ME TOO...
Reality Check We need to talk - and be able to talk - about ‘offence’
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Bloo
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- Sep 16, 2021
Will you settle for a grimace?
:-[]
(What...no grimace emoji ???)
Now THIS looks like gas face.
Damn it's so tempting...
Bloo
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- Sep 16, 2021
Well...I could try for something witty. Yet I'm not enough of a cunning linguist to pull it off.
runs from the banhammer
You are a bad woman.Go on, go on, go on
Finally. Something in the snack aisle I like.
You can't just have one bite.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Hannah F
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- Jan 18, 2020
Yes you can. Click on "media" then choose your GIF source and click on that (I usually choose GIPHY). When you've chosen your GIF, click "copy" then ctrl-V it into your thread.Kinda sad I can't insert a gif in here.
Taste the rainbow. No, really. Taste it.
I have so much regret over all the missed opportunities.
Bloo
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- Sep 16, 2021
It's gone all the way down.I hope @Andy D isnt offended his thread has taken a downward turn
- Nov 10, 2017
And very very entertaining this hot afternoon.
- Mar 1, 2020
Would it be wrong were I to ask: "With meat and two veg?" Sorry, I really tried hard not to type that but my ingrained "Carry On" genes just wouldn't be silenced.
On second thoughts, maybe I should've suggested a side salad.
Eva Ulian
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- Nov 16, 2018
I clearly remember commenting with regards to this tittle "Protestant and Perverts": "If I were a protestant I would not pick up that book". I believe nothing is barred when using humour but it has to be done with sensibility- For example, everyone laughs if someone is deaf but not if they are blind.
Bloo
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- Sep 16, 2021
Ahem. And now you don't?@Jonny ! I'm *shocked*! Considering I always equated you with veritable priesthood
MattScho
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- Dec 3, 2020
Perverted protestants might pick it up.
Bigger point, why is everyone laughing at the deaf person? Is it because everyone knows the deaf person can't hear the laughter?
MattScho
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- Dec 3, 2020
And Izuku wins the thread
Bloo
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- Sep 16, 2021
I'm neither PC, nor a fan of Wokeism. The only things that truly insult me is when words are put into my mouth, or I've been dismissed. I think the rise of woke culture is largely a reaction to these.
We've all read books where minorities sound like ridiculous stereotypes. Poofy gay characters with a lisp, thuggish black characters spouting ebonics, et-cetera ad-nausiating. Real people got tired of stereotypes putting words into their mouths, and motivations behind their actions.
Then there's dismissal. If you want to see a modern example in print, may I suggest looking at recent Dilbert comics. I don't know where I was when Scott Adams went off his trolly. But I do know he replaced the ink in his comic's pen with bile. Unfortunately, bitter != funny.
Of course, dismissal isn't limited to print. The needs of entire ethnic, racial, religious, and gender groups were not taken seriously for a long time. The people who complain loudest over wokeness completely ignore how years of dismissal got us here. You can shut people up for only so long before they decide to act.
I could say a lot more about this but my lunchbreak is over.
We've all read books where minorities sound like ridiculous stereotypes. Poofy gay characters with a lisp, thuggish black characters spouting ebonics, et-cetera ad-nausiating. Real people got tired of stereotypes putting words into their mouths, and motivations behind their actions.
Then there's dismissal. If you want to see a modern example in print, may I suggest looking at recent Dilbert comics. I don't know where I was when Scott Adams went off his trolly. But I do know he replaced the ink in his comic's pen with bile. Unfortunately, bitter != funny.
Of course, dismissal isn't limited to print. The needs of entire ethnic, racial, religious, and gender groups were not taken seriously for a long time. The people who complain loudest over wokeness completely ignore how years of dismissal got us here. You can shut people up for only so long before they decide to act.
I could say a lot more about this but my lunchbreak is over.
- Nov 10, 2017
- Mar 1, 2020
Bless you, my child. Take 3 Hail Marys and a slice of cake.@Jonny ! I'm *shocked*! Considering I always equated you with veritable priesthood
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