Originally posted by widgetLook, your ponderousness was funny at first, but this is getting tired: try learning some grammar, acquaint yourself with a copy of Fowler and leave smileys to people who actually understand how to use them.
I didn't miss it 😞 😞 😞 It wasn't very funny 😕 In fact, it seemed to me to be based on a very tired pun and vague racist/tv stereotyping.
Dr. Bundolo's Pandemonium Medicine Show, a CBC radio farce, featured The Lone Deranger and his Faithful Friend, Toronto 😲
At least there's a modicum of locally idiomatic spoofing originality in that particular version 😕 Not to be confused with your universal idiocy.
Since you insist on digging a hole for yourself, let me laboriously explain it to you: the joke is tired and purposefully so - that was the point you missed. It dates back so far your parochial idiom has no relevance whatsoever - once again, much like yourself.
Originally posted by AmauroteSimply put: your attempt at humour was the kind of softly veiled racism that sleazily encultures entire generations of TV-watching drones 😞 Over to you, Kemo Sabe 😉
Look, your ponderousness was funny at first, but this is getting tired: try learning some grammar, acquaint yourself with a copy of Fowler and leave smileys to people who actually understand how to use them.
Since you insist on digging a hole for yourself, let me laboriously explain it to you: the joke is tired and purposefully so - that was the p ...[text shortened]... s back so far your parochial idiom has no relevance whatsoever - once again, much like yourself.
"A scholar from the University of California at Berkley thought that Kemo Sabe came from the Yavapai, a dialect spoken in Arizona and meant "one who is white," since the Ranger always wore a white shirt and trousers in the earliest publicity photos. The Yavapai term is "kinmasaba" or "kinmasabeh"."
I hate to burst your bubble again, emoticon-boy, but I don't own a TV. I can see you're obtuse, but that doesn't justify the creation of a smiley idiolalia all of your own.
And no, while I accept your implicit admission that you missed the point everyone else got a page and a day ago, your desperate attempts to impose cut-and-paste judgements on it are sadly lacking. Maybe I'd pay more attention if you learned to spell "Gandhi" correctly.
Originally posted by AmauroteOh! 😲 I'm all a-gassed 😞 Tucking subtle redneck racist smears into "jokes" makes them funny? 😕 This is exactly how children are taught to judge "different" people as inferior.
I hate to burst your bubble again, emoticon-boy, but I don't own a TV. I can see you're obtuse, but that doesn't justify the creation of a smiley idiolalia all of your own.
And no, while I accept your implicit admission that you missed the point everyone else got a page and a day ago, your desperate attempts to impose cut-and-paste judgements on it are sadly lacking. Maybe I'd pay more attention if you learned to spell "Gandhi" correctly.
Originally posted by rbmorrisWhat appears to you to be fighting, Arby, is actually imho an attempt to defenstrate subtle but implicit sexism and racism 😞
You need to tone down all the fighting. You're becoming the Geraldo Rivera of the forums.
😀 I firmly believe that tolerating such "quasi-benign" joking comments and behaviours is passive encouragement.
And I also believe that this is one of the ways we end up hating each other for differences that really don't matter biologically. 😛
If you are comfortable tolerating and/or encouraging discrimination by colour, gender or ethnicity, that's your problem, again imho...
I've heard of this Geraldo Rivera guy - doesn't he make lots of money? 🙄 Who does he target? 😕 When does the money start coming in?
Originally posted by widgetPersonally, I don't "hate" anyone on this site. Exchanging (relatively) good-natured barbs is all it is (at least for me).
What appears to you to be fighting, Arby, is actually imho an attempt to defenstrate subtle but implicit sexism and racism 😞
😀 I firmly believe that tolerating such "quasi-benign" joking comments and behaviours is passive encouragement.
And I also believe that this is one of the ways we end up hating each other for differences that really don't mat ...[text shortened]... money? 🙄 Who does [b]he target? 😕 When does the money start coming in?[/b]
I don't think you or anyone else is going to make a significant change. You're certainly welcome to try, but I think you're wasting your time.
Just relax, have fun and play a little chess.
Note:
Geraldo was a TV talkshow host / muck-racker /attention-whore. He cried "wolf" so many times that he became a sad parody of himself and all but disappeared from the public eye.
Originally posted by rbmorrisIt's not the "hate" on this site that bothers me, Arby 🙄 It's the ability to hate that we casually upload into young minds in "jokes" and innuendo.
Personally, I don't "hate" anyone on this site. Exchanging (relatively) good-natured barbs is all it is (at least for me).
I don't think you or anyone else is going to make a significant change. You're certainly welcome to try, but I think you're wasting your time.
Just relax, have fun and play a little chess.
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Geraldo was a TV tal ...[text shortened]... imes that he became a sad parody of himself and all but disappeared from the public eye.[/b]
You are allowed to waste your time as you see fit 😉 Me, too 😀 I'm having fun, btw, and playing about 30 more games of chess at the moment than I'm likely to win 😏
Originally posted by widgetAnd yet you use a class-based pejorative like "redneck" almost reflexively. I'd say you have more to learn about prejudice than anyone else here.
What appears to you to be fighting, Arby, is actually imho an attempt to defenstrate subtle but implicit sexism and racism 😞
😀 I firmly believe that tolerating such "quasi-benign" joking comments and behaviours is passive encouragement.
And I also believe that this is one of the ways we end up hating each other for differences that really don't mat ...[text shortened]... money? 🙄 Who does [b]he target? 😕 When does the money start coming in?[/b]
As for satire, you're no more satirical than a kid who can't handle cursive - those inane smileys saturate your every post.