>a story about US flyboys talking about how it was pretty cool to be bombing those folks. There was also a photo of a bomb, upon which someone had scrawled "hijack this, fags!"
>

I know. I saw that and thought "Er, so the Taleban is a gay cabal, is it?".

Didn't he also mis-spell 'hijack' as 'high-jack'?

>I was startled by the insensitivity of this, but then I saw the Frank Skinner show - I suppose the humour isn't particularly high brow, but I thought his Osama Bin Laden sketches were funny as the proverbial fuck.
>

Those sketches were childish, unsubtle, stupid and obvious. Naturally, I laughed like the proverbial drain.

All fits in with the ancient tradition of making the enemy look absurd, just like 'Der Fuhrer's Face' by Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

> I could probably come up with some philosophical link between the two
>

Nah, don't bother. One is a militarist bonehead missing the point. The other is a good comedian doing his job.

i thought YBL was hilarious... even though a few people in the audience looked a little uncomfortable sat next to skinner as ObL.. exactly well done - especially ObL running into the glass door! brilliant...

From another forum:

Yesterday I was on the Underground travelling on the Northern line.
An man of Arabic-appearance got off the train and I noticed that he had left his bag behind.
I grabbed the bag and ran after him, caught up with him at the top of the escalator and handed him back his bag.

He was extremely grateful to me and reached into his bag which appeared to contain large bundles of banknotes.
He offered me a reward, but I refused.
So he looked round, made sure nobody was looking and whispered to me: "I can never repay your kindness Sir, but I will try to with a word of advice for you.
Stay away from Aberdeen Steak Houses."

I was terrified.
"Is there going to be an attack?" I whispered.

"No Sir" he whispered back "I went there
yesterday evening - the food was shit and the desert selection extremely limited."

Hooray, that is actually funny.
A great piss take of the spate of stupid e mails about bombers giving away their secrets over nothing.
Plus the dessert line is very nice.

So what does the Frank Skinner show consist of then? Chat? Sketch?
I'm curious, but in the wrong part of the world for adequate TV reception.

http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=NEWS&action=m&board=37447167&tid=ponavyphotoshowsantigaysluronbomb&sid=37447167&mid=1&type=date&first=1

>From another forum:
>
>Yesterday I was on the Underground travelling on the Northern line.
> <snip>

Thanks for that. It's the best joke I've heard about all this so far. Bravo for spotting it! :)

I reckon I should take a crack team of bellydancers out to Afghanistan, they could drop us in the desert wearing yaskmaks and chadors which we would open to reveal nice metal bikinis (like that woman at the beginning of 'Topkapi') and whilst we were transfixing the Taliban with our undulations we could gun them all down with the machine guns hidden in our bras, just like the Fembots. Yeah, that would work.

I think it's absolutely marvellous that Geri Halliwell is out there entertaining our lads. Yes it might seem a little hypocritical that as a good will ambassador for the UN she's not condemning the bombing but endorsing – but hey, Posh has her album out and the girl's got to get her face in the papers. Geri's hugged enough poor children and now it's time the little bastards paid her back. The children say: what does she want, blood? Geri: “Yes that'll do.”

>>From another forum:
>>
>>Yesterday I was on the Underground travelling on the Northern line.
>> <snip>
>
>Thanks for that. It's the best joke I've heard about all this so far. Bravo for spotting it! :)

See, despite what some people think, gays are good for something!

Just heard this story from someone.

'I was on the train the other day, and this Arabic looking guy left his bag on the seat when he got off. It was full of fifty quid
notes. Result! I went out and bought a big plasma screen TV...'

I like it cos I understand what they're trying to do, the characters they're taking the piss out of, the values some people in contemporary British society have. There's also weird (dark?) bits, like Grover surreptitiously following Paul to understand his psyche. When it's not hilarious it's still sporadically amusing, despite weak bits. Mind, that was a terrible ending on yesterday's show.

For fuck's sake! Wrong thread, sorry.

>I think it's absolutely marvellous that Geri Halliwell is out there entertaining our lads.

You kind of get the feeling, though, that they'd prefer it if she didn't sing to them.

> You kind of get the feeling, though, that they'd prefer it if she didn't sing to them.

Steps and Geri Halliwell? What the hell kind of squaddies are these, anyway?

my mate is a commited member of the Territorials and he can't get enough steps. all military men are closet homosexuals, probably.

RIGHT YOU 'ORRIBLE LOT. TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO BE WATCHING STEPS – AND I WANT EVERY ONE OF YOU, AND I MEAN EVERY ONE OF YOU, CLAPPING YOUR FUCKING LITTLE HEARTS OUT FOR THESE TOSSERS. I DON'T WANNA HEAR NO HALF-CLAPS, NO SLOW CLAPS – AND I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT NO SHOUTING ABUSE AT H. AND THERE'LL BE NO FIDDLING WITH YOUR NUTS WHEN FAYE DOES HER SOLO.

By the left... WAIT FOR IT! Up on the podium! High energy moves.... BEGIN!

Squad... Camp it... UP!

BY THE LEEEEEEEEEEFT....



WAIT FOR IT, WAIT FOR IT...







MINCE!