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To: nickcarraway

Sophisticated humor may be beyond you, the understanding of it.

This is not a sin, nor any part of it.
You are merely simple.
Beloved are the simple.


4 posted on 04/25/2022 2:53:40 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: humblegunner
I understand the joke. There's just a question of appropriateness.

Maybe a standup in a club can get away with appropriateness. But a foodtruck advertising burgers, not so much.

7 posted on 04/25/2022 3:01:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: humblegunner
I understand the joke. There's just a question of appropriateness.

Example: Three weeks after 9/11 Gilbert Gottfried made a joke about 9/11 at a roast. Now, he did get booed, but he didn't get burned in effigy. And after a certain amount of time, standups could tell 9/11 jokes. Although some people probably never appreciated that.

But if a few weeks after 9/11 Burger King aired and saying something like, "Our burgers are so good, you'd go on Flight 93 to get one." People would have been livid, rightly so, and it would have been bad for Burger King.

A standup comedian, who is trying to be edgy can get away with one thing. People trying to sell a product can get away with a lot less.

8 posted on 04/25/2022 3:04:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: humblegunner

I had no idea who those people are. Had to look them up. Had to look the hamburger truck people too. Since when do food trucks advertise? Don’t they just go where people are?

Anyway, this is what I found most offensive: “We do vegetarian and gluten free options”

“Quick, I need to find a truck that has gluten free soy burgers. Yeah, I know it has wheels but I’ll drive to them. Hey, call that one with the ‘Have you seen me’ girl on it.”


12 posted on 04/25/2022 3:33:14 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: humblegunner

This is not sophisticated humor.
It’s trash, created by brainless people.
That they are given, and take money for it is a disgrace.


15 posted on 04/25/2022 5:35:47 PM PDT by _longranger81
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To: humblegunner

WHAT? In what world is this ad OKAY? YOURS, I guess. Not surprised about that. Crawl back under your rock.


17 posted on 04/25/2022 10:26:13 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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