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Cricket fans have sparked controversy by hijacking a stadium scoreboard in India to post tasteless messages about Adam Johnson, Madeleine McCann and Josef Fritzl.

Those watching the fourth Test match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai were invited to send messages of support for their team that were then displayed on the giant screen.

But soon sickening jokes began to appear that were visible to thousands of spectators inside the stadium.

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One of the sickening jokes that appeared on the big screen at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai after England fans hijacked a message board during the fourth Test

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Another message shown on the screen referenced missing girl Madeleine McCann​

One mentioned the convicted paedophile footballer Adam Johnson, reading 'Lovely to see so many young cricket fans here today!'

The ex-Sunderland player, 29, was sentenced to six years in prison earlier this year for child sex offences.

Another featured Madeleine McCann, the three-year-old girl who disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal in May 2007 and still hasn't been found.

It read: 'So grateful for my parents to bring me to the Cricket! Great day so far :)'

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One message referenced Josef Fritzl and daughter Elisabeth, held captive for 24 years

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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage also featured in one of the messages shown on the screen​

One message referenced Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman kept captive by her father Josef in the basement of their Austrian home for 24 years.

It said: 'I came here in memory of my Father Josef, who loved to watch cricket with me in the basement in our home country, Austria - Elisabeth Fritzl.'

There was also a mention of British politician and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage that read: 'Great to see so many Indian faces... in India! :) C'mon England.'

Farage was a leading figure in the battle to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union.

Other messages that appeared on the screen read: 'Great to see the hunger for Test cricket in Mumbai - Bobby Sands.'

Sands was a member of the IRA who died after going on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in 1981.

Another, in a reference to the blind musician Stevie Wonder, said: 'Pleasure watching Kohli bat. You have to see it to believe it - S. Wonder.'

Unofficial England supporters group The Barmy Army condemned the messages.

Paul Burnham, the group's managing director, told the BBC: 'It's a no-go area. It's a very sick thing to do.

'We're 99 per cent certain that it is not anybody connected with us. If it was, we would not react well to that in terms of their membership.

'I completely condemn the messages. They're not funny at all. There's a line you don't cross, and this has gone well over the line. People shouldn't be allowed to do things like that and get away with them.'

The messages also drew condemnation on Twitter.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sp...ig-screen-England-faced-India-Test-match.html
 
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Pretty lame, tbh. I don't think most people at the Wankhede would have got wind of what those messages were.
 
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this is why you never give the public the power to do what it wants, this is the fault of management


those were some great jokes
 
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Major said:
:)))

this is why you never give the public the power to do what it wants, this is the fault of management


those were some great jokes
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Those were some sick jokes TBH. Would have been funny if it was not pointed towards someone or a tragic incident.
 
Major said:
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this is why you never give the public the power to do what it wants, this is the fault of management


those were some great jokes
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Great jokes? Sorry but that's something a 10 year old finds funny.
 
EliteCynical said:
Those were some sick jokes TBH. Would have been funny if it was not pointed towards someone or a tragic incident.
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some people would find them funny others won't
cant expect for everyone to react the same.

there is a reason why they are being called "Jokes"
 
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Major said:
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this is why you never give the public the power to do what it wants, this is the fault of management


those were some great jokes
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The one about that little girl was a "great joke"?
 
EliteCynical said:
I don't think he read the OP completely else wouldn't have said 'great jokes'.
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I think he has looking at this post, and if he hasn't, he shouldn't be posting that in the first place.


Major said:
some people would find them funny others won't
cant expect for everyone to react the same.

there is a reason why they are being called "Jokes"
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Major said:
some people would find them funny others won't
cant expect for everyone to react the same.

there is a reason why they are being called "Jokes"
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No that's fine. To each his own. The fact that one categorizes them as great joke either signifies a comprehension failure or actually reflects one's personality.
 
Not gonna lie the three year old girl joke disturbed me. Why would it be ok to mention a girl who was never found?
 
