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I can usually ignore most remarks made by comedians that I find offensive or non-funny but I was listening to the News Quiz on Radio 4 yesterday which I normally enjoy however one, supposedly funny, comment really annoyed me. One of the questions was about banning the sale of high energy drinks to under 16s due to the high sugar content and all the comments were fairly benign until one of the women panel members said ‘now you can go into Clinton cards and buy a balloon with ‘Diabetes today’ written on it’ which I felt trivialised the condition (all types as she didn’t specify) and re-enforced the blame culture prevalent in most media diabetes discussions. Whilst everyone else seemed to think it was funny for some reason that comment really annoyed me - perhaps I am getting ‘over sensitive’. Apologises for the rant but I felt that I had to go into print