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Title: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Fragamemnon on September 11, 2009, 01:58:48 PM
Every forum I know has an inane Sept. 11th thread, so I figured I'd make one here with a bit of Bore zing.

For me, I was making jokes with a kitchen lighter and those tower-like bags of saltines two days later.

So EB, when did your depraved sense of humor begin to come to grasp and help you cope with the events of 9/11?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 11, 2009, 02:07:18 PM
Uh, forever.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2009, 02:08:19 PM
I don't joke about it.  I don't like to think about it for long either, makes me tear up.  :'(
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: cool breeze on September 11, 2009, 02:12:39 PM
um, I don't really have a reason to on a regular basis, but I guess when that movie about the crashed flight came out.  Flight ### or something.  That was more just joking about the movie than anything else.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Fragamemnon on September 11, 2009, 02:13:48 PM
My sense of humor is even blacker than I thought .  :-\
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 11, 2009, 02:16:02 PM
De-icon, leper
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: cool breeze on September 11, 2009, 02:16:33 PM
If it makes you feel better, I had friends who would fly the passenger plane from San Andreas into tall buildings while pretending to speak Arabic.  But that was 2004 or 05.

It was doubly awkward because of the act itself and I'm Persian (close enough...yeah)
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2009, 02:19:08 PM
The day after, but I'm not American so I don't know if it counts.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Fragamemnon on September 11, 2009, 02:20:23 PM
Yeah I wanted to emphasize that it was my way of coping with the events. There was no malice or mean-spiritedness involved, but it was sort of helpful for me to deal with the whole tragedy thing. My roommate at the time was horrified but saw where I was coming from (as he knew me well).

Edit: Didn't realize that it was an still such an open wound. My apologies for being insensitive.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 11, 2009, 02:23:49 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on September 11, 2009, 02:24:00 PM
oops

where is delete post
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 11, 2009, 02:31:40 PM
We were suppose to wait before making off-colour remarks?  oops. 
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Brehvolution on September 11, 2009, 02:35:28 PM
I don't joke about it.  I don't like to think about it for long either, makes me tear up.  :'(
Same. If anything comes on TV about it, I change the channel.
Although I did smirk at the Hulk Hogan version for some reason.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: ManaByte on September 11, 2009, 02:37:52 PM
Quote
Hijackers Surprised To Find Selves In Hell
'We Expected Eternal Paradise For This,' Say Suicide Bombers

JAHANNEM, OUTER DARKNESS—The hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon expressed confusion and surprise Monday to find themselves in the lowest plane of Na'ar, Islam's Hell.

"I was promised I would spend eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden, if only I would fly the airplane into one of the Twin Towers," said Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, between attempts to vomit up the wasps, hornets, and live coals infesting his stomach. "But instead, I am fed the boiling feces of traitors by malicious, laughing Ifrit. Is this to be my reward for destroying the enemies of my faith?"

The rest of Atta's words turned to raw-throated shrieks, as a tusked, asp-tongued demon burst his eyeballs and drank the fluid that ran down his face.

According to Hell sources, the 19 eternally damned terrorists have struggled to understand why they have been subjected to soul-withering, infernal torture ever since their Sept. 11 arrival.

"There was a tumultuous conflagration of burning steel and fuel at our gates, and from it stepped forth these hijackers, the blessed name of the Lord already turning to molten brass on their accursed lips," said Iblis The Thrice-Damned, the cacodemon charged with conscripting new arrivals into the ranks of the forgotten. "Indeed, I do not know what they were expecting, but they certainly didn't seem prepared to be skewered from eye socket to bunghole and then placed on a spit so that their flesh could be roasted by the searing gale of flatus which issues forth from the haunches of Asmoday."
 Attack On America Icon

"Which is strange when you consider the evil with which they ended their lives and those of so many others," added Iblis, absentmindedly twisting the limbs of hijacker Abdul Aziz Alomari into unspeakably obscene shapes.

"I was told that these Americans were enemies of the one true religion, and that Heaven would be my reward for my noble sacrifice," said Alomari, moments before his jaw was sheared away by faceless homunculi. "But now I am forced to suckle from the 16 poisoned leathern teats of Gophahmet, Whore of Betrayal, until I burst from an unwholesome engorgement of curdled bile. This must be some sort of terrible mistake."

