StringJunky

I realised today how robust we are, even after visceral-level disputes.

Another split on the horizon

Right. Adverse and malign social engineering.

Right. OK.

It seems plausible to me. Countermeasures can be learned and applied. The adversary would then be using a lemon, completely unaware.

Perhaps, in general, governments like to keep this sort of stuff under wraps, so they cn exploit these things geopolitically... stuff like equipment secrets they discover and don't want their adversary to know they know. The balloon we saw was perhaps too blatant to apply the usual protocols of secrecy and so they had to talk about it and react publicly.

It's not expressed in both identical twins all the time. I think that supports that position: incomplete..

200m high

Methinks 66000ft will no longer be left unwatched.

Yes, splitting would be appropriate if the mods agree. By design or consequence, the Zionist aspirations mirror Aryanism and Apartheid.

Aliens moved into Palestine after 1947 with our assistance and then proceeded to suppress the natives so that they can act out a spurious dystopian societal fantasy depicted by a book.

JC has not shown one hint of racism. He's explained what he meant. If people want to hold him to another interpretation that's their issue.

Intent is everything, and most of us know JC is a pedant/stickler for definitions. I've been feeling quite gay today. The onus is on the reader to parse which version of 'gay' I meant. "Confusion will be my epitaph, as I walk the cracked and broken path" - King Crimson

It overlaps, but satire can be devoid of it and still be satire. Swift's A Modest Proposal is one. It is not a required component to qualify. You seem to be tapdancing with your clause in brackets, are you not going to commit yourself that it is or isn't?

Are we conflating humour with satire?

I wifi off my phone to my laptop too with Giffgaff. Just checked download speed and it's 25-32mb and 60 ping. This is at busy time. Costs me £12 for 25GB. Unlimited is about double but I don't need it.

What about those devices that transfer signal through the mains; plug to plug?

We would have to take the time to find the motivations for that cartoon's conception. On the face of it, it feels vindictive, but that's by my interpretation.

Fresh of the press. Charlie Hebdo. "Earthquake in Turkey, We don't need to send in tanks". Not funny to me...but acceptable in France. No disrespect Phi, but you are posting as if there is a universal standard of what is or not acceptable as if it's intrinsic. Corrected cockup.

It depends where you stand on the political spectrum. There are people, like myself, that don't like the US cosying up to the fascist/hypocritical Israeli regime. I'm anti-zionist but not anti-jewish, just like many thousands of Ultra Orthodox diaspora that think 'Israel' is a an insult to the Torah. 'Israel' is a spiritual place where their prophet will be... when he comes. Looks they hijacked Jesus as their prophet when they took Palestine as their own It's all the West's fault for facilliting it after the war, after being nagged for forty years or more. What the Nazis did sealed the deal.

I've put your neg back. Just scrolled through 18 pages and you have the distinction of being the first to do so. I hope that is not a precursor to what has happened to sport.

In principle, who is the objective arbiter of what constitutes offensive or not?

We are not all made the same way, so what tickles our individual funny bones is individual.

Humour is in the mind of the beholder. If a joke is too dark to be seen by you, thats not the authour's fault.

Political humour by its subject matter is about ridiculing groups or individuals for their thinking and behaviour in some way... depending on which side one sits on. If one is going to engage in it, be fair to everyone and piss-take them too... 'equality', see. Everyone has their 'taboo' subjects' and 8 Billion variations is too many to accommodate, so if you want to do it, do everyone. If people are offended by mistermack's post, I nuked the neg, then maybe they best stat away from political jokes because attacks their collective behaviour and not their being,which would be personal. Attack the behviour, not the person.