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snark 

If you're trying to prove that humor "doesn't need to be offensive in order to be funny," maybe posting 400 consecutive Hot Pockets and Connect Four memes was *not* the most persuasive means.

I'll stick with Mel Brooks laughing at people falling into open sewers, because he at least only uses the same joke once a film, but thanks all the same, kiddo. :P

snark 

(But more than that, I'm highly disturbed and angry at the fact that woke millennials apparently don't find Hot Pockets to be DEEPLY offensive.

At least I've never caught any actually EATING one, which would be beyond the pale and might just be enough to drive me out of the social justice movement for good.

I sincerely believe Hot Pockets were invented by malevolent aliens in the service of the Anti-Life Recipe and those who knowingly consume them remand membership in humanity forever.)

snark 

@zebratron2084 Humor doesn't need to be offensive to be funny.

Humor simply needs to be a different perspective and somewhat unanticipated reaction from something normal to be funny.

Given that there are literally thousands of different perspectives on things, that makes humor pretty hit or miss and highly up to the perceivor.

That said, I truly hope we move away from all the offensive humor, since that seems to be today's 'normal'.

... as a personal preference, I hope that doesn't mean moving into more shitposting, but I'm considering that a transitory phase to see what sticks.

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