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Hi Marek - yes please, if you don't mind.
Thanks Rick - much appreciated.
Keith - it wasn't MY joke, it was probably as old as me, but yes, it made me laugh so I wanted to share it with those here on the Forum. I never dreamt for one minute it would offend anyone.
I didn't analyse it at the time like so many others have done since, but after all the furore died down, I did read it a couple of times and analysed it and came to the conclusion that it wasn't insulting anyone at all, but it did imply concern over the perception of the Government (any Government really) approach to immigration - people DO think that immigrants get more than us indigenous people, we know that isn't true of course, but it IS the perception.
I still feel quite firmly (after analysing it), that it wasn't a racist joke, I did apologise for any offence it may have caused and think it's time to drop it and move on.
You may have noticed I've not posted any jokes on the Forum since - and don't intend to - if people are going to complain over such an innocuous joke, then I don't want to take that chance.
Roger