If pigs could bust you on a whim because you talked about smoking weed on the internet, we'd have a lot of middle-schoolers in the can right now because they smoked "dank fiyah!!!!!" on Facebook.
As long as you don't solicit or out yourself as a dealer, drug-related forums are basically a bacon-free zone. Even then, it's like Russian Roulette with one bullet and a few thousand chambers.
They don't have the time, the money, the resources, the motivation, or, most importantly, the evidence.
edited 21st Apr '12 6:35:54 PM by Sarkastique
Memento MoriWell, regardless, I'm just paranoid for their sakes. I'm paranoid about a lot of things, though, so, yeah. I SHALL BE VINDICATED SOMEDAY!
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.I wouldn't say cops lurk on Facebook, but you can get the cops called on you for stuff you say over the internet if you're extremely public about it. My friend got a misdemeanor for commenting on a girls Facebook status that he'd love to help her blow up our high school when she said she wished she could blow up the place. somehow someone told the school and they called the cops, who showed up at their houses.
edited 21st Apr '12 9:59:49 PM by GigglesMcYummy
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Yeeeah, no. Saying stuff like that is pretty inappropriate in any context.
If you're going to go for humour that's that dark, keep it between you and your friends, in private. If you put it out in public somewhere - whether on facebook, on twitter, in a class full of people who can overhear, or whatever - those other people are entirely within their rights to take you seriously and be concerned. They don't know you; they don't necessarily know it's a joke.
I say all this bearing in mind that I have an incredibly dark sense of humour and make jokes in terrible taste on a regular basis. But I keep them to a quick text to a friend or something said in private where no one's going to get offended.
That's only considered 'dark' humour in America, where school children do regularly murder large numbers of their classmates. Over here it would be taken as a fairly warmed-over and juvenile 'joke' that's been doing the rounds since schools and explosives were invented.
I mean, Alice Cooper did a song about it in the '70s.
edited 21st Apr '12 11:40:29 PM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'My sense of humour is rather darker than that.
Example: I once told a friend that grew up in Namibia, after she complained to me that she hadn't accomplished anything in life, that she had in fact accomplished something most Africans never do - she got out of Africa without contracting HIV.
She laughed. A lot. And then she told me we were both going to hell for being involved with that joke.
I did warn you it was a dark joke.
"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - Pyrite"...where school children do regularly murder large numbers of their classmates."
Er, "regularly" seems to be overestimating it. It's a distressingly common problem, but it's not like it's something that happens every single day.
Also, that Alice Cooper song, as you mentioned, was made in the 1970s, when people were not worried about school shootings or bomb threats by students and what have you*. You'll also notice the phrasing, "My school's been blown to pieces," which is distinct from saying "I am going to blow my school to pieces." Granted, if the song were written today I doubt it'd get as much of a pass as it does, but, then, "Pumped Up Kicks" did manage to claw its way to the top of the charts while being explicitly from the point-of-view of a would-be school shooter.
edited 22nd Apr '12 12:22:26 AM by 0dd1
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.It seems to happen every few months. That's regular enough, isn't it?
The point I was making about the song is that kids have been saying crap like that for years (it's practically all Bart Simpson did in the '90s) and it's no more serious (in most of the world) now than it was then. It's a sad comment on the state of the US that people feel they have to jump on things like that.
edited 22nd Apr '12 12:26:04 AM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'I did say it's still distressingly common.
Also, you might wanna fix your quote tags there.
edited 22nd Apr '12 12:25:13 AM by 0dd1
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I don't really think anything should be out of reach of a joke, because humour is a large segment of the population's natural way of coping with trauma.
However, I still think that anyone that goes out and knowingly makes a joke about blowing up or shooting up a school in a public place where people may take offense or see it and be intimidated by it is an idiot.
Political correctness is dumb. But, at the same time, anyone throwing up "I want to blow up my school" on Facebook is just an idiot, because someone's going to report that to the police. And they're entirely right to.
"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - PyriteTo be honest, I don't see that as being politically correct (and if it is, then it's some pretty damn justified PCness). I see it as being sensitive and respectful to those who were victims of these events.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.... /shrug/ I know rape victims who make rape jokes. As I said, humour is good for coping. Sensitivity and caring can get along just fine with humour.
I don't go around sharing those jokes with other people, but that's not my point. Censoring oneself for fear of offending people, when speaking to them in private, is stupid.
Censoring oneself when speaking in a public forum, especially one where not everyone knows each other very well, is wise - if only because it will lessen difficulties and likelihood of being taken the wrong way. Not considering what you say when speaking in public... goes beyond being insensitive and in to being an idiot.
"Lock up your girlfriends, lock up your wives, Grim's on the loose so run for your lives." - PyriteYou have to take that shit seriously. Granted, 90% of the kids posting that they want to blow the school up are just angry they can't sit around playing video games all day. It's the 10% that are genuinely fucking insane and will actually do it that ruin the fun.
edited 22nd Apr '12 12:41:58 AM by Malph
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Well, that's their own prerogative. Some can cope with it with a greater amount of humor than others. I'd say better safe than sorry, though. "Self-censoring," as you put it (or, as I would put it, knowing boundaries and being sensitive to others), is more advantageous in a sense that it demonstrates compassion and concern for others and, from a more selfish standpoint I s'pose, makes people see that you have some semblance of empathy toward others' emotions and situations.
Much more eloquently put.
edited 22nd Apr '12 12:42:54 AM by 0dd1
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I also kicked a puppy.
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