Idiot awareness - are you offended?
By mommyboo
@mommyboo (13174)
United States
January 14, 2010 9:41am CST
Just the other day while enjoying my extended time on facebook, I came upon a little status message that people had copied and pasted. Sometimes people post serious statuses related to awareness about various things, from breast cancer to autism to supporting our troops.
Now I hope my friends from here and there respond to this because I doubt any of them were offended. I copied and pasted it myself because *I* thought it was funny. It states -
[i]Please put this on your status if you know or or are related to someone
who is an idiot. Idiots affect the lives of many. There is still no
known cure for stupidity, but we can raise awareness ... 93% wont Copy
and Paste this, many because they're too stupid to know how to copy and
paste. Will YOU make this your status for at least one hour??[/i]
I laughed so hard repeatedly it's a wonder I don't have to soak my keyboard. Every time I stopped laughing the friend I was chatting with would say the word 'idiot' and set me off again. I left it as my status for at least five hours, not one. I am very interested in raising awareness about this because apparently it is a huge problem.
Now one person one of my friends encountered received a reply from someone who was offended. My response to her was this - I am sorry that you were offended by a joke. CLEARLY this is a joke, no? She even went as far as to say 'I am not stupid nor am I an idiot so I am not going to repost this'. Well, I am not stupid nor am I an idiot but I reposted it as did at least six people I know lol. We had a long comment thread about it spanning over several people's walls.
Can you take a joke, especially if everybody else you encounter thinks it's one? Do you ever realize it's YOU and not the rest of us if you don't think it's funny?
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15 responses
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
19 Jan 10
You did post it if I remember correctly 
I was literally DYING of laughter most of the time it was posted up. The more people I saw post it the funnier it got. I have family members who probably got pissy about it because they didn't comment or anything...
I was literally DYING of laughter most of the time it was posted up. The more people I saw post it the funnier it got. I have family members who probably got pissy about it because they didn't comment or anything...1 person likes this
@loudcry (1043)
• India
18 Jan 10
That is hilarious, and yes, it is clearly a joke. I wonder why people get offended by slightest of issues. I for one think, we should not get offended at all. Afterall, how does what others say matter? Even if something offensive of insensitive is done, like the danish picture of profet mohammed,we need to still respect the right to opinion.
@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
21 Jan 10
Clearly people are jumping up in defense before they have even figured it out. Reading requires comprehension, so does sizing up a situation. I think that these days, people are reading WITHOUT comprehension, and assuming a situation to be something it is not because they can no longer comprehend anything lol.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
17 Jan 10
Hhhhmmm, those who get offended by such things really need to have a good hard think about why they are offended. it could be that they have lost their capacity for common sense, thus come under the class of idiot.
This is a huge problem in society. Humans have lost common sense somewhere, and it will be the one factor that will doom our species.
Society has caused societies problems, and yet society is too self absorbed to fix them. The person who takes a calculated risk and jumps of the side of a cliff is still achieving more than the person sitting behind their computer all day 'keeping safe'. Who is the idiot? The one behind the computer desk of course.
As for taking a joke, yeah, I can definitely take a joke. Nothing gets to me these days, except for narrow minded people.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
20 Jan 10
I have come to the conclusion that many people make it their life's work to BE offended whenever possible. It's like.... instead of trying to take things in the best or most positive light, people now will take anything, even if it is meant to be good, and turn it into the WORST thing ever, even if nobody would have ever meant it that way. Then they cry VICTIM and whatever else they can cry while acting as if a joke were a cardinal offense- simply because 12 people thought it was funny, BUT THEY DIDN'T.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
16 Jan 10
ya know i wanted to post it as my status the other day but i have too many family members on there and i definitely DO have stupid family and friends etc so i fig it would be funny for me but somehow either they would figure it was them and not see it as a joke or some one might reply saying "you mean so in so?" and i would be busted haha
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
20 Jan 10
Well, the problem is that people who would think it was about them already have issues, if you are cool with yourself and others, you would have enough confidence and self esteem to NOT assume the problem was YOU, right? People who immediately take offense assume it is them, and therein they add themselves to the problem because they ... assume wrong? Then again I can say if you're THAT DUMB or THAT INSECURE, perhaps I DID mean you!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
17 Jan 10
This was by far and away the funniest facebook status that I have seen in a while. Now, I'll admit that I never did make it my status, but I thought that it was funny that my sister posted it as her status because I know exactly who she was thinking about that is the idiot that she knows. For me, I would have been referring to the same person if I would have done it and the reason I didn't do it is because I thought she would get mad at me and I can't have someone that I deal with on a regular basis mad at me.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
20 Jan 10
I have someone I don't actually consider a friend but I do have to come in contact with her often and she is always asking OTHER friends if I am mad at her or if I like her. It has gotten so bad that the only reason I could possibly BE mad at her or not like her is because she is always worrying and asking other people if I am or not... lol!
