Does anyone else find this video funny

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I'm not trying to make fun of autistic people but this video seems to have a punch line at the end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6nNcW2M ... re=related

That was funny. The girl asked a rhetorical question and the man didn't know that so he answered it.

Last edited by Spokane_Girl on 30 Oct 2009, 8:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

"maybe he thought you were ugly"

Edit: I'm changing my signature to this asap.

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Not funny to me but interesting. Although I thought the other videos of the same theme was more interesting "the roadaccident" "Busride" and "receptionist"

I pretty much did that once.

I was having lunch with a childhood friend and my brother. This friend had early osteoporosis as a result of medication she needed to take for a chronic condition. She made a comment about how someone thought she was the mother of a guy she was dating. I said-Oh, it's probably because of your osteoporosis. Lucky for me they both started laughing hysterically. She said, don't you know you're supposed to lie?

I once told my husband "No wonder you have bad teeth" when he told me he smoked for 15 years. He said "Thanks a lot."
I still don't get it. He did tell me in the past it was due to his wisdom teeth growing in wrong and it caused his other teeth to be infected and then he told me he smoked for 15 years. Smoking is bad for your teeth and can rot them. It happened with my aunt and also due to not brushing them.

Luckily he laughs at things I say so it gives me a hint I said something wrong. But lot of the times he says he just thought it was funny so I guess not. It's the "thanks a lot" that tells me.

I have a hard time imagining an adult of his stature failing to grasp the concept of a rhetorical question so blatantly. A kid with asperger's, sure. So, I would have a hard time excusing him even considering his autism. I think this PSA lost some effectiveness because of that.

It was a bit over the top is why. They exaggerated it.

What's PSA?

RE: Rhetorical

I don't know, I didn't know that said question could be taken any other way?

I mean, she asked out aloud why was she dumped, and the individual across from her answered; the other two also answered her questions, but they were socially "appropriate" about it.

PSA = Public Service Announcement

I concur with Daniel's assessment. The other two answered it, by saying unkind things about the girl's ex-boyfriend, and males in general. That's socially appropriate, if distasteful. The 'autistic' guy's response was just an unkind remark about somebody who was actually present.

Weird.

I guess the question wasn't rhetorical then. It sounded rhetorical.

Well, on second thought -- I understand a rhetorical question is a statement in the guise of a question, intended to elicit an emotional response in the listener, rather than an answer. I think of them not saying anything but, "Yeah!" or something, but it wouldn't have to be so. It was rhetorical; the response she wanted, and got from the actors playing NTs, was emotional reassurance in the guise of stupid answers to a stupid question. The autistic guy's stupid answer was just a stupid answer.

I didn't think it was funny but I didn't find it offensive either.

That was a textbook AS comment in my opinion.

I think I would have probably offered an answer/explanation to her 'rhetorical' question too especially as she was very upset.

My mother used to perform like that girl, at home and I thought it was my job to make her feel better. None of my answers to her ever mentioned feelings.

I would always have answered rhetorical questions anyway, but with my 'training' at home as a child, this probably explains why this is consistently my biggest blindspot

Last edited by Blindspot149 on 31 Oct 2009, 3:32 am, edited 1 time in total.

Very funny

Have you noticed on the other ads he looks like he's always on drugs. Everything goes all psychadelic, "have you called an ambulance HAVE YOU CALLED AN AMBULANCE!! !???"