To the group of immature losers at a certain Thursday night trivia contest: just because you are desperate for attention and your parents didn’t love you enough, doesn’t give you the right to make fun of the 9/11 attacks ON 9/11. I am all for freedom of speech and intelligant dialogue, but when you are making up names for a team to try and get “laughs” you are not contributing to anything purposeful. Grow the fuck up and show some fucking respect, espcially on a day when alot of people were mourning. Everyone at my table was Canadian but we ALL have American relatives, so shut the fuck up and consider who you might be offending!
This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2008.
well, I’m a little offended by the fact that we’re all supposed to bow down to god and ‘mourn’ every sept. 11, when the same freaking thing happens every week in other countries, and more kids die every day of diarrea than all the people who died on Sept. 11. yes those university students should have been a ltitle more tactful, maybe. but I think we’re getting to the point where we as a global society can actually look at what happened on sept. 11 without having to let everyone know that the whole world should change because this horrible thing (don’t get me wrong it was a tradgedy) happened this time on american soil, to american people- regardless of what led up to it, or came after it- because clearly their lives are worht more than anyone else in the world.there. my rant for the day.
What does it mean when someone spells Intelligent wrong?..just sayin.
I am so smart s..m..r..t
get over yourself
That is a good point about 9/11. More people die everyday around the World than in that one tragic event. Let’s not forget them. USA is not the center of the Universe.
hee hee….”Diarrhoea”.
yes yes, I can’t spell.My point was just people seem to expect the world to stop every year on Sept. 11 because something really bad happened in the states. but where’s the equality? if we’re, here in Canada and elsewhere in the world, going to do it for the americans, why not for any of the other countries and people who have been the victims of terrorism? What we’re basically saying here, by being so puritanical with the do-not-make-fun-respect-sept.11 rhetoric is that american lives have more value than anyone elses. Personally, I don’t think this is true.Also I dislike how so much of the sept. 11 speil involves invoking god. I just got an email from someone at my work (from a different office) all about praying for the souls of the victims and the brave men and women wreaking havoc (allowed because hey, the americans are in PAIN damn it, clearly that’s a reason to police the world throwing out any conventions adn doing precisely as they please from now on) in military campaigns, and above all remember that god was there that day.well bully for you but whats the difference between a christian religious zealot and a muslim religious zealot, other than we’re all supposed to be REALLY REALLY scared of one of them.
Many people do not care about who they are offending. It is more important for them to get the laughs and attention they crave that they did not get from their mommies and daddies during childhood. So next time just give them the “you are so pathetic” look and hope they go away. And/Or put a voo doo double whammie on them and maybe fleas from a thousand camels will infest their armpits.
oh please. it’s not like they were cracking jokes at a memorial service or something like that! it was at a trivia night- which one can assume took place in a bar or at the very least a casual relaxed atmosphere. where people go to laugh. and where humour can sometimes be rude, crude, or edgy.this is what I meant- people make innappropriate jokes about all sorts of things, allt he time. but not sept. 11. never sept. 11. WHY NOT? what makes that so special, and so sacred? Particularly in light of more serious issues (AIDs springs to mind, which has officially been declared funny by south park) not having that same shroud of hushed reverence.
Bahahaha. It never ceases to amaze me the people who come on here and rant a) about things that are obvious b) completely miss the point of the bitchOf course more people died TODAY from starvation, etc. then those in the September 11 attacks, but thanks for the reminder Captain Obvious. The point of the bitch was not to encourage people to “bow down” and “mourn” but to have some fucking respect for the people that might be doing so. Would it have been ok for people to make a team name saying “Steve’s dad died in 2001, haha what a loser”? The point is that there IS A FUCKING LINE FOLKS, and certain thing do cross that line. And for the word police … please for the love of god find something better to do with your time. Either that or try and get on the payroll as an editor for the Coast. You bring nothing to the table, absolutely nothing.
Yes, and my point was that sure there’s a line but why is it so fucking high when it comes to Sept. 11?they were at a trivia night. at a bar (probably as that’s where most of thsoe are held). It WASN’T a memorial serivce or any other venue where once can reasonably expect people to be offended by slightly off colour humour.
I wasn’t criticizing your spelling Hedgy, I had to spell check it myself. I just like a good poop joke 😛
oh yeah I know. I mock my own spelling :)and just to continue my little rant for the afternoon: people make off colour jokes ALL THE TIME particularly in bars and the like, at events like that that are supposed to be fun. so why is the op getting their nickers in a knot over this becuase someone made a little titter about Sept. 11?my who rant spun out of my bafflement as to why that one event has to be so sacred when other, more important, more devestating, and more globally relevent events and issues are poked fun at all the time without issue. or you know I could just be telling the OP to get a thicker skin and get over it 😉
If we lose the ability to make comedy from even our greatest tragedies, then the terrorists have won…
“I am all for freedom of speech””so shut the fuck up”Very interesting personal philosophy you’ve got there.
This bitch makes me sad. What has society come to when NUMEROUS people will get on here and make light of a situation which was tragic and painful to so many. Essentailly people are DEFENDING rudeness and insensitivity. 9/11 does not stand alone and there are obviously many, many other tradgedies that have taken place in the 20th and 21st century, but when did it become okay to mock them? Censorship is not the way to go, but that DOESN’T make the opposite of censorship right. What ever happened to common decency, manners and plain old respect? I am not a religious zealot, nor am I an American sensationalist, simply a person who values decency. It is a very, very sad day when racsism, sexism, and outright bigotry are defined as “comedy”. Please set higher standards for yourselves.
Nothing is Sacred. Mockery has no limits.old saying:Fuck you if you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t be here.
exactly floyd. when you can’t cry anymore, you have to laugh; it’s what truely makes us an open society, I think.