So. I'm a bad person. I try not to be. But sometimes I come up with really wrong ideas. Because this place is a bit different from Normal Society, I censor out a lot less stuff than I do in the Real World, but sometimes I censor myself nonetheless. Just now I had a wonderful troll all lined up and ready to release on y'all. I was as I was typing it and all ready to click "send". But then I went too far. As I typed the last sentence or two, I was like , and I wound up deleting it. I'm curious if anyone else has that. Do you ever get something all ready to go and then stop yourself? Are there some things that are taboo, even for Wordforge? Inquiring minds want to know. Oh, and why'd they stop printing "The Weekly World News"? That was the only supermarket tabloid worth a damn. Was it just not profitable? If so, Congress should've stepped in and gave them a grant. I mean if there was ever a reason for the National Endowment for the Arts, "The Weekly World News" was it. That rag was beautiful.
I would bet lots of people do that. Even here, where you can ride a little closer to the Id, discretion is often the better part of valor.
I do, but it's usually because either I don't think it'll be funny or because I don't think it's worth arguing about in the long run. It would explain my post count after being here since the beginning.
I do that occasionally--though not generally trolling per se. Mainly because I decide that it's not as funny/witty/insightful as I'd like, or because I realize whatever I wrote will open up a shitload of stuff that I don't have the time or inclination to deal with.
Oh, no. This was good. But it was possibly too much. Sorta like back when Saturday Night Live was funny and they did fake game shows like "Jew/Not a Jew" or "The Blame Game", or when they did the "Stalk Talk" talk show. But--wait--"South Park" is a better analogy. Sometimes they do some pretty fucked up shit on "South Park". They've never crossed the line with me, but that's because you have to try pretty hard to offend me, but like in the movie, where they had Ghandi, burning in Hell. I was almost, kinda offended by that. Oh, or when Howard Stern wanted to call his autobiography "Mein Kampf" or when he wanted to do a parody of "The Candy Man" as "The Cancer Man" on the day Sammy Davis Jr. died. Those were arguably pretty funny, but probably went too far and he wisely didn't do them.
Bah. I don't have the time right now to post it. And by the time I do, I may have forgotten it. But it had everything: Blacks. Jews. Nazis. The Civil War. Mythbusters. It was a thing of beauty. But it crossed the line when I got to the bit about taking your kid to the pound to get him a stray Negro.
And educational - that "map of the universe" tatoo on the newborn baby will really come in handy someday.
Sometimes I'll have something half typed, and realize I (1) don't want to deal with whatever argument will follow, or (2) don't care enough about the person I'm answering to follow through.
