Dyslexics have a sense of humour
I am sure mosy dyslexics have a very good sense of humour, but you wouldn’t think so from the Dyslexic Foundation. NZPA reports:
Posters advertising the New Zealand Comedy Festival have been withdrawn after sponsor Cadbury received complaints that its dig at dyslexics wasn’t funny.
Posters for the festival in Wellington and Auckland reading: “10 out of 9 dyslexics prefer Crunchie” had drawn the ire of the Dyslexic Foundation, The Dominion Post reported.
“You certainly wouldn’t make comments like that about other groups who have a disability,” foundation spokesman Guy Pope-Mayell said.
The posters were insensitive to people living with dyslexia, and misrepresented the condition as not all dyslexics transposed numbers and letters.
Cadbury had immediately withdrawn the posters from Auckland buses and bus stops, and apologised for any offence, company spokesman Daniel Ellis said.
One day all humour will be exterminated.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I agree. My son is dyslexic and proudly wear the t-shirt “Dyslexics Untie”
May 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
It could just as well be 20 out of 10 schizophrenics prefer Crunchie
May 9th, 2009 at 11:04 am
One could also say “2 out of 100 economists pick arrival of recession”.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am
My favourite is the insomniac, agnostic dyslexic who lies awake at night wondering if there is a dog.
I alsoo quite like “Dyslexics Rule KO?”
May 9th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I long for the day when a company faced with an outraged pressure group tells that group to fuck off.
I am sick and tired of being told that I have to be careful about what I say lest it offend another group in our society, grow some balls Cadbury and stick the posters back up again.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am
big bruv: I was just thinking the same thing. First we have supermarkets charging for plastic bags, now cadbury pulling their inoffensive ads. I suppose we can at least be pleased that the Eskimo lollies are still here.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Many years ago, a friend of mine had a son who was dyslexic.
She used to spend much of her freetime campaigning for a dyslexia charity.
She used to wear a t-shirt that said:
“Daily Sex, please give generously.”
May 9th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Careful DPF, they may lay a complaint about Wikiglob next.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
New Zealand is rapidly becoming the land of the wowsers, the dull, and the dim-witted. All in the name of political correctness.
At this pace, nobody will ever say anything for the fear of offending others. Nonsense!
May 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Manolo
I am offended that you are offended, please desist as it offends me greatly.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I did wonder when I saw the ad on the side of a bus…
I think it was the same one.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
See, I was offended that Manolo wasn’t offended. I found that very offensive. If only people were as enlightened as I am, the world would be a better place and there would be no war and we would all respect the planet and we could all spend our time playing happily and singing and dancing round the maypole in a gay (non-sexual) fashion.
Wouldn’t that be great.
And if you don’t agree with me then you’re probably a conservative or a banker and you probably vote for ACT.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Im dyslexic & I was trying to figure out what was so funny….. or offensive about “10 out of 9 dyslexics prefer Crunchie”…. oh I get it, it should have been 9 out of 10! hahahaha thats funny. The interesting thing is that I can see a sentence like the “10 out of 9 dyslexics prefer Crunchie” and just interpret it as “9 out of 10″ anyway.
One of the more annoying things about having dyslexia was having my spelling mistakes picked up and ridiculed by priggish spelling nazis. However its just a matter of learning how to deal with this type person and putting them in their place.
Dyslexics rule KO!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Fcuking A Dave.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
As a parent of a dyslexic I have never got over the fact that the label for the condition suffered by people who confuse letters etc. is dyslexia.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
And then there was the dyslexic devil-worshipper who sold his soul to Santa
May 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I agree its healthy to have a sense of humour, I myself at times wonder if I have a mild form of dyslexia. You say David that one day all humour will be banned .
