The Onion ridicules people with autism.

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31 Jan 2011, 10:18 pm

I have to echo the comments, it was funny to me as well.

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31 Jan 2011, 10:35 pm

The Onion is not a network? Where did I go wrong?

How about some n****r jokes?

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31 Jan 2011, 10:50 pm

Surfman wrote:

How about some n****r jokes?

Onion News: Judges Rules Girl To Be Tried As Black Man

Like I said, they make fun of everybody...

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31 Jan 2011, 10:56 pm

I'm sorry but the N word is just not a good word.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:02 pm

Using n- was out of line.

The articles are funny. Through their satire, they make some good points.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:02 pm

I found it mildly amusing. I was more of a fan of The Onion some years ago, though. I dislike the modern layout.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:06 pm

You know what, that's how my youngest brother is like too. And I still found this amusing. I suppose because I enjoy his quirks...I added this as an additional comment.

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31 Jan 2011, 11:07 pm

Arminius wrote:

Using n- was out of line..

ci wrote:

I'm sorry but the N word is just not a good word.

Semantics.

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01 Feb 2011, 12:17 am

OP

thought the video was funny...don't see how it could be offensive.....

I might do many of the things in the video if I was making a news report...well probably not but maybe...

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01 Feb 2011, 12:24 am

I found it funny.

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01 Feb 2011, 3:18 am

Janissy wrote:

League_Girl wrote:

Wait, The Onion tries to insult people? Is that their whole point in being funny and making fun of everything?

Yes. And they do it well.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Onion writers were the very first ones to respond with humour. (Literally the first.) They made fun of the terrorists, made excellent jokes about how surprised the terrorists would be to wind up in Hell after assuming they would be in Heaven. They devoted an entire issue of The Onion to mocking the terrorists in Hell.

This is just the latest and I think it was well done, as all their mocking is. Although my all time favorite is the "terrorists in Hell" insults that they did after 9/11.

Ooh! Ooh! You know what would be funnier? Say Osama finally decides to martyr himself instead of letting his minions do the work, so he straps a nuke to his back and blows up [insert infidel city here]. So he finally makes it to heaven and gets his 72 virgins.

Only one problem! You see, he was promised 72 virgins upon dying a martyr's death, right? But nothing ever said they had to be FEMALE, now did they?

...Then again, perhaps this would be worse of an eternity for Fred Phelps, assuming he ever converts to Islam

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01 Feb 2011, 3:51 am

i lol'd a s**t load,

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01 Feb 2011, 5:22 am

I did actual LOLing myself, I thought it was really clever

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01 Feb 2011, 9:40 am

ci wrote:

I'm sorry but the N word is just not a good word.

Meh. Neither is "ret*d" or "poof" ("fag", for you colonials out there :lol:

) but they still get used - and especially in satire.
They're just words; context and intent are important.

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01 Feb 2011, 9:59 am

I thought it was a bit too much like me... :oops:

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01 Feb 2011, 10:32 am

Cornflake wrote:

ci wrote:

I'm sorry but the N word is just not a good word.

Meh. Neither is "ret*d" or "poof" ("fag", for you colonials out there :lol:

) but they still get used - and especially in satire.
They're just words; context and intent are important.

I thought a fag was a cigarette.

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