quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: If you go to a school you can experience both the indoors and the outdoors, stupid ralph. That's why schools are good. You meet people, too. You learn to communicate with other human beings rather than fleeing into the woods if somebody looks at you crosswise.
You can do that as a homeschooler, too! Stupid Mask! Stop speaking of that which you have utterly no knowledge! Bad, bad Mask!
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As someone once said, 'The Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing. Once they've exhausted all the other options available.'
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: As someone once said, 'The Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing. Once they've exhausted all the other options available.'
So what's the right thing in this instance, herbs? Tell me, what should I do?
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: As someone once said, 'The Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing. Once they've exhausted all the other options available.'
So what's the right thing in this instance, herbs? Tell me, what should I do?
You should start a charity planting trees in the city. Muslim trees.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: As someone once said, 'The Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing. Once they've exhausted all the other options available.'
That's a good joke. My dad told me a good joke over Christmas. "What's the definition of a string quartet?" "A Russian orchestra returning from a tour of the west." Lol. Bit of classical music humour for you, there. Obviously the joke's about 15 years out of date, but it can still raise a smile as long as you imagine that the joke is being told when Russia was still a communist country, and think about how funny the joke would have been as a result. Good old dad.
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: I got it. It's not funny now, and it wouldn't have been much funnier 15 years ago either.
I wouldn't say that. I think it works OK as a joke - it's logical, suprising, has a ring of truth about it. It's pretty funny. Humour doesn't have to be crude or offensive just to get a laugh, you know.
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quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: I wouldn't say that. I think it works OK as a joke - it's logical, suprising, has a ring of truth about it. It's pretty funny. Humour doesn't have to be crude or offensive just to get a laugh, you know.
But that joke was offensive. Making light of the disappearance or possible death of many musicians at the hands of a brutal regime isn't offensive?
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: But that joke was offensive. Making light of the disappearance or possible death of many musicians at the hands of a brutal regime isn't offensive?
Oh. So you didn't get it?
The joke is that while the Russian orchestra is on tour in the West they take the opportunity to defect. Humour springs from the idea of this group of musicians starting out as a band of 40-odd, and then coming back with a mere four the rest having made a break for it throughout the tour. There's also some humour in the pragmatism of declaring the remainder a 'string quartet'. But the implication isn't that the 'brutal regime' has had them offed, because they're not in Russia at the time.
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: or indeed a group of people fleeing tyranny of the communist regime, by seeking asylum whilst in a more understanding western country....
Sure, the musicians get the chance to flee tyranny. But what about the everyday peasant in the field? Hmmm? What abbout him? I'll bet he didn't think the joke was that funny!
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Neither did my dad, but he did think it was funny to moon my friends, spreading his cheeks and asking if there was 'anything in his eye'....
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yeah my dad never did anything like that. He bollocked my friends too. This one time, I had my - oh wait, I'm an adult.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: what the hell is wrong with ralph today?
what the fucks wrong with you today Benway? Hmmm?
Nothing, man. I'm alright. Been a busy fucking beaver today; nailed down module 3.1 of the course after some deft work with some logic chains. Was in bed at midnight yesterday after watching Jonesy in "Escape from New York", so I got an ass-load of sleep. Feel alright.
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