I'm Killing Myself

Running on six forks can be quite dangerous.

Bear, I used to think a fork in the road meant this.



Good to see you're still around.

Reminds me of the time I called a hair salon, and without thinking, asked them how much a cut and a blowjob was.

BVT, don't give them too much grief. Remember these guys are working a really crappy minimum wage job (or slightly above minimum wage job if they're lucky).

I think the courts would have looked the other way (justifiable homicide) if she took the price scanner wand and beat you to death over your light joke of a remark. Just saying.

That's why you're so much better than me, and will be able to look down on me burning in the eternal pit and enjoy your moral superiority.

I think you are nuts, bluevein. Also funny.

It's good to get a chuckle now and then.

This reminds me of a joke a friend at work told the other day. He said, 'When my wife told me sex was getting to be a pain in the ass, I told her to turn the **** over.'

I laughed and laughed - however there were other women in the room who were not so amused, and another guy told the first guy - 'You better watch out, you'll get hit with sexual harrassment,' to which the joke-teller replied, 'Bring it on - I've been trying to get sexually harrassed ALL WEEK!'

I laughed and laughed again. Again, some of the other women didn't find that funny.

Then he said, 'Well, it's good to see that at least SOMEONE's chuckle muscle is working.'

This guy cracks me up.

Some of the women were not amused, or all of the women but you were not amused?

In America your laughing makes you a traitor to your sisters, as Sarkozy famously warned DSK "Over there they don't joke about this sort of thing".

I don't know if I was the only one who was amused or not - I wasn't watching the faces of all the women in the room - I was looking at the guy who was telling the joke.

A couple of the women voiced their displeasure at the guy telling the joke and that's when the other guy said, 'Watch it - sexual harrassment, etc.'

I don't know - maybe it was a little inappropriate for mixed company in the workplace, but this guy and I are pretty good friends and I know that for him it was just a joke and he knew that I'd take it as a joke. He's not generally disrespectful or denigrating of women, or I wouldn't have laughed at it- if I thought it represented a common theme he indulged in of that sort of thing.

There is a guy in our department who DOES denigrate women - especially his wife- and I don't laugh when he indulges his tendency to do that stuff.

The thing is, you don't know why others didn't laugh, there's all sorts of reasons. Some people make a song and dance about swear words in general. There are others who look for an opportunity to be offended. As long as someone is not particulary attacking a group, then whats the harm? You weren't offended, and anyone with any common sense could see he was just using humour to make the day pass a bit better.

People will always be offended, and if we listened to them the only comedy allowed would be stuff like the Chuckle Brothers.