[}{arlequin]

Originally Posted by SilverStreak

I'm far more concerned with real kids on real playgrounds with HIV solely because of where they were born than your opinion of me or the cause I chose to support.

This just isn't something I'm going to joke about

again, i think you're taking the 'cause' issue a little too deep here while missing that the beginning of this was a joke aimed at you. i *have* no opinion of you or your cause whatsoever. nor did i begin to make fun of it. the target was (is?) you and you alone. or rather, your touchy side which has been documented here in the past. (thanks for playing your part perfectly btw)

the (red) part was just an opening that was utilized to poke you. it just as well could've been anything else. this isn't a commentary on anything. just a joke at your expense. where anyone else would've recognized that and maybe responded w/ something in kind, you took it upon yourself to start exhorting what your sticker stood for and chastising all around you. yeah, we know. the cause and the disease. but.it.wasn't.about.that.

as dr. k said, lighten up francis.






would it make you feel any better if i said that i own a pair of these? well, i do. can we be fwends again?

[dweymer]

OMG pull that freaking string....on this thread.....glad i was involved in such a derailment....i musta eaten the instigator edition of wheaties..

[SilverStreak]

Originally Posted by }{arlequin

again, i think you're taking the 'cause' issue a little too deep here while missing that the beginning of this was a joke aimed at you. i *have* no opinion of you or your cause whatsoever. nor did i begin to make fun of it. the target was (is?) you and you alone. or rather, your touchy side which has been documented here in the past. (thanks for playing your part perfectly btw)

the (red) part was just an opening that was utilized to poke you. it just as well could've been anything else. this isn't a commentary on anything. just a joke at your expense. where anyone else would've recognized that and maybe responded w/ something in kind, you took it upon yourself to start exhorting what your sticker stood for and chastising all around you. yeah, we know. the cause and the disease. but.it.wasn't.about.that.

as dr. k said, lighten up francis.






would it make you feel any better if i said that i own a pair of these? well, i do. can we be fwends again?

It warms me deeply that you bought the shoes but I gotta disagree with you assessment that this was originally directed at me at the outset. It certainly went that way. And why is (RED) an opening to make fun of someone?

DrK posted BUGGER(RED), which should have actually red BUGGE(RED) btw, which was the only word in his post which clearly implied that the (RED) campaign and the HIV affliction was somehow a gay thing regardless of his bs backpedalling. Tasteless and rude. Not to mention that the constant gay jokes from DrK are just old. Then Kurt and Lupin chimed in without any direct knowledge and blasted the (RED) campaign as a marketing ploy and basically a fraud. Those posts were not directed at me but at the cause. If I'd put a huge pink ribbon for breast cancer on the car would I have heard so much shit from you people? I doubt it.

As much as you would like to deride my "predictable" reaction you may all deride yourselves as having a very predictable and opposite reaction. Not everything is a goddam joke. So if you wish to hurl insults at me and my reaction hurl them back as your reaction was just as predictable in the other direction. Who would have thought that a snarky comment and a smug holier than thou attitude would come from the dorkiratti? You are just too full of yourselves.

Ask yourself this: is it deserved? Do I deserve to get jokes and insults because I put a sticker on my car regardless of what it is for? Would you have ridiculed me or the cause I support if it had been a different cause? What cause is off limits to you as far as jokes are concerned. Do you poke fun at everyone with a breast cancer license plate on your drive to work for gloating? Want the number of the make-a-wish or autism speaks car owners so you can give them some shit? Care for me to enumerate any hardship or suffering I've experienced in my life as fodder for your amusement? Is the collective age of the board over or under 12?

Nice photoshop, kind sums you up. I can think of no more predictable reaction from }{ than a juvenile picture. But since it's }{ its ok right?

And finally, why on earth can't a guy have an opinion, believe in a cause that helps people and try to promote it (kind of a liberal cause that all you asshats should be trumpeting btw) without running the risk of being labeled and ridiculed?

Awaiting smug response . . . .

[HoodPin]

Hunt......your points are well taken. But remember....this is "Dorkiphus"...not "Meet the Press".

