2014 FIFA World Cup

[Red Herring]

Too zoon? Es tut mir leid, I vill vait another 80 years. My (Zyklon) Bad.

The reason it's tasteless today will still be valid in 500 years. It has nothing to do with "too soon". If you don't see that, I'm sorry.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Zee outrage machine is strong.

 

[Red Herring]

We beat you at soccer so now we are nazis? AND über-touchy about it? Classy!

Also, I'll leave it to the Jewish forum members to explain why the murder of 6 million civilians is not the best comedy material, since you won't believe it from the mouth of a German.

 

[Nicodemus]

I don't mind holocaust jokes from people who aren't haters.

 

[Red Herring]

I don't mind holocaust jokes from people who aren't haters.

It's cheap

 

[Nicodemus]

It's cheap

No argument there. But such is the nature of ENTP humor.

 

[Red Herring]

No argument there. But such is the nature of ENTP humor.

Hey, I love ENTPs. Sometimes they go overboard, that's all.

 

[Rasofy]

Someone once joked that the real group of death was the one with US + Germany in.

 

[Nicodemus]

Someone once joked that the real group of death was the one with US + Germany in.

China, Russia, Germany, and Belgium would be the real group of death.

 

[Rasofy]

China, Russia, Germany, and Belgium would be the real group of death.

Belgium was a surprise.

 

[Red Herring]

Belgium was a surprise.

Not really, if you know what they did in the Congo.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Not really, if you know what they did in the Congo.

Probs involved machetes.

 

[jixmixfix]

I hope when he dies, his soul does not leave the body.

I hope he gets raped by a pack of Gorillas.

 

[Amargith]

Not really, if you know what they did in the Congo.

Now that is irony.

 

[Red Herring]

Probs involved machetes.

Sort of

Under Leopold II's administration, the Congo Free State became one of the greatest international scandals of the early 20th century. The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903.

The loss of life and atrocities inspired literature such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and raised an international outcry. Excess deaths in this period are believed to number up to 10 million.[2] One view is that the forced labour system directly and indirectly eliminated 20% of the population

Congo Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Many survivers had their hands cut off as the Belgium crown paid a premium for each chopped-off hand. Apparently sometimes Congolese villages attacked neighboring villages to get hands for the Belgiums so they didn't have to have their own hands chopped off.

 

[Red Herring]

Now that is irony.

I know, but a) I'm not the one who brought it up and b) I'm not joking about it. Also, it would never occur to me to tease modernday Belgians about this.

 

[Amargith]

I know, but a) I'm not the one who brought it up and b) I'm not joking about it. Also, it would never occur to me to tease modernday Belgians about this.

Right. Considering I'm as unpatriotic as they get, no longer live in Belgium and I still responded rather strongly to it, especially considering your previous comments (on which I agreed, btw), I guess humour/offensiveness really is subjective.

 

[Red Herring]

Right. Considering I'm as unpatriotic as they get, no longer live in Belgium and I still responded rather strongly to it, especially considering your previous comments (on which I agreed, btw), I guess humour/offensiveness really is subjective.

Sorry. I was trying to publicly shame Disco for making such a lighthearted comment about the murder of millions of Congolese. It's wasn't my intention to come across as just as lighthearted, rather as sarcastic. I totally understand that this is no fun topic.

Case in point (as you just correctly stated)

 

[Amargith]

Sorry. I was trying to publicly shame Disco for making such a lighthearted comment about the murder of millions of Congolese. It's wasn't my intention to come across as just as lighthearted, rather as sarcastic. I totally understand that this is no fun topic.

Case in point (as you just correctly stated)

No, it's fine, I get where you're coming from. Was sort of amused to find any patriotic feeling in me still left, tbh. And it was too good to pass up - I enjoy irony

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Sorry. I was trying to publicly shame Disco for making such a lighthearted comment about the murder of millions of Congolese. It's wasn't my intention to come across as just as lighthearted, rather as sarcastic. I totally understand that this is no fun topic.

Case in point (as you just correctly stated)

You can't shame me into boarding the outrage train. Enjoy wasting your energy being pissed off at everything.

Jokes are jokes friend.