Maureen Lipman: Cancel culture could wipe out comedy

[deptfordmarmoset]

As I said:

Having a laugh at your expense is not moaning.

Don't let it get to you, sweetheart.

 

[Pale Rider]

Having a laugh at your expense is not moaning.

Don't let it get to you, sweetheart.

You are a desperately slow learner if you think any of the sneery claptrap on here gets to me.

By the way, is there anything you don't moan and whine about?

 

[newfhouse]

I miss the old meta-moaning thread.

 

[mudsticks]

I miss the old meta-moaning thread.

So start a fresh one then..

For balance someone else should start an

'Absolutely everything is going splendidly - and here's how - so Iets not hear another word against our blameless overlords'

Thread.

I would do it myself, of course
But I've got a couple of deadlines galloping towards me apace
...

 

[Pale Rider]

I miss the old meta-moaning thread.

I could ask you the same question - is there anything you don't moan about?

Your posts so far indicate the answer is 'no'.

 

[newfhouse]

I could ask you the same question - is there anything you don't moan about?

Your posts so far indicate the answer is 'no'.

I wasn’t moaning, simply wistful for a dedicated thread in which to moan about moaning.

And, since it remains polite to answer reasonable questions, the answer is ‘yes’.

 

[Pale Rider]

I wasn’t moaning, simply wistful for a dedicated thread in which to moan about moaning.

And, since it remains polite to answer reasonable questions, the answer is ‘yes’.

Moaning about the lack of a moaning about moaning thread looks to me like there's some moaning going on somewhere.

To answer my own question, I like a good moan, although not nearly as much as 95% of the posters on here.

I don't moan about Brexit or the Tories, which means I don't moan about the vast majority of topics.

 

[Ian H]

 

[theclaud]

Art Blakey has acquired an additional 'L'. Must've been a Christmas present.

 

[Ian H]

Art Blakey has acquired an additional 'L'. Must've been a Christmas present.

Oh yes. Must've have been one L of a Christmas.

 

[newfhouse]

I don't moan about Brexit or the Tories

Why not? What are the successes that outweigh the failures?

 

[Pale Rider]

Why not? What are the successes that outweigh the failures?

It's simple enough, more or less everything you see as a failure I see as a success.

 

[theclaud]

It's simple enough, more or less everything you see as a failure I see as a success.

Thousands of people dying unnecessarily, drowning people at sea, the end of free healthcare - that kind of thing?

 

[Pale Rider]

Thousands of people dying unnecessarily, drowning people at sea, the end of free healthcare - that kind of thing?

Absolutely, the Tories are directly responsible for all those things.

And I also believe in Santa Claus.

 

[newfhouse]

It's simple enough, more or less everything you see as a failure I see as a success.

Avoidable care home deaths, environmental damage, poverty and division, lawbreaking and grift, jobs and peerages for wealthy donors and chums, I could go on. Presumably all successes in your eyes, or will you simply deny reality?

directly responsible

In many cases, yes. In others there is a very short chain of responsibility.