Classic tinyE!

I thought the topic title was a command, and was all set to go off and carry it out, when I realized that that wouldn't be accidental. I knew I would feel so dishonest lying about it being an accident that I couldn't go through with it. =(

She might not forgive you but Jesus will.

Jesus saves, at Vatican Bank.

We lost our Granny not too long ago and I don't understand why people mope over such things. She lived, she had great grand kids that she loved and passed on quietly of an illness. What did we do at her funeral? We sat with a drink, fish and chips and laughed about all our good times.

Don't feel bad for making an ill timed joke. People die, that's life. If they want to be a depressing sack of shite about it, that is not your fault.

Things like these happens everytime! That's the life! Have you ever seen Seinfeld? Sometimes there is no way to dodge misunderstandings. They just happens

Cheer up!

Yup. That reminds me of a funny story...

Many many years ago some friends and I were hanging out at this girl's house and watching TV. At the time it was quite common for just about everyone to do Mom burns (ie: opportunistically saying "so does your mom" humourously). A girl there said something that was a perfect setup for a mom burn so I said "So's your mom" and everyone bust out laughing because it was pretty funny. She got up and said "My mom is dead!" and left the room and went to her bedroom and slammed the door.

At that point you could hear a pin drop for about 10 seconds... then my buddy pipes up to break the silence and says "was it a painful death?" and everyone cracked up again. Of course the girl was far away and couldn't hear that. :)

Her room mate told us that her mom died long ago and that she was just using the mom burn as an opportunity to make everyone feel uncomfortable over the joke statement I made in order to get attention, and that she did that sort of thing all the time with other stuff as well.

I'd never knowingly say something of that nature that might upset someone on purpose, and I'd feel bad if in a similar situation to the OP, however these days a lot of people love to analyse every single word we say in order to try to find a way to interpret something we've said as if it was not only offensive, but purposefully targeted them to hurt their feelings or whatever just so that they can get attention and play the victim role and milk it for all it's worth - pretending to be offended when they aren't actually offended at all and nothing was actually offended nor targeted at them.

Hmm, seems like what I've noticed happen in the news mediums from journalists, especially when the journalists do that with anything said by government officials. To me, it seems like a psychological issue of whichever journalist and nothing to do with whomever they are quoting. Overly used approach for sensationalizing.

Yup, pretty much.

Years ago I was in an IRC chat channel and some person was sharing a story about some woman he knew (not in IRC) who was fat. Nobody in the channel knew anything about him nor the woman he was talking about really, just a random conversation much like we're having here. He was talking about her in a humourous manner poking fun at her weight. It made me think of the comedian Denis Leary who has a comedy bit he does about people who are fat, so I copped some of his lines and threw them out there. I said something like... "Holy bucket of KFC Batman Put the fork down... Stop... eating... :o)" -- contributing to the joke pool about this unknown person being fat like a half dozen other people were as well, none of us knowing the woman. It was totally benign humour much like occurs in the forums here most of the time.

The guy's response? He called me a racist! I was like WTF??? He totally went off on me, and I wasn't the only one wondering what the hell he found racist about anything I said whatsoever. It took a few minutes to find out what the hell he was smoking, but it turns out that it was my mention of "KFC" that set him off. Apparently you can't mention KFC in any conversation on the Internet because it is a form of racism because unbeknownst to me up until that point - allegedly it is considered a racial stereotype towards black people. That's the first I had ever heard of that in my life first of all. Second of all, we were in an *IRC CHAT ROOM* where nobody knows what anyone else looks like, what colour their skin is, where they are from let alone some woman that isn't even there to begin with. It turns out that the woman he was talking about happened to be a black woman, so therefore me suggesting this unknown woman that I don't even know the race of - eating KFC is thus automatically racism.

I mean seriously - what the fuck. There was absolutely zero information about what anyone's race was discussed anywhere. Talk about fucking hair triggered people willing to jump on the slightest word to use as a race card to actually INCITE racism. Needless to say, people went up one side of him and down the other over that while I just shook my head wondering WTF.

I mean, what if I say "I'll be back in a bit guys, I'm going to go grab a cup of tea." is someone out there going to consider a certain race of people drink lots of tea so therefore mentioning tea means you're a racist? That'd be about the same stupid illogic at work really. But there are all types out there with that sort of stupidity, and from all races and walks of life. Best we can do is just ignore their BS and not give them attention they so desperately crave. :)

People who matter in your life will forgive you for saying hurtful things and those who don't forgive you don't matter in your life.

I want to get this as a neck tattoo in cursive font.

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That was funny! Is it from something like Python?

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You're only a whisker away from negative rep, well done to the E.

I'll be here if you need someone to talk to.