The jokes were funny

Except the Fritzl one
That was a bit disgusting
 
pretty obvious the english fans were drunk out of their minds

they cant handle their liquor at the best of times, but when their team has been beaten black and blue, it only gets worse as they just go overboard with the drinking
 
Jabo said:
Because her parents are guilty and we have had enough of listening to them
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exactly, plus people hate the family for the amount of money that has been spent on the search.


anyways, just a harmless joke
 
Slog said:
pretty obvious the english fans were drunk out of their minds

they cant handle their liquor at the best of times, but when their team has been beaten black and blue, it only gets worse as they just go overboard with the drinking
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the Barmy Army guy said he is 99% sure it is not one of them. I am pretty sure it is one of them. I suppose the info reg scoreboard was given to those who were on the ground.
 
Why is everybody getting so uptight?

I wouldn't do this, but I think some of them are really funny.

The Adam Johnson and Bobby Sands ones had me ROTFL and I actually admired Bobby Sands.

The Fritzl one can't do any harm - Austrians don't follow cricket - so only the Maddie McCann one is across the line.
[MENTION=7774]Robert[/MENTION] ?
 
EliteCynical said:
No that's fine. To each his own. The fact that one categorizes them as great joke either signifies a comprehension failure or actually reflects one's personality.
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so if i find a "joke" to be funny, then there is a problem inside me?

For your information, like it or not, but in real life funny jokes are always going to be offensive, even racists ones.........

You shouldn't expect everyone to have same opinion about everything
 
Some of those are pretty funny. Up to the guys who asked the fans for messages to moderate what gets displayed but Indians probably wouldn't get the Maddy McCann and Bobby Sands references so it's understandable how some of those slipped through the net.
 
Agree with [MENTION=135038]Major[/MENTION]. The posters condemning the jokes need to get a grip. Everyone has a different sense of humour, so they'll never be to everyone's tastes.

Laughed at all of them.
 
Tasteless, especially the ones about Johnson, McCann and Sands. The only decent one was the Farage one and even then it reveals the casual xenophobia that's become common parlance in Britain post-Brexit.
 
You either love black humour or you dont. No need to criticise people who do, nobody's being hurt after all, not like anyone here was responsible for the messages.
 
Markhor said:
Tasteless, especially the ones about Johnson, McCann and Sands. The only decent one was the Farage one and even then it reveals the casual xenophobia that's become common parlance in Britain post-Brexit.
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The thing is to ask whether any potential victims would be hurt.

Bobby Sands is long gone. The joke is about Adam Johnson, not his victim.

Only the McCanns really could claim that this is hurtful. I didn't like that one.
 
It was inappropriate but that's dark humor for you.

It's only downright unacceptable if the victims were at the ground.

Still surprised they thought anything good would come out of such an initiative. What a ridiculous idea from the staff at Wankhede.
 
I'm 47 years old and I still subscribe to Viz.

These jokes were right up my alley.
 
What even makes these jokes even more funny is the fact that the guy doing the moderation for the wankhede screen thought that these were actual praises and he let them pass by. Just reread them with this realization

Must be feeling like a fool now
 
The firtzl one and the one about the little girl were terrible. Dark humor or not, imagine being one of the people affected in either case and seeing smth like this..

Not every jab at something tragic is funny just for the sake of it...
 
Major said:
:)))

this is why you never give the public the power to do what it wants, this is the fault of management


those were some great jokes
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They were all sick jokes apart from the Nigel Farage one :))) that was class
 
Let's all come up with equivalent jokes. It will make this thread even more interesting.

I'll go first...

Such an exciting Test Match.. I'm glued to my seat and can't move!
-Stephen Hawking
 
Very distasteful. Anyone wondering about the limits of free speech should be directed to this thread.
 
I have no idea how people find those as jokes.... Just because you aren't related to a tragic incident, should you find it joke inside it?....

I guess I'll be called uptight but that was distasteful to the core in my opinion.
 
All of those are pathetic. You can enjoy whatever type of humor you want, but this isn't the place to show it.
 
Kinda surprised at some of the comments on this thread.
Everyone has a different sense of humor and finding one thing or another funny by no means reflects on one's character. And I certainly don't think anyone here has the right to judge another person based on what they find funny.

And some of the jokes are quite funny. Especially the Nigel Farage one lol.
 
