The 1st & Last Annual Jim Jones Kool-Aid Stand.

[Simon of the Playa]

Nazi-sympathizer husband

blood is thicker than kool-aid.

[ygmir]

Nazi-sympathizer husband

blood is thicker than kool-aid.

no one showers with kool-aid flavor-aid for you purists

[Turtleburp]

As a child of Jonesians (before I was born) I find this topic highly offensive!

[Ugly Dougly]

[Simon of the Playa]

i'm just keeping up with the Jonesians, and quite frankly, i could care less if your parents were idiots...

[theCryptofishist]

Simon
You knew this was potentially very offensive. Take the dressing down as you due, instead of tossing out insults...

[Simon of the Playa]

NEVER!


i am heavily invested in kool-aid.


and besides, since when have i feared to tread where others will not go.

[H.G.Crosby]

NEVER!





when have i feared to tread where others will not go.

well, based on your current avatar, i would say this is accurate.

[ygmir]

now ya did it!! you offended someone!!

Interesting, how parents, being Jonesian, and obviously not having partaken, someone would be offended by a reference to the "drinkers".

[theCryptofishist]

You're parsing it too finely, I think, yggy. The whole thing, before and after the denouncement caused the parents serious pain. I remember reading something by a survivor whose wife and child did die there. (He was somewhere else, I don't remember where or why) and even now, 30+ years later it's still a gaping hole in his life. And he still thinks that there were some very good things about it. Even those who didn't die there are outsiders for having any sort of meaning attached to that group except disgust and hatred. Think of it as a great bloody smear across your life, one that may grow smaller with time, but never go away.

[Simon of the Playa]

it is public domain i'm afraid.


perhaps they should move to china where history can be altered quite easily.

[Roberto Dobbisano]

he can be a real Dick sometimes,



especially when it comes to freedom of speech.

[H.G.Crosby]

so i guess this means no Jew Jokes, huh...


damn.

[Simon of the Playa]

dont make me start an armenian thread to piss off turkish burners....

[theCryptofishist]

Oh, you can (and if I know you, will) make jew jokes. I won't even point out that you're in a different position with that punch line, but if you make jokes that are going to hurt people, I expect you to take your medicine.

[Simon of the Playa]

im afraid that jokes dont hurt people....

people who cant take a joke hurt themselves.

there are no taboo topics to the Comedian.

shall i tell you my Burner Version of the Aristocrats?

i plan on doing it live this year on the esplanade.











it's Nasty...





filthy.





dirty....









like good house music....

[Roberto Dobbisano]

btw...

i was telling Michael Jackson Jokes BEFORE he died...

just sayin'..

[theCryptofishist]

So was I.


Doing edgy stuff is like playing with fire--sometimes you get burned, or you burn others. I'm not asking you not to do this, but to be a mensch when you hurt someone else.

[H.G.Crosby]

it is impossible to tell a joke that will not offend someone somewhere, so....


EVERYTHING HAS A BULLSEYE.


just to be fair.


i include myself in the list of potential targets.

[Simon of the Playa]

watch out, i feel a michael richards moment coming on.....

[ygmir]

I gotta go with Don Rickles........as long as you offend everyone, it's ok.
If we tiptoe around people, so as not to offend anyone..........well, it's just not o.k.

sure, don't single out an individual person for ridicule related to things beyond their control, but, as groups? "doors open".

Kool-aid jokes, are no different than red-neck jokes, ethnic jokes, stupid jokes, gender jokes........on and on.....it's all gotta be on the table, or we risk ostracizing, the very people we think we protect.

Hell, every laughs at jokes about white guys.........why, is it not ok for others?

fair, is fair, doors open, fire at will.

[Ugly Dougly]

Aw, where's turtle gone off to? I hope he comes back, and joins in the fun.

[Simon of the Playa]

oh no he did int.

[theCryptofishist]

I'm not talking about not making those jokes. I'm talking about saying, Yes, I understand that that cut you and I'm sorry. It's like with great power goes great responsibility. Or cleaning up the messes you make. I make all sorts of dark jokes about all sorts of targets, but I understand that not everyone has my sense of humor. Do I think that someone whose grandparents were killed in the great terror should think that apokaliptika is okay? I'm happy to apologize, and expect him or her to stay out of that slice of A afterwards.

[Simon of the Playa]

i would end up spending my entire day apologizing.


i'm of the Mad Magazine Mind Set.


sacred cows often make the tastiest hamburgers.

[H.G.Crosby]

dude, now you've offended the curry-lickers.

[forty_eight]

don't make me post the serious cat

[motskyroonmatick]

It sucks when your cherished cult ends up an incredibly destructive nightmare. It's a good lesson though if it happens to you and you get to the point where you understand that it can be a lesson. How often do we hear from people who have actually moved on?

[Turtleburp]

Sorry - stupid work actually required significant effort today; if I didn't have to eat...

Now if I'd bothered to do my homework I'd have known there actually were survivors (bloody quitters) and my joke about parents dying before I was born may have been funny.

Simone de Playa, sleuth that he is and tipped by my Parody of his own signature answered in a callous fashion!




Or



He's just a caring nineties type...

[catinthefunnyhat]

Now if I'd bothered to do my homework I'd have known there actually were survivors (bloody quitters) and my joke about parents dying before I was born may have been funny.

Hah! I was confused about how your parents could've died before you were born, but too stupid or sleepy to realise you were joking. I'm not quite sure what I thought you might have been trying to say, but anyways, then you sparked a (mock-? i can never tell) serious discussion about political correctness and offensive humour, which was actually quite an enjoyable read. So, while your comment may have failed as a joke, it was a successful little bit of (unintentional) trollery. Well done!

Can you block people on eplaya?

Not sure if this is a serious question here, but since you're new to ePlaya, I'll assume it is and answer accordingly. If you want to block ("plonk") someone, click on their username beside one of their posts, then select "add foe" (smack in the middle of the page). That will prevent you from seeing their posts, although they can still PM you. But seriously, cut Turtle a little slack. His iPhone mismanagement skills are worthy of snark but probably not plonking, IMHO.

And maybe it was another piece of troll theatre.

Or, wait... are you and Turtle actually 2 different people? Or are both of you really Simon's socks?

The internet is making me paranoid.