Howzabout a Warnin'?

[mythusmage]

Henry, Piratecat, did it ever occur to you to ask, are these complaints valid? Is there any worth to them? Or are they petty souled complaints empty of meaning? You can't satisfy all who moan and whine, sometimes you must tell them no.

Humor is cruel. All humor worth the name. Humor cuts and cuts deep because it says things of us some would rather not hear. All jest will, perforce, offend some, and some need offending. Do your utmost to offend none, and you'll end up offending all.

Your actions were ill advised. You disappoint me.

 

[alsih2o]

Humor is cruel. All humor worth the name. Humor cuts and cuts deep because it says things of us some would rather not hear. All jest will, perforce, offend some, and some need offending. Do your utmost to offend none, and you'll end up offending all.

A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says.
The bartender promptly serves up a beer.
"How much will that be?" asks the neutron.
"For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge"


please point out the cruelty in the previous humor. also please explain who would be offended.

 

[tburdett]

Good passive aggression. I give it a B.

Actually, all it takes to get a thread locked is a moderator deciding that it should be locked. Sometimes that opinion will be popular, and sometimes it won't be. This is your tradeoff for a site that relies on moderator instinct, and not on a laundry list of specific rules, to keep the decorum.

Now I know you are clearly biased! Only a B?!? I will have to try harder.

 

[LightPhoenix]

A neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says.
The bartender promptly serves up a beer.
"How much will that be?" asks the neutron.
"For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge"

please point out the cruelty in the previous humor. also please explain who would be offended.

Actually, I am. That was terrible.

Besides, neutrons can be broken apart to electrons and protons, and that means they do have charge - one positive and one negative. That's without getting into sub-atomic particles.

Yes, I'm a dork. Resume the bickering.

 

[BSF]

Ah what the heck? I might as well throw some wood onto this fire.

The thread in question was surely meant in good humor. As for me, personally, I looked at the thread title and decided it wouldn't include anything of value to me. With all the debate, I decided I should at least look at it to see what was offensive. It is typical Jeff Foxworthy style humor. Frankly, I have always found it to be inane and borderline offensive. That is my pesonal take on it. It isn't a style of humor that appeals to my tastes. I wouldn't lambast anyone that thought it was funny, nor would I label anyone as over-sensitive if they were offended.

IIRC - The thread starter lives in one distinct area of the country. Namely California. I live in New Mexico. I know another poster in the thread resides in Tennessee, I think somebody chimed in that they were from Iowa and we have others from Georgia. Those are the people I can easily think of. There may be many regional issues that each of us is unaware of that might make certain forms of humor inappropriate and not very funny. I can certainly think of a few styles of jokes that might be hilarious outside of New Mexico that would be greeted with icy silence at best. But, unless you lived here, you probably wouldn't understand why. Why wouldn't "redneck" jokes be the same?

I fully support freedom of speech. I fully accept that some things will be funny to some, but not others. I agree that there are times when each of us probably takes ourselves too seriously and a joke can cause us to stop and think. What I am having trouble really understanding is why this is such an issue? Great, a thread was started and some people had fun with it. Other people felt offended. The mods read the complaints and decided they were valid enough to shut down the thread. Shouldn't that be enough?

 

[Michael Morris]

Wanna be offensive

Go Nuts!!

But remember, they bite back.

 

[Darrin Drader]

So, does anyone want to provide a link for us poor souls who enjoy looking at the car wreck as we drive by?

 

[Mark]

So, does anyone want to provide a link for us poor souls who enjoy looking at the car wreck as we drive by?

Not used to your new-found Community Suporter status, eh? Click on a profile button, then click on the link to "Find all threads started by this user" and it should be a peice of cake...

 

[Darrin Drader]

Not used to your new-found Community Suporter status, eh? Click on a profile button, then click on the link to "Find all threads started by this user" and it should be a peice of cake...

Oh, yeah, he he.

For what its worth I didn't consider the thread offensive, but I also didn't considerably entertaining either. Not being a fan of Jeff Foxworthy's humor in the first place, derivative humor comes across as less funny.

On the other hand, I really think some people need to get some thicker skins. You think this is bad, try being from a German heritage with a very German sounding last name and see what people write about "your people". Better yet, go read the B5 Earth Alliance factbook and what it says about Germans. If I were the type to get offended, I would be far more offended by what was printed in that book than this. At least the humor from the thread in question is generally rednecks poking fun at themselves rather than people who have traditionally been enemies writing "factual" information about them.

Oh well, who am I to talk? I've gotten irked before. It happens.

 

[TiQuinn]

Just as some folks didn't find the thread funny because they don't find that brand of humor entertaining, those who felt offended by it didn't have to read it either. It was pretty obvious from the thread title what it was about.