# Twixter, a question about your mod note in the joke thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 24, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228 "2012-07-24T12:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/61 "2012-07-24T20:21:52Z")
Are baby-in-a-blender jokes ok? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/62 "2012-07-24T20:22:41Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Are baby-in-a-blender jokes ok? Always. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/63 "2012-07-24T20:55:33Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Are baby-in-a-blender jokes ok? Too soon. My blender died last week . ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/64 "2012-07-24T20:58:57Z")
> [@donkeyoatey](#): > > Too soon. My blender died last week . ::snerk:: ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/65 "2012-07-24T21:05:48Z")
> [@donkeyoatey](#): > > Too soon. My blender died last week . Too. Funny. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/66 "2012-07-24T21:25:26Z")
Okay, what I’ve got so far here is, 1. Jokes which involve “negative stereotypes about an entire group of people” are unacceptable, unless 2. they appear in designated offensive-joke threads, in which case they’re fine. 3. Negative stereotypes which are _not_ cast as jokes are also fine. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/67 "2012-07-24T21:38:10Z")
Where’d you get (3) from? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/68 "2012-07-24T21:40:16Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Okay, what I’ve got so far here is, > > 1. Jokes which involve “negative stereotypes about an entire group of people” are unacceptable, unless > 2. they appear in designated offensive-joke threads, in which case they’re fine. > 3. Negative stereotypes which are _not_ cast as jokes are also fine. I don’t see number 3. Being a jerk and hate speech are against the rules. I am worse at social cues, and reading between the lines, than most people on the planet, but the joke that Jews don’t tip was qualitatively different than any other joke in the thread. If we were at the advanced humor level, we could talk about how someone could use a negative-stereotype-joke _ironically_, but that’s outside the scope of this level. If you can’t tell the difference, just don’t talk about negative stereotypes. Your life will go better. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/69 "2012-07-24T22:26:20Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I don’t see number 3. Being a jerk and hate speech are against the rules. Enforcement is, shall we say, haphazard. More to the point of my comment, there are all kinds of attitudes and assertions which could be construed as “negative stereotypes” of various degrees. Politics, religion, culture, lifestyle. You can’t really talk about this stuff without at least glancing off some stereotypical views. For example, > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/11): > > He said he couldn’t tolerate women jabbering-on. And all men will agree with him there. Now, this comment was challenged right away, but it was also acknowledged, > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/15): > > Jabbering women is a stereotype, but one based on some truth. Then a counter stereotype, > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/17): > > No, men jabber on endlessly about sports, someone playing sports, how their kids are doing in sports, etc. They gather in clusters of 3-4 of them and stand there reciting sports facts and figures and obsessing over everything from how good some high school football player looks, to wondering what so-and-so for the Chiefs is doing in retirement. Ironically, not a one of them would actually pry themselves off the couch on the weekend to actually _play_ sports and get active and potentially healthy. This was poked at in turn. This is all fine, right? Never mind what you think _of_ the ideas being expressed, one way or the other; the point is that there’s nothing wrong with putting them out and talking about them. None of the people in the thread come across as jerkish or hateful to any reasonable reader, do they? But wait! Are these _jokes_ being spun off? > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/25): > > Eh, typical women, always complaining about something or other, who knows what. I wasn’t really listening. > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/27): > > Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ really?.. _changes channel_ Uh huh… _changes channel_ > [@Odd opinions from Chaz Bono - You'd think he'd be more sensitive and not so dismissive of women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-opinions-from-chaz-bono-youd-think-hed-be-more-sensitive-and-not-so-dismissive-of-women/628871/29): > > My wife complained that unlike males she doesn’t enjoy watching endless shots of space ships flying through space and space opera fiction. > > Where do I report her to the misandry comission?😛 :eek: > [@bup](#): > > If we were at the advanced humor level, we could talk about how someone could use a negative-stereotype-joke _ironically_, but that’s outside the scope of this level. For some. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/70 "2012-07-24T23:38:44Z")
None of which has anything to do with a thread in a different forum in which I indicated that people should refrain from posting antisemitic jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/71 "2012-07-26T06:12:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since when is being cheap an official part of the Jewish religious faith? :dubious: Jesus saves, but Moses invests…? No, really, glad I didn’t share the Kosher tampon one. Lots of Jews make jokes about Jews here, it’s just done a bit more casually, usually like, “We’re Jewish, so that’s fitting!” or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/72 "2012-07-26T17:30:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since when is being cheap an official part of the Jewish religious faith? :dubious: Since Christ stiffed the waiter at the Last Supper? _\_ ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228/73 "2012-07-26T17:47:25Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Since Christ stiffed the waiter at the Last Supper? > > _\_ _Totally_ not His fault. Judas said he got it covered. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twixter-a-question-about-your-mod-note-in-the-joke-thread/629228.md?page=3)