Gilbert Gottfried: Funniest man alive

jon via chi wondering why there's no WHITE history month

Where in the fuck did this come from?

in terms of emotional investment in the tragedy being made light of, the onion's 9/11 article remains a high watermark for this style of humor i think (eg "life resembles bad jerry bruckheimer film", "woman bakes american flag cake", etc)

Jon, you did introduce gendered insults into the conversation. It's fair to call you out on that.

article = issue

the jokes-as-catharsis argument mainly falls down because this particular trauma has nothing to do with him and he has no emotional tension to purge. i would also imagine that people who have been genuinely affected by this disaster would fail to be cleansed of their trauma by reading his tweets, since they are lazy unfunny shite. if you have to be that guy who gets in there first with the jokes at a time like this, you should really have the decency to put some effort in.

jon doggie you need to make yourself some chamomile tea and go for a walk

man lotta trainwrecks around here lately

xxxxxxxxpost dorian otm basically

jon is this more or less offensive to you than the jokes about kevin smith choking on a whopper

Funny about people offended by sexist terms throwing around "retarded" though.

oh i didnt realize you were actually a retarded person

you did call an actual woman a bitch tho

you didn't realize that?!

if u keep trying to reach the moral high ground you will definitely get there, kiu

keep striving, its within reach!!!!

take it somewhere else guys

gbx otm

^^^^yes

or just stop it

"its"

now i am offended

I think these jokes are meant to be unfunny. If they were funny, they wouldn't be so offensive. If the joke was funny enough to make Jon laugh I don't think he calls anyone out on it

Just trying to figure out why roxy had to start another dogpile on me when I hadn't posted itt thread for quite some time.

Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the Gilbert Gottfried thread!

because there wasnt enough comment on you suddenly calling my friend a bitch for no reason imo

I realize that was out of line, but why is it okay for her to call me a dick in like three straight posts?

I think my underfloor heating is broken... I turned the thermostat up but I just saw my cat driving round on a Zamboni

^ insensitive hypocaust joke

dick is not a gendered insult you silly goose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHmXw49t_v0

Oh man, if only words could somehow be used to disparage specific genders. That would make language really powerful, huh?!

ok i had to look up hypocaust but i bet i would've lol'd and or groaned if i'd known what it was beforehand

Fuck off Whiney.

this is seriously like one second away from jon saying "but he called me a cracker"

really these pile-ups are so boring

I realize that was out of line, but why is it okay for her to call me a dick in like three straight posts?

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:19 PM (1 minute ago)

do you really think the 2 are equivalent?

Jon/via/chi and roxymuzak are out of line in their choices of insults. I acknowledge upfront that roxymuzak doens't care what I think whatsoever.

NO I DON'T. Jesus. I'm not equating the two.

maybe it's just me but i think a dogpile should be.... sexier

just think of gilbert gottfried

dogpile on a shagpile

ILX etiquette explained:

"dick" = acceptable
"retarted sexist idiot" = acceptable
jokes about tsunamis = acceptable
"bitch" = whoa now cowboy, don't go there

giving u credit and deciding u r a man who doesnt own dogs xposts

spelling "retarded" wrong also acceptable

this is boring. i'm bored now.

you uh, how you say, don't get it

tbh "retarted" would probably be ok

1st GIS for sexy dogpile, lol @ guys in background

http://image48.webshots.com/48/1/8/38/364310838htWFvQ_ph.jpg

although idk "tart" is sexually charged so

jon via chi etiquette:

"bitch" = acceptable

"i don't like this car commercial" = IM SICK OF THE NEGATIVITY ON THIS BOARD WHY DONT WE BAN THIS ASSHOLE ALREADY BAW

the jokes-as-catharsis argument mainly falls down because this particular trauma has nothing to do with him and he has no emotional tension to purge. i would also imagine that people who have been genuinely affected by this disaster would fail to be cleansed of their trauma by reading his tweets, since they are lazy unfunny shite. if you have to be that guy who gets in there first with the jokes at a time like this, you should really have the decency to put some effort in.

― peligro, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:13 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I mean, you're dead wrong. Look at all the people on the earthquake thread talking about how sickened/shaken (heh) they are by this, most of them having zero practical connection to the tragedy besides the ability to empathize with human suffering - this is clearly something that's traumatic to deal with even for people who aren't involved.

The stuff that the Family Guy writer said or the FB stuff about Pearl Harbor disgust me because you can tell that they reflect real beliefs on some level, but what Gottfried did was just like a pure jokemaking exercise. Maybe that's why I find it so persistently difficult to accept it as monstrous and offensive.

I called you a dick once for singling me out when I was trying to be helpful in the first place. I used the term once more when defending my position. I didn't say anything that anyone else hadn't said and I was, I think, a lot nicer about it than some and yet you chose to attack me. I'm sorry I called you a dick and admit that wasn't very nice but I only did so after you called me out for something I didn't even do and for misinterpreting what I was trying to say in the first place.

Whiney, are you still that butthurt about the star wars thread?