Needs_More_Time

fivehundredmileDAWG said:

More_cockus went down the same path as tailgater, collegedoog , and Racebannon ... I for one hope all these characters are back by the September 27 season opener.

They are all good guys, minus collegedoog.

MikeDamone said:

DerekJohnson said:

chuck said:

MikeDamone said:

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Mad_Son said:

1) I don't understand why you'd post this
2) WTF!??!?! PLSS IS REALLY IN A WHEEL CHAIR?!??!

Because Derek is drawing a line and he should be applauded, whether I'm in a chair or not. If you said you were Asian would I make yellow face-panhead jokes ? No I wouldn't for obvious reasons. If u were a vet with no legs would i call you Bob, or 1 legged ilean ? Simply no. It's childish, immature and simply un-American. Pull your head out your pucker..

Cockus just had no comback. He'd just result to Crip jokes. No different than a racist joke. It's bigoted and not tolerable in today's society. Imagine a vet just home from Iraq with blown-off legs. Is that me? No but one just never knows. Could be anybody. You think jokes would be funny and appropriate? Show some respect . Common sense goes a long way. I know a vet on this boredom who lurks. Just uncool. He's not crippled but his friend and platoon mate is.

If you can't be funny without personal attacks on those with injuries, bigoted jokes about others with different skin colors or those who suffer with harsh realities, then don't reply.

I don't dislike Cockus, I just like to thrash him in joking fashion. When I heard of his dad I was the first to say I'm sorry and to wish his dad well.. I understand where to draw the line. I could have shredded him and his dad like some of you did (whooooshed by cocker or not) but I drew the proverbial line. Not because the first amendment gives me the right, but because I know the 1st amendment has unwritten rules of decorum. Just have fun, beat the shit out of fellow members but be cool like the fonz when appropriate.

seatownfunk said:

I guess the blick and 75k jokes are OUT too. Its twisting pretty hot for july here in 1891 communist Prussia

That's a good post...but considering your history of racist and homophobic rants, I find it disingenuous and somewhat bizarre.

No one shredded Times dad..you're twisting.

The keen eyed reader will recognize that PLSS reveals himself to be the most objectionable human to post on this forum even when he's pretending to be reasonable. He's amusing and worth having here, but the fucker deserves every bit of shit thrown at him and nothing should be out of bounds. Unfortunately there are other paralyzed folks out there who aren't hostile, mannerless, racist pieces of shit. Use of his disability as a way of making fun of him indirectly insults others, and that's grounds for not allowing it.

As I said before, the only reason people know about his disability is because of me. PL_SS never brought it up himself.

Not all people. I knew before that. Even before Fleenor I think.

allpurpleallgold said:

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to make a wheelchair joke about PLSS. I believe that to be true because I remember agonizing over it. The post was hilarious but I wasn't sure I wanted to cross that line.

I ended up deciding to do it because I am a Half Brain. And, god dammit, that's what we do. But I thought of it, at the time, as inclusive. I've made personal jokes about posters being overweight, the Race of ones wife, about having sex with a posters daughter, about a posters parents not loving them and about military service. Those may not be equal to wheelchair jokes but they were personal attacks. I thought of it as treating PLSS just like everyone else and hoped he would see it that way.

Now, I don't blame PLSS for complaining about it. It clearly turned into something more venomous than I had intended. And he had that right even if it had not. It became something that, at times, even made me cringe. And I am a horrible, horrible human being.

DJ has done a very good job of giving this board and it's posters freedom. But with that freedom comes responsibility. HHB 1.0 is an example of what happens when posters don't take that responsibility. That doesn't mean everyone should toe the line. Lord knows I'm a habitual line stepper. But at the very least, when the person that gave us all of this, asks you to stop doing something, you should stop. DJ has earned that much.

DerekJohnson said:

allpurpleallgold said:

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to make a wheelchair joke about PLSS. I believe that to be true because I remember agonizing over it. The post was hilarious but I wasn't sure I wanted to cross that line.

I ended up deciding to do it because I am a Half Brain. And, god dammit, that's what we do. But I thought of it, at the time, as inclusive. I've made personal jokes about posters being overweight, the Race of ones wife, about having sex with a posters daughter, about a posters parents not loving them and about military service. Those may not be equal to wheelchair jokes but they were personal attacks. I thought of it as treating PLSS just like everyone else and hoped he would see it that way.

Now, I don't blame PLSS for complaining about it. It clearly turned into something more venomous than I had intended. And he had that right even if it had not. It became something that, at times, even made me cringe. And I am a horrible, horrible human being.

DJ has done a very good job of giving this board and it's posters freedom. But with that freedom comes responsibility. HHB 1.0 is an example of what happens when posters don't take that responsibility. That doesn't mean everyone should toe the line. Lord knows I'm a habitual line stepper. But at the very least, when the person that gave us all of this, asks you to stop doing something, you should stop. DJ has earned that much.

Spoken like a true conservative.

Swaye said:

DerekJohnson said:

allpurpleallgold said:

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to make a wheelchair joke about PLSS. I believe that to be true because I remember agonizing over it. The post was hilarious but I wasn't sure I wanted to cross that line.

I ended up deciding to do it because I am a Half Brain. And, god dammit, that's what we do. But I thought of it, at the time, as inclusive. I've made personal jokes about posters being overweight, the Race of ones wife, about having sex with a posters daughter, about a posters parents not loving them and about military service. Those may not be equal to wheelchair jokes but they were personal attacks. I thought of it as treating PLSS just like everyone else and hoped he would see it that way.

Now, I don't blame PLSS for complaining about it. It clearly turned into something more venomous than I had intended. And he had that right even if it had not. It became something that, at times, even made me cringe. And I am a horrible, horrible human being.

DJ has done a very good job of giving this board and it's posters freedom. But with that freedom comes responsibility. HHB 1.0 is an example of what happens when posters don't take that responsibility. That doesn't mean everyone should toe the line. Lord knows I'm a habitual line stepper. But at the very least, when the person that gave us all of this, asks you to stop doing something, you should stop. DJ has earned that much.

Spoken like a true conservative.

APAG's always been my favorite Mike Jensen loving classy conservative

allpurpleallgold said:

I'm pretty sure I was the first person to make a wheelchair joke about PLSS. I believe that to be true because I remember agonizing over it. The post was hilarious but I wasn't sure I wanted to cross that line.

I ended up deciding to do it because I am a Half Brain. And, god dammit, that's what we do. But I thought of it, at the time, as inclusive. I've made personal jokes about posters being overweight, the Race of ones wife, about having sex with a posters daughter, about a posters parents not loving them and about military service. Those may not be equal to wheelchair jokes but they were personal attacks. I thought of it as treating PLSS just like everyone else and hoped he would see it that way.

Now, I don't blame PLSS for complaining about it. It clearly turned into something more venomous than I had intended. And he had that right even if it had not. It became something that, at times, even made me cringe. And I am a horrible, horrible human being.

DJ has done a very good job of giving this board and it's posters freedom. But with that freedom comes responsibility. HHB 1.0 is an example of what happens when posters don't take that responsibility. That doesn't mean everyone should toe the line. Lord knows I'm a habitual line stepper. But at the very least, when the person that gave us all of this, asks you to stop doing something, you should stop. DJ has earned that much.