"Just a bit of fun"

*Tumbleweed blows through office*

Oh gosh, is that the time? I must be getting home!

15 Sep 2001: The Mirror - Vets' School heartthrob Trude Mostue calls her TV work as "just a bit of fun"

12 Sep 2001: The Sun - A Dear Deidre correspondent complains that "when we go out, my husband spends the time making explicit sexual remarks to other women, chases them and chats them up. [...] If I complain, she he says it's just a bit of fun" Deidre suggests his "schoolboy bravado" is a way of covering his near-impotence and recommends a trip to the GP and a call to her erection problems advice line.

07 Sep 2001: The Independent - In response to criticism that the new Lambrini advertising campaign is one of a number that treats men as inept objects of ridicule, David Bell, chief executive of the agency responsible argues that "It is a drink for salt-of-the-earth girls to drink before they go out, maybe while chatting or putting their make-up on. While they do that, they probably crack jokes about their boyfriends. I've never heard of any men being offended by these ads. They're quite clearly just a bit of fun.'

28 Aug 2001: The Guardian - In an article about the trend towards webcam girls encouraging male admirers to send them presents via wish lists, 19 year-old Livian from Brisbane, Australia defends herself against accusations that she is using her sexuality to take advantage of lonely internet geeks by arguing that it is all just a bit of fun.

21 Aug 2001: The Sun - In a heartwarming tale, the Sun reports how schoolgirl Rachael Barton thought it was just a bit of fun when she put a message in a bottle and tossed it into the Firth of Forth. Her gran Mary, 69 tells how they "couldn't believe it when [Rachael] received a letter from someone who had found the message miles away"

19 Aug 2001: The Sunday Telegraph - Features writer Jeremy Clarke was amazed at the fierce competitive spirit he found at a British Lawn Mower Racing Association race meeting. Quite a shock for something he had been repeatedly told was "basically just a bit of fun"!

15 Aug 2001: The Mirror - Report of how a teenage prankster who hit a policeman with a snowball was cleared of all charges after Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard the youth had made a pounds 100 donation to charity. Brian Duguid, 18, remarked that he was "shocked it even came this far. It was just a bit of fun."

15 Aug 2001: The Daily Telegraph - In cheeky reference to his conviction for artificially inflating the price of racehorse, top National Hunt trainer Paul Webber is reported in the Peterborough diary to have founded an annual golf tournament titled 'The Collusion Cup', to be played between him and other racing figures. "The trophy is a cup with a pair of handcuffs around it," the diarist is told. "It sounds naughty, but it's just a bit of fun." 11 Aug 2001: The Mirror. Mansfield heating engineer Carl Bowdler, 33, says of his 'double life' as Martin Kemp lookalike "I've never made a penny from doing this because I've never tried to. To me it's just a bit of fun" although he adds that he is starting a part-time drama course.

01 Aug 2001: Daily Mail - In an anti-'reality TV' tirade, Lynda Lee-Potter berates those who argue it's "just a bit of fun" and "enjoy sniggering at the sight of other people indulging in behaviour which ought to be private."
"I'm afraid it's neither fun nor entertaining but dangerous," says the formidable columnist, "because it contravenes a natural and healthy instinct in human beings for a modicum of reticence and decorum."

25 Jul 2001: The Guardian - A report on Fabien Bartez's surprise appearance as a substitute on the left wing during Manchester United's pre-season 8-1 drubbing of Team Singapore. Manager Sir Alex Ferguson said "He's very capable with the ball, no doubt about that. It was just a bit of fun for Fabien because he has been going on about playing out."

20 Jul 2001: The Sun (Scottish edition) - Sun reader J Cameron of Dunfermline argues in a letter to 'Dear Sun' that a controversial map of Scotland published in adult comic Viz , featuring images of neds, skinflints, con-artists and deep-fried shops "should be seen for what it is -just a bit of fun."

I would argue that reality TV and throwing a snowball at a policeman are the only good things to come out of these 'bits of fun'.

As a result of someone describing it as just a bit of fun, I was (and might still be for all I know) joint holder of the run behind mower endurance event world record when I was 15.

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGRRRR!

The Lambrini ads = proof that God has abandoned His creation.

Also - not surely The Wire's Brian Duguid in snowball-related controversy???!

"Everybody used to refer to me as the 20th hijacker and it was a bit of fun."

Neat, huh?

Hillbilly 1: I caught my wife in bed with my best friend.
Hillbilly 2: You bitter?
Hillbilly 1: Yeah, bit HIM too!

it strikes me that this phrase is usually employed defensively. often to describe something that caused distress to someone else. i cannot think of a time i have heard this phrase used to describe something good.

― gareth, Monday, September 17, 2001 12:00 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

usage of this phrase is one of the very few friendship deal-breakers for me

Oh c'mon Lex, don't get bent out of shape about a simple phrase, it's all just a bit of fun

gis "just a bit of fun"

http://www.sittingspiritually.co.uk/images/Just%20a%20bit%20of%20fun%202-004081.jpg
http://img5.travelblog.org/Photos/57241/235326/t/1856733-Just-a-Bit-of-Fun-in-Guayaquil-2.jpg
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two bits

of fun bust

law.

December 2005 - forty-one-year-old Sharon Tendler of Great Britain unofficially married Cindy, a male dolphin held at the Dolphin Reef dolphinarium in Eilat, Israel, in a ceremony where she offered fish and the dolphin 'kissed' her. She had been visiting Cindy regularly for the past fifteen years. Tendler requested permission from the dolphin's trainer for the "wedding". The marriage, painted romantically by the media, was in her words considered "a bit of fun" after her friends joked about her being single at that age.

Thought I'd log this here too. It's been too long since we've had a good "just a bit of fun"

http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/08/19/editorial-in-newsquest-papers-calling-for-capital-punishment-was-just-a-bit-of-fun/

the holocaust was prob defended as "just a bit of fun"

although the modern version is "just banter...it was clearly banter"

Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!

banter a legal term meaning chat or jest exempt from scrutiny

http://noclipmode.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/nojokezone.jpg

No joke!

you will never hear that term spoke in America but they might say "Just joshin' ya"

The tweet that changed the course of Irish presidential election was 'just a bit of fun'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055197/The-tweet-changed-course-Irish-presidential-election-just-bit-fun.html#ixzz1cE0VTo5E

for some reason this seemed like the right thread. in the same way that "just a bit of fun" signifies something that is actually not just a bit of fun 100% of the time, i overheard a guy saying this just now

"in the nicest possible way..."

"with respect..."

he ended up saying it about 10 more times in the conversation

his mate is now talking about "spitballing ideas"

gross

'Bear with me, just thinking out loud here'

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/helensburgh-hotel-puts-husbands-through-14054110

“We received a few comments on Facebook saying it was sexist but it’s quirky and just a bit of fun.