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slide_into_first wrote:I guess I should have posted in music talk. Anyway one of the other nurses told her it was rude to disrespect the hostess's views in her own house. My wife had no idea this person liked wars or associated wars with her political point of view or would take personally anything by a bunch of drunk women singing karaoke. This society really is a big fail. Plus, isn't the hostess supposed to make the guests comfortable?

I would have immediately gotten up and sang the song again.

slide_into_first wrote:I guess I should have posted in music talk. Anyway one of the other nurses told her it was rude to disrespect the hostess's views in her own house. My wife had no idea this person liked wars or associated wars with her political point of view or would take personally anything by a bunch of drunk women singing karaoke. This society really is a big fail. Plus, isn't the hostess supposed to make the guests comfortable?

I thought we could all rally around mutilated bodies and vomit-inducing atrocities.

Who the hell is pro war anyway? None of that story makes any sense. Is that really the first time she's ever heard the song? Even if she was from a big military family you would think she could understand the song wasn't meant to trivialize their contributions. She sounds crazy if that legitimately bothered her.

cardsfansince82 wrote:Who the hell is pro war anyway?

Dick Cheney

A couple of years ago, I taught Ambrose Bierce's short story "Chickamauga," which is a staunchly anti-war story written by someone who fought at the Battle of Chickamauga during the Civil War. It's really about the horror of war, and is frank about the violence and gruesomeness, and very sour about jingoism and people who celebrate war without thinking about its consequences. Well, one student decided he didn't want to be an English major any more, because he didn't want to ever read stories that conflicted with his political belief about the necessity of military might.

Mind you, I don't think Bierce was apologizing for his service during the Civil War. But whatever. The guy wound up bouncing from major to major, and ultimately transferred from the university.

On the other hand, bitterness about the Vietnam War is still prevalent for some people, and it could be that that triggered the hostess' response. Still, you'd think she'd blame the song, not the singers.

He must have taken a holiday break, but first mass email of new year came through today.

A Truism ......

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself Castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

Immediately followed by ditto head replies like "Only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun!", "When they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!!!" and "ONE SHOT, ONE KILL BABY! WOOOO HOOOO!!!"
(I didn't realize that Larry the Cable Guy was on his distribution list...)

It's lucky I, a socialist, don't get similarly offended by art which doesn't share my political beliefs, because I'd never read or watch a damn thing.

Today's email

WINNING JOKE IN BRITAIN

An Israeli doctor says: "In Israel, medicine is so advanced that we cut off a man's testicles, put them on another man, and in 6 weeks, he is looking for work.

The German doctor says: "That's nothing. In Germany, we take part of a brain, put it in another man and in 4 weeks he is looking for work."

The Russian doctor says: "Gentlemen, we take half a heart from a man, put it in another's chest, and in 2 weeks he is looking for work."

The American doctor laughs: "You all are behind us. Six years ago, we took a Muslim with no brains, no heart and no balls and made him President. Now, the whole country is looking for work!"

This joke actually won an award for the best joke in world competition held in Britain!

It's the truth.

Can you confirm this is an award-winning joke, Mort?