december,
Unless you are my husband or father, I am not your dear. You would think you’d have a clue that perhaps using patronizing terms like dear in a discussion on feminism is inappropriate and offensive.
I can’t decide if you haven’t caught the clue bus, are being intentionally rude, or just think you are amusing. For future reference, I do not find this amusing.
The clue bus is on a five minute schedule…try catching one sometime.
Now, honey, don’t get your pretty little head all upset over nothing.
Besides, it’s not becoming to a lady to have a red face.
Go powder your nose, sweetie, and rejoin the discussion when you’ve calmed down.
Feminist Humor – The Complete Collection
Boy, would you ever be offended by my grandma. She calls everybody dear. But then, she never was politically correct.
I just love it when someone sets himself up for such an obvious comeback.
I’ll just hang out here until someone takes care of it.
Oh, you were trying to be funny…
I get it - I’m a little slow on the uptake.
Next time I bop into one of the gay threads in GD, I’ll see how matt mcl or gobear like being addressed as “pansy boy” Should cause them to roll on the floor laughing. Especially if I’m taking the homophobic side of the argument.
(And spooje, if your Grandma is the cookie baking kind, she can call me dear all she wants - as long as we aren’t debating feminism).
Actually, I must admit I have a postcard permanently mounted on my bulletin board at work.
It has a fellow at the front desk of a bookstore, looking cowed as the woman behind the counter bellows “This is a FEMINIST bookstore! There IS no Humor section!”
Um, I’m coming up blank here. Would you do it, please?
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Didn’t you ever watch Not Necessarily the News? The actual shortest book ever written was:
How to Pick Up Men
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OK throatshot. But only because I like you.
Ahem
Gee, I thought the shortest book ever written was “The Wit and Wisdom of december”.
: rimshot :
Thank you, thank you. Please remember to tip your waitresses.
No no no, the shortest book ever written is Everything Men Know About Women.
-Dirty
Oh, good lord. The fact that a term can be patronizing and offensive doesn’t mean that it is.
But, you are right, Dangerosa. december used the term in the other thread in a patronizing manner. I think that was his point - he wanted to get your goat.
And from the fact that you started this thread, it appears that it worked.
Sua
Actually, I kind of felt it was on the cusp of “being a jerk” since setting out to get someone’s goat seems to me to be jerkish behavior. But I thought it was more polite to bring it to the pit than to tattletell to a mod.
Well, I’ll wade in with what is basically an aside, which is this:
I don’t think there’s a lamer response to “you have offended me” than “your offense proves you have no sense of humor.” It’s so trite and common that I’m actually surprised when it is not the comeback. C’mon, is that the best you can do? You offend a person, intentionally or not, and when alerted to it, you attack her again, by implying her objection means she’s humorless?
Bullshit. Plenty of people with fully functioning senses of humor nevertheless do not like being patronized. So deal with the fact you patronized her, my little kumquat, or don’t, but pretend like her objection indicates some other failing on her part.
. . . which should, of course, read “but don’t pretend” etc.
You know, you’re pretty sexy when you’re all upset like that.
:SMACK!!:
“Owwww! What?”
Shortest book around -
Great Speeches by George W. Bush
or by Mayor Richard Daley (a democrat) too.
Surprisingly, this didn’t sell nearly as well as the My Little Pony line, although its very rarity makes it highly prized among collectors.
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Google reveals other answers , including British Dentistry, All of George’s Secrets by George of the Jungle, The Italian Book of War Heroes, Popular Lawyers, Thoughts of a Blonde, 'Winning Ways of the New York Mets, 1000 years of German Humor, Fine Foods From Great Britain, [Offensive stereotype omitted] Business Ethics, and Job
Opportunities for History Majors.
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Besides squish thinks I have a sense of humor, so nah!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=119664
Sure that’s not “intellegent posts from december” :smack:
Idiot.