After experiencing the discomfort and embarrassment of a prostate test by the National Health Service, a guy decided to have this next test carried out while visiting friends in San Francisco, where the beautiful nurses are allegedly much more gentle and accommodating.

As he lay naked on his side on the table and the nurse began the examination.

"Don't worry, at this stage of the procedure it's quite normal to get an erection." said the nurse.

"I haven't got an erection," said the man.

"No, but I have," replied the nurse.

That joke is just dumb. not offensive, just Dumb. Sounds like something a closeted homosexual teabagger might propose.

Not to start a flamewar, however completely disregarding the joke, I find the term "Teabagger" offensive. Sure the joke is distasteful, however it is not the Tea Party's fault that SF was chosen by the GLBT community to live in. Let's not get political here.

Not to continue a flamewar but I find the word "distasteful" offensive.

Seriously though, no jokes about gay nurses, fat people are out, can't say anything bad about vegetarians, I mean, what's left.

Anyone remember Archie Bunker? P.C. is sapping the fun out of life.

Having had both male and female fingures on numerous occasions and two prostate biopsies, and a radical prostatectomy which has left me unable to have an erection, I find this joke to be hilarious. I don't know or care what a teabagger is. I presume someone who uses teabags.

I should think if anyone should be offended by this joke it should be a person who has been there, and God knows there are thousands of us. To me every day is now a bonus.

Oh and I forgot to mention, cardiac arrest, and two major heart attacks, and now fitted with my own defibrillator.

Anyone got any jokes about heart patients.

Brian

Hey I just said the joke was dumb, that's all, no offense. Really I did not mean to offend the people who are offended by people who are not offended by people that are not like those that are offended easy. Blessed be those touched by thy noodly appendage.

Grant.

I'm not the slightest bit offended by anyone or anything here. I'm just saying it as I see it.

Believe me, when you have had all and sundry poked into every bodily orifice and then some, then this is indeed funny.

Brian

Not to continue a flamewar but I find the word "distasteful" offensive... P.C. is sapping the fun out of life.

I meant distasteful as in unpleasant (to me) not that I am being politically correct, because I am far from it. All I am saying is we shouldn't bring politics into it. If I said that this joke would be proposed by hippie liberal, I am sure there would be people on this site that fall into that category and wouldn't appreciate it.

Sure I get heated politically when posting on say a yahoo article, but I never thought politics would be brought to this site. If anything, with all the disagreement I have seen in my 20 years of life, I think that Datsun Z's are one thing that draws all sorts of people together.

As far as the prostate test is concerned, NEVER, NEVER, EVER ask for a second opinion:finger:

I did and the GP proceeded to repeat the test with TWO fingers:tapemouth:tapemouth

Olzed,

A Teabagger is a political term referred to someone who believes in the US Constitution, believes you shouldn't spend more money than you have, should be accountable for your actions, don't believe in entitlement (what is your is yours and what is mine is yours), doesn't believe government should be your big brother, your parents or guardian and so on. The political left in this country are trying to force the US into socialism and a generic form of communism. The term has its roots in the beginning of the US revolution when patriots dressed as Indians stormed British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped all the tea over the edge in protest of taxation without representation. Now the group has become a powerful political party and the entitlement folks are running scared because they may have to get a job, become responsible citizens etc. To suggest the joke was somehow "teabagger" was juvinile at best. There was no association to the political party at all unless it was somehow Obamacare related. It wasn't. The joke was funny. Unfortunately, Grantf couldn't contain himself and is so bitter that he may have to become a productive citizen in this country he is lashing out in anger. It is unfortunate, but there are several "grantf's" running amuck. Of course the entire political scene is slightly more complex than that, but this is the general cliff notes of it.

FYI-San Francisco has the highest per capita of gays and lesbians in the US, thus the reference to it. As my dad would have said, "a blind man could see that one coming with his cane"

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Leonard.....

Liberals are trying to turn the US into a communist state?! Oh, PuLEEEEEZE!

Remember you're explaining this to an Aussie. He doesn't know to apply the requisite filters to what you're saying and might not understand this is (extreme) right-wing hyperbole.

Also remember that you have friends from the left. (I hope you consider me one. I consider you one.) We're not insane or deluded, we're not slackers, and we're not communists. In fact I think you'll find many of us share your deep love of the Constitution and are very worried about a government that has been overstepping its bounds throughout the past decade.

(sigh)

So to borrow a quote, can't we all just get along?

I agree it was a dumb joke. Too obvious. However, as someone a bit closer to the targeted community, let me say I wasn't offended. I'll just offer up something better instead:

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Gay:

A gay man attends a Catholic mass to take in some music and calesthenics. At some point the priest walks down the isle, wafting incense over the congregation. Concerned, the man pulls the priest aside and says, "Honey, that dress you're wearing is just FABULOUS, but your handbag is on fire!"

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Lesbian:

Heather invited her mother over for dinner. During the meal, her mother couldn't help noticing how beautiful Heather's roommate was.

She had long been suspicious of Heather's sexuality and this only made her more curious.

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two women interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Heather and the roommate than met the eye.

Reading her mom's thoughts, Heather volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Suzy and I are just roommates."

About a week later, Suzy came to Heather and said, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose she took it, do you?"

Heather said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll write her a letter just to be sure."

So she sat down and wrote: "Dear Mother, I'm not saying you 'did' take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did not' take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner."

Several days later, Heather received a letter from her mother which read:

"Dear Daughter, I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Suzy, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Suzy. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now."

"Love - Mum"

Couple of comments....

I have been told by several people actively involved in the Tea Party movement that the Tea Party is NOT a political party. Suggest you take the advice of your third grade teacher and "look it up".

Perhaps the political left are trying to force us into socialism, (as if that horse hasn't alreadly left the barn) but it could be equally said that the political right are trying to force fascism on us. Remember, Rush Limbaugh is an admitted drug abuser. Illegal drug abuser.

Criticism of entitlement may be a lovely conversation for those whom have not the morals and ethics of taking care of the society from which they live, but I seriously question how American that belief is. I always thought that Americans took care of Americans. Perhaps the fasciscts have us convinced that we should focus on taking care of the rest of the world?