Exacerbating the terrorists' tortures, which include being hollowed out and used as prophylactics by thorn-cocked Gulbuth The Rampant, is the fact that they will be forced to endure such suffering in sight of the Paradise they were expecting.

"It might actually be the most painful thing we can do, to show these murderers the untold pleasures that would have awaited them in Paradise, if only they had lived pious lives," said Praxitas, Duke of Those Willingly Led Astray. "I mean, it's tough enough being forced through a wire screen by the callused palms of Halcorym and then having your entrails wound onto a stick and fed to the toothless, foul-breathed swine of Gehenna. But to endure that while watching the righteous drink from a river of wine? That can't be fun."

Underworld officials said they have not yet decided on a permanent punishment for the terrorists.

"Eventually, we'll settle on an eternal and unending task for them," said Lord Androalphus, High Praetor of Excruciations. "But for now, everyone down here wants a crack at them. The legions of fang-wombed hags will take their pleasure on their shattered carcasses for most of this afternoon. Tomorrow, their flesh will be melted from their bones like wax in the burning embrace of the Mother of Cowards. The day after that, they'll be sodomized by the Fallen and their bowels shredded by a demonic ejaculate of burning sand. Then, on Sunday, Satan gets them all day. I can't even imagine what he's got cooked up for them."

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38673
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Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Robo on September 11, 2009, 02:37:57 PM
It's difficult to avoid laughing at the Hulk Hogan thing.  I think that was the very first time I enjoyed an off-color Sept. 11th joke.  Can't say I've laughed at many after -- not necessarily because it's a sensitive subject, but because they're not funny.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 02:40:21 PM
It's difficult to avoid laughing at the Hulk Hogan thing.  I think that was the very first time I enjoyed an off-color Sept. 11th joke.  Can't say I've laughed at many after -- not necessarily because it's a sensitive subject, but because they're not funny.

I can agree with this.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 02:44:33 PM
[youtube=560,345]FaidaE1ZxrI[/youtube]

For me, it was probably a couple days, but as others have noted it was done in a manner to cope with the attacks.  On the purely intellectual level, I had known for years that it was just a matter of time before something like this happened as a result of our meddlesome foreign policy, but I had always expected it to be a bomb in a subway or something like that.  Flying planes into buildings was pretty shocking, which is why I'm sure they did that as opposed to strapping bombs to themselves and then going to a mall or something.

It was probably a couple of years before I started making fun of people who were obviously using 9/11 to achieve some end, whether monetary or political.  These days "remember 9/11!" is kind of a punch line that me and a couple friends say to each other whenever someone says something stupid and hides behind patriotism to do it.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 02:47:15 PM
uh i dont think i ever have
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: rodi on September 11, 2009, 02:54:23 PM
I didn't until I was forced to attend a bonfire while they played Gladiator theme songs in the background. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at the army's take on tacky.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 02:58:45 PM
Might as well post it

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/chr1s2w3bby/hulk-hogan-9-11.jpg)
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Beezy on September 11, 2009, 02:59:03 PM
I don't joke about it.  I don't like to think about it for long either, makes me tear up.  :'(
Same here. I don't tear up, but I don't like thinking about it. NYC wasn't the same for a few days.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 11, 2009, 03:04:21 PM
Same here, Borys. Same here.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 03:08:24 PM
yeah that is pretty fucking funny, but i cant remember a time when i myself ever made a joke
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tieno on September 11, 2009, 03:10:29 PM
Don't know, but pretty fast. One of the first jokes I really remember because it was so damn funny at the time was when someone mockingly said she wouldn't let her twins stand next to each other out of respect for what happened on september the 11th. It was in an online petition protesting the title Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and the accompanying poster.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: ManaByte on September 11, 2009, 03:11:45 PM
Good thing they changed it to The Two Towers, eh?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tieno on September 11, 2009, 03:12:30 PM
Good thing they changed it to The Two Towers, eh?
typo  :-*
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Reb on September 11, 2009, 03:23:11 PM
I donīt make jokes.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2009, 03:24:36 PM
Yeah I wanted to emphasize that it was my way of coping with the events. There was no malice or mean-spiritedness involved, but it was sort of helpful for me to deal with the whole tragedy thing. My roommate at the time was horrified but saw where I was coming from (as he knew me well).

