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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