Gembird

Lightsaber jokes welcome.

...or does the fact that a religion is starting to have less influence on people mean somebody can get away with making a joke?

If we take the Abrahamic religions as an example:

- Eddie Izzard is a British comedian. He makes fun of the Church of England in a very silly way, such as his 'cake or death' sketch. In England, we're not very religious, and nobody takes offence.

- A while back (I'm sure you all remember) a newspaper in Europe printed a cartoon of Muhammed, and some Muslims got very angry, as their religion does not approve of images of him. There were protests, and things got blown out of proportion. Islam is currently having a hard time because of extremists like the Taliban.

Do you think that a faith with lots of followers, which is running theocracies or trying to get power in governments, can be brought down a little by humour? Or do you think that it would have to lose power and become 'harmless' enough (for want of a better word) to be laughed at, and therefore any jokes would be a result of it being safe enough to joke?

Perhaps it depends on the style of humour. Satire, or angry, sarcastic humour (George Carlin or Bill Hicks, maybe) is likely to provoke a different reaction to something like the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, which is as much about the strange people living in a country village as it is about their new female vicar.

Of course, there is a difference between picking on people with a particular faith and being humourous, and I don't condone bullying at all. But what do you guys think?

There's a lot of questions there, I look forward to your answers. Go go go!

I need to wear my glasses all the time- I'm very short sighted (myopic) and everything is blurry without them. My optician said that my eyes are suitable for contacts, and I was thinking about getting them for practical reasons.

You see, I like heavy metal, and I go to a lot of gigs and metal clubs. That means that the only dancing I do is headbanging, and I spend a lot of time in the mosh pit. I don't want to keep wearing my glasses as I've almost lost them in circle pits a couple of times.

My question is: if I'm headbanging and crashing into people and so on, am I more likely to have a contact fall out?