It's easy to be offended if you try hard enough!

Comedian Jimmy Carr was in trouble this week for a joke he made.

As the first word in this post suggested, Jimmy Carr is a comedian. It's his job to tell jokes and make light of things in the news but this time, there have been plenty of people who felt offended.

The joke itself was about how with all of the servicemen getting injured over in Iraq and Afghanistan we'll have one hell of a paralympic team in a few years.

I can understand if you are, or know someone who was injured in a war, but the truth is, most of us don't and when something horrific happens, those who aren't directly affected by it make light of and crack jokes about it. It's how we cope.

All Jimmy Carr did was make a humourous observation about something good that could come out of a horrible situation.

It was a joke.

Some people will go out of their way to be offended and bore the rest of us with their complaints. Obviously the media love a bit of controversy and they'll make this story much bigger than it really is.

Don't let the media make you feel like this is a personal insult to each and everyone of us. It was a joke made by a comedian. End of story.