Agree 1000%. Same with people who walk around wearing rude or vulgar tshirts, billboards using euphemisms and double entendres (no, I don’t want to explain to my 7 year old what the local semi-pro hockey team means by “PUCK THAT”), and so on. Bottom line, I’m really just over the coarsening of society.
Hahaha, I love/hate the genre of double-entendre stores/businesses. Ship Happens (UPS clone), Doggy Styles (dog grooming shop), some Hawaiian poke place I saw called Lei’d (get Lei’d), etc. The all-time worst, though not a sexual pun, was a pizza shop called Cheesus Crust.
I've seen the last pun in my own life as a menu item at a local restaurant.
Also, I don't know if you've see Bob's Burgers, but the opening title sequence has a different pun-based business next door to their restaurant in every episode, which might amuse you. As well as a different pun-based exterminator truck. I can only imagine how taxing that gets after a while coming up with all of them after all this time!
I'm aware this might sound a little snarky itself, but I can't help finding it a strange mix of amusing and confusing that conservatives could be offended by an innocuous joke like this but will then turn around and call liberals/lefties "snowflakes" when they're offended by actual bigotry and hate. I'm not saying you do this personally, or that some lefties don't also overreact to innocuous jokes, but as someone who's been trying for a while to understand conservatives better and take them in good faith, I gotta say, things like this make it a little harder.
This probably speaks to a larger issue - different people are offended by different things, and one of the challenges inherent in a pluralistic society is that individuals need to be mature enough to take humor for what it is ("sure that offends me, but I'm not the main character here, so whatever" is the healthy adult reaction). But something that's been clearly revealed in the Information Age is that a great many people can't do that. Many people across the political continuum clearly place their own delicate sensibilities above all else, creating needless friction. Strange reality we live in.
Love most of your posts. Appreciate all of them. This one strikes a note that I found while following the Buddhist Monks on their Peace Walk from Fort Worth to DC. Given you are in the greater DC area, I am curious about your thoughts. Maybe a future post?
Agree 1000%. Same with people who walk around wearing rude or vulgar tshirts, billboards using euphemisms and double entendres (no, I don’t want to explain to my 7 year old what the local semi-pro hockey team means by “PUCK THAT”), and so on. Bottom line, I’m really just over the coarsening of society.
Hahaha, I love/hate the genre of double-entendre stores/businesses. Ship Happens (UPS clone), Doggy Styles (dog grooming shop), some Hawaiian poke place I saw called Lei’d (get Lei’d), etc. The all-time worst, though not a sexual pun, was a pizza shop called Cheesus Crust.
I've seen the last pun in my own life as a menu item at a local restaurant.
Also, I don't know if you've see Bob's Burgers, but the opening title sequence has a different pun-based business next door to their restaurant in every episode, which might amuse you. As well as a different pun-based exterminator truck. I can only imagine how taxing that gets after a while coming up with all of them after all this time!
I do think puns involving "shuck" are kind of funny, personally, more so than the other words that rhyme with...that
Good grief!
I'm aware this might sound a little snarky itself, but I can't help finding it a strange mix of amusing and confusing that conservatives could be offended by an innocuous joke like this but will then turn around and call liberals/lefties "snowflakes" when they're offended by actual bigotry and hate. I'm not saying you do this personally, or that some lefties don't also overreact to innocuous jokes, but as someone who's been trying for a while to understand conservatives better and take them in good faith, I gotta say, things like this make it a little harder.
This probably speaks to a larger issue - different people are offended by different things, and one of the challenges inherent in a pluralistic society is that individuals need to be mature enough to take humor for what it is ("sure that offends me, but I'm not the main character here, so whatever" is the healthy adult reaction). But something that's been clearly revealed in the Information Age is that a great many people can't do that. Many people across the political continuum clearly place their own delicate sensibilities above all else, creating needless friction. Strange reality we live in.
Love most of your posts. Appreciate all of them. This one strikes a note that I found while following the Buddhist Monks on their Peace Walk from Fort Worth to DC. Given you are in the greater DC area, I am curious about your thoughts. Maybe a future post?
I know they were here, but I don't know much about them. What made you think of that connection?