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| From | "Gary Littleton" <gary@garylittleton.com> |
| Subject | Re: Objection Overruled |
| Date | Tue, 23 May 2006 12:37:47 -0400 |
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Somehow I missed the tasteless joke thread. Now I feel left out. I didn't
even know who Heather was, so I went searching for "heather mills leg" and
came up with this article that nearly made me choke with laughter reading
it, and it's not even supposed to be funny. So I guess I wouldn't have hit
the delete key.
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/61252004.htm
Sometimes its good to laugh to balance the real horror of things. I don't
see how you can be on the internet without getting bombarded with tasteless
spam and other stuff. It's a fact that just because you consider something
stupid and unnecessary don't expect someone else to feel the same. Quickly
delete the offensive material and go about your business.
Cheers,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Bennett
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:50 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Objection Overruled
It's not about suffering, and in the scheme of things, it really doesn't
mean much, sure.
But I find it instructive that everyone who says, 'just hit the delete key'
fails to explain why these posts about Heather Mills's prosthetic leg were
worthwhile to being with. Instead, the response is just to be dismissive.
Couldn't folks just acknowledge that this was stupid and unnecessary?
Mike Bennett
--- Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Michael Bennett wrote:
>
> > That's not the point - I wasn't offended by the
> jokes,
> > so much as they were lame and not funny and didn't really add to the
> > discussion of pop music. The solution of hitting the delete button
> > doesn't
> work, if
> > the heading doesn't indicate a tasteless unfunny
> joke
> > is coming -- maybe this could be indicated in the subject line...
>
> Do we need to slap a warning label on everything now? How much damage
> does one *really* suffer by "having" to read an offensive joke, let
> alone one that's merely tasteless and unfunny and not about pop music?
>
> Hence....the delete key. (I mean, I suppose we could add [OT] to all
> not-entirely-on-topic posts, but..)
>
>
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