Absolutely No Laughing:

Every now and again* I receive an email at work which I swiftly delete from my Inbox and Trash, then erase the backup.

It usually contains a link to a website, or the text of a joke, or some pictures. Quite often it will be tasteless and sexist, and quite often it's from a good friend (you know who you are).

Being a Proper Young Lady, I am Most Affronted by these emails, and only occasionally do I phone the sender and ask them to forward it to my personal email instead. Even more rarely do I sneak into the CID office where there is a stand-alone PC, log in as someone else, and open the email there.

At some stage, most of these emails end up forwarded to the Area Commander, who has a tricky decision to make. Should she (a) chortle to herself, delete it and pretend she never saw it, (b) begin a ceaseless crusade to hunt down the perpetrators in foreign climes and bring them to justice, or (c) forward it to all her mates?

Being Institutionally Racist, she normally chooses (a). If the media catch onto it, she goes for (b). Not being one of her mates, I have no idea how often it is (c).

No doubt you are reassured to hear of my professional attitude towards this modern day scourge, and I would expect nothing less of every Twenty-First Century Police Officer out there. Certain subjects are just too serious to be funny, Murder being the least of them. After all, if everyone goes around laughing at the terrors of the world, they won't be afraid of them any more, and then how can the government do its job?

Here's a good example of just how dangerous humour can be.

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* By "every now and again" I of course mean daily.