You really didn't get any on the post with the "joke"

(July 30, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So these "rapists are"..... I mean these "wetbacks are"...... I mean these "Spicks are"..... OH WAIT, I just remembered, I am not a bigot. 

Your mother is a "syphilitic whore"......... OH, WAIT - I just remembered I have nothing but utmost respect for you, sir, and your family.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

(July 30, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So my Hispanic neighbor I guess hired a friend to cut down some pine trees in his yard. I am fucking deadly afraid of heights. So it works the same cutting down trees all over the world. He has the spike boots and uses a strap to climb to the top and slowly cut chunk by chunk. 

I've been inside all day so all I noticed was the chainsaw not really seeing what he was doing. So I went outside to walk to the gas station to buy some beer, and finally noticed. I don't speak but a very tiny fraction of Spanish but was able to joke with him basically saying, "better you than me." He laughed. 

I hate heights, you cant get me past the 5th floor balcony. I can go higher in a room if it is simply a window with no balcony. So I finally saw him up in the tree on my way back and said, "Tu ok, mi no".

Did your language skills allow you to explain to the man, that you would be unable to perform his job, because of your fear of heights? Or could he perhaps come back home that evening and tell his family - "Some white dude came by, as I was breaking my back, cutting trees into chunks, to tell me in atrocious Spanish, that this kind of job was OK for someone like me, but it would not be suitable for a person of his stature. I politely laughed it off, but damn - what a condescending pr*ck. I was a surgeon back in Guatemala... And I speak English, for f*cks's sake."?



Well - that would have made for a better anecdote, anyway...

This whole thread is like some kind of "Twilight Zone" episode, it's actually that weird. Brian, perhaps you might consider some introspection about your life and ideas, and how you express them?

The OP is rambling, muddled and kooky enough, that the fact of the slurs being made in jest wouldn't necessarily be obvious to someone who doesn't follow your posts closely. And you really can't blame folks for not being able to "see" the inner machinations of your mind, Brian.

I got the sarcasm, but then you veered off into the whole tree business. No definitive subject, or point at all, actually. It just seemed to be a kind of weird, incohesive mish-mash of random thoughts and musings. 

Anyway, I just assumed you were drunk....not bigoted or racist. 

(July 31, 2017 at 1:05 am)Thena323 Wrote: The OP is rambling, muddled and kooky enough, that the fact of the slurs being made in jest wouldn't necessarily be obvious to someone who doesn't follow your posts closely. And you really can't blame folks for not being able to "see" the inner machinations of your mind, Brian.

I got the sarcasm, but then you veered off into the whole tree business. No definitive subject, or point at all, actually. It just seemed to be a kind of weird, incohesive mish-mash of random thoughts and musings. 

Anyway, I just assumed you were drunk....not bigoted or racist. 

Holly mother of pearl. If everyone here is going to respond to this thread like that then I don't want to hear any jokes between atheists about how we love Stalin and eat babies. 

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(July 30, 2017 at 2:39 pm)Astonished Wrote: I'm...not quite sure I am grasping the underlying message. So, don't be a bigot? Don't be afraid to admit your fears? Make friends with strangers? We learn something new every day? If I guess it, will you tell me?

They are learning to climb and have access to powertools is what I took from that.

(August 1, 2017 at 1:49 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(July 30, 2017 at 2:39 pm)Astonished Wrote: I'm...not quite sure I am grasping the underlying message. So, don't be a bigot? Don't be afraid to admit your fears? Make friends with strangers? We learn something new every day? If I guess it, will you tell me?

They are learning to climb and have access to powertools is what I took from that.

No no no, they are here to take our jobs. And cause trouble and commit crimes. GEEEZE. Just like when atheists say "that is not true", we are here to have them arrested and burn down their churches. 

You make a lousy bigot and a horrible atheist. I am revoking your membership.

(July 30, 2017 at 10:41 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:

(July 30, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So these "rapists are"..... I mean these "wetbacks are"...... I mean these "Spicks are"..... OH WAIT, I just remembered, I am not a bigot. 

Your mother is a "syphilitic whore"......... OH, WAIT - I just remembered I have nothing but utmost respect for you, sir, and your family.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

(July 30, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Brian37 Wrote: So my Hispanic neighbor I guess hired a friend to cut down some pine trees in his yard. I am fucking deadly afraid of heights. So it works the same cutting down trees all over the world. He has the spike boots and uses a strap to climb to the top and slowly cut chunk by chunk. 

I've been inside all day so all I noticed was the chainsaw not really seeing what he was doing. So I went outside to walk to the gas station to buy some beer, and finally noticed. I don't speak but a very tiny fraction of Spanish but was able to joke with him basically saying, "better you than me." He laughed. 

