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Steve De Young Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 16 March 2017 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | 1
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Not all speech is political speech.
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 4:23am | IP Logged | 2
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And thus, humor is dead. The majority of humor is offending (or offensive) to someone. It's kind of the nature of humor, and if one wants to be offended enough, it's there to be dug out.
If one wants, a sale on ham is offensive to Jews. A special on watermelons is offensive to blacks. Commercials for auto races are offensive to southerners. Condoms are offensive to certain sects of Christianity.
If we want to be offended, we can always find a way. Or as Bloom County put it... offensensitivity.
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Rob Fronczak Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 9
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 6:46am | IP Logged | 3
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Here's a question. Could Blazing Saddles be made in 2017?
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Laren Farmer Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 6:57am | IP Logged | 4
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Blazing Saddles? Forget that...I was reading an article earlier this week saying that FRIENDS couldn't be made today without required changes..
And the article was NOT a satire.
Besides the good old racism charge, they also threw in homophobia and transphobia. Because you know...they made jokes about Ross' ex-wife and Chandler's dad.
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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 7:32am | IP Logged | 5
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Toss out WILL & GRACE too, then - although even at the time the show felt like a gay minstrel show to me.
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Christopher Frost Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 6
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Will & Grace is coming back, so they must get a pass in this day and age of overly sensitive viewers.
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Michael Roberts Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 7
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QUOTE:
Forget that...I was reading an article earlier this week saying that FRIENDS couldn't be made today without required changes..
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Oh please. Anyone who believes we've become too sensitive for FRIENDS to air has obviously never seen 2 BROKE GIRLS.
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Toss out WILL & GRACE too, then - although even at the time the show felt like a gay minstrel show to me. |
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I liked WILL & GRACE, and I felt the same way.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 8
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I was reading an article earlier this week saying that FRIENDS couldn't be made today without required changes.. •• Funny line on an episode of UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT that I watched recently. Kimmy comments that race-swapping is okay because Aisha Tyler played a White character on FRIENDS.
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Bill Mimbu Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 9:27am | IP Logged | 9
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Here's a question. Could Blazing Saddles be made in 2017?
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Well, we already had the 2016 MAGNIFICENT SEVEN that was basically a deadly serious version of BLAZING SADDLES...
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 10:12am | IP Logged | 10
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2 BROKE GIRLS
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I will admit to that show being an occasional guilty pleasure of mine.
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Michael Hogan Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2052
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 10:47am | IP Logged | 11
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And in an unrelated yet still hypersensitive note:
After much local pressure, the city of Frederick, Maryland removed their statue of Roger Taney (5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, U.S. Attorney General, and more) from in front of city hall because he drafted the Dred Scott Decision in 1857.
Was the Dred Scott Decision bad (from a "modern" point of view)? YES indeed. Was the Dred Scott Decision a moment in American history? YES Should we forget the Dred Scott Decision happened? NO
Maybe the removal of the statue will teach Roger a lesson never to draft any more legal decisions!
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Brian O'Neill Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 March 2017 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | 12
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Anyone have a link to an interview where Mel Brooks himself said BLAZING SADDLES could never be made today?
Incidentally, I've never heard of 'Kinda Funny', or any of the guys involved, but for anyone to make a big deal of what he said..WELL! I am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED... I am offended by the size of the sticks up so many people's butts in oidern culture.
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