[roundel]

Son takes his father to the doctor. Doctor gives them the bad news that the father is dying of cancer. Father tells the son that he has had a good long life and wants to stop at the bar on the way home to celebrate it.

While at the bar, the father sees several of his friends. He tells them that he is dying of AIDS.

When the friends leave the son asks, "Dad, you are dying of cancer. Why did you tell them that you are dying of AIDS?"

The father replies, "I don't want them fuching your mother after I'm gone!"

[SilverStreak]

Originally Posted by AJ986S

Hunt......your points are well taken. But remember....this is "Dorkiphus"...not "Meet the Press".

Thank you Tony, believe me I get that. It seems as if Dorkiphus has become a group of sociopaths with a callous disregard for human life. Saying "it's Dorkiphus" doesn't always cut it as an excuse. God forbid someone around here actually have an opinion and defend it against the shadow internet puppetmasters. I shudder just thinking about the murky depths from which they arise to administer their abuse from behind their computer screens. Not really.


While I realize that English is a second language for }{, there is still no juxtaposition of words that can justify poking fun at an epidemic that has eliminated generations of children from the planet.

and Bob By virtue of where we live you may consider that there is a very very good chance that you know someone whose mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband or wife is dying of AIDS. Can you respect them enough not to make jokes about it? If you knew someone dying of cancer would you walk up and make a cancer joke? Why don't you wait in the ER and ridicule the families of heart attack victims? You work downtown right? Hang out in front of GW Hospital and make fun of all the breast cancer survivors who have had mastectomies.

[HoodPin]

I love the perspective of a normal "Joe" who died recently. His son reported that while his dad was in the hospital dying of cancer, one his last words was "I can't believe that Keith Richards outlived me."

[roundel]

Originally Posted by SilverStreak

and Bob By virtue of where we live you may consider that there is a very very good chance that you know someone whose mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband or wife is dying of AIDS. Can you respect them enough not to make jokes about it? If you knew someone dying of cancer would you walk up and make a cancer joke? Why don't you wait in the ER and ridicule the families of heart attack victims? You work downtown right? Hang out in front of GW Hospital and make fun of all the breast cancer survivors who have had mastectomies.

I would not go to a funeral or hospital and make such jokes, but this is not a funeral parlor or hospital. Some situations require a different level of decorum than others. I read the culture of this site to be one where topics other than race, religion, politics, and porn are open. Some find it a welcome break from the tight rules of political correctness. If you find it offensive, be offended and vocal about it. It serves to further entertain those that enjoy the irreverent humor around here. Everyone will die of something. Being offended by jokes about death will not lengthen anyone's life. Being offended rarely does anything positive.

[Noah]

how did that tampon string pass tech?

[SilverStreak]

Originally Posted by roundel

I would not go to a funeral or hospital and make such jokes, but this is not a funeral parlor or hospital. Some situations require a different level of decorum than others. I read the culture of this site to be one where topics other than race, religion, politics, and porn are open. Some find it a welcome break from the tight rules of political correctness. If you find it offensive, be offended and vocal about it. It serves to further entertain those that enjoy the irreverent humor around here. Everyone will die of something. Being offended by jokes about death will not lengthen anyone's life. Being offended rarely does anything positive.

What exactly is the positive result of offending?

In a thread I started about a design on my car that turn into a discussion of a cause I believe in, WTF is the positive side of offending me, what I believe in and the very sad plight of those effected by AIDS?

Your premise is it's OK to offend but not OK to be offended? You seek to willfully offend me about something I believe in but I'm not allowed to be offended? Why are you right and I'm wrong?

That's idiotic.

The fact that you would make fun of someone's disease or cause of death behind their back says a lot about you. Just because you are not at the funeral doesn't make it OK. It doesn't become funny just because the wake is over.

Again, no amount of internet logic can justify what you are making fun of. None.

"It's just Dorkiphus" is a very weak attempt at an excuse.

Again, why can't a guy have a belief and support a cause without a bunch of shit from purportedly a group of adults? Seriously, grow up.