I'm sorry, but I do find this funny

by WildHorses 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • WildHorses
    WildHorses

    Maybe I am a cruel person deep down inside but this did make me laugh.

    Bush vs. the Taliban

    Mullah Mohammed Hasan Akhund, the deputy Taliban leader, and George W.
    Bush agree to meet in Kabul for the first round of talks in a new
    anti-terrorism process. When George sits down, he notices three buttons
    on the arm of Akhund's chair.
    They begin talking. After about five minutes Akhund presses the first
    button. A boxing glove springs out of a box on the desk and punches Bush
    in the face. Annoyed, Bush carries on talking as Akhund laughs. A few
    minutes later the second button is pressed. This time a big boot comes
    out and kicks Bush in the shin. Again Akhund laughs, and again George
    carries on talking, not wanting to put off the bigger issue of peace
    between the two countries. But when the third
    button is pressed and another boot comes out and kicks Bush square in
    the privates, he's finally had enough.

    "I'm headin' back home!" he calmly tells the Afghan. "We'll finish these
    talks in Washington in two weeks!"

    A fortnight passes and Akhund flies to the United States for talks. As
    the two men sit down, Akhund notices three buttons on Bush's chair arm
    and prepares himself for the Texan's retaliation. They begin talking and
    George presses the first button. Akhund ducks, but nothing happens.
    George snickers but they continue talking. A few minutes later he
    presses the second button. Akhund jumps up, but again nothing happens.
    Bush roars with laughter. They continue the talks but when the third
    button is pressed, Akhund jumps up again, but again nothing happens.

    Bush falls on the floor in a fit of hysterics. "Forget this," says
    Akhund. "I'm going back to Afghanistan!" George W. says, through tears
    of laughter, "What Afghanistan?"

    Lilacs

    "I don't want someone in my life I can live with, I want someone in my life I can't live without."

  • RR
    RR

    That was cute!

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    I Still Believe ....

  • fodeja
    fodeja

    I bet those nasty Taliban guys are telling almost exactly the same story in their huts in Afghanistan. Only with "USA" and "Afghanistan" interchanged. In their case, of course, it is yet another piece of evidence of their evil mindsets.

    That was cute!

    At the risk of being called a naive pacifist idiot by assorted board dimwits again: what, exactly, is cute about somebody's fantasies of blasting an entire country out of existence?

    Beats me.

    f.

  • outnfree
    outnfree

    Lilacs,

    I thought it was funny, too! I printed it out for my hubby!

    fodeja,

    It's funny precisely because it IS "somebody's fantasies"!
    George W will NEVER go to Afghanistan to negotiate, so the joke is obviously a JOKE! And in my experience, a person who has been unjustly attacked (the 6,000+ U.S. civilians that GW Bush represents in this story?) usually WILL fantasize about revenge. That doesn't mean the person would actually carry out the fantasy...

    outnfree

    Par dessus toutes choses, soyez bons. La bonte est ce qui ressemble le plus a Dieu et ce qui desarme le plus les hommes -- Lacordaire

  • fodeja
    fodeja
    George W will NEVER go to Afghanistan to negotiate, so the joke is obviously a JOKE!

    Oh! Thank you so very much! So that was the point! Silly me.

    It's funny precisely because it IS "somebody's fantasies"!

    Okay. Let's assume for a second that this very same story is altered from "Bush vs. Taliban" to "Jehovah vs. Apostates" and posted on WOL by a true believer. That's not exactly a far-fetched idea, actually. If that happened, I bet this thread would be full of expressions of disgust about the sick and twisted fantasies of the JWs making up such "funny" stories. Not that we haven't had that before, haven't we?

    Or, for a different perspective, let's have some unnamed Norwegian post this story with the USA being the nation to get wiped out. Within minutes, this thread would be full of the righteous indignation of U.S. residents complaining about his incessant USA bashing.

    But heck, it's just about Afghanis, and after all someone from that place killed lots of our people. So of course it's funny to fantasize about "them all" being killed.

    I don't know what you call that, but I call that hypocrisy.

    f.

  • safe4kids
    safe4kids

    SIGH.....

    As has been expressed so many times here, what passes as funny for one person, may be nauseating to another. Fodeja, I feel I know outnfree well enough to know she isn't a vicious bloodthirsty person lurking behind her monitor. She's actually a very loving and warmhearted person, as expressed through her posts. She thought the joke was funny; so did I. And yes, precisely because it wasn't directed at me. You raise good points. Most people become sensitive and overly critical when they feel they are the butt of a joke; it's human nature. I do not wish to see Afghanistan annihilated; I don't wish to see thousands of Afghanis killed in revenge. I still thought the joke was funny.

    Dana

    "...I'd walk with my people if I could find them..."

    Third Eye Blind, Deep Inside of You

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