Is this really THAT offensive???
 

This morning, a friend posted this:

We're buying Kelly a new ipod nano for her 13th birthday and when you order online from apple you can have it engraved. So I need some ideas on something cute and quirky to write on it...any ideas??

My response:

"Dont get knocked up."

This resulted in a tirade of rage from her and her husband. I apologized multiple times for offending them, despite the fact that technically, it IS good advice for a 13-year old in this day and age, and the humor was totally tongue-in-cheek.

Am I an tactless asshole in denial, or do they need to lighten up?

13th birthday, ummm that might tick off her parents LOL

LOL, blame the parents for being humorless retards.

yeah you are a tactless ass lol

someone would tell me that about my 13yo kid they would not be able to write again in their life thats a guarantee

Well, its was a bit tactless but I think that is caused by the industry in which you choose to work :o

Umm, maybe in a few years that would have been fine lol...

Dang, I should have really made this thread into a poll.

Better than if somebody else told you: "I knocked up your daughter." :winkwink:

WOW you are a fucking idiot what kind of tool even jokes about being pregnant or not with a 13 yo in consideration.

thats blow torch time

I see everyones point.
Your is just fucking funny. They'll calm down.

:1orglaugh

Don't you get tired of playing the tough guy?

Yeah, I don't think that was a nice thing to say.

:2 cents:

Agreed 100%

you cant deal with the fact that my keyboard isnt my only method of communicating?

You are mistaken.


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Now THAT'S offensive. :thumbsup

That's funny, but I'm sure it wasn't funny to the parents :1orglaugh

the second he steps away from the keyboard he does ;)

Pfft - I think its funny!

Now that's putting this thread into perspective!

I could not imagine anyone taking it seriously.. and then when I imagine someone actually taking it seriously, I can only just shake my head. I'm sorry you have friends that dont "get it" like probably 90% of normal humans would have.

I personally laughed, but then hardly anything offends me, and I don't have a daughter :winkwink:

just when you thought you could be wrong the adult industry once again proves it's full of thoughtless slimeballs. WHOO HOO

eh, nothing to cry about.

I do have a 13 year old daughter and if that was said to me I would laugh if it was said by someone that I was friends with. If it was said around my daughter or by someone I didnt know it might piss me off.

Maybe its something to do with you being a porn webmaster and implying their 13 year old kid is having sex.

I mean, I'm not an intentionally disrespectful guy - at least not until provoked. I didn't mean to offend them, and I'm a father myself (though to a son). I'm struggling with reaching a mental verdict on this one, since it's technically good advice, it was meant as completely tongue-in-cheek humor. But, I completely acknowledge the grounds for offense as well.

Regardless, I wont be saying anything like that to those two again. But I still think it's fucking hilarious to have got a rise like that out of them. :)

Their reaction might just express the fear they have knowing what's coming for a 13 year old daughter... 13, 14 and 15 for female teens are the worst... Add sexuality discovery to bad tantrums, pushing the limits, etc...

Depends on your relationship to the parents. If you are good friends with them where sarcasm is prevalent, then they overreacted.

If you are just casual friends or acquaintances, then the joke was inappropriate.

Kind of like telling black jokes to a very close black friend. They would probably laugh their asses off. If you aren't close with the person, you are just a racist asshole. Same joke... different recipients.

See, that's exactly what I was thinking when I said it. I thought that among friends, such humor would not evoke such a inflamed reaction. However, Pat is probably right. I probably struck a nerve, being that they're dawning on the scariest phase of childhood for a female.

tell them to pull the stick out of their ass. they asked! and seriously, they really needed to ask advice for what to engrave on an ipod?? gimme a break.

"If found, please thank God that our daughter lost her Ipod and not her virginity"

Try that.

I have 2 daughters, and I found in not only funny, but very good advice.

Very tactless. lol

well probably yeah. its kinda offensive if you think it this way,

the daughter might think that her parents are allowing her to have sex, just don't get knocked up.

:2 cents:

They need to lighten up. Sounds like they are having other underlying problems.

I think it is VERY funny.
Yes, it may be a little strong with goody-goody parents of a 13 year old girl, who probably is already banging everything that moves or vibrates. But hey, that's the American middle class for you. Welcome to Fruitopia!

Best advice yet!

LOL, good one :)

dump them

you don't need uptight friends like that anyways :2 cents:

... gotta be tough for a parent to think about her barely teenage daughter getting knocked up....

lol @ engraving an ipod

I laughed really hard. Then again, I am a tactless asshole. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I dont know what to say... none of my friends are that uptight. Something like that is far less worse than a lot of other shit that I say.

"You were adopted."

"We're sorry, but you're going to have to move out now."

"You're grounded until you are 18!"