destrukto Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Every now and then something comes along that just makes me want to vomit because it is just plain sickening.. this is one of those occasions... Maybe I'll start cracking jokes about all the dead Americans in Iraq?? still not humorous enough?? maybe crack jokes about 9/11?? Pearl Harbor?? I'm not the most politically correct person out there.. in fact I'm far from it.. But I fail to see anything humorous about 200,000 dead and counting Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 How about the Spanish Inquisition was that funny? If not, we must arrest the members of Monty Python immediately. Link to post Share on other sites
Jow Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 How about the Spanish Inquisition was that funny? If not, we must arrest the members of Monty Python immediately. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I know I said I wouldn't post in here again, but it had to be done. *Hugs Sledge* Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLite Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 People need to stop being so god damn PC, I found it somewhat funny. Relax people. Its a freakin joke. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A joke? WHo, may I ask, did you lose in the tsunami? I lost one of my best friends. A JOKE IS INHERENTLY FUNNY. This song is nowhere near funny, witty or clever. Listen to the MP3, it's utter *beep*. The people who made this are basically a waste of food. Link to post Share on other sites
Qhs Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Whats their email address, im gonna send them a whopping great virus! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I rather have their address. I live in Queens which is about 30 mins from Manhattan...The things I could do... <-()-> Awesome... Link to post Share on other sites
Spedz Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 a must admit its funny in a morally wrong sence what about when you tell some one an english man scotish man and a irish man joke you *could* be offending private_cowboy and me as my grand parents are irish how it just depends on the time for jokes like that me thinks there one or two sentances that was pretty funny but as a wholle it was mmmmmm rather vulgar and blunt Link to post Share on other sites
DarkLite Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 My Father is English, my Mother is Chinese. My Father's Father was Half scot, half irish and my Father's Mother was english. So that makes me........ A Gay Robot. Link to post Share on other sites
Asso Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Whoever thinks the song is funny or a bit funny is a retard, a complete moron. Link to post Share on other sites
Jow Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Whoever thinks the song is funny or a bit funny is a retard, a complete moron. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Along with anyone who makes this kind of comment. Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Calm down baby. Have a piece of cheese. *Hands everyone cheese* Link to post Share on other sites
rotoruaboy Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 How about the Spanish Inquisition was that funny? If not, we must arrest the members of Monty Python immediately. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Monty Python was stupid, which made them funny as hell. There were very few among us that did things most of us would hesitate doing. Stupid or what, they sure have guts. Link to post Share on other sites
oikoik Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 cheese? argh! the nightmares!! but she can ease my dreams.. [Miss Info btw..] Link to post Share on other sites
rizzo Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 The difference between the Spanish Inquistion is that it was hundreds of years ago, and although it doesn't make it less 'bad' it is unlikely any relatives of those who were excecuted are alive who still are in mourning. However, the tsunami is a very recent affair. Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Well, I can see that. But a lot of people complaining haven't been directly affected. Therefore, for them there is no difference between the two. A lot of people they don't know have died. Why the difference as to whether it happened last week or last millenium? Link to post Share on other sites
rotoruaboy Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 easy easy!!! never mind what those *rickrolls* did. we airsofters got stick together. they have their lives. and we have ours. Link to post Share on other sites
FUmiYAsu Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 o btw, the whole recording team for the song got fired...so I guess they had their punishment.... Link to post Share on other sites
Sledge Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Good to see that freedom of speech is still being defended then. Link to post Share on other sites
pace Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 My to sence worth on thissubject. Let me offer this to you, The song was not in best taste so soon after an event like that, yeah its bound to upset a few people. Other people did find it funny or amusing, its the way life is, how did some people live after getting hit by the wave, whilst others in the same spot died, such as life, fait, god??? Tying to compare this to race remarks by the likes of facists etc, is wrong. This was a natural event, *beep* happens, its not like the nazi's killing millions of jews or black people being treated like ###### 60 years ago. These are event coursed by the madness of man, you simple cant laugh at it due to the very nature,it just proves how dumb we are,,, look at pompe as example, a whole city gone, one volcano did it, or if you must another man example, 200,000 people dead in 1945, A-bombs interesting things!! Just remember we rent this earth, its gonna be here along time after we go, hell the route the human race is going, will be out of here soon enough anyway, Link to post Share on other sites
Jow Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 Calm down baby. Have a piece of cheese. *Hands everyone cheese* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're trying to make me fat god damn it ! Link to post Share on other sites
Crazy_Harry Posted January 30, 2005 Report Share Posted January 30, 2005 It has nothing to do with being PC or Freedom of Speech. Making such a song is just completely immoral. Not one bit funny at all plus the fact that it was not witty one bit. To anyone that stated or will stated the right of freedom of speech, then why is everyone so against the KKK? They're just expressing their point of view and they have the right to do it right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> quoted for truth. There is a frightening tendency for people, normal, sensible, kind people, to find amusement in other people's tragedy. Much of what we consider comedy is based on this principle. This, however, does not remove the fact that, freedom of speech or no, to laugh at anothers tragedy exhibits an inhumanity that goes beyond crass debates about "political correctness"- and by the way, "political correctness" is just another way of saying "do the right thing". Although I agree that freedom of speech should be protected, I find it appalling that, after all the fighting and horor that it took our democracies to supposedly achieve such liberties, it then gets used to promote this base attempt at humour. I need not remind any of you that a primary tool for any propagandist's arsenal is to belittle and make into jokes those who they don't like. Look at early cartoons of Jews, Socialists, Gypsies and slavs by Nazi's- yes, I do not doubt that many people found them funny at the time. Looking back on them, following the persecution and holocaust that followed, they loose their humour. These cartoons, slogans and songs were, however, the first wave of propoganda that were deseminated around the german people, getting worse and worse until finally the gas chambers became an acceptable solution to the age-old problem of how do you deal with people different than yourself. Its but one small step for a perfectly normal person to go from a mild bit of insensitivity for the sake of a cheap joke, to feelings of superiority, contempt at other people's suffering, that leads ultimately to the sort of persecution we're supposed to be against. THINK, before you laugh at other people's expense. The world is bigger than just you, and every person within it has feelings that you trample on everytime you forget that. I remember the outrage that came out after a certain US news station published pictures of Palastinians laughing and dancing in the streets following a certain tragedy in the US (the pictures were false, of course, taken from a much earlier event, but don't let that get in the way of a sot of righteous anger). To this day, I still don't hear any songs on PBS or BBC Radio about THAT incident. Why not? because people would find it offensive. "Humour" or political correctness, or freedom of speech don't come into it. Its called having a bit of basic human sympathy for people suffering more than you are. For those of you who don't agree, go join an aid organisation, get out of your cosy lifestyle, and go and see how the world looks for much of its population. If you're still laughing after that, then you really are someone beyond my comprehension. Thread locked, simply because the views appearing are deeply disturbing. Freedom of Speech? Whatever happened to Love Thy neighbour? Link to post Share on other sites
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