I reckon a joke that begins " A Scouser, a Frenchman and a Blonde walked into a bar..." would be the ultimate frontroom kiss of death right now.

Seriously, I can easily see why the mods are more than usually twitchy, but surely shutting the thread about the scouse chicken was slightly unnecessary? After all scousers are "famous for their sense of humour". Maybe we need a clear statement about what sort of jokes are unacceptable, if its no jokes at all that involve any identifiable group of people, well, OK, I guess, but we needs to know.

Our Welsh members seem reasonably relaxed about a low level of references to sheep and leeks, for instance, and it doesn't bother me if there are a few references to bad teeth or whatever. Mostly we can tell when comments are made in good spirit or not and its a shame to lose some friendly ribbing. If it got too much, as the French bashing not infrequently does, I can see we need a quiet word, but otherwise people are pretty sensible here IMHO.