Well lets have a post with our favourite jew jokes aye? Oh I have one. Whats the difference between a Jew and a Pizza? A Pizza doesnt scream before you put it in the oven.
lol
[DPF: That is more a Holocaust joke, than a Jew joke]
May 9th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Dave001, I’m supposedly not dyslexic but it took me ages to figure out why it was funny. I was focusing on how “Crunchie” could be rearranged to form something funny, till I eventually noticed the numbers.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Well whats wrong with a holocaust joke?, please remember that not just jews were involved in it but also , Jevohas witness, and homosexuals and that Catholics
[DPF: No one has complained about your Holocaust joke, I know you hoped everyone would get outraged but people were too smart to fall for it]
May 9th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
On the other hand I can remember when it was considered all right to make jokes (about just everything) niggers, hori, queers, spics,women anybody who wasn’t just like us.
And even then we laughed at ourselves
But this sort of humour is away of defining people and putting them down and outside the pale
May 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Speak for yourself, ray. I still find them outrageously funny, but then, I am a conservative.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Yea but Ray, Im a Catholic ( not a good one) and Im known to have had same sex relations in bed. I always laugh at at gay joke or a joke about Catholics and I take no offense. Infact Im often telling the joke.
You know if you get 3 guys in a pub and one is a poof then the other guys will take the piss out of him becuase of it. That happens to me all the time
My straight mates will joke about me being a fag, I dont get all upset about it becuase its the way that men show affection for one another. Men are not like a bunch of woman that have to be all kind and caring ect we actually get a good kick out of a laugh
May 9th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Apparently, it’s still OK to make jokes about sane able-bodied heterosexual anglo-saxon protestant middle-aged right-handed males. But all other humour is to be banned by order of the wimmins labour collective of aotearoa.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
lol true that Crusader
May 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
“I suppose we can at least be pleased that the Eskimo lollies are still here.”
That reminds me: I met a real Eskimo film maker a couple of years ago (in NZ as a student of political marketing). Qivioq introduced herself as an Eskimo from Greenland. From memory, she called her people Eskimo and their language Inuit.
I had no idea that the term Eskimo was racially insensitive, and her frequent mentions of it gave me no clue.
I was obviously being highly politically incorrect when I asked her if she’d tried one of our Eskimo Pies, and she must have grossly offended herself by saying she hadn’t, but would like to.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
David, I didnt hope that people would get outraged by my joke at all. I was simply making a point how some think humour is ok and that nothing is sacred but that in reality those same very people get upset about jokes that affect them. I know from reading your blog over the years that you are harsh on anything that might even have a bit of anti semitism
[DPF: Anti-semitism is not funny. Jewish jokes if told in humour not malice are funny. It all depends on the intention of the person making the joke, and the appropriateness of the location]
May 9th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
It just goes to show that Political Correctness is just the suppression rather than the elimination of stereotypical remarks – we still make them but only when we know we can get away with it…like here and with our mates.
Does that mean we don’t care whether we hurt people or are we just too stupid to learn respect?
May 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
A Catholic joke told in Malice is also not funny? I hope thats what you say
May 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
It doesn’t take long but the recent happenings in Napier have already spawned some very un pc jokes. I will not repeat them as I would incur more demerits, the timing is far from ideal. Maybe in a month or two.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I had a dyslexic flatmate. He posted on the fridge for us a “Cooking/Cleaning Rooster”. I never did meet that incredible fowl.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:44 am
for Biomag83..” Whats one thing you shouldnt say in a gay bar “….” Can someone push my stool in please “
May 10th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
To me the worst thing about Dyslexia, it that the very word describing the condition, is such a BASTARD to spell right!!
May 11th, 2009 at 8:30 am
“To me the worst thing about Dyslexia, it that the very word describing the condition, is such a BASTARD to spell right!!”
Clearly down to the same bastard who put the “s” in lisp. Anyway, two dyslexics walk into a bra…
May 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I feel no need to spell corrctly glut, it gives the lamesass left something to bitch about rather than answer the bloody question.
“Correct” spelling also infringes on my right to free expression.