• fizzle@quokk.au
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    20 hours ago

    Ill have to take your word for it. As written, it doesn’t seem that way to me at all.

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      20 hours ago

      I can understand that. Norm was a guy that went heavy into sarcasm and irony in his jokes.
      Reading the text as is would make you understand it differently if you didn’t know him.

      • fizzle@quokk.au
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        15 hours ago

        You’re right, I don’t know him, but I still think you’re making up a deeper level of humor that wasn’t intended.

        “Luckily the good guys have won every single time” is a very direct jab at historians always casting themselves as the good guys.

        You’re all up in here like “wull ackshually this is a post modern commentary on feminism because he’s used the gendered phrase ‘guys’ and you just wouldn’t get it because reasons”.

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          39 minutes ago

          “I think the best place to focus our War on Terror is in this nation’s haunted houses.”

          “When I was a kid, I used to think revenge was a dish best served cold. Then I learned it means getting back at somebody.”

          “The more I learn about this Hitler guy the less I care for him”

          “Now, I don’t want to get into politics, but this Adolf Hitler fellow sounds like a real bad egg. Seems to me that the fellow’s biggest problem was a lack of respect for his fellow man.”