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                                        On Jokes and Insults: A Year Later | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. On Jokes and Insults: A Year Later. Do you remember this post from last year. It was about how jokes stop being funny if they cause people emotional pain. Someone commented on it yesterday, claiming prejudiced jokes reduce violence against the stereotyped group. They also said some awful things about Islam as a religion and the people who practice it. To people who do not have an intimate knowledge of Islam it only appears to be a ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Delightfully Twisted | Page 2
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. After spending a couple months struggling to maintain my daily writing habits, I’m suddenly back to wanting to write every second I can. Not even anything particular, really. Just…write. Stuff. Writing is a conversation, despite how much it seems like a solitary activity. I rarely get to hold these conversations, whether about my writing or someone else’s, and I would love to change that. So here’s my proposal:. I’m absolutel...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        July | 2013 | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Monthly Archives: July 2013. On Jokes and Insults: A Year Later. Do you remember this post from last year. It was about how jokes stop being funny if they cause people emotional pain. Someone commented on it yesterday, claiming prejudiced jokes reduce violence against the stereotyped group. They also said some awful things about Islam as a religion and the people who practice it. To people who do not have an intimate knowledge of I...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        On Jokes and Insults | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; Áine’s harp. Adventures with Squishy: Surgery Edition →. On Jokes and Insults. This is a tricky subject. Many jokes are funny because they are also somewhat insulting. The key is to know where to draw the line, and how to take responsibility if you cross it. To take from Chuck Wendig. Own up and apologize like an adult if you cross from offensive to mean. He then proceeded to tell his friends how I lacked emotional maturity f...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        The Myth of Time | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; Previous Post. First rule of Write Club: Don’t write. →. The Myth of Time. 8220;I just don’t have time to write! I hear that from at least one person at Write Club every week. I’m too nice to call them out, but what’s the internet for if not to get people mad at you? I feel like I’ve said this before. Have I said this before? Or a six-word story before you log into Facebook for the rest of the night? And if those “highe...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. On Jokes and Insults: A Year Later. Do you remember this post from last year. It was about how jokes stop being funny if they cause people emotional pain. Someone commented on it yesterday, claiming prejudiced jokes reduce violence against the stereotyped group. They also said some awful things about Islam as a religion and the people who practice it. To people who do not have an intimate knowledge of Islam it only appears to be a ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        First rule of Write Club: Don’t write. | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; The Myth of Time. First rule of Write Club: Don’t write. I’ve been biting my tongue and not publicly complaining about this, but you know? I think I’ve about had it. Because, simply put, Write Club is about as useful as a sack of invisible potatoes. They both have potential to be useful — Hey! A sack of potatoes! A club of writers! As for Write Club, here’s how a typical meeting goes:. Next, we spend about 20 minutes writing&...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Out with the new, bring back the old! | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; Pros and Cons of NaNoWriMo, v2! Next Post →. Out with the new, bring back the old! Click for bigger image. As with any design overhaul, the typical backlash abounds. People don’t like change, even if it’s better for them (: cough: metric system: cough: ). But this is one case in which I agree–new sucks! It’s vanished from main screen, and getting to it again is far from intuitive. As you can see –. The Home screen assaults yo...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        Challenges | Delightfully Twisted
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                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; First rule of Write Club: Don’t write. On Jokes and Insults: A Year Later →. Life isn’t a series of tidy little silos, with everything tucked away into their respective containers. It’s a messy, interconnected web of chain reactions, constantly shifting, changing, and growing. Writing spans all of it, especially when fictional characters are involved. Learning from films and novels will grant a very different understanding wh...
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                            
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                                        https://ishanamaya.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/2644
                                        Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; Out with the new, bring back the old! The Myth of Time →. After spending a couple months struggling to maintain my daily writing habits, I’m suddenly back to wanting to write every second I can. Not even anything particular, really. Just…write. Stuff. A once-a-week get-together to review a single piece (or portion of a piece). The idea is to have a real-time one-on-one conversation about the piece in question. One week de...