Edit: Didn't realize that it was an still such an open wound. My apologies for being insensitive.

No need dude, I saw where you said as a coping mechanism.   :)

I don't joke about it.  I don't like to think about it for long either, makes me tear up.  :'(
Same here. I don't tear up, but I don't like thinking about it. NYC wasn't the same for a few days.

Whateva son, even gangstas gotta cry sometimes. :pimp
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 11, 2009, 03:39:52 PM
i went downtown for halloween with a bunch of people that year, and the club we went to had a costume contest

this couple walked onto the stage dressed as, no lie, the twin towers, with little flags all around

they were booed off the stage

everyone else i was with seemed righteously offended at the crass attempt to win "bags of schwag" off the tragedy - but i found myself laughing at the thought that this couple was so goddamned stupid it hadn't even occurred to them once while making the costumes (and they were fairly elaborate) that this was probably a bad idea
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: jiji on September 11, 2009, 03:51:51 PM
I never have. My sense of humor doesn't really run that way.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:17:54 PM
The day it happened.

As a 15 year old teenager I was just so damn happy it let me out of band practice.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 04:22:13 PM
as half a thousand people were trapped over a 5 story wide fireball and dozens of people were jumping to their deaths and having their faces melted off in trapped elevators, if they only knew that some selfish band geek somewhere was thinking "yes i got out of band nerd practice YES" :usacry
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:23:15 PM
as half a thousand people were trapped over a 5 story wide fireball and dozens of people were jumping to their deaths and having their faces melted off in trapped elevators, if they only knew that some selfish band geek somewhere was thinking "yes i got out of band nerd practice YES" :usacry

And then I went to Mupepe's and we played dreamcast the rest of the afternoon.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 11, 2009, 04:28:38 PM
That day is kind of anniversary for a family tragedy, in addition to September 11th, so we don't talk about it much.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on September 11, 2009, 04:30:47 PM
I don't have empathy for people I don't know personally, so a few minutes.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:31:04 PM
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I never really made jokes about 9/11, but as a naive little teenager, for some reason I thought the US would find out who it was and capture them, I didn't expect us to go to war or anything.

The only thing I've ever found funny about 9/11 is that Hulk photoshop, which is absolutely hilarious.

I'm a very patriotic guy, so I never found a direct assault on my country funny. I was naive to think we wouldn't go to war, though. That said, I was NEVER sympathetic towards to those that died. It's hard for me to ever feel the least bit of emotion for someone I didn't know who died.
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Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 11, 2009, 04:33:04 PM
I remember in grade 10 (2003?) a LA teacher of mine discussing how we don't really care for the victims of tragedies (we were talking about 911 in particular) but instead have a certain fascination with death.  I remember it being a rather good discussion. 
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:35:22 PM
I thought the hold hands thing after 9/11 was distinguished mentally-challenged. The songs, the singing, the hand holding. I guess I'd be more into that if I actually lived in NYC at the time.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2009, 04:40:20 PM
I thought the hold hands thing after 9/11 was distinguished mentally-challenged. The songs, the singing, the hand holding. I guess I'd be more into that if I actually lived in NYC at the time.

 :interracial
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Don Flamenco on September 11, 2009, 04:46:32 PM
I don't make fun of the event itself, but I always say shit like:
"Let me get a bite of that"
"Naw man I'm starving and that's gross"
"I can't believe you'd turn me down on the 8th year and 5 month anniversary of 9/11."

just making fun of the way people ran with it to further their own causes.  but that's only on the internet and with friends who I know will get that I'm not belittling the event. 

It's like aids and the holocaust/hitler jokes...it's not undermining the event, instead, the humor comes from the irony.  I guess.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 11, 2009, 04:47:03 PM
Nothing funny about it. Anyway in terms of what I was doing on that day..

I was homeschooled at the time; I had just finished studying and decided to take a break, turning the tv on. The first plane had already hit, and I assumed it was a horrible accident. Then the second plane hit. It took me awhile to realize what I had just seen, then I remembered my mom was in Chicago visiting relatives. She had told us she was going to go to the Willis Building there, and I remember getting scared as shit wondering if that build was going to be attacked as well
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:52:23 PM
You used to live in NYC?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Don Flamenco on September 11, 2009, 04:53:53 PM
I saw it on....AOL.   8)    I was up around 9, so both had already hit.  The guy I was in the room with started cracking up in disbelief, which was very surreal.  
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:54:22 PM
I saw it on....AOL.   8)    I was up around 9, so both had already hit.  The guy I was in the room with started cracking up in disbelief, which was very surreal. 

