mako-heart wrote:IvenBach wrote:A bit morbid, even for my taste.
agreed too far.
I agree in principle, but then again, offending jokes are often the most funny, it's a kind of guilty pleasure. I just hope the audience is mature enough to know that. I would not tell jokes of this kind in public for the same reason.
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offensive text warning Similar situation, a father is waiting in front of the delivery room. Finally, the doctor tells him to come and see his baby, leading him to a room with four covered baby beds in a row.
The doctor uncovers the first bed, revealing a baby with no arms. The father is somewhat shocked. "Is this my child?" he asks. "No", says the doctor, "it's worse".
He uncovers the second bed, showing a baby without arms and legs. "Is this my child?", asks the father. "No", replies the doctor, "it's worse".
He uncovers the third bed, in which a baby lies that only consists of a head, without arms, legs, or body whatsoever, and smiles to the man. "Is this my child?" he asks. "No", says the doctor, "it's worse".
He uncovers the fourth bed, in which lies only an eye on a pillow, winking to the man. "Is this my child?" he asks. "Yes" replies the doctor earnestly, "This is your child".
The father bows over the eye, making "bah bah - doo doo" sounds and wiggling his fingers before it. "Oh", says the doctor, "don't bother, he's blind".
mako-heart wrote:I could tell racist jokes and and get banned but dead baby jokes are ok that seems super fraggled up/ i take it all of you have never had a still born.. food for thought..
Agreed on so many levels...
Best guilty joke ever:
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offensive text warning How many niggers do you need to clean a toilet?
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offensive text warning None, that's a women's job.
.. food for thought..
Well, racism is a sticky subject, and perhaps one that would demand a thread of it's own. The Inn is a place where I have seen many very civilized and intelligent discussions of subjects that would immediately start a flame war everywhere else.
As for racism I feel the whole subject, as it is handled in public today, is spoiled by ideologies and "rules" to a level every sensible dialogue is impossible.
Take the term "racism" itself. Normally, a "X-ist" is someone who likes or belongs to X. An impressionist is a painter who trys to catch visual impressions directly on the canvas. An expressionist on the other hand is a painter who does not try to depict anything, but just express a meaning (so expressionism is mostly abstract). A capitalist believes in the power of the free market (so capital is a good thing), a communist thinks the community should rule the market. A buddhist believes in the teaches of Buddha.
But a racist is not one who loves the different human races, but who (supposedly)
hates them all but one. How do you call someone who loves the diversity in human biology?
Personally, I think its great there are different human races (or subspecies or whatever), I find all of them beautiful. There are differences other than skin color, that's a scientific proven fact. But being different doesn't mean being better or worse. I think I can like every race for what it is.
Of course, as contact between people from all over the earth grows, this "biodiversity" of the humans is somewhat threatened. Races will intermix and eventually become one. I may take some centuries, but that's still a short time in evolution. And I think of this as a loss. Am I racist now?
