BillyClark

Whenever capital punishment comes up, I am reminded of the hypocrisy of American Christians.

Pretty much every Christian claims to believe that killing is prohibited by the ten commandments. In a democracy, if you vote for a politician who supports the death penalty, you are asking them to kill a person on your behalf. A Christian should not be able to vote for a politician who supports the death penalty.

Compare that with abortion. The bible says virtually nothing about abortion except how to pray for one. If you vote for a pro-choice politician, nobody is being killed on your behalf.

Compare these two, and it’s obvious that a Christian who votes for a pro-death-penalty and anti-abortion candidate is voting against their own religion. But they claim to be voting for Christian values, which is pure hypocrisy.

The person in the comic is making a snarky comment to another person on the phone to show their disapproval. It may not be much, but it is something. After reading your other comment, I wasn’t expecting much from you, but I still thought any person with at least toddler-level intelligence would have the capacity to tell the difference between “something” and “not something.”

I realize the UK isn’t seen as part of Europe by many following Brexit, but I’m reminded of a British person who said, after hanging out with Americans, that what they call “Going to the pub after work,” Americans would call “a serious drinking problem.”

They are doing something. The problem is that there are also other people, very powerful people, working against them.

I imagine you’re the kind of person who, if they watched sports, would be saying, “Why don’t they just score more points and win?”

As always with Trump’s regime, the cruelty is the point. The disrespect is the point. The Trump regime are evil people. There are no good people there.

I don’t know if I’m smart or not, but I think part of the joke is that the husband doesn’t recognize that his now-wife is his former best friend, and that unlikely circumstance kept me from understanding the joke even though I read the explanation. (Not the explanation in this thread but the more ambiguous one in the other thread.)

I’m confused because you seem to think I am arguing with you, but I am just trying to make sure that we all understand what was actually said. Because I think if you look at what I said, and look at what you and other people said, you’ll see that there’s not much to argue about.

Here is what OP said:

It wouldn’t be funny if it was obvious.

You seem to have interpreted that to mean “It wouldn’t be as funny if it was obvious.”

Since OP said that their joke “wouldn’t be funny if it was obvious,” I thought they meant that the joke doesn’t work if they make it obvious.

A lot of double-entendre jokes are like that. But as you can probably tell from my original reply, I didn’t think this was that kind of joke. I never intended to disrespect anybody or anybody’s joke. I thought this joke was a sort of “I lost my wife” one-liner joke that Rodney Dangerfield might tell, but with the punchline played down. If it was that sort of joke, I have heard funny versions that were obvious.

You said that you disagreed with the assertion that most funny jokes are obvious after the punchline. It is the first sentence in your reply. And it is on that basis that I believed that is what you were talking about.

I don’t think we can get anywhere if we try to debate based on what you or I personally think is funny. That’s why I specifically mentioned “the punchline”. Since the entire point of the punchline is to say the point of the joke, which is basically to make it obvious, I thought I was cleverly avoiding replies based on personal perspective. I hoped we could all agree that if we looked at a list of jokes that is generally agreed to be funny, most of them would be obvious after the punchline.

Why wouldn’t it be funny if it was obvious? Most funny jokes are obvious, at least after the punchline.

Ignoring everything else, “washed up” only means someone has lost their previous high status. It has nothing to do with age. You can be a washed up child actor.

A cat will naturally like a carrier if you only use it like a cardboard box. The problem is all the other stuff you do with the carrier, and especially if that’s the only time you use the carrier.

I’m glad nobody is watching me all the time and making fun of the things I do and posting it to the internet. I don’t know how many countless times I’ve done something even more worthless than trying to put my feet on a piece of paper.

I like that flatpak runs the apps in a sandbox.

For desktop use, I’m not even sure that minimal binary distros make as much of a difference as they used to. Most of the software I use tends to be flatpak, which is like the opposite of minimal binary.

I’m starting to think that whatever distro installs and updates the easiest is probably the best to use. Either that, or if you want a specialized distro, like one specializing in games, that might be the best, because games tend to be my number one headache.