I hate heights, you cant get me past the 5th floor balcony. I can go higher in a room if it is simply a window with no balcony. So I finally saw him up in the tree on my way back and said, "Tu ok, mi no".

Did your language skills allow you to explain to the man, that you would be unable to perform his job, because of your fear of heights? Or could he perhaps come back home that evening and tell his family - "Some white dude came by, as I was breaking my back, cutting trees into chunks, to tell me in atrocious Spanish, that this kind of job was OK for someone like me, but it would not be suitable for a person of his stature. I politely laughed it off, but damn - what a condescending pr*ck. I was a surgeon back in Guatemala... And I speak English, for f*cks's sake."?



Well - that would have made for a better anecdote, anyway...

Now THAT'S funny.  😁

(August 1, 2017 at 2:18 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:

(July 30, 2017 at 10:41 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Your mother is a "syphilitic whore"......... OH, WAIT - I just remembered I have nothing but utmost respect for you, sir, and your family.

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!




Did your language skills allow you to explain to the man, that you would be unable to perform his job, because of your fear of heights? Or could he perhaps come back home that evening and tell his family - "Some white dude came by, as I was breaking my back, cutting trees into chunks, to tell me in atrocious Spanish, that this kind of job was OK for someone like me, but it would not be suitable for a person of his stature. I politely laughed it off, but damn - what a condescending pr*ck. I was a surgeon back in Guatemala... And I speak English, for f*cks's sake."?



Well - that would have made for a better anecdote, anyway...

Now THAT'S funny.  😁

Exactly how is self deprecating humor condescending? I suck at foreign languages, many people do. I am afraid of heights, many people are. 

I want the PC brigade here to remember this the next time you read a blasphemous post picking on Islam, or Christianity or any religion.

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(July 31, 2017 at 1:05 am)Thena323 Wrote: The OP is rambling, muddled and kooky enough, that the fact of the slurs being made in jest wouldn't necessarily be obvious to someone who doesn't follow your posts closely. And you really can't blame folks for not being able to "see" the inner machinations of your mind, Brian.

I got the sarcasm, but then you veered off into the whole tree business. No definitive subject, or point at all, actually. It just seemed to be a kind of weird, incohesive mish-mash of random thoughts and musings. 

Anyway, I just assumed you were drunk....not bigoted or racist. 

Drunk or not, it still remains all 7 billion of us are the same species. Argue my delivery, that would be a better argument, but I have never lost sight that we are the same species, and as long as I am lucid, I never will. I have no fear at laughing at life, including myself and others. 

I don't ever want my fellow humans to think of our world population as "other" because we are not. But I am not going  to always censor myself because someone doesn't understand the context of my humor or think I should never joke like this. 

I don't care if the intent is good, the game of "never say" is a dangerous one long term on all sides. If we all got to silence someone for offending the other, there is not one individual out of our 7 billion that could not think of something they would rather not hear. 

So again, argue my delivery at best. But that is it. Others got it. You not agreeing with it does not mean I should not say it.

(August 1, 2017 at 2:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(July 31, 2017 at 1:05 am)Thena323 Wrote: The OP is rambling, muddled and kooky enough, that the fact of the slurs being made in jest wouldn't necessarily be obvious to someone who doesn't follow your posts closely. And you really can't blame folks for not being able to "see" the inner machinations of your mind, Brian.

I got the sarcasm, but then you veered off into the whole tree business. No definitive subject, or point at all, actually. It just seemed to be a kind of weird, incohesive mish-mash of random thoughts and musings. 

Anyway, I just assumed you were drunk....not bigoted or racist. 

Drunk or not, it still remains all 7 billion of us are the same species. Argue my delivery, that would be a better argument, but I have never lost sight that we are the same species, and as long as I am lucid, I never will. I have no fear at laughing at life, including myself and others. 

I don't ever want my fellow humans to think of our world population as "other" because we are not. But I am not going  to always censor myself because someone doesn't understand the context of my humor or think I should never joke like this. 

I don't care if the intent is good, the game of "never say" is a dangerous one long term on all sides. If we all got to silence someone for offending the other, there is not one individual out of our 7 billion that could not think of something they would rather not hear. 

So again, argue my delivery at best. But that is it. Others got it. You not agreeing with it does not mean I should not say it.

Brian, WTF are you going on about?  

I clearly said that I "got" the sarcasm/joke in my post above. Did you even bother reading my post before you started yammering and moaning about my disagreeing with you? Hell, the OP didn't even have a point, as far as I'm concerned....So what's there to argue about?

And, yeah...your delivery sucks. Obviously.