SouthernStyle, inthis link you posted a list of truly tasteless jokes about the WTC and Pentagon tragedies. What the fuck were you thinking? Thousands of innocent people died! Yeah, I know all about the Challenger jokes, and the like. But there was a reasonable period of time, as I recall, before those jokes were made. True, they were tasteless. But we’re talking about thousands of people dying in airline hijackings, of which it’s three days old, and you start with the jokes already? Fuck you, you goddamned fucktunnel! Where’s your fucking sense of decency? These people haven’t even been all accounted for and given a proper burial, and you feel like you have to post these sick fucking jokes? What the bloodyfuck’s the matter with you? Were your parents drinking antifreeze when you were conceived? I hope that you find a nice little wife, and settle down, and lose her in a plane crash, so I can dance on HER fucking grave, you nimrod.
I’m not sure that even given time jokes about this will be appropriate. They’re still not funny about the Challenger. I lose respect for anyone telling me one of those and am pretty sure I’ll always feel the same about New York and Washington. Excuse me if I don’t even go to your link and read it. I’m just not interested and agree with Superdude completely.
superdude, I love you hon, but take a deep breath.
yes, the jokes are tasteless. But humor can be (and for me is) a defence reaction. Really ill jokes aren’t funny, pre se. They can be another form of venting.
We’re all on edge, we’re all stressed. Just try to chill a bit and help. Screaming at people doesn’t do that. Threatening more death and rejoicing in it doesn’t either.
Take care of yourself. hugs
You admitted to doing the same thing as SouthernStyle.
WAG, you didn’t want to loose any prestige from your peers at the SDMB.
Yes, you are the better person :rolleyes:
I think there’s an inherent difference there. Maybe more. First of all, I never wrote out a list (or copied someone else’s), and hung them out for the entire world to see. That may seem like a trivial difference, or splitting hairs, but to me it speaks volumes. I think, in those high-stress situations, that it’s perfectly normal to have those thoughts. But the articulation is another story. I admitted I did it. Not proud of it. Wasn’t proud then. Still not. But would it change your opinion of it to know that one of the reasons WHY I was making those jokes was that there were a five year old, and a two year old around? And that the mother of those two children was trying to keep them from knowing what was going on? My point here is that SouthernStyle could have used a hell of a lot more discretion. The least he could have done was just post the link, so that people could look if they wanted to, as opposed to not really having the choice of reading something like that in an otherwise serious thread.
Oh, and Medea’s Child, I love you, too, doll.
for those who’ve not checked out the links:
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Southern did post some jokes, stating “ok, these do exist”, not as a ‘see how funny they are’.
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The jokes have been deleted (thanks UncleBeer.)
My personal preference (and I can say this since I don’t wear any “mod” clothing), would have been to either just post “I have seen some at another site” w/o posting the damn jokes in the first place, or had him email a mod asking ‘should I post these’
And a’fore anyone talks about freedom of speech etc, then the requisite ‘Chicago Reader owns this site’ rebuttal, let me point out one thing that has kept me ‘mod/admonision’ free for the most part:
If there’s any doubt about what you are thinking about posting, make it at least one or two clicks away - so for example, some one can read “I just found something really awful - it’s got a goat and a straw and some bodily fluids”, and the reader can choose to look for more or decide that pictures aren’t always worth 1,000 words.
did you hear the one about the goat with a straw and some bodily fluids?
it sucked.