OT: is my humor offensive?
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Re: OT: is my humor offensive?
I've never read anything in your posts which I thought was offensive. Maybe the person who PMed you was mistaken or had you mixed up with somebody else.
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I had a roommate in college who collected the most vile and tasteless jokes on the planet. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE stuff. The kind of stuff that would be illegal in several countries in Western Europe. That kind of thing. He'd always preface by putting this sad/sombre look on his face and saying something like, "I heard the most awful, tasteless joke today. I can't believe anybody would laugh at such a horrible thing. I mean," he'd say, "it's a joke that makes fun of (babies, a racial group, whatever) and it is meanspirited and just makes you feel all icky inside that ANYONE would find this kind of thing funny." And then he'd get right up in your face and look right in your eyes with this ridiculous, sad face and he'd tell the joke like it was just KILLING him to repeat such a vile thing. And then of course you would HAVE TO LAUGH and he would feign being shocked and horrified that you would laugh at such a thing. I'd see him circulate at parties telling people the same dreadful joke. People would either laugh and then get mad-- or just laugh.
He was a really weird guy. It was an adventure to be around him. We'd go into McDonalds and when he was ordering he would drop an obscene word right in the middle of his order, completely out of context and in this flat monotone. Like, let's say the word of the day was "f*rt". (It never was. It was always much worse.) He might say--"Oh, hi. I guess I'll just have a large Coke, and let's see, one of f*rt those fried apple pies, and a quarter pounder and if you would just hold the cheese on that but maybe add f*rt some extra lettuce." Nobody would EVER react to it other than just look confused. No one would smile. No one looked offended. Just confused and maybe a little uncomfortable. Quite a number of people would appear not to notice at all.
I don't know why I'm tell you this. I guess I just needed someone to talk to.
Dale
He was a really weird guy. It was an adventure to be around him. We'd go into McDonalds and when he was ordering he would drop an obscene word right in the middle of his order, completely out of context and in this flat monotone. Like, let's say the word of the day was "f*rt". (It never was. It was always much worse.) He might say--"Oh, hi. I guess I'll just have a large Coke, and let's see, one of f*rt those fried apple pies, and a quarter pounder and if you would just hold the cheese on that but maybe add f*rt some extra lettuce." Nobody would EVER react to it other than just look confused. No one would smile. No one looked offended. Just confused and maybe a little uncomfortable. Quite a number of people would appear not to notice at all.
I don't know why I'm tell you this. I guess I just needed someone to talk to.
Dale
Dale!! You promised never to reveal that to anyone! Man, if you can't trust the Undisputed to keep your old college misadventures secret, who can you trust??DaleWisely wrote:I had a roommate in college who collected the most vile and tasteless jokes on the planet. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE stuff. The kind of stuff that would be illegal in several countries in Western Europe.
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And probably with a disturbing thousand-yard stare as well. Could he have been living proof that the Crystal People are here on earth?DaleWisely wrote:He was a really weird guy. It was an adventure to be around him. We'd go into McDonalds and when he was ordering he would drop an obscene word right in the middle of his order, completely out of context and in this flat monotone.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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The latter. And I'm virtually certain that person was the negative vote. Thanks to all who have posted on this. You have helped me a great deal.Chuck_Clark wrote:The key is, did the 'suggestion' you received come from the person you'd supposedly harmed, or merely from a self-appointed arbiter of fairness and goodness?
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