(sorry, I don't normally endorse this kind of language, but it's the best I could do. Apologies to any wogs that find this offensive)
(R, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:10, archived)

Goodbye, racist cunt.

( Dixon it's almost as if I give a shit, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:11, archived)

So it's ok to call someone a cunt?
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
( pobblepop needs more tea, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:51, archived)

some people call people that as a sign of affection
give up now.
( HappyToast barely holding on, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:57, archived)

Maybe I'll start a 'Hug a Cunt' day at work.
I think it'd go down really well.
( pobblepop needs more tea, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:00, archived)

ouch.
If this were better done, maybe in cartoon form, I might have acknowledged that it was funny.

No such luck.
( hexachordal GO SPORT, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:13, archived)

goodness me
I daren't ask what the worst you can do is.
( giant_squid, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:14, archived)

oooh, you've done it now.
*sits back with popcorn*
( Willwillwritehiswill Your floor is now LAVA!, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:14, archived)

It is a bit racist,
and not that funny.
( Aenesis, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:14, archived)

Good afternoon!

( hexachordal GO SPORT, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:15, archived)

Afternoon.

( Aenesis, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:58, archived)

haha
Keep it up, it brings out the hypocrites to complain.
(Scrofulus wants LittleBigPlanet NOW YOU CUNTS!, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:15, archived)

Hardly, mate :P
We're rude and offensive, but we're offensive to EVERYONE. Picking on people's just unfair!

Apart from spazzes, they're just asking for it.
( hexachordal GO SPORT, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:20, archived)

lol, mmllnglmlgnglmgn!

( Discomeats . cement, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:21, archived)

4 years, 1 month and 1 day down the municipal funnel, man
the municipal funnel!
( Discomeats . cement, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:15, archived)

I frown upon this
you'll just attract all those bloody jews with posts like this.

EDIT:
I've just remembered a moment from my past that was very, very, very funny at the time. Hopefully I'll be able to render it humourless in the retelling.

A friend of the family had a brother who was about 14 at the time who was in some way mentally handicapped. I think he had Down's, but I was about 8 at the time and didn't know the difference, just that he was 'special'. We were all having dinner, sat at a table outside a cafe in some god-awful south-coast seaside town when he noticed my injured leg. My knee had taken a knock playing beach football and was swollen and wrapped in a tubigrip.
He lloked at my legs, realised one was bigger than the other and happily pointed and shouted "look... Knee-grow, knee-grow, knee-grow" in a cheerful, happy-go-lucky way.
Just as a black family of 3 walked past the table.

This story is true, and the family in question were initally mildly confused, then amused by the whole thing, and my mate's brother was happy enough, so it's a cheery tale really.

second edit: In case it's not clear, I'm part jewish and am therefore 'allowed'.
( Mockingbird is an actual practitioner of SCIENCE (TM), Wed 7 May 2008, 14:16, archived)

haha
oh dear...
( Discomeats . cement, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:18, archived)

now
invade poland
( the RAND corporation - thats Hitlertainment..., Wed 7 May 2008, 14:27, archived)

to Bel air!

( Mockingbird is an actual practitioner of SCIENCE (TM), Wed 7 May 2008, 14:29, archived)

well it made me chuckle..
the way I read it was a joke on itself, no-one uses the word coon anymore which made it funny.. that and Ainsley doing jazz hands like Al Jolson was the perfect addition. Yeah its toap, but some things don't need anything else..

For such a site that employs "shock tactics" with alot worse 'black humour' (excuse the pun) I am amazed anyone can find this offensive.. and I would suggest they don't log onto b3ta anymore if thats the case, as they are taking life way too seriously.
(TheRiddler Merry Christmas, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:36, archived)

your inverted commas annoy me

( Mockingbird is an actual practitioner of SCIENCE (TM), Wed 7 May 2008, 14:41, archived)

SHUT UP KNEE-GROW !
:D
(TheRiddler Merry Christmas, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:47, archived)

sho' nuff, sah.
I'd best go back to my cotton picking.
( Mockingbird is an actual practitioner of SCIENCE (TM), Wed 7 May 2008, 14:49, archived)

yes boss..
I'm movin my black ass as fast as I can..yes um.
(TheRiddler Merry Christmas, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:01, archived)

you used the word
coon
( DLT's Musical Bonanza is totting up the p, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:44, archived)

several of the possible anagrams of your board sig involve using the word "nigger"
you're obviously Stalin.
( Mockingbird is an actual practitioner of SCIENCE (TM), Wed 7 May 2008, 14:48, archived)

It is offensive
because of the juxtaposition of a racist term with a black person, with no satirical edge to it. Yes, the board employs shock tactics, but they are done by decontextualising the words/ideas or placing them in a more complicated scenario.

Thank fuck I have an ignore button.
relurks
(Dinsdale v Spiny Norman is a qualified anthropologist on, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:49, archived)

exactly. Here, if something seems rascist, you're generally laughing at the racism itself in a different context
not the "funny black man pulling a silly face".
( WHTRZ Corp has 670 cheeses in his database, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:53, archived)

B3ta isn't just about mindless, shock tactics
it's about humour.

And this pretty much stopped being considered humour to most people* in 1980


*Jim Davison not included
( HappyToast barely holding on, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:56, archived)

LOL..good old Jim
"Its only a game soooo...you better believe I'm right...I'm gonna be a racist tonight...do be do be do be do be..
(TheRiddler Merry Christmas, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:00, archived)

Secondeded.
Blurry standards of discrimination create a miasma of unsurety.
I'm only here for the complete lack of standards. Surely teh Sick Joke book has some eqully lovely offensiveness innit?
(The Woeful Shirker Pass me my thinking grenades..., Wed 7 May 2008, 15:04, archived)

True
but the Sick Joke Book isn't B3tan, it's Sickipedian. Sickipedia, unfortunately, seems to attract a lot of racist fucks whose intelligence and level of literacy seems to be commensurate to their prejudices. I have hours of fun fixing their spelling, grammar and punctuation, which I hope annoys them greatly.
(Fles is a man amongst gods., Wed 7 May 2008, 16:16, archived)

looks like the picture's dubious, though..
'Apologies to any wogs that find this offensive'??????

hope this is irony.

A lot of people, like myself, react very strongly, indeed probs more strongerly(?) than any black person would, to distance themselves from these kinds of language and feelings. If people let comments like this go, then that means there is no opposition to them. This encourages social divides like that supposedly seen between muslims and non muslims, where moderate types that believe in islam are often criticised for not condemming radical chappies who go on about annihilating western infidels and the like.

Still, keeps talk radio stations busy. Those fuckers would struggle for callers during their phone ins otherwise.
( doph dresses are the t-shirts of giants, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:46, archived)

yes, but whats the point? Simply having a picture of a black man and a word underneath with the letters C-O-O-N in it is pointless, stupid and unfunny

( WHTRZ Corp has 670 cheeses in his database, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:52, archived)

maybe you're right..
maybe you're wrong..

Someone says send them all back and votes BNP.. Another says honky white trash..
Somebody else says I don't give a flying fcuk.

Who's right? Who cares? alot of people on here obviously! Its good to debate !
(TheRiddler Merry Christmas, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:08, archived)

'pointless, stupid and unfunny'
Well, that's about 90% of the board, myself included.. Yay!
( pobblepop needs more tea, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:20, archived)

You get a click anyway
Just because I can't stand the stupid cnut, regardless of the colour of his skin or any such PC-infringements done.
(Mr.T Stopped licking the lid of life on, Wed 7 May 2008, 17:56, archived)