Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:The illusion of the culture war

tree_ wrote:

epilogue wrote:The illusion of the culture war

Really? Are you OK with "retard" or not? How about "fag" or jokes about how women should be in the kitchen?

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tree_ wrote:

epilogue wrote:The illusion of the culture war

Really? Are you OK with "retard" or not? How about "fag" or jokes about how women should be in the kitchen?

Simple Torture wrote:Imagine if the hill you wanted to die on was 4th-grade playground comedy.

tree_ wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Imagine if the hill you wanted to die on was 4th-grade playground comedy.

I’m not trying to die on any hill. But I did almost get executed on one a few times at this message board

BurtReynolds wrote:

That was pretty funny.

epilogue wrote:

tree_ wrote:

epilogue wrote:The illusion of the culture war

Really? Are you OK with "retard" or not? How about "fag" or jokes about how women should be in the kitchen?

There is nuance and context to all things. Fabricating outrage to distract and divide is absurd. The culture war isn't real, it's a political fabrication.

But to answer your question, no. I'm not okay using those words, which is why I don't use them. More importantly, the groups disparaged by those words don't appreciate their use and I respect that. Having said that, I'm not gonna tell you I've never laughed a well crafted joke that uses those words. A former co-worker of mine is gay and hates the "f" word. It repulses him. But he always laughs at that scene in The Hangover. He finds it really funny and openly says so.

Again, nuance and context. Like George Carlin said, anything can be funny, it all depends on the exaggeration. I'm sure Norm told a lot of jokes that I wouldn't have laughed at or that may have rubbed me the wrong way or made me cringe. But he also told a lot of jokes that I adore, and made me happy, or made me think. He was a master of his craft. His career and contribution to the artform deserve to celebrated; his passing mourned.

My respect and admiration for him is not hypocritical. I can love Norm and hate the "f" word at the same time.

Strat wrote:Tree really has a knack for hijacking just about any conversation with his idiocy

dad wrote:that face is so so good.