Here’s a quick round-up of some recent entries in the jokes round, all of which may have been considered for the ‘World of Pain’ segment of the jokes round.

In other words, these are offensive to some. If you’re the sort of person who gets offended at things, look away now, do not read these jokes, click somewhere nice, don’t read this shit. You’ll be upset. And then you will comment or email asking for an apology. And frankly, there is no apology, so look away now.

OK, for anyone still reading: here are the jokes (click on a pic to see it full size):

The first is a rather standard “fork in baby’s eyes” HARM joke:

The horror continues with this one from  our Halloween special at the Reverie,

Hate special needs stereoptypes and lingo? Complain to Ricky Gervais, after all he probably wrote this:

And now a visit to the doctor’s surgery. Bewar, this joke does NOT have a happy ending.

The continuing life in the jokes round kind of depends on stuff like this spicing up the harmless jokes. We could debate all night about what’s right to read out and not right to read out.  Is it a valid position to be offended. I think 90% of the time, the answer is no.

But there is a 10%, and sometimes I don’t read everything out that gets handed  in. The success of this or not can perhaps be judged by the fact that I  have NEVER been punched in the face despite running a jokes round for almost the entire lifespan of my pub quizzing (since 1996).

There’s almost a first time…