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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It does if you found it offensive as opposed to amusing. Whether a joke is considered to be amusing or offensive is ultimately decided by the recipient(s) of it.
The world has changed and Allen has to either adapt or face the consequences. For balance, he isn't the only older man that has found this to be difficult over the course of history. People get used to how things are for many years and find it confusing and irritating when they get pulled up for something once considered mainstream and routine.
In years to come, young people of today will be doing/saying something without even thinking about it, but I can guarantee that when they are Steve Allen's age they will find that society disapproves of the thing that they are doing today.
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It must be hard being as self righteous as you. What ever happened to just switching it of if something is annoying, now it's all about hurt feelings, funny how money always makes it better though and it wasn't the recipient who complained, he knew nothing about it until someone told him later, then for some bizarre reason thought they were going to phone him, how they'd get his number is beyond me but now the lawyers are involved it's safe to assume money will make his poor hurt feelings go away to and we'll all still be in limbo as to how he was going to get the guide horse in the lift or on the bus, just not good enough.
I'd bet the origional complainant isn't blind either for the record.