Seriously? You think that people who are pranked are less likely to trust in future? If that were true I would stop falling for practical jokes, but I haven’t. People who quit trusting because of a silly joke with NO VICTIMS? I never met one.
I had the same thought Una did. If the prank/joke had actually been funny in the slightest, that might have been enough to overcome the fact that it’s borderline offensive, but in actuality it’s about as funny as watching paint dry. Publicly posting PMs about it is just the shitty icing on the cake.
Incidentally, “sorry if you were offended” is not actually an apology.
The best joke in the known universe? Maybe not. But I’ve been around enough transexuals joking about the transvestites and vice versa to think its not all that unique to the Dope. Gender based humor? Heck, half (or more) of the jokes told around the GLCC could be classified as such right down to us straights being thanked for creating so many gay and lesbian children. I’m just not seeing it as all that big a deal; especially on April 1. Make the same joke July 25th and my mileage may be different.
The part I do see as sad though is that this may mean the end of the traditional April 1 spoof here. That we’ve all screwed ourselves to darn tight that nothing can be fun or funny. That I will really regret.
About the only thing they do, and enforcement is sporadic, is Note those who come up with a “joke” answer before a real answer in GQ. Mind you, once in a while if the “joke” answer suggest something actually dangerous “Sure, go ahead and take the whole bottle of pills, it’s work faster!” they will say something.
If you didn’t like the attempt at humor, that’s fine. But don’t put words in her mouth. That wasn’t a ‘fake apology’. It was an apology directed specifically at the people who were pissed off/didn’t like it/got mad/thought it was in poor taste, but *not *to anyone else (who, not being in the first group, presumably don’t require an apology).
