MetaTalk posts tagged with jokes

making fun of disable folks

Baby_Balrog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:27:08 -0800

Some of the comments in this thread are completely offensive and... ...it's poised to ruin a really awesome thread about some really awesome people. I've flagged them but there are perhaps not too many people visiting the thread, and I'm thinking maybe they didn't get flagged enough. Because it would be really horrible if the two most popular hits about the "albino magic" are that blog post and a thread filled with jokes about murdering and eating disabled people. this is me being very civil.

No more dead baby jokes.

Meatbomb — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:56 -0800

In the abandoned baby thread someone made a joke about dead babies. Then someone complained about it. So the new rule is, dead baby jokes are a bad thing on MetaFilter. Because, if my understanding is correct on this, we do not talk about anything, or speak in particular ways about particular things, if any other member of the site finds that insensitive or if it hurts them. We are moving towards a future in which no one need fear being insulted or hurtor reminded of an unpleasant personal memory by someone else's words, ever. Is my understanding of this situation correct?

So a murderer walks into a bar...

Asymptote — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:32 -0800

The filesystem jokes in this Reiser trial thread struck me as being in particularly bad taste. I'm not actually sure why this bugs me more than the general MeFi snark, but the general internet tendency to make jokes about this murder trial while it's a current event has always left a bad taste in my mouth. Am I being unneccessarily prudish? Where's the line? Does this cross it?

But it was funny!

youcancallmeal — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:04:33 -0800

What is the verdict on clever one-liners in AskMefi? This afternoon, I posted that something was eponysterical and when I came back to the thread, it was deleted. I've made the same comment before and not only was it not deleted, it was favorited. So, is there a zero-tolerance policy on wit in Ask now? Because the question had already been answered and it wasn't exactly causing a pile on, so I don't see the harm.

metafilter will kill us all

joelf — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:43:40 -0800

Metafilter will kill us all!

Funny, Sad

Rumple — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:38:25 -0800

A sad update has been posted to this well-loved AskMe question.

Farts = not funny; Nuns = hilarious!

mimi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:01:40 -0800

Help with Nun Humor: no? My comment -- pointing out that maybe we shouldn't make fun of women who devote their lives to the service of others and often face poverty in retirement (despite working for one of the richest organizations in the world) -- gets deleted almost immediately, and yet the thread itself lives? OK. I shoulda taken it here first. So here we are. Why is it OK to make fun of nuns?

NPR headline unknowingly makes a MeFi funny.

greatgefilte — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:20:15 -0800

Possible pool of potential new members?

Little help?

shmegegge — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:03:58 -0800

So I heard about a thread where someone posted a picture of a guy in a plush dolphin suit fucking a 300 pound woman. I can't find it. Little help?

Fake statistics aren't valid answers.

Rhomboid — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:01:16 -0800

Posting a esolutionsdata.com link in response to an Ask Metafilter question is bad form. Go hone your stand-up routine somewhere else.

Wearing Six Apart gear gets results.

Vidiot — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:43:16 -0800

Wearing Six Apart gear gets results. Sodas for all!

How many MetaFilter Users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

filmgeek — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:27:56 -0800

How many MetaFilter Users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Why was my comment in this thread deleted?

fixedgear — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:08:09 -0800

Why was my comment in this thread deleted? My comment was "How much do you make?" and I was serious. Is that somehow not appropriate? Does jessamyn or Matt get to decide what might be an appropriate conversation starter?

Can we make jokes in AskMe?

johnny7 — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:08:05 -0800

Would some "wisecracks" liven Ask Meta up a bit ?
We've all behaved very well so far.

Jokes in AskMe are no good

y6y6y6 — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:12:52 -0800

Can we please make it stop? It's bad enough that we really want a 100+ post thread about same sex marriage every day. Do we have to drag it into AskMe?

Why was my comment deleted?

biffa — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:44:36 -0800

If people are going to ask religious questions, does Matt apply doctrinal arguments in adjudging what is an acceptable answer or not? [MI]

Should fictional posts be allowed to stand?

onlyconnect — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:05:26 -0800

It's not a hoax, it's fiction. Marquis has apologized for any potential offense, and hey, it was cleverly done. Going forward, is a "fictional" post more appropriate for a blog? Does this exploit the membership for one's own purposes, however artistic? (But don't all posts do that?) Or is it a question of trust?

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

Whatever groups is it still all right to make jokes about on MeFi?

ceiriog — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:37:45 -0800

"That's OK Summer, I meant it in a "bugger the bloody Welsh" way anyway. :)"

Would a smiley negate the offence if I said "bugger the bloody Koreans/Irish/Jews"?. Which other racial/ethno-linguistic/whatever groups is it still all right to make jokes about on MeFi?