# It's time for my yearly Tuba Diva bashing again... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577 "2003-08-02T18:05:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/21 "2003-08-02T21:29:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by catsix \* > \*\*I thought the joke was funny, and it was quite obvious it was a joke. > > Too bad some people can’t just let other people enjoy their gallows and morbid humor in peace. \*\* A joke about punching a pregnant woman in the stomach to induce abortion is funny? Are you on crack? I have as sick a sense of humor as anyone, but that was over the line even for me. You want to read and post sick humor? Find a board for that. This one ain’t it. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/22 "2003-08-02T21:42:23Z")
Yeah, it was funny. Especially since it seemed pretty fucking clear that the girlfriend didn’t have a problem with the joke. And no, I’m not on crack, I just know how to interpret a joke as a joke. By the way, when did you gain the authority to tell me where to post and where to read? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/23 "2003-08-02T21:44:11Z")
I’ve got just such authority. Do you intend to follow our rules or not? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/24 "2003-08-02T21:45:05Z")
Could you show me where I’ve broken one by saying that IMO, the joke was funny? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/25 "2003-08-02T21:49:50Z")
Only if you first show me where I accused you of it. We’ve got a rule. Feel free to bitch about it here. If you wish to read garbage like that, whether you find it funny or not, you will have to find another message board on which to do it. So QED’s statment is accurate – “You want to read and post sick humor? Find a board for that. This one ain’t it.” Do you intend to follow our rules or not? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/26 "2003-08-02T21:57:31Z")
I intend not to answer your question because it sounds more like an accusation. I objected to **Q.E.D.**'s tone, which isn’t against the rules, and I have never threatened to deliberately post anything here that I know is against the rules. So, since you have so graciously told me I’m free to bitch about it here, I’m going to be honest. Your accusatory tone sucks, becasue I haven’t done a damn thing to warrant it. Compared to other things I have seen posted here, and other extreme statements of what people would like to do to others or see done to others: > [@](#): > > I would give my entire worth to see this monster horsedragged, beaten within an inch of his worthless life, and locked away from polite society until his last day, then beaten again and left to die alone and naked in the wilderness. The joke from **Scurvy** to his girlfriend doesn’t seem so extreme. I’ve not treated any mods or admins disrespectfully, and I don’t intend to, but I really would like you to extend the same courtesy to me and not ask me if I intend to follow the rules in some scolding tone simply because my opinion of a joke doesn’t agree with yours. I never said the mods didn’t have the right to close the thread, I just expressed that it was a pity they did. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/27 "2003-08-02T22:00:53Z")
Hey **catsix** , I used to know this girl, and it was really strange because like, when everyone went around saying how much they loved chocolate, she would say she hates it, and when everyone said they hated math, she would say she loved it. It was almost like she took up a contrary position on everything just to be differet. Man, she got a lot of attention that way. Good story, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/28 "2003-08-02T22:00:57Z")
TubaDiva as a “goose stepping fascist?” I have never seen a pic of TubaDiva, but I can visualize a stern dominatrix in an SS outfit, top buttons of the shirt undone to tease with just a little cleavage, black heeled boots, and a crop ready to administer humorless discipline to any doper who dares express any difference of opinion. So, Llamasex…uh, I mean MikeRochenelle, are you ready to bend over and take your punishment? Or are you just going to wimp out and walk away in a huff. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/29 "2003-08-02T22:02:08Z")
I don’t see why you told it here, **jarbabyj** , unless you’re making an accusation that I’m trolling. Are you accusing me? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/30 "2003-08-02T22:10:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by catsix \* > \*\*I objected to **Q.E.D.**'s tone, \*\* My “tone” was “I like this board, please don’t crap all over it”. I was (and am) suggesting that if you want to read and post sick shit, you find a different venue for it. That’s not the purpose for which this board was created. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/31 "2003-08-02T22:16:25Z")
It came across a little differently than that, **Q.E.D**. It just sounded to me like ‘I’m going to tell you to get out of here because you didn’t have a problem with that joke.’ There are other posters in this thread aside from me who said they thought it was ‘no worse than some things in the Pit’, and I thought you were being a little harsh because it wasn’t as if I said ‘Hey, I’m going to post all the sickest jokes I know here’. I understand you didn’t like it, but I’m not the one who posted it either. So please don’t accuse me of crapping all over the board by pretty much agreeing that the post was no worse than a lot of what is currently in the Pit. You saw it as a big deal, I didn’t. There is no reason that we can’t peacefully disagree. (And no, that doesn’t mean I’m even thinking about trying to provoke anyone by posting anything sick. I’m not.) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/32 "2003-08-02T22:21:04Z")
“Don’t crap all over the board” was directed at anyone who might be thinking of posting sick humor like that, not you in particular. If I mean _you_, you’ll know it. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/33 "2003-08-02T22:22:36Z")
I told the story because your flat out refusal to see that that joke _could be construed as extremely offensive_ just because YOU think it’s a great haw haw joke is completely asinine, and no, I don’t laugh at dead baby jokes either. YOU know what’s funny and WE don’t… YOU have a more advanced sense of humor because you see abuse and murder as funny and we don’t. I don’t think it’s the worst thing ever posted on this board at all, but I’m not going to pretend like everyone else is an asshole because they’re offended. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/34 "2003-08-02T22:23:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by catsix \* > **I thought the joke was funny, and it was quite obvious it was a joke.** No, it wasn’t funny. No, it wasn’t a joke. It was merely an asinine attempt at being half witty. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/35 "2003-08-02T22:25:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by catsix \* > **currently in the Pit…** Where Anal Scurvey’s hilarious (wheee) joke **wasn’t**. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/36 "2003-08-02T22:26:05Z")
Where did I say that my sense of humor was more advanced? It’s obviously different, but I don’t think that means ‘more advanced’. There are a lot of people who find David Letterman hilarious, and I don’t. That doesn’t make his fans more advanced than me because they can see humor in something I can’t, it just makes us different. This thing you have about me thinking I’m better than everybody, this is not accurate in the least. I’m not better, and I’m not worse. I am different, and often see things differently than others. There’s no reason there isn’t room for my opinion and yours, and no reason we both can’t express it. I don’t know where you got the idea that I think I’m better than everyone else, but I hope you some day realize that I don’t think that. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/37 "2003-08-02T22:28:16Z")
I get it jar…she’s **alternative**!! Is that the word the kids are using these days? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/38 "2003-08-02T22:28:40Z")
Dear **Mikie**. I took the liberty of banning your previous incarnation, **llamasex**. In the future, contact an SDMB administrator (like that fascist Tubadiva) should you wish to change your name. Although perhaps, if you keep this kind of behaviour your norm, the name change discussion might soon be rather academic. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/39 "2003-08-02T22:32:41Z")
I give up. Even when I point out that I don’t think I’m better than anyone else, I’m still fucked. I’m not asking you guys to like me, but I do respect your opinions and your right to express them. Could you do the same, please? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-my-yearly-tuba-diva-bashing-again/192577/40 "2003-08-02T22:36:10Z")
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