Shutdown Corner said:
Very distasteful. Anyone wondering about the limits of free speech should be directed to this thread.
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It's threads like this that show why injustice happens in. Society. If forumites can enjoy a joke about a lil girl going missing or a father raping how own daughter for years. Where's the joke in that? Where?
 
KhalidRafi said:
Kinda surprised at some of the comments on this thread.
Everyone has a different sense of humor and finding one thing or another funny by no means reflects on one's character. And I certainly don't think anyone here has the right to judge another person based on what they find funny.

And some of the jokes are quite funny. Especially the Nigel Farage one lol.
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Your argument lacks common sense. Why would you find something funny in the suffering of others? Yes perhaps those Indian people did not understand those "jokes" but you and some forumites do and by all accounts you find them funny. Why?
 
They are silly and harmless. Culpability is on the MCA who could not even vet some basic stuff.
 
Major said:
so if i find a "joke" to be funny, then there is a problem inside me?

For your information, like it or not, but in real life funny jokes are always going to be offensive, even racists ones.........

You shouldn't expect everyone to have same opinion about everything
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This.

95+ % of jokes rely upon insulting another to varying degrees.
Mother-in-Law jokes, if one took them literally, are insulting to Mother-in-Laws. Same goes for jokes about wives, husbands, those with disabilities, those with low IQ's, those with little or no education, peoples of other faiths or nationalities, people who are thin, fat, short, tall.... the list is endless.

Of course there are limits and red lines. But these vary from individual to individual, from culture to culture .... as the above post says, not everyone has the same opinion about everything,

Plus, some are more sensitive than others. Sometimes too much.
 
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IMO most of these jokes are fine with your mates but obviously aren't that appropriate in public (not that anyone who sent them in really would have said them in public).

Timeline was obvious. Someone sent in the Adam Johnson message because it was topical (and imo pretty funny in a dark way) and then other people noticed it (or were part of the same group) and decided to one up it.
 
[MENTION=132373]Convict[/MENTION] whats with all the OLED jokes I see on Aussie facebook pages??

An advertisement or something?
 
Donal Cozzie said:
[MENTION=132373]Convict[/MENTION] whats with all the OLED jokes I see on Aussie facebook pages??

An advertisement or something?
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David Warner advertises OLED tvs and its is shown about 50 times every day during the channel 9 cricket coverage
 
Man if you people think these jokes were tasteless you dont want to hear some of the ones i tell my mates :))

While obviously they shouldn't be publicly broadcast in private I do things like this constantly.
 
Donal Cozzie said:
Man if you people think these jokes were tasteless you dont want to hear some of the ones i tell my mates :))

While obviously they shouldn't be publicly broadcast in private I do things like this constantly.
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Even in primary schoool over here people were making Catholic Altar Boy jokes.

I imagine in Ireland it was even more prevalent.
 
This could have been avoided, but it surely doesn't sound like a big deal.
 
EliteCynical said:
Pretty lame, tbh. I don't think most people at the Wankhede would have got wind of what those messages were.
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Apart from the sheer lack of character this clearly shows the utter contempt these people have for the crowd there, PEOPLE BRING THEIR KIDS to cricket games. Perhaps the folk that find this funny do not have sick minds, just bitter. Maybe have experienced something nasty in their own life.
 
Slog said:
pretty obvious the english fans were drunk out of their minds

they cant handle their liquor at the best of times, but when their team has been beaten black and blue, it only gets worse as they just go overboard with the drinking
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This. Can't handle a mug of beer, leave alone alcohol for five day's worth.

Nothing new though, they've been like this for decades.
 
Dark Magician said:
I really don't understand how a sane adult can take such as a joke.
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Stangely enough, I think the exact opposite.

IMO, most sane, rational adults should recognise these for what they are - jokes (albeit very close to the bone), that are not intended to be taken seriously.

