Ya know, right after 911 happened they asked us all to wear some kind of patriotic shirt to work one day. As you remember, they were hard to come by because of the rush to buy them at the time. I asked Gail to pick me up one at the mall when she went. I told her if she didn’t find one, just find me something. Anything. She brought me back a shirt that read “I am a dirty communist.”
You guys are all on the wrong track. A google search will definitively show that Hitler parted his hair on the other side, therefore these emoticons do not represent Hitler. 
I had indeed contemplated that very thing before I posted, but, as a spiritual being, references to Satan are more abstract than references to Hitler, a man whose very name invokes dread, whose actions, and moral teachings, were so often aligned with the aforementioned Archfiend.
BTW, I’m not advocating taking a vote, etc., but don’t personally like the Hitler emoticons, or find them especially amusing.
Hitler does not approve of this thread.
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- as a Christian, this one offends me.
- as an insomniac, this one offends me
- as a vegetarian, this one offends me
- as a heterosexual… mostly, this one offends me
- as a bipolar, this one offends me half the time
- as a bipolar, this one offends me half the time
- as a schizophrenic, this one offends me
- as a schizophrenic, this one offends me
- as a schizophrenic, this one offends me
- I can’t remember why this one offends me
But I’ll get over it. I think people should be allowed to speak their minds whether by word, emoticon, etc. (and I’ll burn any book that says otherwise). The advantage is that it’s easier to identify the people you don’t want to associate with. Words don’t hurt, actions do. Words preceed actions, so others’ ill words can work to your advantage.
I think the Hitler thing all depends on the context. The emoticons can be used in an offensive way, but so can a banana… or the symbol we’ve come to know as the swastika. The emoticons can also be used in a way that is critical of Hitler-esque behavior. Funny that someone mentioned Chaplin. One of my favorite movies is “The Great Dictator” in which Chaplin lampooned Hitler by playing Hitler. It was a poweful statement, especially when he dances this playful little ballet with a large balloon painted to look like the earth. It was funny, it was whimsical, it was light, but it was also a searing commentary. Some people got it and some didn’t.
Anyway, I think people are often offended because they choose to be.
It seems that in a Southpark episode it was stated that somethings that are really terrible now will be funny in some and such years from now. 23.3 or something like that. From that perspective, Hitler passed the Statue of Limitations years ago.
I don’t understand that. Can you please explain? Do heterosexual people not wink? Or do they not smile?
BTW, Bipolar isn’t a noun. The word bipolar describes someone who has one of the few Bipolar Disorders. You can’t be “a bipolar” any more than you can be “a cancerous”.
I never realised that the emoticons were Hitler. If it was my board I’d remove them. I’d probably remove them all.
Yes you do, and no.
It was a joke. :roll: I was trying to keep the cadence of the other statements. Bipolar also isn’t capitalized, or “disorders”, but I deduced your meaning anyway.
If I understood what you meant, I wouldn’t have asked.
I can understand the Hitler face, the tomatoe face and the sleepy face; they’re all clear. But the winky face is just a wink and a smile on a yellow circle. I don’t get why heterosexual people would be offended.
Neither do I. Ask one.
Ok, then.
At the risk of looking like a dullard (and the cries of thread hi-jacking) I have to ask:
Why on Earth is this face offensive to straight people?
Have a look how it’s wearing the earing?
I think those who are offended are probably not unaware of this. It’s precisely the context that makes it offensive to them. Chaplin’s film was powerful because it was shocking in a good way. It stripped away the piss-elegant dignity of the man exposing the posturing child behind the facade. I also enjoyed the film The Producers because of the point it made about public taste.
But both of these were once-offs, even though we might choose to watch them again. I wouldn’t want to watch them every day. I wouldn’t want a poster from either film on my wall nor would I want to be reminded of Hitler every day. Seriously, what would you make of someone who watched the Chaplin movie every day? What do you make of people who fill their houses with Nazi memorabilia? I think this joke would have been funny enough for about a fortnight but after that it runs the risk of normalising something we shouldn’t think of that way.
I’m perfectly well aware that this isn’t a democracy and I’m often the one reminding people of that. And, FWIW, I don’t feel strongly hostile to the emoticons mere existence, despite having a family background that’s part Jewish and part Gypsy. But I do want to make it clear why those who think the context is wrong do have a point.
There’s no earring. There never has been.
This is one inside joke I am destined not to get, I suppose.
Sorry, Cran. I couldn’t resist the razz. FWIW, I don’t think there’s anything to get. Well, that actually was the point I was making.
I don’t think the poster meant to be taken literally.
But maybe some people might feel uncomfortable being winked at by a person of such ambiguous gender as the said “smiley”? (That is, if they were “oversensitve” or whatever).
Oh. I think I understand now. Thank you.
Although why an ambiguous winking yellow smiley would offend heterosexual people and nobody else still doesn’t make sense to me.
I thought mabey I was being poked fun at by a troll and didn’t realise it. Now I see I’m over analysing this whole thing.
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To return to the orginal ‘thread’ …
I see Hilter, I see Satan … kinda sad that only the bad side can be represented here, huh? 
~Judy
I think obsession about anything is unhealthy for a person, but it’s none of my business, unless of course their obsession is to harm me. It may be distasteful to me and it might cause me to avoid their company, but that’s my choice. If there are going to be people with such fascinations, I’d much rather them wear the t-shirt so I know who they are.
Maybe a little desensitization can be a good thing; it thickens the skin. I don’t believe, however, that it necessarily dulls the wits. I’d rather not be the kind who trembles every time something displeases me, because to appear undaunted (or even not to notice) can be the most frustrating thing to an offender.
That’s pretty much my point. I just didn’t want to kill the joke by explaining it. Of course, I’m usually the only one who finds my jokes funny anyway.