Well done, Shodan.
Good on him for owning it.
Yeah, having cancer in both breasts and getting bilateral mastectomies was tremendously funny. I’ll see you all in a year or so–I don’t even have ways to respond, but this isn’t my idea of a good time.
Nm.
It’s not me I need to get over. It’s all people in my life who I have lost due to breast cancer.
I am glad Shodan had the wisdom to apologize.
I actually now think less of him for caving under pressure and retracting the joke.
You think less of him for realizing he upset people?
No, it was the classy and respectable thing to do, and solidifies my thoughts in post #24. He’s a good human being.
No cancer jokes are funny. Except this one:
[spoiler]What did the blind, deaf, autistic, paraplegic, retarded kid get for Christmas?
Molested. And then, later, cancer.[/spoiler]
Riiiiiight. You just keep telling yourself that, you big stud you. :rolleyes:
Done drinking out of the toilet already?
I think the joke works as satire. That is, one could take the view that McDonald’s inverting its arches was a mere pious gesture, and that if they were really concerned with the status of women, they would have taken some meaningful and effective action to improve the status or working conditions of their female employees. Sarcastically proposing that the company instead arrange a tastelessly themed hamburger sale in honour of breast cancer awareness would be a Swiftian way of calling attention to the empty symbolism of the arch inversion stunt.
But I don’t think Shodan intended for the joke to be interpreted this way.
Except McDonald’s doesn’t sell Whoppers.
Making sure society runs, eh? I don’t know if there is a balance sheet somewhere, but wouldn’t we have to also factor in all the wars, murders, rapes, terrorism and other assorted barbarity that is mostly the province of males?
Yeah, I’m with Bryan on this one. I’ve heard lots of slang terms for breasts, going back to the 1960s, but ‘whoppers’ was never one of them. Otherwise I’d have been laughing my fool head off when Burger King adopted the “home of the Whopper” slogan.
For the record, I understood the context for “whoppers.”
It wasn’t that hard.
That’s what SHE said!
From the urban dictionary slang…
…*love warts, watermellons, wazoos, whoppers, winnebagos, *…
Yep, they been called that.
Eh, I’m in the “nothing in the world is off-limits for jokes” camp.
Though they do have to be funny.
It’s one of at least 99:99 Words For Boobs
“And this offends you as a Jewish person?”
“No, it offends me as a comedian!”