"He's having a holocaust"

[Guest TK-421]

Jenkinson? Genocidal, more like.

[King Gheedorah]

Dumbing down reaching new depths.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

It's the same sort of ignorance that led to people on TV saying they 'got raped'. It's not really about rape, or the Holocaust; it's about words with complex connotations, which people don't really understand, being used to represent something overly simple. Rape, Holocaust, suicide = bad; Epic, amazing, awesome = good. It's a Neanderthal approach to English.

[sir roger]

Very unintelligent use of words in the circumstances, but from my school religious lessons I thought the origins of the word were based in biblical times about sacrificial lamb / burnt offerings so he could argue that the reference is valid I suppose.

[Guest TK-421]

You have to Rwanda where they find these pundits.

[Ted]

A moron being a moron.

[RedinSweden]

[Johnny Cougar]

You have to Rwanda where they find these pundits.

 

And Hutu blame.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

That's the spirit.

 

Make concentration camp jokes.

 

Ace.

 

It's a stupid pun. Get over it. It's not like I'm laughing at what happened.

[Major Tom]

It's a stupid pun. Get over it. It's not like I'm laughing at what happened.

 

You're right on one count, your puns were stupid. They were also in poor taste. It's your prerogative of course; have a laugh at whatever you find funny.

[OmarVizquel]

It's the same sort of ignorance that led to people on TV saying they 'got raped'. It's not really about rape, or the Holocaust; it's about words with complex connotations, which people don't really understand, being used to represent something overly simple. Rape, Holocaust, suicide = bad; Epic, amazing, awesome = good. It's a Neanderthal approach to English.

 

Yep.

 

But at least he didn't throw in a "literally" to top things off.

[liverpoolsno9]

You're right on one count, your puns were stupid. They were also in poor taste. It's your prerogative of course; have a laugh at whatever you find funny.

 

 

Sense Of Humour Failure, get a life you miserable person (in case you take offence at me calling you man!) Have to go now as im in the middle of drating a letter to the council to stop next door putting the Xmas deccies out as im a Jehovah and think its really insensitive of them to do this, the insensitive bastards. Im PC me and proud of it, only on a forum tho, im not with my mates as we have a laugh together.

[Scousa Tomo]

The word 'holocaust' is now intrinsically linked with WWII and shouldn't really be used in football vernacular.

 

It's just common sense no matter if the word was correctly used or otherwise.

 

Not even if Germany beat Isreal 15 - 0 in the world cup?

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

You're right on one count, your puns were stupid. They were also in poor taste. It's your prerogative of course; have a laugh at whatever you find funny.

 

Yes.

[Major Tom]

Sense Of Humour Failure, get a life you miserable person (in case you take offence at me calling you man!) Have to go now as im in the middle of drating a letter to the council to stop next door putting the Xmas deccies out as im a Jehovah and think its really insensitive of them to do this, the insensitive bastards. Im PC me and proud of it, only on a forum tho, im not with my mates as we have a laugh together.

 

If a sense of humour failure consists of finding jokes about concentration camps in bad taste then, yep, put me down, I have a sense of humour failure.

[Jairzinho]

Its political correctness gone mad that we can't laugh at the Holocaust.

[Major Tom]

Its political correctness gone mad that we can't laugh at the Holocaust.

 

hehe

[Pony Princess]

How about he just admits it was insenstive but unintentional and we (society) all move on.

 

Also, the word 'holocaust' doesn't mean the slaughter of the Jews by Adolf. It was coined long before that and means a large amount of destruction and death, particular if caused by fire (hence nuclear holocaust). It comes from the Latin 'holocaustum' which means 'burned offering'.

 

The Jews just decided to call what Adolf did 'The Holocaust' but don't let that spoil anyones moral outrage.

[King Gheedorah]

How about he just admits it was insenstive but unintentional and we (society) all move on.

 

Also, the word 'holocaust' doesn't mean the slaughter of the Jews by Adolf. It was coined long before that and means a large amount of destruction and death, particular if caused by fire (hence nuclear holocaust). It comes from the Latin 'holocaustum' which means 'burned offering'.

 

The Jews just decided to call what Adolf did 'The Holocaust' but don't let that spoil anyones moral outrage.

 

Yeah that was the first thing that struck me as I was sitting on my settee with a couple tins and my latin wordbook placed next to the remote.

[Pidge]

How about he just admits it was insenstive but unintentional and we (society) all move on.

 

Also, the word 'holocaust' doesn't mean the slaughter of the Jews by Adolf. It was coined long before that and means a large amount of destruction and death, particular if caused by fire (hence nuclear holocaust). It comes from the Latin 'holocaustum' which means 'burned offering'.

 

The Jews just decided to call what Adolf did 'The Holocaust' but don't let that spoil anyones moral outrage.

 

Meaning is arbitrary and in constant flux, associative values often trump etymology. The swastika is a standard icon of eastern religion, after all.

[Pidge]

and the term "Moral outrage" is far more hyperbolic than any of the reaction I've seen on here.

[Pony Princess]

When I hear the word 'holocaust', I don't automatically think of what Adolf did. I think of that awesome scene in T2 where Sarah Conner is dreaming and gets nuked until she's a pile of bones. That was fucking brutal.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

When I hear the word 'holocaust', I don't automatically think of what Adolf did

 

You're in a minority there, mate.

[Pony Princess]

You're in a minority there, mate.

 

Well I'm often told my brain works different to other peoples. Derp.

[capablanca]

Meaning is arbitrary and in constant flux, associative values often trump etymology. The swastika is a standard icon of eastern religion, after all.

 

That's not fair - someone knows what they're talking about.