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Pyx_e
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This morning a joke was aired on local radio, I admit I heard the joke, I laughed AND I told the joke to my wife.
Here is the joke ... quote:
I am writing a joke about nipples .... it needs a little tweaking.
I need to repent, to acknowledge in thought word and deed that I am a potential sinner of the worst kind, that this sort of stuff will ruin my life and the life of many around me and that I know unless I get better and behave I will be shuned, punished and be given a good telling off.
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“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Mother.”
Fly Safe Pyx_e
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You filthy sinner. You should be in (fur lined) handcuffs immediately.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I am a potential sinner of the worst kind
I hate to drag theology into Hell, but you are exactly as much of a potential sinner as everybody else.
Must you pollute my halls with this drivel?
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deano
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Ahh! Local Radio... that well known bastion of rape culture.
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The Great Gumby
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quote:
Originally posted by deano:
Ahh! Local Radio... that well known bastion of rape culture.
Aw, bless. Look, he's learnt some new words, but he hasn't worked out how to use them yet.
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
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Originally posted by deano:
Ahh! Local Radio... that well known bastion of rape culture.
Aw, bless. Look, he's learnt some new words, but he hasn't worked out how to use them yet.
Aww, and you're trying out some sarcasm with training wheels there! Well done. You'll be a big boy soon!
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orfeo
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Originally posted by deano:
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
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Originally posted by deano:
Ahh! Local Radio... that well known bastion of rape culture.
Aw, bless. Look, he's learnt some new words, but he hasn't worked out how to use them yet.
Aww, and you're trying out some sarcasm with training wheels there! Well done. You'll be a big boy soon!
The Great Gumby has enrolled in Sarcasm University. You, deano, have been held back in second grade repeatedly.
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deano
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Oh, that's a good one. Well done. You took my jibe and turned it all around there by saying he's not a beginner, he's really, really advanced. So there!
It's nice to see the elegance and wit of a modern day Oscar Wilde now and then. Pity I'm still waiting.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by deano:
Oh, that's a good one. Well done. You took my jibe and turned it all around there by saying he's not a beginner, he's really, really advanced. So there!
Well you can't argue with the facts. Actually, scratch that, it appears that YOU can until we all want to beat you over the head with something heavy.
In my opinion, as a long-time Hell observer and resident, The GG displays considerable skill around here, while you flounder around here like a toddler who is trying to run before he's refined his motor skills with a good, solid dose of walking.
While it's initially cute and amusing to watch your limbs flailing everywhere, after a while we worry that either you're going to break something valuable or you're going to hurt yourself when you smash into a wall because you're too busy looking at back at your audience with a grin on your face to see whether we're all appreciating your 'cleverness'.
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The problem you have Orfeo, is that your response above is like the wee kid who hangs around with the bully, and when GG made his comment, you leaned around from behind him, shook your little fist at me and said “…yeah!”
Oh, and if that’s the best display of GG’s “considerable skill” - “ooh, look what he said from the other thread!” – then it looks like I’m going to be waiting for my fix of elegant wit for a while yet.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by deano:
The problem you have Orfeo, is that your response above is like the wee kid who hangs around with the bully, and when GG made his comment, you leaned around from behind him, shook your little fist at me and said “…yeah!”
You know, that analogy might just have worked if you weren't talking to a Hellhost.
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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The Great Gumby
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If sarcasm's a bit too advanced for you, deano, let's try direct questions - do you have anything meaningful to add to this thread, or do you just see it as a new opportunity to air your homeopathic grade comprehension skills?
[ETA: Cross-posted and OMFG, I can't believe he just said that!]
[ 25. March 2013, 13:50: Message edited by: The Great Gumby ]
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Originally posted by orfeo:
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Originally posted by deano:
The problem you have Orfeo, is that your response above is like the wee kid who hangs around with the bully, and when GG made his comment, you leaned around from behind him, shook your little fist at me and said “…yeah!”
You know, that analogy might just have worked if you weren't talking to a Hellhost.
Ah, well, yess. The internet's traffic wardens.
Nice that you've made it clear that you are a host. I wont push too hard then.
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deano
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GG, I think the OP was discussing a joke. Have you a dictionary? Can you get someone to explain the concepts – sorry ideas – in a “joke”?
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orfeo
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Originally posted by deano:
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Originally posted by orfeo:
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Originally posted by deano:
The problem you have Orfeo, is that your response above is like the wee kid who hangs around with the bully, and when GG made his comment, you leaned around from behind him, shook your little fist at me and said “…yeah!”
You know, that analogy might just have worked if you weren't talking to a Hellhost.
Ah, well, yess. The internet's traffic wardens.
Nice that you've made it clear that you are a host. I wont push too hard then.
