PinkyGlutton wants to see Ivana narfed to death on TV.
Now that’s a cite!
Seriously, thanks. Some of us have the memory retention of a sieve and I’d forgotten about that.
Pretty sure he thinks this kind of crap makes for ‘edgy’ humour or commentary.
I think we’ve all known people like this in real life. Quick to say, 'yeah, sorry I didnt really mean it like that!, but clearly none the wiser nor better mannered no matter how often they are called out for it.
I think people like this just get used to making their lame excuse so often they manage to convince themselves it actually does undo the offence or impression left.
People like this never really learn you can’t really take back horrid things you say or the damage they do.
It’s true what they say, people show you who they really are all the time. Your job is to recognize that it IS who they really are, instead of being taken aback.
Actually, rape culture is more about rape being tolerated to the exent that people find rape not to be a crime at all. But I don’t think this has anything to do with the offense here. If Trump was accused of beating his wife and BrainGlutton had said “And, far more importantly, 'oo givee rat’s ass, if the victim was Ivana Trump? All good and decent Americans would like to see her beaten to death on live national television” I think he would be getting the same response.
I’m aware of that. That’s the trouble with you, and why I have to click on your posts to unignore them in order to interact with you to my detriment: you pretend not to understand very obvious things all the time. You suggest possibilities, and then shoot them down without actually engaging with them.
It still isn’t clear what your question even was, because you didn’t really have a question. You’re just from some fucking planet where milquetoast interrogations couched in rationalist language are how you say “Fuck you” to people.
Just reading between the lines here, you don’t seem too happy with me. You know, when I didn’t get my customary birthday present this year I should have figured something was up …
When this thread was first posted I thought that no one on this board could possibly disagree with it, even assholes like that what’s-him-name Fotheringay-Phipps person.
You find such joy in life, I can’t imagine you’re in need of any birthday presents.
Very probably true, but Jimmy Chitwood is an old friend and admirer of mine.
You, on the other hand, I don’t recall at all. Maybe next time.
Ok, well what damage was done by BG? Assuming of course, that neither Donald nor Ivana are avid readers of SDMB.
Unlikely. You’re just not that interesting.
Ok, but humor has many aspects. I suspect a lot of it involves tone, rhythm and timing. Bryan Eckers, Vinyl Turnip and elucidator can pull it off.
Brainglutton can’t: he needs to stop. I’m sympathetic to frustrated comedians. This is a friendly warning: BG is in the quarry. Like many including myself, his ear for humor has its limits.
Q to Bryan Eckers, Vinyl Turnip and elucidator: how often do you re-write or take time composing your one liners? Does it just flow out naturally?
That’s an evergreen joke: even I can make that work. Sort of. The joke involves an inversion: tough guy gets humiliated. Always good for amusement. It’s very similar to jokes from the Middle Ages involving the torture of cats: I trust prison rape funnies will be seen the same way in 50 years.
You have it backwards, but never mind - I think you forgot your first post. Just scroll up a little, it’s still there.
I died.
Holy crap. MfM is nerd-splaining humor. Pull up a seat and leave the whoopie cushions at home.
Ok, ok, jimbuff, I’ll add you to the list of the board’s resident comedians. 
I try to make a habit of rereading a one-liner several times after posting (and reconsidering it several times before posting it) and there are numerous occasions when I’ve replaced a post with a “never mind” within the 5-minute editing window because I came to realize that the effect will be (or likely will be) a negative one.
Sure, if you’re trying to be funny, there will be occasional misfires. I’ve got a recent first-reply that I think is downright hilarious (if I see an as-yet-unreplied thread, I’ll put in the extra effort to come up with a quip, just to be first) but the OP didn’t get it, and explaining it would actually be an impolite hijack to the slow-paced discussion of the creative work that is the actual answer to the OP’s question, so I gotta let that one go.
My main restraint is that I made a conscious choice to register using my real name. On balance, it’s worked out well for me - though I have any number of comments that I now regret, I don’t think I’ve ever called for a minor celebrity’s death-by-public-defilement. At some point, I must have said something along the lines of “such-and-such TV show would be improved if such-and-such actor were killed by such-and-such” but no examples come to mind. I know of statements I’ve made that got largely negative responses, but few of them were intended to be funny.
As an incidental note, I recently visited New York City and frankly the urine smell was pretty damn pervasive through the streets and subways. I can vaguely picture myself suggesting Hurricane Sandy gave the city a needed washing, and I like gallows humour generally, but not in a thread where people are passing on updates about ongoing and widespread damage and power outages. In a thread about an anniversary of Sandy, I could see myself referring to “new waterfront property” or something hopefully more clever that that.
Anyway, there’s no formula. I try to avoid doubling-down on the stupid, though - a joke that bombs isn’t going to recover if I try to criticize the critics. I don’t know if BrainGlutton ever does this; it’s my general opinion that nobody should.
As an afterthought, an earlier post of mine in this thread reminded me a post I wrote in 2008, in parody of a now-banned-poster’s overwrought style. Even I didn’t get the joke for a while (that is to say, I recall revisiting the post several months after writing it and was baffled by my own writing - I later remembered what I’d been referencing). The joke is actually pretty lame, I don’t mind admitting. Many of my jokes are. The gems, I treasure.
I read that about five minutes ago and laughed, for the record.
Regarding prison rape humour, just today I got an e-mail alert that someone had responded to a comment I’d written on a YouTube video over a year ago and had since completely forgotten. At the time, I was going through a sovereign citizen/freeman phase (that is to say, I was searching out and derisively commenting on SovCit/Freeman YouTube vids, which wore off when it became obvious how futile such effort is). How often does one get appropriate context to write the following sentence:
This frog’s advice will get you raped in prison.
If it were within an inch of her life or on HBO, would that make it OK?
I encourage everyone to check this out. But to really savor the moment, read the OP, slap your knee at Bryan’s retort… then bust a gut at the OP’s naively literal reply.