• slazer2au
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    9010 months ago

    If they don’t kill you, they may steal your baby.

    • Deceptichum
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      10 months ago

      And the media and courts will ruin the next 20 years of your life as we harass you over your dead baby.

      Meanwhile dipshits on the Internet laugh about your dead baby 30 years later.

      • @mean_bean279
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        4510 months ago

        Have you ever considered people make the joke because of Seinfeld and no inherent knowledge of the actual situation that took place in Australia?

        • @CallMeButtLove
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          3310 months ago

          I came to the comments expecting Seinfeld references and am only just now learning it was a real thing.

          • @mean_bean279
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            610 months ago

            As do most people. Deceptichum is just unable to grasp a concept like time. Or that not everyone who lived in that era even knows it’s a real thing.

            • @Soggy
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              410 months ago

              And a lot of us who were around in the 90s also used “gay” as a casual pejorative without really understanding it. It wasn’t right then and it’s not right now and most of us grew up and realized that.

              The key is thinking, “dang, that’s messed up actually” and changing. Not “it’s just a joke, geez people are so sensitive.”

              • @mean_bean279
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                310 months ago

                You joked about how half of US states outside of the cities aren’t worth visiting. You joked about how everyone in Florida is crazy. Is that not messed up, generalizing whole groups of people like that? Or are the jokes about people you disagree with ok?

                Using Gay as a negative is bad… because it impacts a whole group of people. We aren’t directly making fun of the kid specifically, but joking about the situation. Making a joke about the kid, wrong. Obviously. Joking about a dingo eating a baby? Funny. Because it’s not about a person or who they were, but about a shitty situation.

                Get off your high horse. Take a joke.

                • @Soggy
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                  110 months ago

                  I said “Florida is looking sketch lately”, which anybody paying attention to DeSantis should recognize, and I stand by that most US states outside of cities and parks are largly undifferentiated swaths of farm and suburb with no unique reason to pick one over another. Neither is a joke, nor are they about whole groups of people.

                  You aren’t joking about the situation, you’re parroting a joke written after Lindy was pardoned. It’s a tired Australian go-to reference like “throw a shrimp on the barbie” but instead of just being inaccurate and a stereotype it’s also rooted in a specific and very personal tragedy.

                  • @mean_bean279
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                    310 months ago

                    This takes me back to my original question. How many dead people in a tragedy does it take before we can joke about it? How many dead actual human lives count up to the death of one baby?

                    Also, shouldn’t you then be happy the joke and saying of “a dingo ate ya baby” is being said. It’s a true statement.

                    Some people (and I’m definitely not one) consider Henry Kissinger’s death a tragedy. Does that mean we shouldn’t joke about him resting in piss? Do the jokes about “get your mind blown by this one JFK fact.” Become automatically not funny because it was a personal tragedy? Of course not. They’re still funny. What happened is sad, or terrible, or maybe good in the case of Kissinger. That doesn’t mean we stop joking. If anything we’ve immortalized that baby and brought awareness to the idea that sometimes people don’t lie, and dingos, a wild animal, do wild animal things and eat kids. It makes us pause after and reflect on how we should have listened to the parents and how they suffered due to people not realizing it’s true. All of these things can co-exist.

          • @z00s
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            210 months ago

            A murder investigation in the NT is like a blind guy looking for his sunglasses

        • Deceptichum
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          Have you ever considered, even without contemporary context, you’re still making a joke about a real life baby being killed?

            • @WillFord27
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              010 months ago

              I never understand this argument. How does humor come before empathy to some people? How could having a giggle ever overrule a tragedy? There’s coping with pain through humor, but if it’s not your pain, it just seems juvenile and insensitive.

              • @[email protected]
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                Because Humor can be coping mechanism also for stuff there are not involved with. Some people need to laugh at tragedy.

                Edit: you are saying “not your pain” as if empathy does not exist. We sometimes need to distance ourselves from tragedy and some do this with humor.

              • @[email protected]
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                310 months ago

                I’m not downvoting you because that’s a valid question I don’t have an answer for. All I know is, I stand by my statement, because it’s been proven to me time and time again.

          • @Crashumbc
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            1010 months ago

            You realize humans have made jokes about terrible things, pretty much since language was invented? And that making light of horrible situations is a coping mechanism?

          • @mean_bean279
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            710 months ago

            Woah, sorry Mr. Sensitive pants. How do people know it’s a real life baby?

            Care to write out a list of all the things society can’t joke about?

            • @WillFord27
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              -110 months ago

              Needing a list of things to treat with care and not joke about is a new level of lack of social awareness.

              • @mean_bean279
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                710 months ago

                Oi, you fukn wot m8?

                I work in tech sales. If I didn’t have “social awareness” I’d be terrible at my job. Joking about shit that’s dark is a human response to things we sometimes view as uncomfortable. It sucks that a kid died from being attacked by dingos. It probably wasn’t the first time it happened, and probably won’t be the last. 9/11 was a national tragedy, but we still joke about that too. Far more than dingo ate your baby jokes. Do the deaths of 3000 people not equal one baby? Or is there some strange math problem where 1 baby, but only when eaten by a dingo, is somehow more sad (and less jokey) than all those deaths?

          • @BlackNo1
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            110 months ago

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      • @DaMonsterKnees
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        510 months ago

        Alright then, let’s extrapolate, 40 years?

        • Deceptichum
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          -210 months ago

          In the year 2033
          Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
          Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today

      • @Fleur__
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        410 months ago

        I see it as the same as the saying “If it’s brown, lay down. If it’s black, fight back. If it’s white, goodnight” when referring to what to do when around bears. Yes it is comedic and yes it is referring to being mauled to death by a polar bear. Sure there’s an argument to be made about being insensitive to the victims of polar bear maulings but that’s not the purpose of the statement. “dingo ate my baby” is pretty clear cut on the meaning. Don’t leave your baby alone where it can be eaten by a dingo, some people will find that funny because it kind of is ridiculous and horrific that this actually happened.

        • @Soggy
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          310 months ago

          Nobody has been thrown in jail and dragged through a media circus over a polar bear mauling. Lindy and Michael Chamberlain had their lives ruined after a traumatic loss. It’s not the same.

    • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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      5510 months ago

      And then you’re vilified only to be proven right. What a horrific thing that poor family went through

    • @givesomefucks
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      3310 months ago

      You know that’s a true story, right?

      Lady lost a kid.

      Tropic Thunder may have taught me that, but I’ll never not picture RDJ disguised as a dude playing another dude when I hear it.

      • @CoolMatt
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        510 months ago

        What do you mean you people?

        • @kofe
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          510 months ago

          What do you mean you people!?