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(SP 4/12 p.173) Mr. Lichte, may I respectfully request that you stop making ignorant and insulting remarks about a potentially fatal disease, diabetes. Ignorant, because you obviously don't understand what diabetic shock is--it could not possibly be caused by eating doughnuts or any sweet food in any quantity. Insulting, because millions of people dealing with this chronic condition on a daily basis do not enjoy having these struggles mocked in what amounts to a casual slur. (paragraph) Mr Atkinson, may I respectfully request that you edit medical slurs in the same way you edit racial, religious and sexual slurs. Thank you for considering my opinion.
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I'm diabetic and I don't mind diabetes jokes. After all, laughter is the best medicine (well, Metformin is the best medicine, but you don't fart as much with laughter) and we don't get enough Ho Hos.
I'm also obese, and I don't get mad at obesity jokes. I just turn the other chin.
i will tell you one thing if your blood sugar is super low ,a bowl of captain crunch is a gift from heaven
I fat. I don't want to hear any more fat stories. I'm Jewish I don't want to hear any more Jewish jokes. I'm from New Jersey. I find New Jersey jokes highly insulting and want them stopped immediately. My son is short, No more short jokes. I'm an audiophile, no more anti audiophile jokes.Phew! I think no one should makes jokes about anything because someone will be insulted. No not really! Problem is we're too damn serious and don't laugh at ourselves enough. I have relatives with diabetes. I and everyone I know realizes it's serious and deadly disease. But he wasn't making fun of diabetes or diabetics. He was using the disease as a metaphor for over indulgence in sweets. I think you're being overly sensitive.
Maggies, because you can never be too thin!
Mark
Edits: 03/24/12 03/24/12 03/24/12
There are many things that have been written by reviewers over the years that have rubbed me wrong. Most recently, Art Dudleys remark about Jesus drinking gin from a cat dish (how in the hell did that add to the review??). One wonders if he would have said the same thing about Muhammad - doubtful. Unless he has a interest in going underground and co-writting reviews with Salman Rusdie.
........I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes... until the main course.
No one was selling cat food back then and so there would have been no cat dish.
Usual American lack of historical knowledge,
ever heard of Egypt?
Usual anal retentive types don't get jokes.
I'm not American.
Oh, is that the country where Charlton Heston won a chariot race in a grand Hollywood movie?
Bill
It was exaggeration for humorous effect. Also known as a joke. Lighten up.Not that it's anyone's business, but Art is quite devout.
Edits: 03/22/12
Devout what? I wonder if it would be a joke if it was Islam instead of Christianity he was "joking" about. As I stated earlier - I doubt it since there would be the real possibility of a bounty being placed on his head. Maybe the Lutheran minister/reviewer has an opinion on the matter.
........I was a vegetarian for 15 minutes... until the main course.
Jesus had more of a sense of humor than the Pharisee's who claim him but never seem to have read what he said. His message was about love not about hate. Remember who he hung out with, fishermen, wine drinkers and tax collectors. He didn't have much truck with the religious leaders of his day and I doubt he would today.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
> Jesus had more of a sense of humor than the Pharisees who claim him but
> never seem to have read what he said.
Amen!
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
He's not questioning anyone else's depth of faith. And being devout doesn't mean you can't sometimes make a joke about your religion, or anything else.
Nothing insensitive to apologize about except ignorance. Diabetic shock results from extremely low blood sugar and not high as he implied. Let's see who is going to complain about the Hail Marys that follow.
I have to say all the politically correct nehavior sucks.
If every single thing that bothered at least one person was banned. we would just be immobilized.
So take a chill pill dude or dudette.
Learn how to laugh.
Well said. Diabetes is no joke.
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