Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to ShawnG :

I'm glad I grew up in an area where Pizza Hut was never a serious choice.  
 

Edit, forgot a meme:

I keep forgetting we live in a post joke society. 

From what I've heard, that wasn't the only thing Kennedy was famous for having blown.  

JFK had a massive collection of Roots superchargers.

volvoclearinghouse said:

From what I've heard, that wasn't the only thing Kennedy was famous for having blown.  

I have to say, I'm a big fan of it too.

Steve_Jones said:

And I repeat: no one had to be offended by that post for it to have been a bad idea. But keep hanging your hat on that, by all means.

Dark humor absolutely has its place, but it has to actually be funny to be worth the moral discomfort.

There wasn't anything humorous about the post with the crying kid on his back.  That doesn't mean I was offended by it.  It just means it wasn't funny, and even worse, there was nothing to be learned from it.

In reply to Duke :

I never said you were offended

5 people gave it a thumbs up, so someone thought it was funny

I am not the one that posted it

its not all about you

lighten up Francis

May I say that the 'child abuse' meme defence is a representation of what is currently so wrong with our socioty.  This is the land of the free with protected free speach, the problem is too many people are interpreting the right to free speach as the right to be an ass.  I scrolled past the meme as simply non funny at first.  But as someone has come along and pointed our a personal issue with the meme, and severl other people have posted that it's simply not funny.  The decent human thing to do is quietly remove it, preferably with a little sorry note.  Instead the OP is doubling down and implying snowflakiness on the part of those who are upset.  When did free speach turn into the right to just be an obstinante jerk in the face of the vast majority saying it's not cool?  Is it the OP's right to have posted it? Yes, unless the sight owners take it down, which is absolutly their right.  Is it cool to leave it up after several posts explaining why it's inapropriate?  No, it's not cool, and it's even less cool to try and defend it by criticizing those who've politly pointed out issues with dog poop memes.

To the OP, please note, we all step over the line at times.  I have here in the past, normally with politics.  But I belive that every time I have, I've come back and posted an appology after the fact.

Correction.  It was not the OP that posted the defense, sorry.  Deliberatly not posting screen names though.

It wasn't a big deal the 4 other times it's been posted in this thread. But is a big deal now? Sure ok.

Hope none of you come across any actual dark humor or truly off color jokes on the internet or in real life anywhere.

It's very hard to be funny without offending someone.  If I chose to point out every post that I felt was in bad taste, I would do nothing else all day every day.  Sometimes it's best just to move on.

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

I am a staunch believer in the right to free speech, even for asses.  It's well worth allowing people to be asses in order to leave the definition of "ass" open for all to interpret at their own level.

I'm not making it "all about me".  I'm just pointing out my opinion, shared by numerous others, that it wasn't funny and maybe the OP should have thought twice before posting it.  Which is also protected by the right to free speech. 

Take it down, don't take it down, I personally don't give a tin E36 M3 one way or the other.  But don't get butthurt about people you are making fun of for getting butthurt, just because they disagree with you.