I'm not making it clear that I'm a host because I'm waving a big stick at you. I'm not acting in an official capacity on this thread. I'm referring to the fact that I'm a host because it's unbelievably stupid to suggest that I'm a little kid with no skills or experience standing behind the bigger boy.
You want to talk about sarcasm abilities, deano? I got picked to run Hell. Draw your own conclusions.
I'm going to bed now. I'd like to say it's been fun, but we all know that would be a lie.
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The Great Gumby
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quote:
Originally posted by deano:
GG, I think the OP was discussing a joke. Have you a dictionary? Can you get someone to explain the concepts – sorry ideas – in a “joke”?
It's like trying to teach particle physics to a puppy that's barely housetrained. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
I know what the OP was, you tedious cockwomble. What started this off was your inane and uncomprehending contribution to the resulting thread. If that was meant to be a joke, I think it's best to say it may need some explaining to appreciate the full force of your no doubt remarkable wit. If it wasn't, I have no idea what relevance the joke in the OP has to anything.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
If it wasn't, I have no idea what relevance the joke in the OP has to anything.
Everything! Pyx_e laughed at a joke about nipples! He is, therefore, a pernicious agent of the insidious rape culture that will surely destroy everything that is good in society! Unless he is stopped first...
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Organ Builder
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It's not as though male nipples don't respond to tweaking as well.
Unlike other male sexual parts, they can respond to cold by getting larger. I know a number of people who shouldn't wear polo shirts in the winter.
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Sioni Sais
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Hostly Bowler On
If anybody wants to talk the rights and wrongs of Hosts and Hosting, take it to The Styx.
Hostly Bowler off
Sioni Sais
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
If it wasn't, I have no idea what relevance the joke in the OP has to anything.
Everything! Pyx_e laughed at a joke about nipples! He is, therefore, a pernicious agent of the insidious rape culture that will surely destroy everything that is good in society! Unless he is stopped first...
I've lost track with all the different layers of sarcasm and mockery. Is this intended to mock some sort of straw feminist, deano's imagination of the same, or something else entirely?
I did wonder if the mention of nipples might have got deano rather overexcited, but I can't decide whether he's trying to be right-on or mocking the idea of rape culture. It doesn't really matter, because he fails either way, but it helps to be clear. And as Organ Builder observes, without the context there's no way to know who's doing what to whom.
If anyone genuinely wants to argue, on the available information, that this joke is an example of rape culture, I'll disagree. Until someone actually tries to make that argument, you can keep your straw.
[Removing ambiguity]
[ 25. March 2013, 15:28: Message edited by: The Great Gumby ]
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Marvin the Martian
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quote:
Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
I've lost track with all the different layers of sarcasm and mockery. Is this intended to mock some sort of straw feminist, deano's imagination of the same, or something else entirely?
Well, we have a thread in Purg right now about how two guys who made a few vaguely sexual puns between themselves are exponents of rape culture and should be punished. What's different about Pyx-e's joke in the OP?
It can't be because nipples aren't a specifically female thing, because last time I looked "dongle" is a specifically male euphemism.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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It - whatever it is - is all the fault of lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Immigrant lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Golf-hating immigrant etc etc.
It always is.
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Organ Builder
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You need to meditate on this instead, Pyx_e.
The good part starts at 1:20.
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comet
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eww...
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
You need to meditate on this instead, Pyx_e.
The good part starts at 1:20.
Damn you to here for posting that. You bastard.
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Well, we have a thread in Purg right now about how two guys who made a few vaguely sexual puns between themselves are exponents of rape culture and should be punished. What's different about Pyx-e's joke in the OP?
Well, there are some differences; in context, in circumstance, in personnel etc. Does Pyx_e's wife feel personally insulted by her husband's reference to nipple tweaking? (I should think she probably lives in fear of much worse by way of conversation, round the Pyx_e breakfast-table ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) !!) Was it inappropriate of him to introduce nipple-tweaking where he and his wife were, and whatever was happening at the time? Hopefully, we'll never know! ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Organ Builder
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Two hours ago I did not know that video existed. The only way to feel less unclean is to share it with friends...
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comet
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gosh, thanks.
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QLib
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
It - whatever it is - is all the fault of lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Immigrant lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Golf-hating immigrant etc etc.
Not forgetting humourless, man-hating and lesbian. quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Well, we have a thread in Purg right now about how two guys who made a few vaguely sexual puns between themselves are exponents of rape culture and should be punished.
As I'm sure you're aware, not eveyone has taken such an extreme line. Anyone seeking a touch of sanity might care to read goperryrevs' posts.
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
You need to meditate on this instead, Pyx_e.
The good part starts at 1:20.
It ALL good! (if you are a superstitious heretic)
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
It - whatever it is - is all the fault of lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Immigrant lentil-munching feminist Guardianistas. Golf-hating immigrant etc etc.
It always is.
Not all, just one.