@hexeduser22 (7419)
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
Haha this is funny I will use this as my status for two to three days, just to be sure the humor is sent
. I was not offended at all but bear in mind we all have been idiots once or twice, maybe more, in our lifetime
. I was not offended at all but bear in mind we all have been idiots once or twice, maybe more, in our lifetime
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
15 Jan 10
I thought that status thing was hilarious too mommyboo, but I can't believe you actually had a friend there that got insulted by it or failed to see the humor in it...what can I say though? Some people lack a sense of humor.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Taking applications for new friends! Number one MUST: a working, growing, and versatile sense of HUMOR. If you don't have one, don't even bother, the interviewers will throw you out the door! 
I have trained my interviewers to be great judges, I even know who I'd give the jobs to!
I have trained my interviewers to be great judges, I even know who I'd give the jobs to!
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
14 Jan 10
I saw that one this morning on facebook. I was not offended by it, but I also did not re post it.
I guess I can see where some more sensitive people would find it offensive because they would feel it is making light of the more serious one such as cancer, autism, and supporting our troops. Really it does not matter what you post as your status someone will find something wrong with it.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
19 Jan 10
I guess that is the difference between you and me, and perhaps me and other people in general. I don't care if people 'find something wrong' with something I say or post, I don't MEAN anything wrong with what I say, and if it's supposed to be funny, then those who didn't find it funny ARE being too sensitive. The only time I get offended about something is if someone is purposely trying to offend me and SAYS they are....
@gemini_rose (16264)
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14 Jan 10
I saw this status on quite a few of my friends status's and I did not find it offensive and yeah I did laugh myself. A lot of people do take things way too seriously and often on facebook they seem to feel that something one puts on their status is aimed at them! If I come across something that is meant to be funny but I do not find it funny I simply just pass it by, I do not spoil everyone elses enjoyment of it by turning it sour.
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@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
18 Jan 10
I think it's hilarious. People take themselves way too seriously these days; it's time to lighten up. I've gotten to the point where I hate being around people who are this stuffy about things that are meant to be taken as sarcasm, not the gospel.
People take themselves way too seriously these days; it's time to lighten up. I've gotten to the point where I hate being around people who are this stuffy about things that are meant to be taken as sarcasm, not the gospel.1 person likes this
@MrKennedy (1978)
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14 Jan 10
I don't have Facebook, so naturally I am oblivious to these sorts of things.
To me, it sounds like a dumb way to lower peoples self-esteem and make them feel down, and that's something you certainly DO NOT want from a social website, whether it be a joke or not, because to some people, it's certainly not funny understandably.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
19 Jan 10
Why would this possibly LOWER anybody's self esteem?? *I* don't think I'm an idiot, and out of 20 friends, the odds are good, I think perhaps ONE is an idiot and I'm not naming names lol. Honestly, whatever people think of me has no bearing on what I think of myself, although if someone is especially cruel and negative, I just shut them out of my life so I don't have to be immersed in it.
If you read that status message and are offended, does that mean you're an idiot? It wouldn't make you feel down unless you let it, and words only have the power we give them over us.
People can say anything they want - but I already know certain things to be true, so if what they said isn't true, then it just goes right back into the hole it came out of. The sad thing about many people is how they ALLOW those things that are said to influence how they feel about themselves, how they view themselves, and even changes their goals and dreams. No matter what you say, it isn't going to affect my life that much lol. If what other people say is not beneficial and affirming, then either it's a joke *in which case I laugh* or it means nothing, so nothing is what I give it as far as attention or meaning.
@neelianoscet (9615)
• Philippines
15 Jan 10
well, that like hitting back somersault rebounding the one who copy paste have the same inclination as the purpose of the sources it is like being regifting what have been say automatically hit back the one who accept the messages across the board..
