Did anybody Pit kayaker, for starting the jokes here?
No? It’s pretty creepy to suggest the creepy neighbor can be the new babysitter
You know why I didn’t Pit kayaker. Because one fuckin’ one line joke, bad or good, doesn’t rise to that level of … anything.
Yup.
Wow, talk about stepping over the lne and being an ass … Thanks for suggesting that people launch spam attacks against me.
Your morality is demonstrably better than mine.
6 days to come up with that shitty joke, and you’re defending it?
Well, I now feel bad about the babysitter joke. I’m really bothered by pedo stuff, to the point that I’ve been warned in threads when I say how I feel about pedophiles (I honestly am not bothered by the idea of a pedo dying in a fire, very slowly).
The babysitter comment was sorta a coping mechanism. I’m relieved not to be in the original OP’s situation. And I’m glad my own kids are grown up now.
Maybe it was because the babysitter line was way over-the-top, while your comment seemed like it could (from a pedophile) sound “real”.
Anyway, apologies to anyone offended by the babysitter comment.
ETA : FUCK. (It’s the pit)
That’s a very good point. splatterpunk didn’t just step over the line, he blew straight past the off ramp to the line. The guy advocated an off board personal attack… and it didn’t really seem like a joke.
Well, you shouldn’t feel bad. The OTHER reason I didn’t report it is that I thought it was pretty funny.
I now await another pitting for expressing an opinion that a joke about a pediphile was funny.
It’s not that pedophilia jokes can’t be funny. It’s just the way you do it.
So, wait. Am I being pitted for being offensive, or for not being funny enough?
It seems to me that if I could have restated my comment in a funny enough way that the OP wouldn’t have Pitted me, that that whole “… beyond the pale …” stuff was just over the top rhetorical bullshit.
I guess if someone pits you for a stupid and horrible joke you could
a) laugh it off and say, dudes it was a stupid joke, get over your bad selves, or
b) claim how the entire board has gone downhill and how everyone else is stupid and wrong BUT you.
You’re right, though, probably if you took out all the words in your post and replaced them with different words which constituted an actual joke, things could have been different.
See, now, this is a funny joke. I came, I laughed, I conquered.
I think it’s more a matter of timing. An offensive joke can absolutely kill, but it has to fit the moment. Another thing you do is your targets are all wrong. You should never, ever tell a pedo joke about somebody’s daughter.
I think I like you better as armedmonkey than I did as Monkey with a Gun. :dubious:
I suppose I have to take that as a compliment.
Either that, or fling poo. Your choice.
I think this is an interesting idea. How does one improve timing in a message board where people don’t communicate in real time?
As to your second point, I’ll mention kayaker again, whose post was just as offensive if not more than mine, but it was also – I’ll admit – funnier.
My post suggested (as a joke, understand) that perhaps his daughter was out looking for a date. Kayaker’s joke suggests that the parents might actually put their daughter right into the hands of the creepy potential lolester.
I’m not saying this as a campaign against kayaker, I’m saying that the OP simply mistated his rage – it was in reality all about my not being as funny as kayaker.
YOU’RE Monkey With a Gun!? You were a much bigger dick than I’ve ever been, in the sense that you were deliberately insulting people, calling them liars when they disagreed with you, and the like. Me, I just tell jokes that fall flat.
I think I Pitted you once upon a time, or maybe just called you out in a couple of threads.
Pot, meet kettle.
You can do as you like, of course. But you seem calmer, more laid-back, and funnier. As Boy Jim says, you seemed a lot more hair-trigger back then.
Advanced Challenge: Craft a funny joke using only the letters in BJ’s post.