Fly Safe Pyx_e.
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How do you clean a computer? deano wants to know. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
You need to meditate on this instead, Pyx_e.
The good part starts at 1:20.
I've just been sick in my mouth and it's starting to dribble ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I know unless I get better and behave I will be shuned, punished and be given a good telling off.
What, no spanking?
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QLib
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quote:
Originally posted by Gextvedde:
quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
You need to meditate on this instead, Pyx_e.
The good part starts at 1:20.
I've just been sick in my mouth and it's starting to dribble
Me too, almost, but I was distracted by the small furry thing on his head - do you think it's alive?
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One of the posted comments was a query about why the pages were stuck together...
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
Two hours ago I did not know that video existed. The only way to feel less unclean is to share it with friends...
Yeah, who needs the radio when you've got Facebook?
Self-flagellation, Pyx_e, you know it's the only way.
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Eeeewwww. Bibliolatry porn!
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Yorick
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I don’t see the problem with that video. The guy seems quite sincere in his faith, and his audience is clearly uplifted and inspired by the message in his song. So what’s the actual difference between this stuff and, say, a Papal address? Or your Sunday Communion sermon? It’s a question of taste, isn’t it?
If taste is a fair arbiter of religion, all your faiths are a joke.
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QLib
Bad Example
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Originally posted by Yorick:
I don’t see the problem with that video.
Then you may need to adjust your bullshit detectors. quote:
It’s a question of taste, isn’t it? ... If taste is a fair arbiter of religion, all your faiths are a joke.
Worship styles are arguably just a matter of taste (though it could be a very long and wearing argument). Faith is a matter of discernment. But what's your problem with taste, anyway? Somehow I find it hard to picture you drinking Nisa instant coffee with your breakfast Chocolate Cheerios.
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Originally posted by QLib:
Then you may need to adjust your bullshit detectors.
You think he’s bullshitting? Seriously, what gives you that impression?
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Faith is a matter of discernment. But what's your problem with taste, anyway?
It's a hypocrisy. You cannot expect a neutral third party to respect your faith if you disrespect another’s on grounds of personal taste. If faith ‘discernment’ is based on something as subjective as personal taste, it’s pretty fucked up, seems to me.
[ 26. March 2013, 09:21: Message edited by: Yorick ]
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Pyx_e
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Originally posted by RuthW:
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I know unless I get better and behave I will be shuned, punished and be given a good telling off.
What, no spanking?
tsk, murder culture.
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deano
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What’s funny is reading people’s comments WITHOUT watching the video!
You think you have a good grasp on what’s happening then someone throws in a line like…
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I was distracted by the small furry thing on his head - do you think it's alive?
And the imagination goes into overdrive…
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The Great Gumby
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quote:
Originally posted by Yorick:
It's a hypocrisy. You cannot expect a neutral third party to respect your faith if you disrespect another’s on grounds of personal taste. If faith ‘discernment’ is based on something as subjective as personal taste, it’s pretty fucked up, seems to me.
But it's all personal taste. Haven't you noticed that anyone whose beliefs are more liberal than yours is a hellbound heretic, and anyone who's more conservative than you is a fundie nutter? (With apologies to George Carlin)
Similarly, anyone whose preferred form of religious expression is more approximate to cultural norms than yours is a backslider with nominal beliefs, while anyone who expresses themselves in less socially acceptable ways is either looking for attention, mentally abnormal or deliberately mocking your genuine faith.
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Yorick
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Well, quite.
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Originally posted by RuthW:
quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
I know unless I get better and behave I will be shuned, punished and be given a good telling off.
What, no spanking?
I'm sure it could be arranged if you want it that much.
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Organ Builder
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Actually, I see no reason to believe the gentleman leading the worship is anything but perfectly sincere (though he may be speaking figuratively when he says he sleeps with it).
It was the not-at-all-subtle sexual overtones and the facial expression of orgasm that made the whole thing seem so OTT.
On the other hand, I found it very encouraging that not all of the congregation seemed to follow unquestioningly. Some of them looked vaguely amused, and there was one old gentleman who wasn't doing any of it, but the camera moved away from him rather quickly.
"Stroke it, kiss it, rub it across your face". I guess I need to face the fact that my sense of humor hasn't changed much since junior high school.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Yorick:
I don’t see the problem with that video. The guy seems quite sincere in his faith, and his audience is clearly uplifted and inspired by the message in his song. So what’s the actual difference between this stuff and, say, a Papal address? Or your Sunday Communion sermon? It’s a question of taste, isn’t it?
If taste is a fair arbiter of religion, all your faiths are a joke.
Ugly, badly dressed but by all accounts wealthy white guy telling good looking, better dressed black people, no doubt with less money, what to do. I thought we were past that.
Of course he seems sincere. His livelihood depends on it.
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