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I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61132]

Tue, 23 February 2010 00:57

Nigel

On fire!

Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjsSVCLxcZ4&feature=player_embedded

Hugs
Nigel

PS - some commentators argue that this satirical.

[Updated on: Tue, 23 February 2010 01:04]

I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.

…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61133 is a reply to message #61132]

Tue, 23 February 2010 01:36

Brody Levesque

Really getting into it

Location: US/Canada
Registered: September 2009
Messages: 733

HAHAHAHAHAHA I Love it! Without a doubt The Onion is the best. I rate it up there right next to The Family Guy for brilliant & sharp humour. Cheers Nigel!
Here's a little something in return for you in appreciation.

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Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61138 is a reply to message #61132]

Tue, 23 February 2010 12:34

chrisjames147

Really getting into it

Location: U.S.
Registered: November 2009
Messages: 630

Thanks, Nigel. I understand the nature of satire, just not sure that YouTube is the place for it. After viewing the sketch, done quite well by the actors, a thought occured to me. I wondered how long it would take someone to repost this out of context...and discovered they already had.

Taken as a whole the sketch is mildly homophobic, filled with stereotypes. The gay innuendo and suggestive poses leave the viewer to believe that gay men are all about sex and the lesbians nothing but butch. I contest that, but it seems the producers have fallen into that mold. In that sense the comparison of gay to smoking falls short of funny.

And now there are several additional YouTube posts where the sketch has been cut and only the first 20 seconds of the "commercial" have been posted. Viewed like that it become a negative homo image, the satire lost in a homophobic statement. It was bound to happen, and those who view it will think that outrageously funny...on the negative side. How sad.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626)

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61139 is a reply to message #61138]

Tue, 23 February 2010 15:28

Nigel

On fire!

Location: England
Registered: November 2003
Messages: 1756

I don't know what 'The Onion' is and probably not many people this side of the pond do. For that reason so many might not realise it's satire, and it's not obviously so.

Hugs
Nigel

I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.

…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61140 is a reply to message #61139]

Tue, 23 February 2010 15:56

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Many people also failed to realised that 'till Death Us Do Part' was satire, also ironic.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61142 is a reply to message #61140]

Tue, 23 February 2010 17:43

Macky

Really getting into it

Location: USA
Registered: November 2008
Messages: 973

"Many people also failed to realised that 'till Death Us Do Part' was satire, also ironic."

Nope. That wasn't satire. It ends at death. My wife does not like hearing it, but that was the deal, that's what we said, that was our non-satirical vow. Once I'm dead, I'm a free man. After I'm dead, I'm released from all my conjugal vows and free to have sex with any necrophiliac that will have me.

Max

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61143 is a reply to message #61142]

Tue, 23 February 2010 18:22

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61144 is a reply to message #61143]

Tue, 23 February 2010 18:53

kiwi

Likes it here

Location: New Zealand
Registered: August 2009
Messages: 317

Commas matter - 'Party on Dudes' is not the same as 'Party on, Dudes'

Re: I don't think you're going to approve of this… [message #61147 is a reply to message #61142]

Wed, 24 February 2010 05:58

Aussie

Really getting into it

Registered: August 2006
Messages: 475

What sort of sex are you hanging out for when you are dead Max?
It could be a bit lacking because you won't have a body.
:-/

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