Jo Brand's "throw acid not milk" at politicians joke

[nardy]

Jo Brand sparks fury speaking on Radio 4 about hurling acid at politicians

Ha ha, very funny. Presumably the lump has forgotten Jo Cox.

 

[8ball]

Ridiculous!

Battery acid isn't even all that strong.

 

[nardy]

Strong enough if it hits your eyes.

Ridiculous!

Battery acid isn't even all that strong.

 

[krtek a houby]

Jo Brand sparks fury speaking on Radio 4 about hurling acid at politicians

Ha ha, very funny. Presumably the lump has forgotten Jo Cox.

"lump"?

 

[Riklet]

And youre a real charmer too, OP?

 

[DotCommunist]

Jo Brand sparks fury speaking on Radio 4 about hurling acid at politicians

Ha ha, very funny. Presumably the lump has forgotten Jo Cox.

its just a joke isn't it? just a joke yeah? can't you take a joke?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Jo Brand sparks fury speaking on Radio 4 about hurling acid at politicians

Ha ha, very funny. Presumably the lump has forgotten Jo Cox.

Did someone throw acid over Jo Cox?

 

[8ball]

It was a very normal kind of Jo Brand joke:

"...and they are very very easy to hate. I am kind of thinking, why bother with a milkshake, when you could get some battery acid? That’s just me, sorry."

One thing that you'd think pretty obvious about her jokes is the self-deprecating package they come in, and how no sane person could consider them incitement to anything.
There was similar pearl-clutching when she began her career and talked a lot about cutting up men.

 

[nardy]

… no sane person ...

 

[joustmaster]

People complaining about jokes. Ffs. Its like people don't understand what a comedian is.

 

[8ball]

If you really wanted to remove sources of harmful inspiration from the irreversibly deranged, you'd ban the Bible and Koran.

 

[mauvais]

Assault, battery, assemble at home, tools not included.

 

[Ranbay]

What do we want! = Free Speach!
When do we want it! = When it suits us!

 

[joustmaster]

Imagine the number of subjects that might offend any single individual and multiply that by the number of people in any given audience. Subtract all those topics from any given comic's set list and what do you get?
Mime.
That's what you get and possibly what you deserve.

 

[Struwwelpeter]

This is tricky one - I laughed and got that it was not inciting people to throw acid at (Tory?) politicians, but I had a sense of humour failure when some petrol headed dick (I can't remember who but not JC I think) jokingly suggested putting cheese wires across cycle paths, and then someone did. On the one hand people are very quick to take offence, on the other there are some sick idiots out there who would not have thought of it for themselves until a joke is made by someone in the public eye.

 

[8ball]

Imagine the number of subjects that might offend any single individual and multiply that by the number of people in any given audience. Subtract all those topics from any given comic's set list and what do you get?
Mime.
That's what you get and possibly what you deserve.

Is that George Carlin? Sort of thing he might have said.

 

[joustmaster]

Is that George Carlin? Sort of thing he might have said.

Stanhope

 

[Plumdaff]

Farage is demanding police action about this having claimed he would "pick up a rifle" if Brexit isn't delivered. So presumably this kind of statement is fine with him as long as we're entirely serious about it?

 

[ruffneck23]

the rest of what she said seems to have been forgotten...

"That's just me. I'm not going to do it, it's purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry."

 

[8ball]

the rest of what she said seems to have been forgotten...

"That's just me. I'm not going to do it, it's purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry."

It's nothing to do with Brand, though. It's about the media creaming themselves at the thought of someone then going and doing it, and the fun they can have then.

That's why they are simplifying and selectively amplifying certain parts of it.

 

[Sprocket.]

If you really wanted to remove sources of harmful inspiration from the irreversibly deranged, you'd ban the Bible and Koran.

Well said, Reverend!

 

[Sprocket.]

Pathetic, I bet 98% of the listening public didn’t know anything about it or haven’t even heard of Heresy!

Let’s turn the attention of the people to something shocking but insignificant while we stitch em up.

 

[maomao]

At the end of the day acid attacks aren't going to help. We need to start shooting them.

 

[Sasaferrato]

She should not have said it. Do I need to post a picture of someone who has been attacked with battery acid to show why?

Battery acid is 32% H2SO4, which melts flesh as if it was candle wax.

 

[krtek a houby]

She should not have said it. Do I need to post a picture of someone who has been attacked with battery acid to show why?

Battery acid is 32% H2SO4, which melts flesh as if it was candle wax.

It was in poor taste (IMHO) but - like the lads who were supposed to appear at Glasto - it was satire. Personally, the threat of violence (jokey or otherwise) makes me queasy but I can see that Brand just made a quip.

I'm more pissed off that someone called Jo Brand a "lump" .

 

[dessiato]

Battery acid is not at all innocuous. Trust me on this. I've had acid burns and they are not fun. As much as I think there are politicians worthy of ridicule, and certainly of milkshaking I wouldn't advocate acid throwing at all.

 

[8ball]

Some people seem to have got confused and seem to be thinking this was advocacy of acid attacks.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

How dare people accuse Jo Brand of being a comedian.

Now, if you want to defend the right to free speech of the dull, boring, middle class, type who goes to meetings and drones on in a slightly sanctimonious virtue signalling manner Jo Brand I’m with you.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

At the end of the day acid attacks aren't going to help. We need to start shooting them.

Exactly. I'm not wasting perfectly good LSD on these fuckers.

 

[existentialist]

This is tricky one - I laughed and got that it was not inciting people to throw acid at (Tory?) politicians, but I had a sense of humour failure when some petrol headed dick (I can't remember who but not JC I think) jokingly suggested putting cheese wires across cycle paths, and then someone did. On the one hand people are very quick to take offence, on the other there are some sick idiots out there who would not have thought of it for themselves until a joke is made by someone in the public eye.

I don't think that makes it the comic's responsibility. Like my parents used to say "...and if I told you to go and boil your head, would you?"

I'm totally behind Jo Brand on this one...and I wonder if the outrage at the kind of shit she's had dished out to her over her career (the OP calling her a "lump" is the least of it, but still shit) adds up to the frothing and choreographed clutching of pearls this one remark has resulted in?