The Confession

[larbud]

An elderly Italian man who lived in rural Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said:



"Father.. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So, I hid her in my attic."



The priest replied:



"That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that."



"There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favours. This happened several times a week and sometimes twice on Sundays."



The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven."



"Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. But I do have one more question."



"And what is that?" asked the priest.



"Should I tell her the war is over?

[Taltarzac725]

Ouch.

[RICH1]

Not funny to those who lost Family !

[Boomer]

I think this one crosses the line, actually more than one line. . .

There are some things that should not be the stuff of jokes.

Boomer

[ThirdOfFive]

I think this one crosses the line, actually more than one line. . .

There are some things that should not be the stuff of jokes.

Boomer
Our skins get progressively thinner and thinner.

Back in the day, just out of high school, I worked taconite plant construction on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. Tough work but the pay was good and for a young buck just getting out into the real world it was great. As you can imagine the humor among the workers was as rough and ready as the workers themselves. Jokes that made the rounds then would never be told today (at least in some places). Much of the work force were "Bohunks"; Serbians, Slovenians, Croatians. Lots of Italians there too, only we never called them that. I was a Bohunk. A standard joke was "how do you tell the (Italians) from the Bohunks?" "Simple. The (Italians) were the guys in suits looking down into the pit. The Bohunks were the guys with shovels at the BOTTOM of the pit."

It was funny, and regardless of ethnicity we all laughed at it. No one felt put down, racially slammed, etc. The Professionally Offended didn't exist back then. Today? Odds are that the thinner-skinned folks would be offended, or at least think they should be offended, at the joke.

I don't necessarily think that represents progress.

[bruce213]

I laughed.

[DonH57]

I laughed.

I did too only because it reminded me of the one involving the Staten Island Ferry!:jester:

[JMintzer]

Not funny to those who lost Family !

I think this one crosses the line, actually more than one line. . .

There are some things that should not be the stuff of jokes.

Boomer

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[Boomer]

I think this one crosses the line, actually more than one line. . .

There are some things that should not be the stuff of jokes.

Boomer




Our skins get progressively thinner and thinner.

Back in the day, just out of high school, I worked taconite plant construction on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. Tough work but the pay was good and for a young buck just getting out into the real world it was great. As you can imagine the humor among the workers was as rough and ready as the workers themselves. Jokes that made the rounds then would never be told today (at least in some places). Much of the work force were "Bohunks"; Serbians, Slovenians, Croatians. Lots of Italians there too, only we never called them that. I was a Bohunk. A standard joke was "how do you tell the (Italians) from the Bohunks?" "Simple. The (Italians) were the guys in suits looking down into the pit. The Bohunks were the guys with shovels at the BOTTOM of the pit."

It was funny, and regardless of ethnicity we all laughed at it. No one felt put down, racially slammed, etc. The Professionally Offended didn't exist back then. Today? Odds are that the thinner-skinned folks would be offended, or at least think they should be offended, at the joke.

I don't necessarily think that represents progress.


Nope. Not thin skinned. Also, not surprised that I was immediately categorized. I knew what the reaction would be when I wrote that post this morning.

Here’s the thing — the example given by the first one to take umbrage with me — and quoted here above — is not the same thing…….

Ethnic jokes have been a part of our American Melting Pot forever and those kinds of jokes can let us laugh at ourselves — and laugh with others…..

For instance:

All those “how many (whoever) to change a lightbulb” jokes are funny to me. Those can be ethnic jokes. They can also be religious denomination jokes or regional jokes or job jokes. All in fun.

Anyway, I am not thin skinned. But Holocaust jokes cross the line where I am concerned. And I feel the same way about Helen Keller jokes. (There is no lightness, no snappy comebacks, to such jokes.)

Hope that’s not too nuanced to be understood.

Boomer

[Stu from NYC]

Nope. Not thin skinned. Also, not surprised that I was immediately categorized. I knew what the reaction would be when I wrote that post this morning.

Here’s the thing — the example given by the first one to take umbrage with me — and quoted here above — is not the same thing…….

