell….

It’s a subtle joke but it wouldn’t go over your head if you had hydrocephalus.

I think that’s what’s made it less funny, the fact you used the medical term.

What could I have used – massive swollen head syndrome?

@HTS – I get that.

Was expecting the Gas Heaters URL gag.
#isdisappoint

It’s not really a visual joke for two reasons.

1. It’s not visual, it’s a joke about picture. If it was a visual joke, it would just be a funny picture.

2. It’s not really a joke. It’s a very slightly amusing observation.

2. It’s not really a joke. It’s a very slightly amusing observation.

I disagree. Saying ‘Look, Mr KFC has a big head with small arms and legs’ would be an observation. The way it was framed with the line ‘Fried chicken implicated in extreme case of hydrocephalus.’ makes it a visual joke IMO (ie, you have to look at the picture to get the joke).

you have to look at the picture to get the joke

The OP not posting the picture properly sort of ruined the joke, if it is a joke.

I thought it was supposed to be Rolf Harris.

Offence is taken, not given. That’s an important distinction.

It is, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not possible to be offensive.

What could I have used – massive swollen head syndrome?

Ant McPartlin rumoured to be the Colonel?

why isn’t anyone talking about his lack of hands and feet?

@Cougar: “‘It is, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not possible to be offensive.”

You can always hedge your bets – being overtly racist will be offensive to most people. But it won’t be to some.

So you can’t, inherently, ‘be offensive’. You can say things that other people take offence at – and to them you’re being offensive. But that’s not actually the case.

E.G. I don’t find bad language, of any kind, offensive. Not in the slightest. My sister, on the other hand, dies a death from a few words. Yet, I find her spending habits offensive.

You can’t legislate for what people take offense from. So no. You can’t “be” offensive. Not really. You can just hedge your bets if you really want to try to offend someone. But you’re just trying to provoke *them* into taking offense.

Is it two happy people with an arm on each others shoulder, the face of one angry buck toothed person, or the letter H?

buck toothed person

Lawyer ‘Mickey, you can’t get a divorce from Minnie because she’s got buck teeth’…

<Office Of Government Commerce enters chat>

231 posts before it gets locked after a spat involving the usual suspects.

What could I have used – massive swollen head syndrome?

No, it was a different context altogether. I can’t recall exactly but better than that and hydrocephalus.

Edit: Found it.

Like the arrow in the FedEx logo. Now can’t not see it

Microcephalous idiot is a great insult.

Like the arrow in the FedEx logo. Now can’t not see it

Or the compass reference in the Garmin logo

why isn’t anyone talking about his lack of hands and feet?

we were trying to spare his feelings

He looks really happy. Smiling and looks to also be dancing. Must be some damned fine chicken.

You can’t legislate for what people take offense from. So no. You can’t “be” offensive.

Yet we can and do, there are laws around hate speech.

Christ you lot know how to kill the atmosphere don’t you?

(But I do agree it’s a pretty sh*t joke!)

B3ta did this stuff back in the days of dialup

These days chubbyemu does it with his YouTube stories

@cougar – just because something is illegal doesn’t make prove a principle (or the rightness of a thing – Alan Turing was chemically castrated for being gay – breaching a law that most (but not all) people would take offence at nowadays).

I take offence at the concept of “hate speech”. It’s an infantile way of looking at the world.

And as you’re well aware, that’s your choice to do that.

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