 :-\
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 04:54:49 PM
Move to America, Jin.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 04:55:21 PM
KILL YOUR PARENTS GET HIGH ON DRUGS
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Don Flamenco on September 11, 2009, 05:01:46 PM
I saw it on....AOL.   8)    I was up around 9, so both had already hit.  The guy I was in the room with started cracking up in disbelief, which was very surreal. 

 :-\


was it the AOL part?  :lol   or the laughing...the latter was honest disbelief "this can't be happening" kind of laughter.  He pulled himself together when he realized his mom might be in the area. 

Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on September 11, 2009, 05:21:50 PM
I don't usually joke about 9/11 but I remember the first time being able to laugh about it was when I read The Onion's take on the event a day or two after.  Some pretty funny stuff.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 05:35:59 PM
i was a freshman in highschool and in 2nd period french class, the principal came over the pa and told everyone to turn on the tv, both of the buildings were already burning and collapsed 10 minutes later,my teacher was shocked when it happened, i had no idea what i was watching because i didnt even know the buildings existed until that day
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: OptimoPeach on September 11, 2009, 05:42:45 PM
Count me in the "laughter as a coping mechanism" camp. To this day I still feel bad for laughing at the image of one of the teachers wearing an Uncle Sam hat, waving a giant flag, and bawling like a giant baby as they blared PROUD TEH BE AN AMERICAN through the speakers. Then again, I was pretty young, and this guy was the biggest asshole of a teacher I've ever encountered.

I think I was legitimately terrified of any planes flying overhead for a while, though.

These days "remember 9/11!" is kind of a punch line that me and a couple friends say to each other whenever someone says something stupid and hides behind patriotism to do it.
I nearly rolled my eyes out of my head when I went to ninjavideo last night and saw that one of the distinguished mentally-challenged mods had posted a rambling, preachy livejournal about the event and included with it a myriad of 9/11-related movies :lol
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 05:52:40 PM
yeah ive been watching some of those, 102 minutes that changed america is good but i cant get part 2 to work, phone calls from the towers was disappointing, im surprised she put up conspiracy theory movies though ::)
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 05:56:01 PM
I saw it on....AOL.   8)    I was up around 9, so both had already hit.  The guy I was in the room with started cracking up in disbelief, which was very surreal. 

 :-\


was it the AOL part?  :lol   or the laughing...the latter was honest disbelief "this can't be happening" kind of laughter.  He pulled himself together when he realized his mom might be in the area. 



The laughing part.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Brehvolution on September 11, 2009, 06:02:05 PM
It's such a site to see so many people proudly waving their American flags that were made in China.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2009, 06:11:47 PM
Whateva son, even gangstas gotta cry sometimes. :pimp

(http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/images2/drdoomtears.jpg)

9/11 comics :bow2
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:12:15 PM
:rofl :rofl
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 06:16:52 PM
Whateva son, even gangstas gotta cry sometimes. :pimp

(http://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/images2/drdoomtears.jpg)

9/11 comics :bow2

DOCTOR DOOM?  REALLY?

... :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:19:07 PM
that is AMAZING every time i see it
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: brawndolicious on September 11, 2009, 06:19:36 PM
I don't remember making any specific jokes that but one of my Iranian friends had a birthday on September 11 and a few days later, he and some other friends went into a Starbucks wearing Arab headdresses, making everybody walked out.  I thought that was one of the funniest things ever, mostly because they didn't think it would be so insulting (I don't know to who it is actually insulting but apparently it was offensive).

Oh and off-topic but I was much more angry about the general change in attitude/armchair patriotism everybody seemed to be feeling.  That was a much longer "tragedy" though.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:22:06 PM
Were you and your friends actually expecting to go out in public on 9/11 wearing arabic head-dresses (turbans) and NOT cause a scene?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 06:23:16 PM
go wash your ass crack with a flower sprinkler

THESE COLORS DONT RUN (except when you cry on them) :usacry
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:24:13 PM
I knew an indian guy in 4th grade who wore a turban and never showered ever
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: brawndolicious on September 11, 2009, 06:30:49 PM
Were you and your friends actually expecting to go out in public on 9/11 wearing arabic head-dresses (turbans) and NOT cause a scene?
No, the point was to cause a scene.