Ethnic jokes have been a part of our American Melting Pot forever and those kinds of jokes can let us laugh at ourselves — and laugh with others…..

For instance:

All those “how many (whoever) to change a lightbulb” jokes are funny to me. Those can be ethnic jokes. They can also be religious denomination jokes or regional jokes or job jokes. All in fun.

Anyway, I am not thin skinned. But Holocaust jokes cross the line where I am concerned. And I feel the same way about Helen Keller jokes.

Hope that’s not too nuanced to be understood.

Boomer

I laughed when I first read it and after thinking about it, not at all something to make jokes about. Hope mods take it down.

[ThirdOfFive]

Nope. Not thin skinned. Also, not surprised that I was immediately categorized. I knew what the reaction would be when I wrote that post this morning.

Here’s the thing — the example given by the first one to take umbrage with me — and quoted here above — is not the same thing…….

Ethnic jokes have been a part of our American Melting Pot forever and those kinds of jokes can let us laugh at ourselves — and laugh with others…..

For instance:

All those “how many (whoever) to change a lightbulb” jokes are funny to me. Those can be ethnic jokes. They can also be religious denomination jokes or regional jokes or job jokes. All in fun.

Anyway, I am not thin skinned. But Holocaust jokes cross the line where I am concerned. And I feel the same way about Helen Keller jokes. (There is no lightness, no snappy comebacks, to such jokes.)

Hope that’s not too nuanced to be understood.

Boomer
Trust me. The "nuance" is impossible to miss.

[Smalley]

Thanks for the funny stuff! Never heard that joke before.

[Black Beauty]

Having been to Confession many times, I can relate

[DonnaNi4os]

Why would you post that here?

[defrey12]

Not funny to those who lost Family !

It’s a joke…a bad joke…but a joke nonetheless. It’s not the world’s job to tiptoe around your triggers. We all lost someone.

[markfrat]

I had a belly laugh if you cant take a joke then just be quiet. The world is getting too liberal. soon we wont be able to have conversation. From what I'n seeing of the young people texting is the new wave of communication. Too bad they cant speak to each other.

[RiderOnTheStorm]

An elderly Italian man who lived in rural Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said:



"Father.. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So, I hid her in my attic."



The priest replied:



"That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that."



"There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favours. This happened several times a week and sometimes twice on Sundays."



The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven."



"Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. But I do have one more question."



"And what is that?" asked the priest.



"Should I tell her the war is over?


Very poor taste!

[RiderOnTheStorm]

An elderly Italian man who lived in rural Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said:



"Father.. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So, I hid her in my attic."



The priest replied:



"That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that."



"There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favours. This happened several times a week and sometimes twice on Sundays."



The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven."



"Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. But I do have one more question."



"And what is that?" asked the priest.



"Should I tell her the war is over?


Having grown up in a heavily conservative, deeply religious and widely accepting family in a well-integrated community, it has always been difficult for me to understand the broad claims of systemic racism that we have been hearing lately. However, it is posts like this (i.e. Jewish woman selling her body to protect her life), however innocent they may have been intended, that enable this type of insensitivity to bolster claims of nascent racism. Don't help to fuel these fires. Please think before acting.

[Chamo]

OMG people grow some thicker skin. It was a cute joke if you didn’t like it too bad.

[GoneFishing]

I enjoyed the joke. Thanks for sharing.

[sdifede313@aol.com]

The first thing to go in old age is, one’s sense of humor. 🤣

[stargirl]

An elderly Italian man who lived in rural Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said:



"Father.. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish woman from our neighborhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So, I hid her in my attic."



The priest replied:



"That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that."



"There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with sexual favours. This happened several times a week and sometimes twice on Sundays."



The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven."



"Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. But I do have one more question."



"And what is that?" asked the priest.



"Should I tell her the war is over?
Lol, didn’t see that coming!

[Kenswing]

The first thing to go in old age is, one’s sense of humor. 🤣

And since this was WWII the subjects of this joke would be close to 100 years old. I doubt there's much hanky panky going on at this point.

[oldtimes]

I think this one crosses the line, actually more than one line. . .

There are some things that should not be the stuff of jokes.

