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31 Jan 2011, 2:29 pm

Ok, I understand the idea that the Onion is all about humor but this is simply insulting:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/autist ... opl,18983/

Perhaps if enough people complain about this, they'll get the message that this isn't funny.



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31 Jan 2011, 2:33 pm

I thought it was quite funny



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31 Jan 2011, 2:36 pm

The Onion makes fun of everybody.


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31 Jan 2011, 2:38 pm

Yeah, it was pretty funny. :lol:



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31 Jan 2011, 2:46 pm

I see people do what I myself do on tv, and I still think it's funny. I don't know how that works, but there it is.

Perhaps I would rather get a mention, than not?


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31 Jan 2011, 2:48 pm

:lmao: That was actually really funny!

"It sounds like it was a very sad day."
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31 Jan 2011, 2:49 pm

Thanks for the link, that was pretty funny. Nod to the curious incident of the dog in the night at the end.


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31 Jan 2011, 2:53 pm

I thought it was hilarious!


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31 Jan 2011, 2:55 pm

Ugh, I dont usually mind satire when everybody is equally made fun of, and Onion does make fun of everybody equally. But the corpse reference, a bit gross for my tastes.


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31 Jan 2011, 3:07 pm

The Onion makes fun of everyone and everything. In fact, if you haven't had the Onion skewer you, you haven't arrived. What is REALLY funny is when an Onion satire gets mistaken for a real report and goes viral.

I can't watch this one til later, so I can't comment on its quality.


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31 Jan 2011, 3:15 pm

RudolfsDad, I think you're being a little too uptight over this. I thought it was funny (cute even, as weird as that sounds). However, if it was the "stereotypical" autistic often portrayed by the media (wearing a helmet, drooling, can barely speak, flapping wrist, deformed face, etc.) then I probably would've been offended. But it wasn't.



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31 Jan 2011, 3:20 pm

I thought it was hilarious. I cracked up when he panicked and ran away. I would probably have done the same thing :lol:. Go autism!

This is the best Onion video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc3jMoFJrBQ[/youtube]



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31 Jan 2011, 3:24 pm

I think it is funny ...


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31 Jan 2011, 3:27 pm

I thought it was funny also. He soounded like Rain Man when he went into statistics about how many people died.


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31 Jan 2011, 4:00 pm

They got us down pretty well.

Yeah, that's pretty much how it would go if I were the one reporting.



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31 Jan 2011, 4:13 pm

I thought it was funny. If more autistic than myself.

Additionally funny because Detroit is one of my special interests.