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StrongBad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:35 PM
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Discussion: Is this advertisement funny or offensive?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_billboard_flap_jonestown_3#mwpphu-container

My vote: Funny as hell! But it seems like quite a few people in the comments think that it's offensive...
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:36 PM
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1. You know why jokes about the Jonestown massacre never caught on?
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 04:37 PM by CBGLuthier
The punch lines were too long.
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City of Mills Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:15 PM
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9. OK, I LOLed
But I feel bad...
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:38 PM
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2. I hate that I'm laughing at this...
...and your first reply. :rofl:
Duckie
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:47 PM
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3. I think it's very insensitive at best and offensive at worst.
There's nothing funny about 900+ people dead from drinking cyanide laced kool-aid, especially when some of those were children and babies.

Maybe there are some who were too young to remember the horror of that event.
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CBGLuthier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:49 PM
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4. Remember every horrible detail including the two movies about it.
Still think the ad is funny.

I am quite sure some poor bastard died once slipping on a banana peel. Life sucks. Learn to laugh at it.
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StrongBad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:54 PM
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5. I think 30+ years is sufficient time to pass to allow for some dark humor...
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:59 PM
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6. They should follow it up with some rib-ticklers about slavery and
the Holocaust.
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StrongBad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 05:04 PM
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7. If done with cunning wit sans racism I'd be down
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Curmudgeoness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:07 PM
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8. I think it is pretty clever. nt
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:44 PM
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10. meh
can be both, really

drinking the koolaid is in the lexicon now, don't think that is going to change

they probably should have left off the "to die for"
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:45 PM
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11. Number one: It's just not funny. If it were, THAT sometimes trumps offensive...
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...but this is just stupid and ill-advised.
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Now, the joke in the first reply?
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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May Hamm Donating Member (244 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:22 PM
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12. Nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned

Some folks just have to look for "what's wrong with this picture" every minute of the day.

I am well old enough and do recall Jonestown but since I don't take everything personally all I see is just another advertisement. It wasn't until I read this discussion that I made any connection. Nothing is good enough for those who insist of being perpetually offended.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:56 PM
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14. Life could be oh so grim...
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 11:56 PM by MiddleFingerMom
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...if we'd only make it so.
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some guy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:27 PM
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13. I laughed.
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