Actually, wearing a turban might have been worse since Sikhs were actually getting beaten up after 9/11.  My friends were wearing these (http://www.lynchs.com/images/2208.jpg) and I guess their goal was to just make light of the event, not actually insult the people who died or anything.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:33:02 PM
So your friends are idiots. Okay.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 06:35:45 PM
I guess their goal was to just make light of the event, not actually insult the people who died or anything.

people dying WAS the event
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:36:03 PM
A bunch of Arab dude's going into Starbucks wearing Arab clothes on 9/11 to tease a bunch of white people is the equivalent a white dude going into a black neighborhood wearing a shirt that says "nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger" from head to toe.

They're lucky they didn't get japped.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 11, 2009, 06:38:07 PM
They're lucky they didn't get japped.

you better edit that out before lyte edge comes in here :wag
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: OptimoPeach on September 11, 2009, 06:38:33 PM
:lol Come on now, FoC could probably come up with a better comparison than that
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:38:38 PM
Fuck em

:lol Come on now, FoC could probably come up with a better comparison than that

:lol Of course, dude.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2009, 06:40:08 PM
Respect their culture Himuro you racist asshole.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:40:43 PM
What does racism have to do with anything?

There's a line between culture and common fucking sense.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:43:24 PM
As an aside, I have no problem with Arab people wearing their cultural garb, just like I have no problem with an Mexican wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.

But according amnintendho, they didn't do it to celebrate his birthday, they did it to make "light" of the situation.

That makes no sense.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 11, 2009, 06:45:21 PM
i was walking to get sausages (not a joke), grabbed a beer and saw the world trade center was on fire, saw the second plane hit.

I was actually watching Fox News, when they reported a plane had hit and had some guy on a roof talking about it - that's when I saw the second plane hit live.

When the Pentagon crash happened, D.C. went into organized chaos mode. So many unconfirmed rumors. I mean, there were reports of bombs going off in the Metro and everything.

I actually started the GAF thread about 9/11.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 11, 2009, 06:45:35 PM
I'm just joking Himumu chill.

I remember a kid walking into class and screaming a missile just hit one of the twin towers and every one was like wtf? them I get home and there was a loop of the planes hitting the towers and they falling in pretty much every channel even cartoon fucking network.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 11, 2009, 06:48:45 PM
I was at my place in Atlanta that morning.  My gf at the time had slept over, and we got up around the same time- me to go to work, her to go home and get ready for school.  My roomie was in the living room watching tv and he said "looks like some idiot flew a plane into the WTC".  Just looking at the first tower, we thought it was something small like a cesna or something.  I got to work and my gf called me to tell me that the second plane had hit.  A very, very surreal day.  My employees whined about having to come in, scared they were gonna be attacked on their way or something.  Crazy, crazy day.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 11, 2009, 06:58:16 PM
Yeah, I think everyone had this crazed overreaction - as if thousands of hijacked planes and dirty bombs would attack Americans all over the country!

It didn't help that almost all local news outlets were reporting any unsubstantiated rumor the press desk received.

I live in close proximity to D.C. and it was chilling to see aircraft flying overhead all day, including a trio of helicopters that I could only assume were on their way to or from Camp David.

It also happened to be the first day my mother and brother were home after being in police custody, because of their involvement in a fatal car accident just two days prior. It was my mother's birthday, and despite a lot of emotional trauma, she was attempting to go to work.

That idea pretty much got canned when the second tower got hit. I remember they cancelled my college classes, so I was grounded that day. And with all these reports of attacks in downtown D.C., my mother refused to let my brother take the Metro to visit his uncle in Northwest D.C.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 06:59:53 PM
9/11 is your mother's birthday?

Oh man.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 11, 2009, 07:10:06 PM
Yeah. We usually do not celebrate her birthday on that day, not so much because of the terrorist attacks, but all the emotional trauma that the day brings up.