All it comes down to is a matter of taste. Some people love dark humour, whilst others find it utterly offensive. Even within the messages that were posted on the screen, I would say that a couple of them (especially the Farage one), aren't at all offensive.
 
asif iqbal said:
Apart from the sheer lack of character this clearly shows the utter contempt these people have for the crowd there, PEOPLE BRING THEIR KIDS to cricket games. Perhaps the folk that find this funny do not have sick minds, just bitter. Maybe have experienced something nasty in their own life.
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How many in the crowd would have had any idea what the jokes were about? Tasteless jokes are a huge part of the British national humour. People often read the jokes to get offended, for me some are funny others are quite infantile, but each to their own.
 
Junaids said:
Why is everybody getting so uptight?

I wouldn't do this, but I think some of them are really funny.

The Adam Johnson and Bobby Sands ones had me ROTFL and I actually admired Bobby Sands.

The Fritzl one can't do any harm - Austrians don't follow cricket - so only the Maddie McCann one is across the line.

[MENTION=7774]Robert[/MENTION] ?
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[MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION], I like the Farage one, because it is hitting a hard target. I don't like the others.
 
I dont know how people could even remember these names to post messages in their name. One has to go out of their way and research about such things and use them.
 
Major said:
so if i find a "joke" to be funny, then there is a problem inside me?

For your information, like it or not, but in real life funny jokes are always going to be offensive, even racists ones.........

You shouldn't expect everyone to have same opinion about everything
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Peace bro. I never pointed fingers at you. As i said, to each, his own. I do not expect everyone to have same opinion. We can agree to disagree on this topic. Cheers.
 
Donal Cozzie said:
The Indian pace attack has some real bite in it - Afridi

Imagine how few runs England would make if only India would select Asif - Junaids
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I posted a couple for a few seconds on this thread and then took them down before I could get into trouble.

I won't repeat my bad taste comments. But the people who I used were the Nawab of Pataudi and Colin Milburn and Mohammad Asif!
 
The Aussie comedian/impersonator The Twelfth Man used to do some great Hansie Cronje lines.

"This match is pretty much a foregone conclusion. And that's the way I like 'em".
 
What disgusting jokes especially the one about the missing girl. It's not funny at all. You have to have a maturity of a 10 year old to laugh at these jokes. I thought they were very tasteless.
 
Diffusion said:
I don't think fans of other nations would be aware of the references.
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Actually no. If you micro-analyze the signatures of these messages, you may find clues that the origins of these messages may be more Indian than assumed.

Most of these messages highlight a major event in the past that got a lot of press coverage. Only one message is politically motivated; the rest highlight some cultural horror stories of the UK. No matter how much I hate my government, I will not go to the extent of criticizing my own culture, and that too in order to derive sadistic pleasure from the whole episode.

Factor in an Indian (or Pakistani if this was in the UAE), and this suddenly makes sense. Suddenly, I am criticizing the culture of my opponent, and no matter how inappropriate the messages may be, I am still playing within my boundaries.

English hackers would have highlighted issues pertaining to current English affairs, or they would have criticized Indian cultural horrors. Since the latter was impossible in India, they resorted to the former, and the only message that has this signature is Nigel Farage's. If I were to hack this scoreboard, I would have written "Go Nawaz Go" because it is relevant to Pakistan's politics. Only one reference to British politics by English hackers is difficult to digest, especially when issues like Brexit are hot.
 
asfandyar said:
Actually no. If you micro-analyze the signatures of these messages, you may find clues that the origins of these messages may be more Indian than assumed.

Most of these messages highlight a major event in the past that got a lot of press coverage. Only one message is politically motivated; the rest highlight some cultural horror stories of the UK. No matter how much I hate my government, I will not go to the extent of criticizing my own culture, and that too in order to derive sadistic pleasure from the whole episode.

Factor in an Indian (or Pakistani if this was in the UAE), and this suddenly makes sense. Suddenly, I am criticizing the culture of my opponent, and no matter how inappropriate the messages may be, I am still playing within my boundaries.

English hackers would have highlighted issues pertaining to current English affairs, or they would have criticized Indian cultural horrors. Since the latter was impossible in India, they resorted to the former, and the only message that has this signature is Nigel Farage's. If I were to hack this scoreboard, I would have written "Go Nawaz Go" because it is relevant to Pakistan's politics. Only one reference to British politics by English hackers is difficult to digest, especially when issues like Brexit are hot.
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Self deprecation is pretty much British sense of humour. And pretty much all of the references, are British 'lad banter'. Type you'd find on 'Unilad' on facebook.
 
