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Do you find this video funny or offensive?
Funny 57%  57%  [ 16 ]
Offensive 25%  25%  [ 7 ]
Not Sure 18%  18%  [ 5 ]
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26 Feb 2009, 5:55 pm

Check out this video on youtube. It's part of a series called "ret*d policeman." The name of this episode is "assburgers syndrome". Do you find it amusing or offensive? Not quite sure how I feel about it myself.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkBOU9etRA[/youtube]



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26 Feb 2009, 6:07 pm

It's hard to offend me with humor. I don't take it seriously because I'm not stupid. I thought it was funny. They were making fun of the name, not the condition.



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26 Feb 2009, 6:09 pm

I lol'ed.

But not before I rolled my eyes, admittedly. :roll:



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26 Feb 2009, 6:11 pm

Not gunna lie. I lol'd a little.
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26 Feb 2009, 6:26 pm

I find it neither funny or offensive. Just... Well, a bit ret*d.


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26 Feb 2009, 6:31 pm

Hey, at least they're using a guy with Down Syndrome.



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26 Feb 2009, 6:36 pm

I did laugh. I won't lie.



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26 Feb 2009, 6:42 pm

Totally childish and ridiculous. So yeah, I laughed all the way through it. :lol:



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26 Feb 2009, 7:48 pm

digger1 wrote:
Hey, at least they're using a guy with Down Syndrome.


Yeah.. I thought that guy looked like he had down syndrome but I wasn't sure. Looked it up and found out.



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26 Feb 2009, 7:55 pm

I found it to be pretty fun; aspergers does sound like the word ass and burger. I don't think they were making fun of the syndrome itself, just the name of it.



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27 Feb 2009, 4:08 pm

lol

i find it rather fitting that i'm also dyslexic...

Assburger's or Asperger's haha



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28 Feb 2009, 2:47 am

The film is gross and disgusting but also very funny. I have to confess that I did laugh at it.

I do not think that the film was an attack on the AS community, but a joke about one of the common ways in which aspergers is altered into a funny and stupid sounding name.

If I was to get offended at that film then I would be so much more offended at other things that I would not have time to be upset by the film.


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28 Feb 2009, 2:55 am

I needed a laugh.


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28 Feb 2009, 4:03 am

nothingunusual wrote:
I find it neither funny or offensive. Just... Well, a bit ret*d.


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28 Feb 2009, 4:16 am

I finally giggled when he crapped out the change.


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28 Feb 2009, 7:12 am

I have a Neurotypical friend who calls calls me an Assburger. I found it amusing but a bit ret*d. Well... I laughed through the whole thing. :D