Boomer
Tolerance:
the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

Has been replaced with

Virtue Signaling:
the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one's awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of social and racial justice, etc.

[Mrs.Guy]

Tolerance:
the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

Has been replaced with

Virtue Signaling:
the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one's awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of social and racial justice, etc.

:bowdown: Well said.

[ThirdOfFive]

And since this was WWII the subjects of this joke would be close to 100 years old. I doubt there's much hanky panky going on at this point.
...Which, of course, is precisely what makes the joke funny.

[richdell]

The first thing to go in old age is, one’s sense of humor. 🤣

I thought that was the second thing to go. ;)

[RiderOnTheStorm]

Tolerance:
the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

Has been replaced with

Virtue Signaling:
the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one's awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of social and racial justice, etc.


Respectfully, your point (above) suggests that it is OK to agree or disagree on whether or not the holocaust was a bad thing.I think this goes beyond "tolerance".

Nonetheless I will make you a deal: Share this "joke" with your Jewish friends. If they find it as humorous as some others do I will concede that I need a thicker skin.

[oldtimes]

Respectfully, your point (above) suggests that it is OK to agree or disagree on whether or not the holocaust was a bad thing.I think this goes beyond "tolerance".

Nonetheless I will make you a deal: Share this "joke" with your Jewish friends. If they find it as humorous as some others do I will concede that I need a thicker skin.

When I read this the only thing I took from it was that it was a joke about a horny little man. The Holocaust never crossed my my mind until the thought police arrived.

[JMintzer]

Respectfully, your point (above) suggests that it is OK to agree or disagree on whether or not the holocaust was a bad thing.I think this goes beyond "tolerance".

There is nothing in that joke that comes close to saying the holocaust was not a bad thing.

Nonetheless I will make you a deal: Share this "joke" with your Jewish friends. If they find it as humorous as some others do I will concede that I need a thicker skin.

Exhibit A right here. 65 yo Jew here... I found the joke funny (albeit, not a knee slapper)...

I remember Joan Rivers' comments, when confronted about her "Holocaust Jokes". She had many and some made this one look like a "knock-knock joke"...

She stated that NOTHING was "out of bounds" when it came to humor. If people would groan at her concerts, she would double down and hit them with and even more outrageous joke...

She had Hitler Jokes, Concentration Camp jokes, Anne Frank jokes, even jokes about the Crematoriums!

When commenting on Heidi Klum's show stopping Oscars gold dress with a seriously plunging neckline, Rivers remarked Monday, “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens.”

She even told a joke about he husband Edgar (who lost most of his family in the Holocaust), who lost a leg in Europe, fighting the Nazis. She said "Leaving his leg there was "littering", and That's Wrong!"

She said she told the joke to "shake people's memories"...

Here is an interesting article titled the "Schlemiel Theory" that may enlighten some:

Joan Rivers and Holocaust Humor | Schlemiel Theory (https://schlemielintheory.com/2014/09/07/joan-rivers-and-holocaust-humor/)

[Boomer]

Hahahahaha, this thread is speaking volumes. When I called out the first post, I knew what would happen.

I knew what I was setting up to get -- just a tedious litany of knee-jerk, pre-programmed reactions indicating no thought given to how this joke is different.

It's different! I tellya! It's different!

Now, I am being called a virtue signaler, on top of being called a liberal. (gasp) Oh my, my, my, I must take to my fainting couch and clutch my pearls. HAH!

Btw, speaking of pearls. . .I don't have time to cast any more right now.

Boomer (who is actually a common sense, moderate type -- an endangered species (sigh))

[shut the front door]

She was one of the greats. Got to see her in person a couple of times and she really opened the door for many great female comedians. Fortunately, this was long before virtue signaling became a spectator sport.

There is nothing in that joke that comes close to saying the holocaust was not a bad thing.



Exhibit A right here. 65 yo Jew here... I found the joke funny (albeit, not a knee slapper)...

I remember Joan Rivers' comments, when confronted about her "Holocaust Jokes". She had many and some made this one look like a "knock-knock joke"...

