I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
a lot of people get teased on here, dude. the "anguished artist" is a pretty well-worn trope. try not to take yourself so seriously. don't you do standup?
The original joke wasn't aimed at me, and you thinking that it would need to be for me to be offended by it is weird.
"Get a thicker skin" isn't the answer to everything.
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I came in here assuming to find a list of people that had been infracted in the last chat
I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
Apo, did you see my comment yesterday about translation of French philosophers?
i have been comparing some translations to original French and I feel like academics doing translation is... injecting a surprising level of obscurantism
I did not.
But then I also recall Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense which made no such observations on the subject.
So I am surprised.
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I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
pretty much everyone in here has a mental illness of some description
whereas only like 4 people are trans
you can make jokes about groups you're a part of but doing it about other peoples is 'cism
Not me, I am just a jerk.
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@Evil Multifarious I find the field of translation fascinating for a lot of reasons. If you're reading a translation of a poem, for example, the chances of that person speaking the language with anything that would be called fluency is very, very slim. In fact, the worst translations are often done by people who have a deep understanding of the language, but no understanding of literature.
I'm not sure if this is the same for philosophy texts, but, having a passing familiarity with some , I imagine it helps tremendously to know just as much about literature as it does the language.
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I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
[Chat] might be more focused on trans issues than any other thing ever. Depression/mental illness is probably the third biggest obsession after unemployment. tbh its pretty doctrinaire, its just the ideology is (unevenly) tolerant and overall much more enlightened than most dogmas. Issue threads tend to be better. Chat is usually better when the topic is either not ideological or visited infrequently enough that there aren't "established acceptable positions." Jokes about genitals and gentrification are what chat is for IMO.
VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
Borges said, in regards to translations of his work, "Translate what I want to say, not what I'm saying," which I think is pretty good advice. I remember reading about John Ashbery getting contacted about the difficulty of translating his work into French. He was often being told that there was no possible way to express what he was trying to say to which he replied, Those are often the things I'm most interested in saying."
A 49-year-old unidentified man went berserk last night, opening fire with a 12-gauge shotgun in a crowded downtown restaurant... Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli-Syrian border. Initial reports claim the Israeli fighters bombed a guerrilla base.
Listen, I don't want my children's dicks exposed to street crime, littering and strip malls full of bail bondsmen, pay day lenders, pawn shops and liquor stores, OK? Is that so wrong?
Listen, I don't want my children's dicks exposed to street crime, littering and strip malls full of bail bondsmen, pay day lenders, pawn shops and liquor stores, OK? Is that so wrong?
I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
a lot of people get teased on here, dude. the "anguished artist" is a pretty well-worn trope. try not to take yourself so seriously. don't you do standup?
The original joke wasn't aimed at me, and you thinking that it would need to be for me to be offended by it is weird.
"Get a thicker skin" isn't the answer to everything.
look dude i guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this.
i don't regard allusions to the "angsty teen writing poetry in her livejournal and listening to emo music and cutting" as beyond the limits of what passes for decency around here
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
pretty much everyone in here has a mental illness of some description
whereas only like 4 people are trans
you can make jokes about groups you're a part of but doing it about other peoples is 'cism
I was just using it as an example. I'm well aware of "punching up" and the different contexts around what it's ok to joke about with your friends, I just don't feel like mocking people who self harm is covered by that in this context
I think it's kind of telling that if someone here had made a joke in similar taste about someone being trans, they would have had shit hurled at them but jokes about mental illness are a-ok.
Don't worry guys, you sure as progressive and tolerant as you think you are.
I was just using it as an example. I'm well aware of "punching up" and the different contexts around what it's ok to joke about with your friends, I just don't feel like mocking people who self harm is covered by that in this context
this client gets so confused about numbers and things
she's in market research but all these analytics we do tend to confuse her
and she really likes to latch onto demographics and racial things and cultural trends and sidetracks meetings with these random tidbits she read in the news i guess
i looked up her linkedin tho i guess her background is a PhD in American Cultural History at Brown
lol
so that explains that
now she is working at market research at a financial services company *shrug*
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The original joke wasn't aimed at me, and you thinking that it would need to be for me to be offended by it is weird.
"Get a thicker skin" isn't the answer to everything.
i was disappointed.
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
NICE SAVE!
And quality post to quote when saying I'm compelling haha.
Dewback gave birth to this name. And declared me his daughter. And here we are!
for a terrible moment i thought our [chat] privileges had been revoked
:whistle:
just like your MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
....I'm babysitting 3 elementary school aged kids overnight tonight.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
But then I also recall Sokal and Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense which made no such observations on the subject.
So I am surprised.
here is a sample of the noom comic:
and the whole thread if you're interested:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/11724/d-d-mspaint-adventures-rules-p1/p1
the art does look pretty similar
fak
i just want more excuses to use :winky:
God damn teetotalers.
Not me, I am just a jerk.
I'm not sure if this is the same for philosophy texts, but, having a passing familiarity with some , I imagine it helps tremendously to know just as much about literature as it does the language.
In the rap sense.
My mental is ill. Yo.
Why everything gotta revolve around white dick?
hmm. that is definitely far more sophisticated
mine dates to 2003-2004 thereabouts though.
ah well, Internet Mystery.
Um.
I love the feel of my boobs? They are so boob-like and fit ever so nicely into my hands?
A 49-year-old unidentified man went berserk last night, opening fire with a 12-gauge shotgun in a crowded downtown restaurant... Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli-Syrian border. Initial reports claim the Israeli fighters bombed a guerrilla base.
yessssssss
:winky:
Listen, I don't want my children's dicks exposed to street crime, littering and strip malls full of bail bondsmen, pay day lenders, pawn shops and liquor stores, OK? Is that so wrong?
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
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look dude i guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this.
i don't regard allusions to the "angsty teen writing poetry in her livejournal and listening to emo music and cutting" as beyond the limits of what passes for decency around here
What I can, I do.
that sounds like level 1 thinking
I was just using it as an example. I'm well aware of "punching up" and the different contexts around what it's ok to joke about with your friends, I just don't feel like mocking people who self harm is covered by that in this context
more crookedtimber (huh)
we are not decent people
not people
teenagers
haha have you seen the meowmeow beenz episode of community
This is probably ALSO Elki's fault.
she's in market research but all these analytics we do tend to confuse her
and she really likes to latch onto demographics and racial things and cultural trends and sidetracks meetings with these random tidbits she read in the news i guess
i looked up her linkedin tho i guess her background is a PhD in American Cultural History at Brown
lol
so that explains that
now she is working at market research at a financial services company *shrug*