How on earth can someone operate this scoreboard without ANYBODY from the staff knowing?
 
Diffusion said:
Self deprecation is pretty much British sense of humour. And pretty much all of the references, are British 'lad banter'. Type you'd find on 'Unilad' on facebook.
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Congratulations on failing to get the point. Self deprecation and cultural criticism is one thing, highlighting horror stories to make fun of them is another. In a Pak vs India match, if a joke like this appears on the scoreboard "Akbar from Army Public School, Peshawar loves to see Kohli 'blast' the ball through the covers", who will have a higher chance of posting it? An Indian or any other nationality because:

1) 90% of Pakistanis will have emotional connection to this event, and most will not resort to such comments in public or in isolation simply because of its emotional component. An Indian hacker will not have such an emotional connection to the event.

2) Of the remaining 10%, 90% of Pakistanis will fear that if caught, the repercussions would be huge. Not only will the hacker risk extended jail time, he will also be humiliated and destroyed in electronic media, with the humiliation extending to his family. If the hacker is Indian, since the event does not have any national significance, the repercussions would not be as grave, probably limited to a fine or brief jail time.
 
Dark Magician said:
Your argument lacks common sense. Why would you find something funny in the suffering of others? Yes perhaps those Indian people did not understand those "jokes" but you and some forumites do and by all accounts you find them funny. Why?
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I don't see how it's any of your business what I or anyone may or may not find funny. Humor can be dark, it's just a matter of how an individual perceives it and if you don't like it and find it offensive then that's fine. But why do you think everyone has to be in-line with your high-minded ideals? It's a free 'message board' and everyone is free to think as they please.

What does this have to do with common sense?? They are just a few harmless jokes!
 
BCCI: NO MORE GIANT SCREEN MESSAGES

The Wankhede giant screen fiasco seems to have woken up the authorities of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) who now want to prevent such public embarrassments. The BCCI has asked the state associations to stop flashing fan messages on the giant screen inside the grounds.

As reported by this paper yesterday, the Wankhede screen carried some ‘sick’ messages during the justconcluded fourth Test against England and it attracted public criticism and questions from the ICC match referee.

Although no one in the board is coming on record, it has been learnt that instruction have been issued to the hosting associations to guard against such messages. To begin with, the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) has been told to prevent that during the fifth and final Test against England which starts in Chennai on Friday.

A BCCI official admitted that members of Tech Front, the operators of the giant screen at the Wankhede, have been spoken to. “Corrective measures are being put in place. You can say that there won’t be such fan messages in future. Strict instructions have gone to the state association and the operators have been seriously spoken to,” said a BCCI official.

It is understood that match referee Jeff Crowe had spoken to the BCCI officials after the fiasco was brought to his notice. Crowe discussed the issue with hosts Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) members as well.

Meanwhile, the BCCI is close to zeroing in on venues for the quarter-finals for the Ranji Trophy. It is likely that Rajkot, Indore, Jaipur and Visakhapatnam will be the hosting centres of the last eight knock-out games.

Kolkata and Kalyani were expected to host the games but it has been learnt that Kalyani is not equipped enough to host a knock-out game. There is no word about Kolkata though.

For the record, the BCCI officials say the venues and fixtures will be finalised after the last league game between Orissa and Jharkhand in Thiruvananthapuram from December 15. The quarter-finals start on December 24.

http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/...iant-screen-messages/articleshow/55971691.cms
 
I take it it's fine to Make jokes about the Mumbai massacre? You people won't have a problem with that right?
 
Diffusion said:
Self deprecation is pretty much British sense of humour. And pretty much all of the references, are British 'lad banter'. Type you'd find on 'Unilad' on facebook.
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I would like to think British humour is of a much higher standard than making cracks about paedophilia or dead children.

Great comedies like Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses are prime examples of classic British wit and humour, not these "lads" with their third rate impressions of Bernard Manning.
 
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