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[red_flanders]

Thanks mods for good quick action on recent trolling.

 

[oldcrank]

I have to suspect some posters would defend a
"Jokes about Firefighters killed on 9/11" thread.

 

[Granville57]

Believe it or not, Dan and Susan are still here reading the forum and giving us advices about moderation issues.
So yes, since I regard them as "the forum", I say "the forum doesn't want that". I have no clue what Future wants, frankly speaking.

Understood. Although my questions may have seemed rhetorical, they were not. Thanks for the response.

 

[hrotha]

I have to suspect some posters would defend a
"Jokes about Firefighters killed on 9/11" thread.

Having a higher tolerance for a certain kind of humour, especially ~70 years after the fact, does not make you a bad person. So stop preaching, k.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

How low must your body count be to qualify to be joked about? Is Genghis Khan fair game?

Musically he is, at least.

 

[MarkvW]

Musically he is, at least.

Genghis Khan has too many relatives. Can't make fun of him. Sorry.

 

[MarkvW]

I have to suspect some posters would defend a
"Jokes about Firefighters killed on 9/11" thread.

We don't need to joke about firefighters in the Pacific Northwest. In Seattle, firefighters beat up homeless people.

 

[thrawn]

What about Kim Jung Un?

 

[the sceptic]

Thanks mods for good quick action on recent trolling.

they finally banned ventoux boar?

 

[peloton]

Thanks mods for good quick action on recent trolling.

Seconded.

Someone polluting every post with trolls/haters nonsense has become so unreadable, thanks for putting a stop to it.

 

[Netserk]

Surprised it's only for a week. Hint

 

[MarkvW]

What about Kim Jung Un?

Even I wouldn't joke about that monster (at least while he's alive).

 

[ChewbaccaD]

And when exactly in that timeline did you get the brilliant idea to start a basically equal thread in another section?

About 2 seconds after seeing that the original thread was closed. I figured maybe it was in the wrong sub-forum, so I put another thread where it seemed to fit better.

Did you ask someone?

No

I do hope so. But unfortunately when I asked the other mods no one could tell me.

See above.

Let me remind you, if you didn't remember, that when people repost deleted material mods tend to get very angry.

Okay.

Don't tell me you never knew it.

Honestly, it never crossed my mind. I honestly thought that it looked like Cancellara he had a H***er moustache at the end of the race, but I didn't post a picture in the original thread, so I figured that an example of what I was talking about would make for a better discussion.

Yes, your wonderful thread was just closed, not deleted, but that's a very little difference.

I just picked up on that...

Generally I tell this kind of stuff via PM, but since many people seem not to get it this time I'll do it publicly. First contact the mods, then wait for them to reply, then (if allowed) act.

Jawohl

In this case, sorry but this forum doesn't want that kind of threads. Very bad publicity, apparently. Shocking, isn't it?

Yea, the intertubes will certainly revolt over such things...

I suggested this before, and will again: 1. Decaf 2. Lighten the **** up. (again, I never typed the offending letters, just "*'s" because I know you guys are sticklers for the rules.)

 

[Hugh Januss]

So ok, mass murders are out. What about lost airplanes or jokes like this old standard:
Q. What does NASA stand for?

A. Need Another Seven Astronauts.

Just want to be clear.

 

[Eshnar]

So ok, mass murders are out. What about lost airplanes or jokes like this old standard:
Q. What does NASA stand for?

A. Need Another Seven Astronauts.

Just want to be clear.

What about making jokes that are actually funny? You know, something that doesn't involve trying to make fun of people tragically dead, maybe?

 

[ChewbaccaD]

What about making jokes actually funny? You know, something that doesn't involvetrying to make fun of people dead tragically, maybe?

Q: What's the hardest part of eating a vegetable?

 

[Netserk]

Q: What's the hardest part of eating a vegetable?

Convincing the family to turn off the respirator?

edit: searched the question (never heard it before), well I got close enough

 

[Hugh Januss]

Q: What's the hardest part of eating a vegetable?

Or maybe, How do you make a toddler cry twice?

 

[Elagabalus]

Great! I was just about to start a Cats who look like Hitler thread...

 

[hrotha]

What about making jokes that are actually funny? You know, something that doesn't involve trying to make fun of people tragically dead, maybe?

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Black humour isn't automatically funny, but there is such a thing as good black humour.

Also, no one in that thread made fun of the victims. They made fun of Hitler.

 

[Benotti69]

Thought this might shed some light

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/23/germany-finally-poke-fun-hitler-fuhrer

The Führer found himself reborn in the 21st century in a 2012 comic novel by Timur Vermes, which sold 1.4m copies in Germany. Its success suggests Germans now look at their former leader in the same way as the rest of the world does

Seems it is now officially ok to giggle at Hitler!

 

[red_flanders]

Is it really such a travesty to not discuss Hitler and the like? FFS people, let one go for once.

 

[ChewbaccaD]

Convincing the family to turn off the respirator?

edit: searched the question (never heard it before), well I got close enough

I usually go with "Getting them out of the wheelchair," but I like your answer as well.

 

[ChewbaccaD]

Is it really such a travesty to not discuss Hitler and the like? FFS people, let one go for once.

Oh, we've totally moved on. You know any jokes about the physically disabled?

 

[ChewbaccaD]

Or maybe, How do you make a toddler cry twice?

I'm waiting...