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George S
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Okay, I laughed. And then I went back and laughed again. Then I LOL'd in type and IRL. Chuckling as I write this post I know I'll laugh when I read it again.
Thomas II
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That's Louis de Funes from a movie called "Le Corniaud"(1965) 
[video]http://www.jesuismdr.com/louis-de-funes-le-corniaud-1965.html[/video]
[video]http://www.jesuismdr.com/louis-de-funes-le-corniaud-1965.html[/video]
NobleSavage
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What sort of stupidity is this? Clean up a Republican mess? They're usually beyond cleaning up! More like:
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Bring back the Labor Party to fix the fuck ups of the Mad Monk and his band of useless men.
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Especially for undertherose, not a funny, saw it and thought of you.
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Davka
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Is it just me, or is this deeply offensive racist slime?
spikepipsqueak
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It seems we have this conversation about humour every couple of years.
To me, that is riffing off a number of stereotypes, but isn't denigrating anyone.
When I encounter this style it seems to me that it is acknowledging the stereotype and POINTING OUT that there is more to people, and doing it with a chuckle.
But I have been informed I am wrong about this before.
To me, that is riffing off a number of stereotypes, but isn't denigrating anyone.
When I encounter this style it seems to me that it is acknowledging the stereotype and POINTING OUT that there is more to people, and doing it with a chuckle.
But I have been informed I am wrong about this before.
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I think it just drags.
If you change it to stop at 'scratches it off to see what he's won,' it's a joke. Lose the convenience store, taxi and Verizon.
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I tend to agree with this, but a lot depends on the attitude and culture of the person telling the joke; it is the sort of joke I would hesitate to tell to an audience who didn't know me well (or who I didn't know well), lest they misunderstood the intent.
I am certainly not surprised at Davka's response, and suspect that in his community, the probability of such a joke being made with explicitly racist intent is perhaps higher than it would be in ours; As such it is more offensive in the US (particularly the South) than it is in Australia. I could envisage some redneck telling this as part of a pattern of truly offensive racist statements; equally I could see someone like Sanjeev Bhaskar telling the joke as self-deprecating comedy about his own culture.
The former I would consider deeply offensive; the latter hilarious.
If you haven't seen the sketch comedy Goodness Gracious Me!, which is a sketch comedy essentially based on the experiences of British families of Indian ancestry, you have seriously missed out.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GC_Q2YKNR0[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs[/YOUTUBE]
