i'm another that depends on audience, and anything goes with some people, yet in general i'm very respecful of everyone

i don't like tend to indulge in "gay" jokes - but when it's with my TBG, who is openly gay, it happens - he feeds me jokes, i joke back. it's just the way it is. i've had gay friends call me their fag hag - it's just what it is. it's not offensive, it just IS, kwim?? TBG is also a (very) black Indian, and there are always black vs white jokes passing between us - but it's just because of who he is. i'm not a racist person, i don't see him as anything other than my friend - but the jokes still happen because that's the friendship we have. i may bag him out about his diet being nothing but curry and rice, but i'd never say anything like that to another Indian - nor do i even think like that - it's just said in fun kwim??

i think what is taboo is really dependent on the situation, so you have to be smart enough to read the situation and choose your comments.

having said that - Holocaust, 9/11, pedophilia - nope, not on

and i must say, i find the jokes going around within hours of a celebrity death to be in really bad taste. i received more than a couple of jokes about Whitney Houston, and i just kinda shrugged and wondered why people honestly found it funny, cos it's just not something i see as funny.