She stated that NOTHING was "out of bounds" when it came to humor. If people would groan at her concerts, she would double down and hit them with and even more outrageous joke...

She had Hitler Jokes, Concentration Camp jokes, Anne Frank jokes, even jokes about the Crematoriums!

When commenting on Heidi Klum's show stopping Oscars gold dress with a seriously plunging neckline, Rivers remarked Monday, “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens.”

She even told a joke about he husband Edgar (who lost most of his family in the Holocaust), who lost a leg in Europe, fighting the Nazis. She said "Leaving his leg there was "littering", and That's Wrong!"

She said she told the joke to "shake people's memories"...

Here is an interesting article titled the "Schlemiel Theory" that may enlighten some:

Joan Rivers and Holocaust Humor | Schlemiel Theory (https://schlemielintheory.com/2014/09/07/joan-rivers-and-holocaust-humor/)

[mikempp]

Maybe you should have designated a safe space before you told the joke?

[Bay Kid]

Jokes are humor. Maybe people shouldn't read the jokes just in case you are offended.

[JMintzer]

Hahahahaha, this thread is speaking volumes. When I called out the first post, I knew what would happen.

I knew what I was setting up to get -- just a tedious litany of knee-jerk, pre-programmed reactions indicating no thought given to how this joke is different.

It's different! I tellya! It's different!

Now, I am being called a virtue signaler, on top of being called a liberal. (gasp) Oh my, my, my, I must take to my fainting couch and clutch my pearls. HAH!

Btw, speaking of pearls. . .I don't have time to cast any more right now.

Boomer (who is actually a common sense, moderate type -- an endangered species (sigh))

No pearls to cast, but plenty to clutch it seems...

[Chee-Chee]

Comedy is the last glimpse of free speech we have. It’s why I left teaching the university system. One of my classes was “Diversity in the School System”. In the course of 10 years, it went from the most enjoyable class to a nightmare.

We have had Holocaust, Hitler, murder jokes as long as I can remember.
By the way, I just got off the phone with one of my best friends by happens to be Jewish. She sent me an Italian joke last week. I told her this joke. She told me that’s sick while laughing. I expect to hear from her soon which a joke just as sick.

[Whitley]

When I read this the only thing I took from it was that it was a joke about a horny little man. The Holocaust never crossed my my mind until the thought police arrived.


I find your portrayal of the Italian as a little old horny man objectionable. That is xenophobic and I will throw in transphobic not because it makes any sense, but just because.

[oldtimes]

I find your portrayal of the Italian as a little old horny man objectionable. That is xenophobic and I will throw in transphobic not because it makes any sense, but just because.

Well I will raise you homophobic and misogynistic for no reason at all

[ThirdOfFive]

Why not a "tasteless joke of the day" thread?

[oldtimes]

Why not a "tasteless joke of the day" thread?

Who would be the judge?

[Chee-Chee]

Andrew Dice Clay

[JMintzer]

Andrew Dice Clay

"Hickory Dickory Dock..." :eek::1rotfl::eek:

[JMintzer]

Why not a "tasteless joke of the day" thread?

A Priest, a Minister and a Rabbi are playing golf...

[Nucky]

Why not a "tasteless joke of the day" thread?

I would be interested in the judge job.

NOTHING would come back as over the line except anything over my line, because I’m the judge. That’s anything weird about children. Otherwise have a ball.

The OP didn’t mean anything mean! If Boomer took it in a bad way that’s cool! This is still the United States of America.

When Kathy Griffin was holding a head in her hand half of the country thought it was terrible and half loved it. I saw a motorcycle accident near East Jersey State Prison, I saw the head being carried away. The joke triggered feelings that it took me time to get over. I realized the red head chick was trying to commit an act of a comedic. I got over it.

I live to laugh. It’s been a daily goal thru good times and bad! I thought the OP’S JOKE was phenomenal and so did the Moderators!

[Boomer]

I would be interested in the judge job.

NOTHING would come back as over the line except anything over my line, because I’m the judge. That’s anything weird about children. Otherwise have a ball.

The OP didn’t mean anything mean! If Boomer took it in a bad way that’s cool! This is still the United States of America.

