***SPIDER SENSES TINGING.......CAN SENSE....HOSTILITIES.......ARGUING......MUST...TAKE ...ACTION .........................DISTRACTION.......NOW***
Look everyone, yummy waffles!
Mmmm.... wafflicious!
The ultimate taboo? Page 18
I'm not so sure I like waffles now. They are more sickly sweet than they look. I do like waffle places though.
Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 5:14 PM GMTHostile? Hostile how?
Those waffles do look good. And an appropriate choice of baked goods for this thread.
Awwww Griff..... You have to understand I am a delicate little thing and do not like shoutiness. 
That is my story.....
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 4:01 PM GMTDidn't you want to settle down and get married at a young age? Because you're really not selling yourself to the nice young ladies out there.
Yes I did. And anyone I'd be willing to settle down with would understand what I mean. Besides, I'm not trying to sell myself to anyone.
(And no, I'm not making a reference to prostitution, before anyone comments.)
Quote: zooo @ November 19 2008, 4:02 PM GMTI have that detachment too.
I think a lot of people do.
Unfortunately not those among the popular crowd on this thread.We will have to be the outcasts again Aaron. For a change...
Shunned by popular society. Woe is us.
Quote: sootyj @ November 19 2008, 4:03 PM GMTI can I prefer to understand the structure of a joke, then laugh at it.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 4:06 PM GMTWithout sounding patronising and as much as I would like to say I'm only 21, I'm wondering if age has anything to how people see this? I just think with more years and life experience one's opinions of these sort of subjects change. I think over time many people learn to put themselves into other people's shoes?
I would imagine that it depends on the individual.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 4:13 PM GMTHa! Me too. And I lie about it on myspace.
Why would you lie about it? Seems terribly childish.
Quote: zooo @ November 19 2008, 4:13 PM GMTBut still mega sensitive about her age.
Sssssh!
Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 4:16 PM GMTYeah, but no matter how young she is, she's still got to lug that awful personality around.
Now that's just unnecessarily personal.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 4:14 PM GMTWhat!
Then we're not around the same age. At all....
Well no matter your age, you have the stubborn one-view attitude of a 15 year old, if that's of any consolation.
I have nothing to say, I just wanted to put a stop to this obscenely long quote-athon.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 4:20 PM GMTYou see, now I would never had said that unless you knew someone pretty well, because you just don't know what someone might have experienced...
And that's the difference which separates us all and dictates that there's no chance of agreement.
Quote: Griff @ November 19 2008, 5:09 PM GMTThis is an impressively intellectual rebuttal save for two basic errors.
(1) You have the formal reasoning skills of a baboon.
(2) You have the prose skills of a baboon.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ November 19 2008, 5:13 PM GMT***SPIDER SENSES TINGING.......CAN SENSE....HOSTILITIES.......ARGUING......MUST...TAKE ...ACTION .........................DISTRACTION.......NOW***
Look everyone, yummy waffles!
Mmmm.... wafflicious!
Waffles are disgusting. Next! 
Christ, you're like The Terminator. You just keep marching on.
Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 5:33 PM GMTI have nothing to say, I just wanted to put a stop to this obscenely long quote-athon.
And anything as personal as your attack on zooo again - to anyone - and I'll have to put a stop to your posting.
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 5:35 PM GMTAnd anything as personal as your attack on zooo again - to anyone - and I'll have to put a stop to your posting.
That wasn't serious. Zooo knows I love her really. 
Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 5:35 PM GMTChrist, you're like The Terminator. You just keep marching on.
In the words of Rob Zombie: "Never gonna stop me, never gonna stop."
Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 5:38 PM GMTIn the words of Rob Zombie: "Never gonna stop me, never gonna stop."
Ah, Rob Zombie. Jack of all trades, master of none.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 11:20 AM GMTSatirise the situation; as in social workers, a particular council and the media coverage, but there's nothing remotely funny about the details or circumstance of a specific toddler's death. Unless of course you're of a similar mindset to the person who tortured and terrorised him - then you probably could find humour in it.
I'm not easily shocked, just really disappointed in mean jokes, like that Ian Huntley one quoted earlier. Referring to specific children who have been killed is not in the slightest bit funny. Not shocking either, just sad and mean.
I've done jokes about a secific serious illness (that has affected my family) because a) the butt of the joke is myself and I feel being personally touched by it means I'm qualified to speak about it - however flippantly and b) because I find it personally therapeautic and hope others might. Laughing at things is a good way of reducing their power and menace.
I think anyone mature and who has had/have children of their own wouldn't find any jokes specifically about this child funny. The difference about general jokes about cancer, car crashes, suicide or whatever are because they're universal and touch us all - specifics are just hurtful. And that's when humour tips over into bullying.
Well put
Quote: chipolata @ November 19 2008, 5:39 PM GMTAh, Rob Zombie. Jack of all trades, master of none.
He'd fit in quite well around here then.
Quote: Aaron @ November 18 2008, 11:34 PM GMTAgreed. There should be no taboos. Ever.
"And anything as personal as your attack on zooo again - to anyone - and I'll have to put a stop to your posting."
Yes. And?