Re: Latest AUE Boink!

On May 20, 1:10?am, Peter Moylan <p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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The joke was funny (and inoffensive) in context, but the context was
provided by a couple of postings further upstream. Anyone not seeing
those could have been mystified by the jailbait reference.

My bad I did not read the context.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one to find that reference horrible. I
don't want to elaborate, because , thanks God, Maria is not offended
by that joke, but I want to explain why I found that remark at least
patronising:

As the stereotype goes, as people age they develop Diogenus syndrom
which manifests itself mainly as lack of shame. Especially old women
(as the stereotype goes, again) develop a taste for dirty jokes which
they find even flattering when they have a personal touch. So if you
want to please an older woman, treat her the opposite you'd treat a
decen and loving grandmother.

I understand that Mr. Bob is closer to Maria than other regulars so
his joke was just a banter between old friends. But fact is that after
his (extremelly familiar ) message no one dared to wish Maria Happy
Birthday. Even if only because after that display of excessive
familiarity, any BD greeting would lokk too conventional.

I'm not going to explore the reason I found that joke offensive, for
the reason I explained above.


One characteristic of this place has always been that people will make
remarks that are meaningful only to those readers who are familiar with
some song, or poem, or play, or book, or even some earlier AUE thread.
(Your signature reference to Tony Cooper is an example. And, given the
turnover of group membership, how many of us still understand why some
people randomly add a "Comments?" to what they've written?) If we don't
get it, we either do some research, or ask, or - in most cases - move on
and leave it as an unsolved mystery.

Ditto.


It's possible that blmblm [AR] hasn't yet been here long enough to fully
understand this culture of obscure references.

Guilty as charged, but that won't stop me in the future to barge in
ongoing conversations without reading the entire aue war history, or
the introductory stuff posted periodically by Donna.
What really worries me is that I start asking the same questions that
were already answered sometime ago in threads where I had an active
participation.

.

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