Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[gay_Aleks]

Please tell me that the Dem. part means democratic and not them.

 

[Light Cleric]

Please tell me that the Dem. part means democratic and not them.

That's the whole joke, it can be either.

I didn't say it was a GOOD one but yeah.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Hopefully, this won't end in a debacle, unlike some other joke about women.

 

[Light Cleric]

NY newspaper headlines have been awful since before I was born, I don't know why this one merited a mention.

 

[bhsup]

Because it was dumb and it was quoted. In the dumb quotes thread.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Hopefully, this won't end in a debacle, unlike some other joke about women.

Be careful, Tolni. That sounds distinctly like a rhetorical challenge. (Can one make as big a debacle about this pun as about the boobs pun?)

You're this close to setting me off on another smartassed post. Just lucky you didn't yell the challenge.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Please, no! Spare us. Once is enough.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Please, no! Spare us. Once is enough.

This from the guy who thought my first effort was hall-of-fame caliber!

 

[Light Cleric]

Because it was dumb and it was quoted. In the dumb quotes thread.

I figured it was because commenting on the Clinton Royal Family is illegal in the USA.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Yes, we should preserve amazing things. But once you reproduce it, it's quality degrades. In order to properly enjoy your post, there must be no posts like it.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, I would be sure to overgo my previous effort, and strike out down some different generic avenue.

But don't worry. Just now I haven't the time for such tomfoolery.

 

[peter grimes]

Please, no! Spare us. Once is enough.

Moderator Action: Indeed. Please let's let the thread move along. Bookmark the post if you want to go back to enjoy it in the future please. No need for a repeat.

 

[Rashiminos]

A woman saying the joke about another woman is still perpetuating sexism, but it doesn't have the same force that a man saying it does, since she isn't asserting her own dominance in the act of utterance.

Of course it doesn't. Those are the biases at play. A woman can be a more effective vector for spreading certain prejudices if one is inclined to do so, and this goes hand-in-hand with Gori's more sincere remark, quoted for your memory:

It is, moreover, important to maintain a sense of scale. For as offensive as Bolling’s remarks were, they pale in comparison with Guilfoyle’s cavalier cheerleading over the perhaps necessary but certainly regrettable loss of human life that is resulting from the allied efforts to check ISIS. Her remarks were insensitive to human suffering to an almost pathological degree, and, in that context, make focusing on Bolling’s boorishness instead nearly pathological as well.

Incidentally, an "institutional" sexism threshold serves as a cover for more subtle variations to slip under.

 

[madviking]

"A representative in the US Congress once suggested repealing the second law of thermodynamics when he heard a scientist say that it stood in the way of his proposal."

- one of my friend's readings

 

[MagisterCultuum]

That reminds me of attempts by a state legislator to define the mathematical constant Pi as exactly 3, and penalizing those in the jurisdiction who continue to use a more precise approximation of the irrational number. Apparently such a bill was proposed multiple times and came close to passing at least once, but was stopped by the lobbying of a prominent engineering school that would have been ruined by such a rule.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Perhaps they should also include a subsidy to businesses that use triangles with three right angles.

 

[classical_hero]

We've been waiting for Jesus to come back for approximately 1,940 years, but despite a series of books full of warnings, he still hasn't done so.

That's because he never told the exact time he would come again, just for us to be ready at any moment.

 

[Light Cleric]

Perhaps they should also include a subsidy to businesses that use triangles with three right angles.

And then come back 5 years later to repeal it when they realize those triangles were a really bad idea and screwed over the food supply and environment?

 

[Arakhor]

That's because he never told the exact time he would come again, just for us to be ready at any moment.

So forgive me if I put even less trust in scaremongering than I do in Christian millennialism.

 

[gay_Aleks]

And then come back 5 years later to repeal it when they realize those triangles were a really bad idea and screwed over the food supply and environment?

Dunno, the black hole that would be opened probably wouldn't allow them to do so.