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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6217343" data-attributes="member: 6750039">I'm always surprised when people say they're surprised some kid said something silly.  I mean, Bill Cosby had a show called 'Kids Say the Darndest Things' for a raeson, yanno?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />It made it onto the air because most people understood it was totally harmless.  The reason it was let go was precicely because it was ludicrous.  The kid was being a ham for the camera as kids are wont to do.  It's kind of the bit, I imagine.  I've never watched Kimmel myself (not since The Man Show anyway) but I can take a good guess as to why they used kids in a segment like that.Do I really need to explain which Conan I'm talking about especially considering the fact that Conan O'Brien has been in the news of late while Conan the Barbarian (an admittedly superior subject) has not?  Really?  If this was a joke, well, I like it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*ahem*Know what bothers me?  People who make baseless assumptions and then act all high and mighty about their position even though it's based upon a complete fabrication.  I'm also bothered by people who want to talk about me but refuse to address me directly - either via PM or right here in the thread.  Where I come from, that's poor form.  Very poor form.Anyhoo, as I'm the one who started the thread I'm pretty confident that I can address the why behind it a hell of a lot better than you can.  And your why is completely wrong.  Notice, if you will, that my post mentioned nothing about racism, religion or politics.  Nothing at all, as a matter of fact.  I avoided those topics where some others (*cough* you *cough*) chose not to.  I was talking about the humor aspect and how today quite a few people don't understand the difference between something intended as a joke and something downright mean.  I was hoping to start a conversation about that - humor as it's taken of late - because it's sort of tangentially related to the way some see us here.  So yeah, you're wrong.  Totes wrong.It's unfortunate you chose to ignore me before actually talking to me because maybe you'd have seen how wrong your assumptions were.  Wait ... no it isn't.</blockquote>

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