Yeah once again I'm sorry for the stupid jokes I posted, should have used my noggin before proceeding with them :damn:. Definately my fault that the thread got derailed and turned into a slagging match as well, once again sorry for the sh**storm I stirred up here. Feel rather bad now.

Don't sweat it man, the storm had been brewing for a long time before you inadvertendly walked into the crossfire. We have all posted stuff we regret afterwards. Let's turn the page.


this one I like.

They are just jokes as far as I am concerned, if anyone was offended, tough ****.
People need to grow thicker skin and learn to take some flak.

OK, so let's start:
You think this attitude makes you look quite tough. But unless your audience is retarded, being offensive just for the sake of being offensive will only make you look like an insecure attention whore. Maybe you need to grow up some more to understand.

heartc...you can not insult another while explaining why you are insulted/offended to begin with. The use of 'retarded' is not in best of forms in chastising someone for being offense when all the same you are offending the audience that just might be retarted but that is besides the point. :hmmm: Where was I.....:oops: Oh yes, lets use shall we say...mentally challenged. :D:O:

Jesus christ. This is not about being tough and I am not being offensive for its own sake, i genuinely laugh at those jokes. What people need to do is not take those things so seriously, realize that humour is one way to cope with tragedy or a way to disarm the bigot by highlighting how ridiculous their position is through laughter. Hell, my own grandmother was deported to siberia, we still laughingly refer to it as a free wilderness vacation. I have lost family in different repressions by different regimes, I crack jokes about those, if you got jokes about what ever group i fall in to, icrack those, I am a non discriminating jokester.

I don't mind jokes about Finns either. We are so ignored in the world stage anyway. :)

But, if anyone was offended by the more offending jokes in the start of this thread, I apologize too. I posted them to see if I could somehow define the border between good and bad humour, it is a pretty vague border sometimes especially in ethnic humour. Two wrongs don't make a right but one wrong is bad too.

antikristuseke,

and yes to an extent I am in favour of 'complete' freedom of speech and humour as a safety valve to use to laugh at the demons of racism etc. If the worlds medias would offer equal criticism and praise to everyone regardless of race and creed etc. then yes, I would be in favour of it. Until that happens attention has to be kept on things such as rights of minorities.

I'm 1/4 Scotch-Irish, 1/4 Ukrainian Pole, and 1/2 British, which makes me a Redneck-Polak-Limey, so about 75% of this thread is about me and I found 100% of it funny.

If we can't laugh at our selves who can we laugh at... :yep:

finally something we agree on:DL

One thing I'd like to add, is that the definition of good or bad humor often depends on the people you're talking with. For example, with most of my friends being white and central-right, I can easily make jokes about moroccans, turks etc. (just to name the most prominent minorities in the Netherlands) and most of them would find it good humor. If I had lots of morrocan/turkish friends most of them would probably consider it bad humor.

I guess with so many different nationalities/races/whatever here on subsim, one has to be extra careful not to offend somebody.
(that said, it's very hard to offend absolutely nobody in this world if you make jokes about these things, but I'd say, keep it to a respectable level - e.g. when talking about jews don't make jokes about the holocaust:salute:)

As a strong friend of Israel im sorry if my postings have offended you, not intended.:oops:

nothing wrong with your jokes, HT. Let's not go to the other pc extreme. :ping:

I'm innocent of these charges your Honor.

All I posted was a fart joke. though it was admittedly disrespectful of my fellow Americans from the great state of West Virginia. Of course none of them can actually read, so it no harm no foul unless one of you bigmouths drops a dime on me... :-?

Subsim is staying classy i see.

Utterly tastless. The thread should be removed and the original poster banned. Complaint registered.

Hey, as far as contributions to mankind, I challenge any single group of humans to contribute as much as the Jewish people have:
YOUR life is better because they exist, be you American, German, French, Russian, African, Egyptian or Syrian. Making jokes about running porno movies backwoards to see the hooker give the money back reveals much more about you than it does about them. No people group in the world has contributed as much to the welfare and happiness of mankind as a whole as the Jews.

I don't know. If you remove this thread, you should also remove the Obama Jokes thread, cause it might hurt fans of his. You could also close [enter random joke thread] because some of the jokes in it might offend someone. Any joke with a nationality/race/belief/whatever in it has the potential to be found offensive.

That said, some of the jokes in this thread were clearly over the line. I think however this has to be taken up with the persons who made these jokes. Maybe delete one or two posts, but not close the whole thread.

Just my 2 cents:up:

I think the Swedes have done quite ok in the Nobel-front, considering that there is even less of them. That is if you think there is absolutely nothing political about the awarding of the Nobel prices.

And to think of a certain religion as one 'people' is a bit wrong, IMO. You might as well think of mormons or scientologists as one 'people'.

But as a general rule, if something isn't pretty soon removed from Subsim Radioroom, it's actually 'kosher'. :)

OK,

I have decided to close the thread for the time being until Neal gets back and see what he says.