Bad jokes, name calling, and personality types. General douchebaggery

[derspiess]

I thought it was pretty funny

Don't be that guy.

Wel actually you sort of embrace being that guy don't you?

Pretty much.  Why not?

The guy is kind of a douchebag, but other than that, no reason why not I guess.

[grumbler]

The guy is kind of a douchebag, but other than that, no reason why not I guess.

Harsh toke, dude.  I think that guy is just otnay ootay ightbray. He comes off sounding like a douchebag because he can't figure out how not to, rather than because he means to.

[11B4V]

The teacher in me insists on providing the original (insofar as I can tell) source for B4's post:

http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/02/wargame-determines-infantry-battalions-commanded-by-female-officers-75-more-likely-to-stop-for-directions-arrive-fashionably-late/

[11B4V]

http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

Just the headline is funny on so many levels if you understand it.

[Barrister]

http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

[11B4V]

http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

I am in charge over 25 type A personalty cops on Swing shift. The picture of this would be comical.

[grumbler]

I thought http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/hipster-joins-army-to-be-ironic/ was the best piece I saw there (in an admittedly short look).

As the first hipster soldier, Burns has many wondering if this indicates the presence of an ironic underground counter-counter-culture. While the emphasis has long been on individuality and obscurity, it has now become the norm for many in the younger generation. The Army with its old school conservative values and rigid conformity has long been viewed with disdain by the hipster community.

Yet the military now provides a sanctuary for those looking to buck a now mainstream counter culture.

"I joined the Army before it was cool," Private Burns said.

[11B4V]

I thought http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/hipster-joins-army-to-be-ironic/ was the best piece I saw there (in an admittedly short look).

As the first hipster soldier, Burns has many wondering if this indicates the presence of an ironic underground counter-counter-culture. While the emphasis has long been on individuality and obscurity, it has now become the norm for many in the younger generation. The Army with its old school conservative values and rigid conformity has long been viewed with disdain by the hipster community.

Yet the military now provides a sanctuary for those looking to buck a now mainstream counter culture.

"I joined the Army before it was cool," Private Burns said.

[Barrister]

I thought http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/hipster-joins-army-to-be-ironic/ was the best piece I saw there (in an admittedly short look).

As the first hipster soldier, Burns has many wondering if this indicates the presence of an ironic underground counter-counter-culture. While the emphasis has long been on individuality and obscurity, it has now become the norm for many in the younger generation. The Army with its old school conservative values and rigid conformity has long been viewed with disdain by the hipster community.

Yet the military now provides a sanctuary for those looking to buck a now mainstream counter culture.

"I joined the Army before it was cool," Private Burns said.

Heh.

[11B4V]

"Second, we will fully expand and fund DTS administration which in itself will save DoD $100,000 over 25 years.

"Then what is leftover will go to developing the new joint service uniform."

When asked what spending cuts DoD will implement, Hagel said, "We have 9 programs that will be cut saving all departments a total of $78,430 in the first 5 years."

Spending cuts include removing horse radish from all DoD dining facilities, reducing programming of the DoD channel to only 23 hours, and eliminating DoD stickers for vehicles entering installations.

The above joking aside. I have heard that TA assistance was cut across the board throughout all the services.

PS: The bolded is true. The CNIC instruction is suppose to take effect 01 April 2013.

[CountDeMoney]

Duffelblog is insider humor.  It's more miss than hit from a nuance perspective, but the jokes play better with those that know than those that don't.

It's like reading an IT joke;  yeah, you may get where the gag about Linux is coming from, but it's not for you anyway.

[11B4V]

Nail on the head. 

[Berkut]

Yeah, but not funny is just not funny.

And I don't mean "not funny" in a "OMG that is not a funny thing to make a joke out of" not funny, I mean not funny just plain not funny.

And when your joke is about making fun of women, or blacks, or gays, or whatever stereotype, and it is not funny, then people who like it are generally kind of douchebags - or at least come across that way.

Since if it isn't funny, all that is left is a genuine buy into the stereotype.

Offensive humor can be damn funny, but when it ISN'T even kind of funny, what is left?

[derspiess]

FFS, get over yourself, Berkut.

[Barrister]

Duffelblog is insider humor.  It's more miss than hit from a nuance perspective, but the jokes play better with those that know than those that don't.

It's like reading an IT joke;  yeah, you may get where the gag about Linux is coming from, but it's not for you anyway.

I can understand that.  11b's second link certainly seemed like it might actually be funny if you were "in the know".

None of that applied to the anti-women-in-combat story though.  It was just a bunch of stereotypes about women thinly stitched together.