I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
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I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
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Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#2Yes, it’s a problem that something like that is insulting to publish.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#3Be harder to identify the non crap towns tbh.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#4Yes, it’s a problem that something like that is insulting to publish.
I'm not sure. Times change, and things that were acceptable become not so - and vice versa.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#5a comedians biggest fear is that one day everyone starts taking them seriously
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#6The author writes well. Within a few paragraphs the reader entirely forgets that "I couldn't publish Crap Towns today" is a hypothetical.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#7In my experience there are only a few cities in the U.S that literate people are proud enough to live in, that they would be insulted that you put that into your crap town book.
Thus I wonder what demographic that at one time would have bought this book is not going to be buying this book now.
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#8I remember a Web site, in the early oughts, called “sheppeyscum.com”. That URL now redirects to one that makes Sheppey look good.
The original one did not.
It was all about insulting the Isle of Sheppey (Western UK). I think an ex-Shep wrote it.
Looks like all traces are gone. I understand that death threats were involved.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#9So it’s not that it won’t be published today.
It just won’t be as popular today. And would, ironically, be crapped on by other people, which is what the author is unhappy about.
Thats what the author means, and represents the entirety of the “Oh I am so oppressed because I can’t say shitty unfunny jokes because other people will make shitty unfunny jokes about me in response” genre of argument.
The difference between then and now is that the people in the “crap towns” have the opportunity to call the author out.
Re: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
#10Yes, it’s a problem that something like that is insulting to publish.
I'm not sure. Times change, and things that were acceptable become not so - and vice versa.
It's not just acceptability. Jokes written even just five or ten years ago often fail to land on modern audiences. That taste in humor changes is neither morally positive nor negative. It's easy to look for deeper meaning in the notion that what once was funny now isn't, but often, there isn't a deeper meaning to find. Life is different now; so too must humor change.