On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 00:34 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 11/27/12, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 12:27 +0000, Tony van der Hoff >> >> It is alleged, that a certain German Fuerer added a smiley to the order >> >> to exterminate the Jews, to indicate it was a joke. It was misunderstood. >> > >> > I made a joke with the contend >> > >> > "Men tend to make mistakes, when they are in love with a women" >> > >> > this might or might not implement that women are the cause for big >> > mistakes or it simply does mean some man are stupid. >> > >> > This might be or might not be a good or bad joke. >> > >> > The serious order to kill humans for you is the same as my joke? >> > >> > You need serious help! >> >> Perhaps the circumcentre of his world, is not coincident yours.. > > This isn't a joke, since I'm from Germany and a lot of people really > were killed by Nazis. Fortunately I was born in 1966 and only my parents > and grandparents and the parents of my grandparents lived at that time. > As for many German families there were victims of the Nazis and > followers in my family, so I know this history not only from books and > films, but from people who experienced this time. > > It's ok to make jokes about this time, but equate banality with serious > orders to kill people is dangerous. >
I'm from Poland and I will tell you that we make this kind of jokes quite a lot so I didn't find it offensive at all (in fact I thought it was quite funny) - as bad as past events were it is just that - past - you can't ever forget it (or the same thing will happen again) but we can't brood over it. [we don't have any kind of taboo when it comes to jokes]. -- darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACRpbMhL64VMAjg6+NKwWbLz=ulhsvkgkqy23bqrg7dvwyj...@mail.gmail.com