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'F--- Sister Jean'

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Mar 20, 2018.

  1. BadgerBeer

    BadgerBeer Well-Known Member


    I agree. The columnist comes across as a sanctimonious prick. It was a joke, a joke that I found somewhat funny. If it wasn't your cup of tea don't laugh. Problem solved.
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I think some of the Chicago reaction also bordered on patronizing to Sister Jean. We must protect this 98-year-old delicate flower from dumb Twitter jokes!
     
  3. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    You're not seriously putting this schlub in the same sentence as Bruce and Carlin?
    Wonder what the reaction would have been if he tweeted "F--- Muslims?"
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    He didn't Tweet "Fuck Catholics." He tweeted "Fuck Sister Jean."
     
  5. John B. Foster

    John B. Foster Well-Known Member

    Night Ranger should have sang about Sister Jean instead of Sister Christian.
     
  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Fuck Mother Teresa

    Fuck Gandhi

    Fuck Bernadette of Lourdes



    is Dane Cook territory.
     
  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    All the swords are out today when whataboutism invokes Dane Cook's name.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    You are stripping all context.

    Regardless, just because it’s lame doesn’t justify the level of outrage.
     
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  9. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    No, no.

    I'm stripping the set-up and leaving the punchline.

    The set-up is nearly the same in every instance, because the joke is always constructed exactly same way: watch me use a terrible swear when talking about this notably wonderful human person.

    That's the joke.

    That's what's funny about it. The juxtaposition of those two things.

    The danger, and this knucklehead discovered it, is disconnecting the set-up from punchline.

    He's the one who took the j0ke out of context by posting it on Twitter, then didn't understand why it blew up in his face.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    David Haugh didn't know the context?
     
  11. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    No, I'm not. I'm imagining he does.
     
  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Except most sports talks types aren't standard-issue meatheads. Maybe they are in Boston, I dunno. I don't give a shit about Boston.

    Most of the new breed fancy themselves truth-tellers, reasoned romantics, comic book movie and soccer kit and craft beer savants who can not believe you don't watch the NBA, like, most nights. They also fancy their shitty jokes profound, especially when they try them out on Twitter where, like, the outrage proves my point.

    It's a lot like this place, only they get paid, and care about the NBA.
     
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