That Sunday prior, she was involved in a fatal car accident. We took two separate cars back from Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. As we were crossing Ocean City, some jerk riding a motorcycle had his girlfriend hitched on the back, and decided to cut off a boat trailer.

He hit the boat, the woman flew off and hit the pavement - dying instantly. My mom tried her best to swerve around, but ran over the woman. I got home and nobody was there, and since I did not have keys, I had to break into the house. By the time I got in, the answering machine had a tearful voicemail I could barely comprehend saying that she was at the police station being interviewed.

My brother and her finally got home on Monday night, and were determined to not let the ordeal bug them. Then Tuesday hit, and D.C. and New York got attacked. The next day, her brother had a severe accident at work and was rushed to the hospital. It was learned he had some medical ailment that required them to amputate both his legs. She was there to endure all that.

It was a rough week.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 11, 2009, 07:13:03 PM
Damn.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 11, 2009, 07:22:11 PM
I woke up around 10 that morning (eastern). News was playing on the radio (not a news station) and the first tower had just fallen. I was obviously glued to the television the rest of the morning. I remember going to Best Buy to buy the new POD album that dropped that day (and to this day I think that album was meant to come out that day), then going to work (I worked 1:30-10 back then), apparently numb to the fact that more than likely we would be closed. The reality of it, of course, hit me immediately as I drove into an empty parking lot. I remember stupidly asking the security guard who was there if we were closed despite having no reason to assume otherwise, and the guard gave me the well-deserved "duh" expression and then returned to his business. So I went back home, still numb, still in a state of disbelief, but already American flags were being prominently displayed in yards and on cars and I remember thinking over and over that nothing would ever be the same.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Brehvolution on September 11, 2009, 07:32:27 PM
I was on my way to work, listening to a morning comedy radio show. Right before I got to work, they said how a plane had hit one of the towers. I went in my office and turned on the tv and saw smoke from the building. I called my step dad in to check it out. We were talking about what a crazy accident it was. Then we watched the second plane hit the other tower and that is when we knew this was no accident. Not much work got done that day. We were glued to the tv.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: bork on September 11, 2009, 07:54:34 PM
They're lucky they didn't get japped.

you better edit that out before lyte edge comes in here :wag

Just couldn't stop, huh?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tauntaun on September 11, 2009, 08:03:18 PM
They're lucky they didn't get japped.

you better edit that out before lyte edge comes in here :wag

Just couldn't stop, huh?

It's a term of endearment now.  We're cool.  We're cool.   :-*
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 11, 2009, 09:23:39 PM
Making 9/11 jokes makes you such a badass.   ::) ::) ::)

Making jokes about 9/11 = cool
Making jokes about people getting fired from the gaming industry = go fuck yourself, die in a fire, etc. etc.

On 9/11, I was at school when it happened.  Bush supposedly visited an AFB that was near me that day.  We could hear airplanes but could not see them.  Pretty interesting.  Fun fact is that we still had football practice that day so we can get an edge in on a team that beat our asses anyway.  That is when we heard the airplanes.  9/11 was pretty surprising as most people didn't know it was going to happen.  I was getting tired of all the coverage by the third day, especially since there wasn't much that was new to report.

Eight years later, I don't have any real emotions towards 9/11.  The only problems I have these days regarding it are those that keep using it as a political tool and those that think it is funny to make themselves sound like elite badasses.  u r cool, we get it.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 11, 2009, 09:32:07 PM
just to clarify - i wasn't laughing at 9/11, i was laughing at the idiots who thought dressing up as the twin towers would win them a costume contest the month after it happened
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: brawndolicious on September 11, 2009, 10:11:22 PM
As an aside, I have no problem with Arab people wearing their cultural garb, just like I have no problem with an Mexican wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.

But according amnintendho, they didn't do it to celebrate his birthday, they did it to make "light" of the situation.

That makes no sense.
Both.  I don't think the joke was appropriate but it was funny in that they didn't know if people were going to laugh or shoot at them.  It was definitely a stupidly risky thing to do but I just don't care if some people feel offended by that.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: ToxicAdam on September 11, 2009, 11:44:55 PM
About an hour after it happened. I was stuck with a bunch of co-workers in a break room when it was occurring and we were all cracking jokes about the people falling out of the buildings.

Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 11, 2009, 11:47:02 PM
About an hour after it happened. I was stuck with a bunch of co-workers in a break room when it was occurring and we were all cracking jokes about the people falling out of the buildings.


ToxicAdam
My #1 Republican
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 12, 2009, 02:56:51 AM
i made fun of it while it was happening, then i went to gamestop and bought advance wars
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 12, 2009, 02:59:02 AM
NERD!
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on September 12, 2009, 03:04:52 AM
I swear I saw some other gaffer with the same story as prole.  Alt?

edit: But I think it was that day that I realised there may be something off about me.  I thought the whole plan was ingenious and didn't feel sad a bit for everyone that died.  But then I cried during the Iraqi footage during Fahrenheit 911 so I think I just hate white people.

EmceeGramr is white btw.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on September 12, 2009, 03:32:11 AM
TVC says:
 what am you up to
Prole says:
 trying to forget 9/11 until midnight but failing
 since i just now remembered it
TVC says:
 lol
Prole says:
 haha, my wife is mad because i brought it up and now SHE remembered!
 "you ruined it for me!"
TVC says:
 They cancelled tbtl on 9/11!
Prole says:
 now i WILL never forget 
 when people say "9/11, never forget" i will say "yeah, rip tbtl"
 wow, she's still mad
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: EmCeeGrammar on September 12, 2009, 03:33:48 AM
tbtl.... tbtl....hmmm
What's that?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 12, 2009, 03:34:25 AM
tbtl.... tbtl....hmmm
What's that?

Googled it. Too Beautiful To Live, radio show in Seattle. Cancelled today, it appears.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 12, 2009, 03:37:01 AM
Two nerdy confessions to make about 9/11:

1) Not long thereafter, I wondered what the attack would mean as far as the GameCube launch that November.
2) I was hoping the week of suspended baseball games would not be made up so Barry Bonds wouldn't pass 70 home runs.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Barry Egan on September 12, 2009, 03:43:05 AM
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/09/911cookie.jpg)

lol
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 12, 2009, 03:43:48 AM
"In light of 9/11 we at Nintendo have decided to postpone the release of the Nintendo Gamecube and remodel the controller so that the analog sticks look like miniature versions of the twin towers.  In remembrance. "

?
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 12, 2009, 03:47:55 AM
I wondered what the national appetite would be for an entertainment launch in light of the tragedy and the ongoing terrorist threat. Like I said, it was a nerdy confession.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 12, 2009, 03:49:09 AM
That is nerdy.   :lol
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bocsius on September 12, 2009, 03:50:59 AM
I was on the upswing as far as gaming nerdery went at that point. It probably peaked around early 05. Since then, it has been a steady decline.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 12, 2009, 10:14:24 AM
Two nerdy confessions to make about 9/11:

1) Not long thereafter, I wondered what the attack would mean as far as the GameCube launch that November.
2) I was hoping the week of suspended baseball games would not be made up so Barry Bonds wouldn't pass 70 home runs.

The GameCube launched in Japan the week of 9/11.  Sales were pitiful, making Nintendo fans believe that the low demand was caused by the terrorist attack.

I also wondered about how Jay-Z's The Blueprint would fare, since it came out around 9/11 too.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 12, 2009, 01:17:10 PM
silly T EXP, black people didn't care about 911!

[youtube=560,345]0Cv0NCaKB7A[/youtube]
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Himu on September 12, 2009, 01:20:30 PM
Two nerdy confessions to make about 9/11:

1) Not long thereafter, I wondered what the attack would mean as far as the GameCube launch that November.
2) I was hoping the week of suspended baseball games would not be made up so Barry Bonds wouldn't pass 70 home runs.

I was worried about Metal Gear Solid 2 since MGS2 took place in NYC!  :'(
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 12, 2009, 01:25:51 PM
not gonna lie, my friends and i were making jokes a half hour after we found out they collapsed.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: chronovore on September 14, 2009, 11:26:50 AM
Yeah. We usually do not celebrate her birthday on that day, not so much because of the terrorist attacks, but all the emotional trauma that the day brings up.

That Sunday prior, she was involved in a fatal car accident. We took two separate cars back from Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. As we were crossing Ocean City, some jerk riding a motorcycle had his girlfriend hitched on the back, and decided to cut off a boat trailer.

