what the hell?
more than half of the shit in this forum (bbq) is offensive.
and Who the hell takes YO MAMA jokes seriously???
this really burns me up.
I thought these jokes were genuinely humorous.
believe it or not, as I read them, I really didn’t think the people were talking about MY mama.
So, I guess its ok to spout off in blue language about how much I hate so and so or such and such (regardless of how un pc it is), just so long as I not mention a fictious mama?
or it’s ok to joke about how stupid blondes are???
explain the difference between a stupid blonde joke and a yo mama joke, please.
Yes, your momma jokes are offensive. And very prejudicial.
Where’s the your daddy jokes? And the your uncle jokes? They’re rare. And the animal kingdom is not even represented at all. Where’s the your cat is so ugly jokes?
See what I mean? There’s no balance.
Let’s stop picking on Mom and go after the cooks and astronomers for a change. And maybe shoemakers, too. Those guys have had a free ride for too long.
Your landlord is so fat, when he goes to the movies, he sits next to everybody.
I just thought I would point out that Garrison Keillor in his PBS program “A Prairie Home Companion” has a program every year dedicated integrally to jokes and they always have a long segment of Yo Mama jokes. I guess nobody told them they are not PC. <sigh>
Maybe we could make them acceptable then if we turned them into “Garrison Keillor’s Mama is…” jokes as he doesn’t seem to mind them.
Lest anyone take offense to that ( :rolleyes: ) then please know I was talking about MY momma.
Also, interestingly enough, this thread from a few months back did just fine in IMHO.
i think that it was shut down because it was started in revenge to a comment in the thread “esprix the newbie?”.
the “yo momma” thread was not actually affiliated, though, so it did seem a tad irrational to shut it down. eh.
[sub] i’m on a really slow shared connection at my school, so i don’t have the bandwidth to run a search. so, someone else can run the search or i’ll just post links when i get home.[/sub]
Damn. I didn’t even notice it was closed. Hmmmm. This statement:
Certainly seems to be contradicted by the open thread in IMHO as linked by mouthbreather. I don’t really care (just discussing), but the decision doesn’t seem very impartial. So much for precedent.
My biggest problem with the whole thing is I posted a thread that already existed.
Perhaps the key sentence from Lynn was “how’d I miss this one?” Mayhaps, the one in IMHO hadn’t been noticed yet ('till people here pointed it out. :D)
A lot of things slip through - ya see cursing in GD, ya see flame wars in GQ, etc. The fact that they don’t get cut off is not evidence of partiality - it may simply be evidence that the mods don’t read every thread.
BTW, I thought the thread wasn’t closed because ‘yo mamma’s’ are offensive, but because they’re stupid. If that’s the case, however, 90% of threads should be closed immediately.
True on the latter part of that statement. Concerning why it was closed - Because it was stupid? Well let’s look at this comment:
I wonder where the offensive line get’s drawn. It’s ok* to cuss and swear and insult someone specific who pissed you off (bosses, other drivers, food servers), using words like cunt, bitch, whore, slut, jerkoff, and some of the more creative ones folks like jarbaby come up with. These things are OK, and won’t get a thread closed, where a thread that was filled with jokes, not directed at anyone specific, is too offensive to remain opened. Seems silly to me. But somethin’ tells me I’ll never be a Mod, so I guess it doesn’t matter what it looks like to me . . .
DaLovin’ Dj
*Examples of threads with harsh OP’s which haven’t been closed:
In general, pointless flaming is not allowed. It falls into a gap between MPSIMS and the Pit.
If you are seriously upset about something, you can flame about it in the Pit.
If you want to crack jokes you can do it in MPSIMS.
But historically, joke flames have been closed by the mods. Including “Yo mama” jokes. If you were actually using them to insult someone who upset you, I think it would be allowed. It’d be pretty lame, but probably allowed.
If you have a burning need to see “Your mama” jokes they are the weapon of choice is Usenet; I recommend dropping into alt.fan.britney and asking if her boobs are fake.
There’s a thread in MPSIMS concerning “Because I said so. . .” which can tie in here. Lynn, as an administrator is, a sort of mother figure on this board. As such, she has the ability to make decisions like that. And, although I also saw no need for the thread to be closed, I do see that that is totally within her rights as an admin, even if for no more reason than “Because I said so.”
