483: Guns N' Roonies

[bluecrucial]

Originally Posted by jen_v

some one has GOT to make a clip of the 3 of them singing Mr. Brownstone!!! That was the funniest shit ever. I laughed so hard snot came out my nose!!!

http://www.codpasting.com/KATGbrownstone.mp3

[DaveNJ]

Originally Posted by bluecrucial

http://www.codpasting.com/KATGbrownstone.mp3

My hero.

On a side note, one of the very best episodes of KATG ever. Really on top of their game.

[martin]

How can anyone be offended by them reading it? Be offended by him writing it! So what if they read it. As some who speaks english, I was offended that this chinaman called himself an english major. Those plays sucked!

And Keith, we don't need more gun control. We need more guns. Do you really think that a law is going to stop someone? There are already laws against killing people but that didn't stop him. If those teachers or students had the option to pack heat, the chinaman still would have shot some people but he would have been taken down way before he got to 32.

[DaveNJ]

Oh, and for those who are so offended by this episode, KATG has made fun of:

Black People
White People
Jews
Catholics
Christians in general
Muslims
Persians
Arabs
Asian People
Hispanic People
Retarded People
Crippled People

and of course...

Truck Drivers (HONK HONK!)

Sorry, but you don't really get to pick and choose what you get offended by without getting labeled a hypocrite. Taking offense to this when you laughed at jokes about something like slavery is hypocritical, and acting like you have some sort of moral high ground because this tragedy is in recent memory is plain sad.

[strafer_praha]

Originally Posted by DaveNJ

Oh, and for those who are so offended by this episode, KATG has made fun of:

Black People
White People
Jews
Catholics
Christians in general
Muslims
Persians
Arabs
Asian People
Hispanic People
Retarded People
Crippled People

and of course...

Truck Drivers (HONK HONK!)
.

Shit, when's he going to get to mormons, orphans and cancer survivors?

[martin]

Don't forget Fat people and Hillbilly fat people.

[strafer_praha]

Originally Posted by martin

Don't forget Fat people and Hillbilly fat people.

You are so right about that.

[william]

Originally Posted by DaveNJ

Sorry, but you don't really get to pick and choose what you get offended by without getting labeled a hypocrite. Taking offense to this when you laughed at jokes about something like slavery is hypocritical, and acting like you have some sort of moral high ground because this tragedy is in recent memory is plain sad.

What are you talking about, dude? If one isn't offended by all matters, one can't be offended by anything? Where's the logic in that?

Offended is a feeling of indignation or disgust towards an act or statement. It is not a feeling of indignation towards everything.

JWDD27 and all of us have a right to feel such towards that which we find repulsive without the need to justify it by stating that we find everything offensive. We should, though, clarify what it was that made us feel so.

[DaveNJ]

Originally Posted by william

What are you talking about, dude? If one isn't offended by all matters, one can't be offended by anything? Where's the logic in that?

Offended is a feeling of indignation or disgust towards an act or statement. It is not a feeling of indignation towards everything.

JWDD27 and all of us have a right to feel such towards that which we find repulsive without the need to justify it by stating that we find everything offensive. We should, though, clarify what it was that made us feel so.

Here's the thing, though. While he has the right to get offended, it's hypocritical to try to defend only a small group of people who have been recently affected by tragedy when you don't care about offensive statements made about large groups of people. A lot of what KATG say is offensive, but you make the decision overall whether or not to be offended or get angry over it, and doing it for one group and not the other means you don't care if someone makes fun of one group and not the other.

[william]

Originally Posted by DaveNJ

Here's the thing, though. While he has the right to get offended, it's hypocritical to try to defend only a small group ...

I hear you on that, but I take it this way:

Originally Posted by Keith

It's too soon.

and as such, emotions are raw.

Given a few months, not so.

Gumby013 posted that NLO link, in which they themselves say that were Towery to come out immediately after 9/11 people would have been outraged. I would have. You might have too. And the NLO joke would have offended me.

But six years later the nerves endings have deadened. Time has washed over us, and emotions about those days don't well up immediately. I found the NLO thing pretty funny.

Who can predict what tragedy or event might evoke emotion in each one of us?