He hit the boat, the woman flew off and hit the pavement - dying instantly. My mom tried her best to swerve around, but ran over the woman. I got home and nobody was there, and since I did not have keys, I had to break into the house. By the time I got in, the answering machine had a tearful voicemail I could barely comprehend saying that she was at the police station being interviewed.

My brother and her finally got home on Monday night, and were determined to not let the ordeal bug them. Then Tuesday hit, and D.C. and New York got attacked. The next day, her brother had a severe accident at work and was rushed to the hospital. It was learned he had some medical ailment that required them to amputate both his legs. She was there to endure all that.

It was a rough week.

Wow, that's easily the worst not-directly-related-to the Towers 9/11 story I've ever heard. I feel bad for your mom.

And thanks to this thread, I've just realized that I've never made a joke about 9/11. Which is kind of weird, except not.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 14, 2009, 02:06:16 PM
It's a term of endearment now.  We're cool.  We're cool.   :-*

yeah, evidently we not cool, because i was banned for that post
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Reb on September 14, 2009, 02:09:47 PM
It's okay, nobody missed you.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 14, 2009, 02:24:14 PM
how about you hop off my dick, cowboy
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Reb on September 14, 2009, 02:32:30 PM
(http://cache.hyves-static.net/images/smilies/default/smiley_yawn.gif)
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on September 14, 2009, 02:34:44 PM
smh drew
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: drew on September 14, 2009, 02:45:05 PM
at least i dont want to cut off my genitalia

at least i have that
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Tauntaun on September 14, 2009, 03:33:57 PM
TVC says:
 what am you up to
Prole says:
 trying to forget 9/11 until midnight but failing
 since i just now remembered it
TVC says:
 lol
Prole says:
 haha, my wife is mad because i brought it up and now SHE remembered!
 "you ruined it for me!"
TVC says:
 They cancelled tbtl on 9/11!
Prole says:
 now i WILL never forget 
 when people say "9/11, never forget" i will say "yeah, rip tbtl"
wow, she's still mad

Is your wife gonna join the A-Team?   :o
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bloodwake on September 14, 2009, 04:23:53 PM
I really don't joke about 9/11.

I remember being in middle school and everyone freaking out because there was a plane in the air over my middle school that didn't respond to the FAA grounding all flights. Not fun. I was about the only one with a cool head in a middle school where about everyone was hitting the panic button.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bildi on September 15, 2009, 03:52:18 AM
I'm not American and I don't get offended by the jokes, but I'd rather not crack jokes about it.  That Hulk Hogan thing is kind of funny.

I donīt make jokes.

Amen.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Reb on September 15, 2009, 04:09:07 AM
I'm not American and I don't get offended by the jokes, but I'd rather not crack jokes about it.  That Hulk Hogan thing is kind of funny.

I donīt make jokes.

Amen.

I make love. :heart
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Bildi on September 15, 2009, 04:13:15 AM
You call that making love?

I guess you do make jokes after all.

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Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Boogie on September 15, 2009, 08:33:09 AM
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/09/911cookie.jpg)

lol

Quick, somebody e-mail that pic to the Loose Change guys!
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: lordmaji on September 15, 2009, 10:47:53 AM
the day it happened.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Agent Whiskers on September 15, 2009, 11:01:37 AM
Hah! 9/11. My last name is the same last name as one of the hijackers. Not even remotely related as our family name is one of the most common ones in Saudi.

I remember hearing from some of my friends and cousins back in Virginia being ridiculed, beaten on, spat at, damn near pissed on. My mother's friends were abused, interrogated, and had their homes broken into by police without running proper background checks.

Yeah, I got lucky.
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: lordmaji on September 15, 2009, 11:33:23 AM
Hah! 9/11. My last name is the same last name as one of the hijackers. Not even remotely related as our family name is one of the most common ones in Saudi.

I remember hearing from some of my friends and cousins back in Virginia being ridiculed, beaten on, spat at, damn near pissed on. My mother's friends were abused, interrogated, and had their homes broken into by police without running proper background checks.

Yeah, I got lucky.

that sucks. :(
Title: Re: How long did it take you to start making off-color remarks about Sept. 11th?
Post by: Diunx on September 15, 2009, 12:57:41 PM
That game still has the best name EVER.