I love greeting cards as much as the next guy, but there’s something really disturbing about this vintage Valentine’s card and just have to ask… WTF Hallmark?
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Epi on Gee… Thanks God eddi on Gee… Thanks God Tank668 on Gee… Thanks God barzuk on Liar! Liar! barzuk on WALMART? WTF is That?…
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Sorry, I just had to do that.
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Horrid. How and when was this ever funny??
People back then had a sense of humor and didn’t get all offended like they do now. They just laughed stuff off. Now we get all bent out of shape and threaten to sue….
Evening news at 5! Halmark released a disturbing and disgusting greeting card with a skunk holding a gun to its head and a rock tied to his leg, apparently to assist him in suicide. Customers who bought the card said they were deeply offended and threatened to sue hallmark! Hallmark has issued a comment, saying “People are too damn uptight and have no sense of humor. They expect us to only make sappy bring-a-tear-to-your-eye cards? This will be the last humor card we ever make until people finally learn to pull out the stick lodged in their ass.”
i agree! I know several people who committed suicide. one was a good friend and another an uncle and this sh!t is still funny to me!
Or people knew people who tried to kill themselves, or DID kill themselves, so hence it’s not funny. So STFU.
Ya know, just about anything can hurt somebody’s feelings one way or another, sooner or later.
Funny, most people nowadays think that go-for-the-throat assault humor is great good fun. Or is that only when it’s directed at Republicans and Christians?
‘Funny, most people nowadays think that go-for-the-throat assault humor is great good fun. Or is that only when it’s directed at Republicans and Christians?’
Well, it WAS Repubs and ‘Christians’ who turned assaults, Shock&Awe, ballooning war deficits, torture, prisons for profit, intransigent unilateralism, etc., into U.S. policy, wasn’t it?
You do understand the difference between Christians and ‘Christians’, right? The former actually attempt to follow Christ’s teachings; they could never do Shock&Awe. The latter make a show of going to church so they can wear the lapel pin while fomenting strife and destruction.
You got all that out of a Hallmark card?
LMAO!
That’s because it’s only Republicans and Christians that are funny.
Only the jokes you don’t like.
Twilight fans are also acceptable targets.
I lost my father to suicide.
I’ve tried to commit suicide before.
I still have serious thoughts of suicide.
And I think this is BLOODY hilarious!!! It actually helps me to make light of such a weighty issue, otherwise I would never talk about it with my friends who are the ones who help talk back from the ledge, so to speak.
I must be a cold-hearted horrible person, because I find this card hilarious. Or maybe I’m just one of those people who deals with tragedy and horror by cultivating a morbid sense of humor.
My mom committed suicide in 2003. She hung herself with (I kid you not) ribbon from one of her birthday gifts. Due to the religion I (used to) practice, I was required to dress her body in ceremonial funeral clothing.
I was never one of those awful people who complain about their moms while they’re here, then freak out when they’re gone. I made a promise to myself when I was 12 and my mom and older sister were fighting that I would never act ashamed of my mom in public (like when she dropped me off at school), or insult her beliefs and lifestyle. My mom was awesome. I’m sure she had her flaws, but as far as they affected our family, there was nothing major. Until she killed herself.
She was one of those stereotypical 1950′s Leave it to Beaver moms, but with children in the ’80s and ’90s. She made home-cooked meals from scratch every night, baked special cakes for our birthdays, sewed our prom dresses and Halloween costumes, and taught us the value of doing chores. She served in the church and on the PTA board, and when I think of what a perfect mom is, I think of my mom.
But the card is still funny.
steve, that was classic.
Future Archeologist: The 1950s nuclear family was tenuously held together by a combination of emotional blackmail and societally imposed gender roles. The stakes were often high and suicide from spontaneous degeneration was an ever-present possibility. It fell upon the male of the species at the time to provide the female with such occupation health and safety warnings.
“Societaly imposed gender roles.” Hmm, interesting. So the standard mother/father paradigm is an artificially contrived fiction … but being a f@6 is an immutable decree of genetics. Is that right?
Yep. That’s right.
this card is just so wrong :O
Jodi,
No need to use “so” and “hence” together. One of them would have sufficed.
Anyway, awesome card. I’d have bought one. It’s called humor. Lots of people knew someone who committed suicide. It’s sad, but guess what? Life goes on (for us)!
“Lots of people knew someone who committed suicide.” Thanks for pointing out the obvious, and thanks a whole lot for correcting my improper grammar. I just wouldn’t have been able to go on without someone doing that for me.
Of course you would have bought one of these cards. You have no clue what tragedy is in life, nor do you care about anyone else’s.
“It’s sad, but…life goes on (for us)!” is only a statement a true as*hole could make. Everyone knows how tragic suicide is, and that it is a serious problem everywhere. Raising awareness about it is important to educate and try to prevent it, seeing the signs of a troubled person, etc. Trolling and criticizing other people on a website is not how to do it.
If you need a purpose in your life, I’m sure someone in this string could provide you with one.
The artist evidently had some suicidal idealizations. It’s amazing how this stuff slipped through. And to think we that we have concerns about the amount of growing, pervasive suicide at *this*point ? No wonder?
Coming from someone who’s mother killed herself, I can honestly say that this card is hilarious. Dark humor to be sure, but funny. People that kill themselves are selfish and vindictive, and don’t deserve to be mourned. I cried one time for my mother before I realized this, and never have since. There is humor in every terrible thing, once you divorce yourself from a singular perspective. People that get offended should get offended as often as possible, until they no longer get offended. If you cannot laugh at yourself and others with equality, you are only half a person to begin with.
To the troll fest…
Clearly the card said a skunk. A bad joke at worst. Clearly a shop… I can tell by the pixels.
This guy knows what he’s talking about, I noticed the blank space before “Sunk” as well.
I saw the latest ‘Shrek’ movie tonight and ‘donkey’ says to ginger bread man,’Shut up, you crazy cracka!’ Funny or terribly offensive? I am white, so therefore have no right to be offended,we are fair game,as are Indians(hilarious geek dancing in the metro PCS ads,right?),we have a talking lime sounding suspiciously yo qeiro taco bellish to me,I s this offensive to Mexicans,or am I even allowed to say ‘Mexicans’ anymore? Its a greeting card,people were hard core back then and we are really shockingly nowadays,thats the plain truth of the matter.
Murdock your words are really wise thank you
I’ve known several people who committed suicide. I am not offended by this (probably fake) card, but I don’t find it any more than mildly amusing.
It reminds me too much of drama queen codependent relationships in which one holds another emotionally hostage through threats of self harm if the other does not return the one’s affection. Is this the best that the one can hope for, that the other will fall victim to Stockholm Syndrome? Meh.
more like a big fail to me. i don’t know anyone who killed themselves… although two of my exs tried to do that.
One less skunk. Tragic.