Does it ever bother you. The tacky jokes sometimes displayed on DU?

[Haole Girl]

I mean, sometimes people can be rather inappropriate. And, how about using the little :sarcasm: thing, once in awhile...when the rest of us don't realize you're trying to by funny? :sarcasm:

[LeftyMom]

1. Donald Rumsfeld was giving the President his daily briefing...

Sorry, had to do it. :evilgrin:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

12. Nooooooooooooooooooo!

:hide:

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. Not really. Tacky, sincere posts are worse.

Tacky, freeper posts on the other hand... priceless.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Making fun of someone who just died really bothers me.

It's a good way for people to show off to others that they're a huge asshole though.

[skygazer]

4. No, not really

I mostly try to ignore them and not take things too personally.

[crim son]

5. Different strokes...

It doesn't bother me. We'd be a dull group if we were all exactly the same. As for the sarcasm smiley, you suddenly have me wondering how many witticisms have gone unnoticed by literal Lisa. That doesn't much bother me either.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. The only time I ever use the sarcasm smiley is in GD.

People there are so serious. The last time I used sarcasm without adding the smiley, I was accused of wanting to randomly taser people.

[crim son]

8. Yeah, actually that's where it really is necessary sometimes.

People are pissed off and looking for conflict sometimes. Misunderstandings are common even when you try to be explicit.

[Kutjara]

16. I thought you DID want to randomly taser people.

I'm all disappointed now.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

17. Secretly I do.

However, tasers are illegal where I live. And I would never, ever own any weapon that is illegal to own.

:sarcasm:

[Kutjara]

22. Ahh, I see. Say no more.

Your secret is safe with me.

[petronius]

23. That must have been insulting. I can't imagine that you wanted

to do it randomly.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Nah, just people that think I want to do it randomly.

[speedoo]

7. Not really. What does bother me is the hypocrisy I see occasionally.

Yep, right here in the Lounge. For a bunch of people who supposedly care about one another, the callousness I sometimes see is disturbing.

[crim son]

9. Can you give me an example?

:evilgrin:

j/k

[speedoo]

11. I could give you several.

But it appears I would not be telling you anything you don't already know.:hi:

[Haole Girl]

14. Yes, I hear you there

:hi:






















:sarcasm:

[leftofthedial]

10. I don't know what you mean.

:shrug:






































:sarcasm: thingy

[IntravenousDemilo]

13. The tackier the better.

And really tasteless can be glorious if it's done for its own sake. I even like ethnic jokes, though I'm careful whom I tell them to. Personally, I think you can tell a lot more about a person from what they don't think is funny than from what they do think is funny. I laugh at a wide variety of things, and thus people really can't tell a thing about me.

I'd tell you my most recently favourite ethnic joke, but you might find it offensive -- not that it's meant to be, but I don't know you and I wouldn't want to be misunderstood.

[mdmc]

15. kick

:web:

[jpgray]

18. Only the lame/unfunny ones

And I tend to just avoid those threads. Unless it's someone I know is cool with me--then the merciless mockery begins.

[jobycom]

19. I get sick of the juvenile bathroom stuff

Like the people who try to find the most graphic way to call someone a buttkisser or who make up dumb nicknames for everyone. Or anyone who says some should get "balls" or a "spine," or any other crap like that.

[Floogeldy]

20. "We who write upon these walls . . .

. . . roll our shit in little balls.
You who read these lines of wit
Eat those little balls of shit."

Thank you!!!!! I invented that bathroom stall saying. ;)

[jobycom]

21. Well

it's funnier in a bathroom! :rofl: