Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-4-2010

[andrewducker]

• The results of the xkcd Colour Survey
  (tags: xkcd colour statistics funny survey)
• The Nordic approach to financing the welfare state
  (tags: socialism government economics politics taxes)
• What Would Don Draper Do?
  (tags: madmen funny television)
• Frankie Boyle defends his humour and calls the BBC cowards
  (tags: bbc comedy speech)
• Discovery of genes associated with autistic traits, empathy, and Asperger syndrome.
  (tags: genetics personality aspergers autism empathy)
• Ten reasons why, if you’re considering voting Labour, you should think again
  (tags: labour politics uk)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

If he had said Israeli that would have also implied the minority of citizens of Israel who are not Jewish as well as the majority who are Jewish, which might have prevented the joke from working (if indeed, it did work).

Perhaps he should have said "Israeli Jew who does not actively oppose their government's policies"? Or "Zionist"?

Makes me wonder about Spitting Image's "Never Met a Nice South African" and where Nelson Mandela would have fit in there, or any other South African who wasn't a white pro-apartheid type for that matter.

[andrewducker]

Well, exactly! If you take it as a literal expression then, no, it doesn't work. Humour requires context and understanding.