Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,463
#1
There have recently been a number of complaints to the editorial team from honoured members that there is far too much humour and frivolity on this forum. If we wanted humour we would have hired Ken Dodd to write for us or got Des O'Connor to sing a collection of his greatest hits.
Most of this banter is thinly disguised as serious comments but has annoyed posters as they feel they are being ''torn to pieces'' or not being taken seriously.The palace of Whitfield recently were very upset that their press release of ''DTIZ development to commence soon'' brought howls of laughter which spilled out onto the streets of Dover. Large crowds gathered to see Burlington House demolished but were surprised to hear that the council had listed it as heritage site to demonstrate modern day incompetence. Guided tours to follow.
Even the sacred and popular ''Where is it '' thread has not escaped some slide splitting snidey comments none more hurtful than the one from Dover's oldest resident 162 year old Mr Al T Ziemer who said that he failed to notice any difference in the 'now and then' photos and was able to correctly guess each photo's location by referring to his Napoleonic Guide book.
Following a long lunch in the corridors of power aka Blake's it was decided that we had no alternative but to introduce the following guidelines
1. Those wishing to laugh at and poke fun at the Clowns in Whitfield may only do so between the office hours of 9 am - 5 pm
2. Members are only allowed to take the mickey out of the litter problem,the lack of public toilets,the state of the barren flower beds,drunks and druggies during the winter season
3. Satirical political jibes are welcome only when parliament is sitting.That gives members 5 whole days a year to have a go at the Tories,slag off the Lib/Dems or poke fun at the flat capped working class Socialists.
4. Due to strong representations received from lobby groups members wishing to take the piss out of each are free to do so throughout the year.
5. Members suffering from injuries such as a lack of humour or no sense of fun should register their names with one of the DF team asap to be considered as exempt.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#2
I nominate Keith for exemption under rule five.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
mention of ken dodd reminds me of the time he fronted the "glasgow empire" early in his career.
normally the graveyard of comedians, add to that both rangers and celtic had lost that day.
he walked onto the stage tok one look at the stares of hatred and said " i suppose you are all wondering why i called you in".
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#5
Rule 6: UKIP members shall be fair game 24/7/365.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#6
I think you'll find that UKIP members on the Forum generally went into a different dimension: I went back to my old traits
