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Re: A bad taste picture (Re: Space Rocks!!!)
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lugnet.space
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Sat, 11 May 2002 16:39:59 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jeff Stembel writes:
> In lugnet.space, Tim Courtney writes:
> > I think you should lighten up, but do as you wish, that's just my opinion.
> > I find it rather silly that you pulled the spirit-of-the-community card here
> > to add leverage to your capmaign against someone else's joke.
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> Just because it is a joke doesn't mean it can't offend, annoy, or piss people
> off.
People can *take offense* at jokes, *become annoyed* or *become pissed off*.
Jokes don't do the offending or annoying. Its a choice which is the
responsibility of the person on the receiving end. [1]
If anything has gone too far, I don't think its the joking relationship. I
think it's threads like this. Feel free to think otherwise, of course.
-Tim
[1] This is not to say jokes *cannot* go too far, or cannot contain the
intent of offending or annoying. But offense is taken.
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| (...) And I think that line has been crossed. It is not just this picture, though. There are certain people who can't even let a person speak about castle without bringing up space in a way to put castle down. It is uncalled for and abusive. I'll be (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.space)
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