Who's up for some 'politically incorrect' jokes? :-p

[Glaucus]

Responses such as those by Glaucus will not be tolerated.

Why's that? I thought my jokes were the funnies jokes of all! You can't take what you dish out eh? Bunch of cry babies!

Of course my intent here was to simply demomnstrate how one man's joke - no matter how harmless it might seem - can be another man's insult. Remember, some people - for example gays - have to live a life where everyone makes fun of gays. I'm sure that can't be very confidence building. These jokes do nothing more then to re-enforce some rather nasty stereotypes. In that sense, it doesn't matter how funny they are!

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Wayne wrote:
Mike?

That's me! :-D

No one here gives a royal {bleep} whether you are gay, straight, or a sheep fetishist such as our favorite CTO. It's only your own weak skin and tepid sensibilities that are at issue and there isn't a damned thing that we should have to do about that.

Well, I'm not any of those, so I wasn't directly offended. However, I did notice that several of my fellow forum members, some of which happen to be homosexual, did not appreciate the homosexual jokes. Like I said before, these play on old stereotypes, the very same stereotypes some people use to justify fag-bashing. The jokes depicting Jews as cheap and obsessed with money are exactly the same stereotypes the Nazis exploited to justify their "final solution" to the "Jewish problem". Perhaps you feel these stereotypes truly are harmless, I'm trying to tell you that they are not.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

After creating the coffee house forums, I truly thought it would get better, but if anything, it's getting worse and the veracious (and mostly badgeringly intimidating) wacko liberals have literally run off the brightest and most constructive members of this site (and the community).

Excuse me there Wayne, but who has been run-off? Believe me, there's no conspiracy to run off anyone. And if there is, I'm not involved in it, nor would I.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

if the coffee house threads seem to be much larger than everything else, it's only because most of us were bidding our time until there was something solid to sink out teeth into.

Yeah, that's how I see it too. I too don't really use my A4000 any more, and rarely even use WinUAE anymore. However, I always check the news on the site, but I find I rarely take part in Amiga specific discussions. However, I expect that as more people get OS4, more people will have questions about it, along with genuine interest in the platform, and I would be surprised if the Amiga forums don't turn around with time.

Fact is, the Amiga-user community has gotten a lot smaller rather quickly, and few people use the old Amiga hardware anymore. Taking away the Coffee House isn't gonna change that I'm afraid. If anything, it's the Coffee House that keeps me in touch with the Amiga and it's community. Take away that and I'll have little reason to keep comming back.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

after looking at the pic (which is made from small pics of nakid WE-men.

So which one is you???  ;-)

  - Mike