When Kathy Griffin was holding a head in her hand half of the country thought it was terrible and half loved it. I saw a motorcycle accident near East Jersey State Prison, I saw the head being carried away. The joke triggered feelings that it took me time to get over. I realized the red head chick was trying to commit an act of a comedic. I got over it.

I live to laugh. It’s been a daily goal thru good times and bad! I thought the OP’S JOKE was phenomenal and so did the Moderators!


Yeah, Nucky. I would not like anything weird about kids either. I also do not think disabled people should be fodder for jokes, I don’t like Holocaust jokes and I wouldn’t like jokes about those war crimes in Ukraine either.

But I guess a lot of posters here would disagree with me on those things.

The difference is that I don’t like anything where someone helpless is the target. Don’t know why that is so hard to understand. But, obviously, it is.

I knew I would be immediately attacked and called the usual, pre-programmed names by the “yer either with us or agin us” crew — sounding like entitled buttercups who think they can say whatever they want to, and nobody better dare to criticize by pointing out the flaw……

Predictable. I knew it. But I set it up anyway. Actually, kind of fun to watch it play out.

It’s all theater.

Boomer

[Taltarzac725]

Recall being shocked at some of Bob Saget's jokes. Comedians had a game about who could tell the most offensive joke and Bob Saget seemed to win. The one that started this thread is tame by comparison but I do not think I would ever make jokes like these around friends and family.

[Nucky]

Yeah, Nucky. I would not like anything weird about kids either. I also do not think disabled people should be fodder for jokes, I don’t like Holocaust jokes and I wouldn’t like jokes about those war crimes in Ukraine either.

But I guess a lot of posters here would disagree with me on those things.

The difference is that I don’t like anything where someone helpless is the target. Don’t know why that is so hard to understand. But, obviously, it is.

I knew I would be immediately attacked and called the usual, pre-programmed names by the “yer either with us or agin us” crew — sounding like entitled buttercups who think they can say whatever they want to, and nobody better dare to criticize by pointing out the flaw……

Predictable. I knew it. But I set it up anyway. Actually, kind of fun to watch it play out.

It’s all theater.

Boomer

I get it. I understand your objection and respect your feelings about the joke.

I would have to say that a person may have a different point of view depending on where they are from, what they did for a living, and the environment in which they were raised or dragged up.

I am not judging you because I don't know or remember any of those things about you.

Over the years you get to know people on TOTV'S. My retention is spotty. That being said in Jorsey most people wouldn't give a hoot about most jokes. No time to worry about such things, most people are just trying to survive the way things are nowadays. I think a little levity is okay. That's my vote and I'm sticking with it. I didn't take the OP as being an anti-Semitic person just relaying a funny is all. Take Care, Boomer. I respect your thoughts.

P.S. We just moved and this house has several hundred light switches and outlets. I've got a long way to go to get the screws facing East to West!!!!! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl: Now that's FUNNY! Come on! Do you remember???? :1rotfl:

[Boomer]

I get it. I understand your objection and respect your feelings about the joke.

I would have to say that a person may have a different point of view depending on where they are from, what they did for a living, and the environment in which they were raised or dragged up.

I am not judging you because I don't know or remember any of those things about you.

Over the years you get to know people on TOTV'S. My retention is spotty. That being said in Jorsey most people wouldn't give a hoot about most jokes. No time to worry about such things, most people are just trying to survive the way things are nowadays. I think a little levity is okay. That's my vote and I'm sticking with it. I didn't take the OP as being an anti-Semitic person just relaying a funny is all. Take Care, Boomer. I respect your thoughts.

P.S. We just moved and this house has several hundred light switches and outlets. I've got a long way to go to get the screws facing East to West!!!!! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl: Now that's FUNNY! Come on! Do you remember???? :1rotfl:


Hey, Nucky,

Congratulations on your new house!

And, yes, I sure do remember. I loved that debate. And then I found out that Mr. Boomer also has a thing about screws all going the same direction in the switch plates and outlets. I had no idea I had been living in such an organized house. He said he knew an electrician who did it like that and figured it looked like a plan.

