BusRaker said:Quit being infrastructurist
Am I allowed or not allowed to laugh at this joke?
BusRaker said:Quit being infrastructurist
No, it was a bridge too far.( . ) ( . ) and (_!_) said:
Am I allowed or not allowed to laugh at this joke?
BusRaker said:Quit being infrastructurist
Hendu for Kutch said:
If you only knew the things my grandparents used to say about Haiti's infrastructure. I'm at least tolerant of it.
Doug Beerabelli said:I have it on good authority the apartment building Lidle flew into had a Haitian bellboy.
Err, bellman.
Doh!
Shelterdog said:
Not to derail this thrilling conversation -and I'm sure it's been brought up before--but Lidle's plane ran into the apartment of Kathleen Caronna, a New York celebrity who a decade earlier had been almost killed when a Macy's Parade Balloon crashed into a lamppost that landed on her.
I would say that's like getting hit by lightning twice although NYY players die in small plane crashes with surprising frequency.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15254176/ns/us_news-life/t/plane-hit-home-woman-hurt-macys-parade/
Not to derail this thrilling conversation -and I'm sure it's been brought up before--but Lidle's plane ran into the apartment of Kathleen Caronna, a New York celebrity who a decade earlier had been almost killed when a Macy's Parade Balloon crashed into a lamppost that landed on her.
Buster Olney the Lonely said:I wish I could snap my fingers and we'd get back to the topic at hand.
Does this balance out the national-infrastructurism of the thread or do we need to add some Minnesota bridge collapse references?BigSoxFan said:Yeah, we're getting off track quicker than an Amtrak train.
He usually takes a hands-off approach to Internet comments.canderson said:I wish JPP were able to give this thread a thumbs up.
I doubt he even has a computer or smart phone. He's really not into digital stuff.singaporesoxfan said:He usually takes a hands-off approach to Internet comments.
Digicide.Marciano490 said:Is the medical term fingerbanging or fingerblasting?
This however I found very offensive in the context, a baby with a firework, no protective gear nothing. C'mon manBergs said:
ALiveH said:Some of my best friends are Haitian schools.
dcmissle said:It's not just this thread. Our mods have been remarkably hands-off in BBTL.
It's akin to old fashioned blood letting to balance the humors.
Paging soxfan121, soxfan121 to the courtesy desk.Kenny F'ing Powers said:For those of you wondering, yes, it's a conscious decision that this thread has been left open.
It's a terrible, wonderful thread.
Of course, someone will ruin it for the rest of us soon enough.
I think the problem here is that there were some conclusory assertions of racism but no one actually made a cogent argument to back it up. If you're going to make a claim of racism you've got to back it up.joe dokes said:I never like it when these discussions get all meta -- carping about racist overtones and such.
TheShynessClinic said:Paging soxfan121, soxfan121 to the courtesy desk.
soxfan121 said:While I find your racist humor unfunny, it should be noted that your racist humor has not been censored or otherwise removed. It is important that the community have discussions of what is and is not appropriate and that requires not just an object to discuss - your racist joke - but also the reactions of the audience to your racial joke. This way, we as a community get to decide standards for how members are expected to comport themselves in the future.
What is not helpful is your cowardly and sniveling response to the criticism of your fellow members. Your attempt to frame those who don't prefer your brand of racist humor as intolerant is disingenuous. If you're gonna make racist Haitian jokes, you should be willing to take criticism for them. If not, you suck, in more ways than just being a guy who tells racist jokes.
No thread is a "designated safe speech" thread but we do have published community standards and nearly 20 years of members deciding what they want in their forums. The people, here, thought your racist joke sucked. For several different reasons. Yet, you choose to reply with the monumentally unfunny "PC police" crap and double down with the notion that you - the racist joke teller - are actually the aggrieved party.
Nope. You don't get to play it this way. You have every right to make your unfunny racist jokes and members have every right to call you a suck poster and/or dumbass in response.
This is not grade school and I don't care if you think the people who think your racist
Jokes wee unfunny are being mean to you. LOL BOO HOO, asshole. Grow the fuck up. If you want to play in the racist jokes end if the pool, toughen up and don't come crying for the protection from the PC police you criticize and invited. You fucking suck.
Doug Beerabelli said:I have it on good authority the apartment building Lidle flew into had a Haitian bellboy.
Err, bellman.
Doh!
lambeau said:Apparently JPP transferred to Burn ICU at Jackson Memorial Burn Center (UMIami), underwent skin grafting to his palm yesterday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/giants-haven-injured-pierre-paul-article-1.2284546
Well played, sir or lady.singaporesoxfan said:
Some day his prints will come.
Valek123 said:This is a shinning example of why we just can't have fun things anymore,
lambeau said:Broward County Sheriff's office is not investigating since incident occured in Palm.