But can she ride a motorcycle?
I can’t believe anyone didn’t know it was a joke. I thought it was hysterical.
It just make my day that much easier when others write my posts for me. It’s efficient, it’s simple, and frees me to do other things.
But I’m going to reiterate one part of the post that I think is especially important for Rilchiam to understand:
THIS:
Is NOT the way to inject true humor into the situation. What that is is the way to be timid, fearful, way too politically correct, and seriously UNfunny.
You gotta make your choices, Rilchiam, because you cannot possibly have it both ways. You cannot be truly witty AND avoid ruffling anyone’s feathers. The two cannot co-exist. At least, not for longer than it takes for some new tragedy to come along and tickle the sick-fuck funnybone of some of us.
Hey, how come Superman didn’t save JFK, Jr?
Cuz he’s a quadraplegic.
Cracks me up. I’ll be it offends the hell outta more than one of you.
And such is life.
stoid
in the Ayn Rand daycare centre. (Motto: “A is for A.”)
[sub]Recently overheard in the Maru household:[/sub]
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change…
Whimper…
An August summer night
Soldiers passing by
Listening to the wind of change…
No…
The world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers…
I said I’m sorry, Daddy…
The future’s in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
You’re hurting me…
Taaaaake me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change (wind of change)
NO DADDY!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!
I stand by my earlier posts.
I have a sense of humor. I’ve laughed at that Superman/JFK Jr. joke the other times I’ve heard it. So I never saw The Great Escape. Other posters have done the separate-thread-with-disclaimer.
Consider this, though. When I was 13, my dad chased me from the kitchen to the front door yelling “I’M GONNA KILL YA. I’M GONNA KILL YA.” He knocked me down in the foyer and I don’t really remember what happened after that because I lost consciousness. Let’s see: how can I make a joke out of that…
I can’t.
I’m going to take Drastic’s advice and just let life go on.
OK, i am probably going t oregret this.
Rilchiam, I like you alot, and you are on my short list of reasonable posters, so I am going to trust you to pay attention to what I am saying her and not have a knee-jerk reaction.
These two posts, together, paint a disturbing picture:
and
See, on one hand you seem to be saying that people that think your humor is tacky only do so because they haven’t been abused, and on the other hand you are saying that other people can’t see how tacky thier humor is because they haven’t been abused. So which is it? I am not argueing that you should have found the original remarks funny: no one can decide whether or not something is funny. But to accuse someone of child abuse because they made a joke about it, and to continue to insinuate that they are abusers even after they have made it clear that they were joking (“And I still want to know how Badtz disciplines his stepchild(ren.)”) seems beyond the pale. Different people find different things funny, and you need to extend to them the same courtesy you extend to yourself.
With all due respect to what sounds like a pretty miserable childhood and the scars it has left behind, truly (got pleny of my own), the day you CAN make a joke out of it is the day you can consider yourself truly healed.
stoid
I wouldn’t agree with “truly healed,” but you’d be on your way.
My father was a POW in WWII and was also a big fan of “Hogan’s Heroes.” Seemed weird to me, but maybe it was therapy for him. REAL therapy helped him a lot more, though.
All right, I will. Peace, everyone.
Good points, stoid and dropzone.
(I’m on someone’s list of reasonable posters? I’m flattered! Really; that’s not sarcasm.)
What an amateur, a child-abuser who takes pride in his work makes sure the kid doesn’t lose consciousness until after the beating is done. How are you supposed to learn your lesson if you can’t remember it?
How is that? Eh, pretty lame, I’ll keep working on it…
6.26.2000: Lowtax - ICQ Transcript: “The Smart Box”
http://www.somethingawful.com/spam/icq/colleen/index.htm
Christ! I laughed so hard I had to catch my breath and wipe away the tears.
*"Colleen - What?!! That is terrible!! You train your pets that way also?!
Lowtax - Yes, we have doberman pincher, we get for security! We train it to attack burglars, so we get picture of buglar and burglar doll and put it in box with dog, we then kick box around and shove it and flip it over and shout “ATTACK ENEMY BURGLAR, PINCEE, ATTACK AND INJURY!” and my wife flips lights on and off and makes ghosts noises. Dog does not enjoy ghost noises either, so it learns that in dark with burglar, it should be attacking! Very angry afterwords, not a good thing if we in room!
Colleen - I don’t think ANY of this is responsible parenting at all and as a dog lover I find that to be REPREHENSIBLE! Have you any idea what your doing?"*
No, Badtz, he trained me well. I passed out from fear, so he didn’t have to pound me unconscious, saving wear and tear on his fists!
How’s that? Brrr…I still feel a bit uncomfortable. Okay, I just remembered the coda to that story. When I had come to, and retreated to my room, my mom brought me soup and crackers and said, “Just try to stay out of his way today”. Now that’s a Titus moment!
You seem to be one of us who don’t think that show is particularly fictional, yet you watch it and, seemingly, enjoy it? Do you find it cathartic? I do, sometimes. Other times I just have to turn it off.
Yes, I find it cathartic. So far, there hasn’t been an episode that I’ve had to turn off, although the ones with his mom are a bit hard to take. I just like it because there’s nothing in it to make a person say “Why can’t my life be like that?”.
WARNING! “THE GLASS IS HALF FULL” MOMENT AHEAD!
Actually, he’s got his health, marketable job skills, a business doing what he loves to do (granted, a not-too-successful one at the moment, but that can change), a real nice girlfriend who loves him very much AND who has a good job, a brother who likes him, and a good friend who will do anything for him. He’s doing pretty well!
Yeah, his dad’s mean and his mom’s nuts, but look how well he has managed to move beyond that DESPITE still associating with them? Think how great he’d do if he did the sensible thing and stopped talking to his father?
AND who’s way hot.
Rilch, well done. I’m impressed and thankful that you decided to respond to Badtz’s attemped joke with one of your own. That took guts.
:eek: You too? Well, except for the scorpions part.
[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by dropzone *
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All right, all right…Then say that I find it inspirational: he had a shitty childhood, but he still managed to do well for himself. It’s the flashback scenes that don’t make me cringe from Wonder Years sappiness.
I would probably like Malcolm in the Middle, for the same reasons, but I think I’m the wrong age for it. I’m not a kid, and I don’t have kids. (Of course, that doesn’t stop me from like the Simpsons or South Park…)
andros: Thank you!
I’ve noticed myself that a lot of people who like Titus were abused themselves. I like it too, but won’t go out of my way to catch an episode, maybe because my parents were fairly nice to me - I probably only got spanked a couple of dozen times as a kid, and I was only hit in the face once (and that busted lip taught me that an important boundary lies between ‘Really Misbehaving’ and ‘Shit you will NEVER do Again’).