>> >> not sure it is offensive, just bad taste?
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>> What's the difference?
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OK, consider me educated! I had never regarded them as synonyms, but a bit of browsing shows that everybody else does :)
I still think that a joke told in a group enviroment, ( for example in a family situation, where values are different for an older generation), could be offensive to others, but not to me, so I would describe it as being in bad taste.