Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
Ha, funny thing is though John, I done these things. I never watched them on the news and tutted. I was there. When you've been under fire, come back and we'll speak...
I could just ignore this in order to preserve the new-found relative tranquillity on the site, but this is obviously an issue that continues to trouble you, so can you explain in more detail, please? One reading of this might be that, in order properly to appreciate tired old racist/ sexist/ plain sick jokes, it is necessary to undergo an ordeal by fire. Is your argument that humour - any humour - helps you to cope? Or is it that the experience of war has caused you to become desensitised to humanitarian issues? Either way, I can only be glad that I have escaped such a traumatic experience, even if it's left me without an ability to appreciate such 'humour'.