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Title: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nemesis6 on March 14, 2010, 05:22:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJFkiASYFTA
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Blue Lion on March 14, 2010, 05:55:41 pm
Have you made a thread where you don't complain about something?
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 14, 2010, 05:58:44 pm
I don't get it.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Blue Lion on March 14, 2010, 06:22:34 pm
I don't either really. I was just being snarky.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nemesis6 on March 14, 2010, 06:42:37 pm
I don't get it.


You guys are taking this way too seriously, it's just comedy.  :)
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Bobboau on March 14, 2010, 06:45:06 pm
are you sure? usually comedy is somewhat comedic.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nemesis6 on March 14, 2010, 06:46:24 pm
are you sure?

Quite sure.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Scotty on March 14, 2010, 10:57:57 pm
Domestic abuse is never funny.  Ever.  Making light of it is a bad idea.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: mxlm on March 14, 2010, 11:08:11 pm
You guys are taking this way too seriously, it's just comedy.  :)
"I don't get it," is taking something too seriously?

Incidentally, when one makes a joke and one's audience considers it offensive and in poor taste, it's the height of jackassery to tell the audience, "lol, grow thicker skins." One doesn't get to decide what other people are offended by.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Mongoose on March 14, 2010, 11:12:50 pm
So...anyone else up for that moratorium on drive-by link-postings now?
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: The E on March 14, 2010, 11:15:53 pm
Haven't heard of it before, but I like the idea.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: BloodEagle on March 14, 2010, 11:17:40 pm
The only part of that video that was even remotely amusing was the response of the person on the phone.

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So...anyone else up for that moratorium on drive-by link-postings now?

Yes.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Dilmah G on March 15, 2010, 03:30:10 am
That video is not funny, at all.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: zookeeper on March 15, 2010, 03:36:15 am
Rather boring. I didn't spot anything particularly funny in that either.

Somehow, just somehow, I get the feeling that you find it funny solely because it's politically incorrect and wanted to post it only because you get a kick out of getting the response you knew it'd get.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Dilmah G on March 15, 2010, 03:39:23 am
Heh. Domestic violence as a joke in conversation between the boys is funny. A song about domestic violence mocking a woman being kicked on the ground and bleeding, is not.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: General Battuta on March 15, 2010, 03:41:12 am
Heh. Domestic violence as a joke in conversation between the boys is funny.

Can't say I can agree.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 15, 2010, 04:57:59 am
Really depends on whose making joke...
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Dilmah G on March 15, 2010, 05:10:04 am
I didn't mean,
"Argggh, the girlfriend's doing her make-up for another half-hour. >_<"
"'Aye man, you should ****in' beat her head in until she bleeds all over the ****in' carpet and shiiiiiiit!"

Because that's just plain creepy.

Something more along the lines of

"Hey man, is it alright if we wait here another hour? My girl's out with her mates. >_<"
"Pfft, slap her!" *tongue firmly in cheek*
"**** you, man." *tongue is also firmly in cheek*

Regardless, actual domestic violence isn't funny whichever way you put it, and especially not in the way the video puts it.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Black Wolf on March 15, 2010, 06:04:43 am
So...anyone else up for that moratorium on drive-by link-postings now?

No, as this would stop the good ones as well. I mean, what did you expect when you opened a thread with this title?

Domestic violence as a joke in conversation between the boys is funny.

Indeed. Context is key, but they're in the same vein as killing hooker jokes and stuff.

As for the video, not really funny, and especially annoying that there were 38 seconds of credits before the video and 38 seconds after it. On a 200 second video.


Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Mongoose on March 15, 2010, 04:39:30 pm
So...anyone else up for that moratorium on drive-by link-postings now?

No, as this would stop the good ones as well.
But how many "good ones" have there actually been in recent memory?  And how many of those have had to fight to become good threads despite a paucity of commentary in the opening post, as opposed to benefiting from a well-constructed argument in the first place?

On another forum I frequent, there's a modding policy which states that, if a thread's original poster essentially asks a one-line question or links something without stating their own opinion in some depth, said thread will almost certainly be locked.  This may seem overly-harsh, but it has the effect of making people start a discussion themselves, instead of doing the posting equivalent of throwing pasta noodles at the wall and seeing if they stick.  The latter is all well and good for the occasional gag article that won't engender much more than a "lol" response, but otherwise, it's been my experience that threads without that initial strong foundation are the ones which most easily turn into flat-out flame wars.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Klaustrophobia on March 15, 2010, 05:51:24 pm
all offensiveness aside, that video wasn't funny anyway.  i second the drive-by moratorium. (sp?)
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: mxlm on March 15, 2010, 06:09:57 pm
Meh. I watched the video now.

It was boring and offensive. I didn't even realize that was possible.

Thanks for teaching me something new, Nemesis!
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Mongoose on March 15, 2010, 06:38:00 pm
What's really disappointing is that that Duane and BrandO pairing did some really good rap-remixes of video game soundtracks (at least, until they split up).  This is a very far cry from that standard.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: BloodEagle on March 15, 2010, 08:37:51 pm
What's really disappointing is that that Duane and BrandO pairing did some really good rap-remixes of video game soundtracks [...]

Wait. What?
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Mongoose on March 15, 2010, 08:54:42 pm
Yo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNC9dpy2EYU).  And again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEO9Mfmn4M).  One more for good measure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8Oy2l0cjo).
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 16, 2010, 08:00:01 am
Domestic abuse can be funny if you're beating a clown
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: BloodEagle on March 16, 2010, 02:22:46 pm
Domestic abuse can be funny if you're beating a clown

 :lol:  Oh, you!
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Bobboau on March 16, 2010, 06:23:47 pm
What's really disappointing is that that Duane and BrandO pairing did some really good rap-remixes of video game soundtracks [...]

Wait. What?

you know, like this (http://ocremix.dreamhosters.com/files/music/remixes/Sonic_2_Oil_Ocean_%28WT-40_Mix%29_OC_ReMix.mp3)
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Mongoose on March 16, 2010, 06:34:50 pm
Yes, OverClocked Remix (http://ocremix.org/) has a ton of amazing stuff, including several good rap/hip-hop remixes.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nuke on March 16, 2010, 09:22:28 pm
what do ten thousand battered women all have in common:
none of them know when to shut up :D
yes, im an asshole :D
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 16, 2010, 11:09:18 pm
Battuta rage...in 3...2...1...
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: General Battuta on March 16, 2010, 11:12:23 pm
One can be concerned without being enraged. In fact I don't think I've become enraged particularly often here on HLP, certainly not recently.

Already reported anyway.
Title: Re: Domestic abuse CAN be funny if...
Post by: karajorma on March 17, 2010, 12:08:51 am
I think this thread has played itself out.