Please pace yourself with that new house though, I hope you can get some sleep while knowing they’re not all done.

Re. The joke under controversy: It was a pretty mild one. I know. And it was not even that I was simply knee-jerk branding it as anti-Semitic. It’s not that simple. It’s that anything making a joke out of the Holocaust, no matter how, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and I’ll call it out.

Now, for a little more about me that might explain my reaction to the joke.

It could have been about how my memory works. My memory is not Marilu Henner weird — not eidetic — not truly photographic but pretty visual and long.

I was born in the early part of the Boom. I don’t remember trying to learn how to read because I could read as long as I can remember — and I was always reading everything that was in front of me.

It was a few years after the end of WWII when a Life magazine at our house had an article and photos of the Camps and there was a Nazi posing with his human skin lampshades……

I was a little girl, but I can still clearly remember trying to comprehend what I was reading about and what I was seeing in those horrific black and white pictures. I can still see those pictures. I could not understand. Still can’t.

So I guess that joke pushed a button and I decided not to let it go, even though I knew what to expect around here.

Of all the slings and arrows I got in this thread, there was only one that bothered me, surprised me, and kind of horrified me. It was the one that said something to the effect of — “Get over it. That was over 75 years ago.” (That’s not the exact wording of that post, but close enough.)

There was a US Holocaust Museum exhibition titled “Lest We Forget.”

I don’t forget. And I am well aware that we are living in a time when we are forgetting a lot of things.

Anyway, enough about me and why I could not let that joke go, although I knew not to bother, I am still glad I did.

And, Nucky, congrats again to you and Mrs. Nucky on finding your new home……

and thanks for the memories of the old fun times at TOTV High. Now, you better get yourself back to screwing. (That’s a lot of switch plates and outlets you got there.) :)

Boomer

[Nucky]

That’s a great way to look at something like this and have a little fun. I’m going to be 65 in June. I have no idea other than what I have learned from my Dad and Grandmother about that terrible time in this world.
I watched a series called Hunter with Al Pacino. It was so sad. I was injured and basically in bed for 2 years and was ashamed that I really didn’t know much about WW II and tried to learn as much as I could. This was just a few years ago. Terrible times. That’s why I respect your views so much. Plus in all the time you’ve been on this forum you NEVER cries about anything. You just state your case, pretty well I must say! Take Care. Back to screwing, I have a deadline. Lol

[Two Bills]

P.S. We just moved and this house has several hundred light switches and outlets. I've got a long way to go to get the screws facing East to West!!!!! :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl: Now that's FUNNY! Come on! Do you remember???? :1rotfl:

:ohdear: Nucky! Nucky! How can you keep making the same mistake?
North to South is the correct direction for screw head alignment!


Good luck to you both in your new house!:)

[oldtimes]

Hey, Nucky,

Re. The joke under controversy: It was a pretty mild one. I know. And it was not even that I was simply knee-jerk branding it as anti-Semitic. It’s not that simple. It’s that anything making a joke out of the Holocaust, no matter how, makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and I’ll call it out.


That is the problem. Most of the people who read it did not associate it with the holocaust but rather with a horny little man and that was the humor. That is where the tolerance kicks in. The OP had a right to post it and people had a right to read it. Just because it bothered you doesn't mean everyone's rights should be taken away. You should have just scrolled by it instead of calling it out. It bothers me that people think their own ideologies are more important than everyone else's.

It was a very harmless joke and btw I do have Jewish friends and family.

[larbud]

Bbbbb,,.

[JMintzer]

Recall being shocked at some of Bob Saget's jokes. Comedians had a game about who could tell the most offensive joke and Bob Saget seemed to win. The one that started this thread is tame by comparison but I do not think I would ever make jokes like these around friends and family.

Search for the short film, "The Aristocrats", where multiple comedians tell the same dirty joke... Gilbert Gottfried was the "winner" imho...

[Taltarzac725]

Search for the short film, "The Aristocrats", where multiple comedians tell the same dirty joke... Gilbert Gottfried was the "winner" imho...

I saw that here in the Villages or maybe in Oldsmar, FL.