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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3092 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 16, 2023

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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What are you saying?

It seems to me that he's making a parody of a popular song, changing the subject of the song from "rock and roll" to the famous evil terrorist/based monke Uncle Ted.

People sometimes call the Unabomber "uncle Ted".

I get that part. Are you advocating we follow his example? Please speak plainly here.

It's a joke I thought of last night.

Aren't jokes traditionally funny?

This is the Friday Fun thread. This degree of aggressiveness would be out of place even in the CW thread. Knock it off.

Sorry, I'll try to watch myself in the future.

I really didn't mean my comment to come across as meanly as it apparently did. Ted Kaczynski's reign of terror is not commonly fodder for jokes.

Ted Kaczynski's reign of terror is not commonly fodder for jokes.

Er... it really is, though. It really, truly is. Though I suppose even in 1996 some people wondered about the propriety of such things.

Humor is often off the table here at the Motte because so many standard approaches to humor violate our discussion standards in one way or another. But particularly in the Friday Fun thread, I think the principle of charity is especially important in connection with attempts at humor.

A joke is an attempt to be funny. This joke didn't land for you, fair enough, but there's no need to be a dick about it.

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