My 7-year-old daughter came home from school one day, held up her middle finger, and asked me what it meant.
I was so shocked that I could say only, “Shame on you,” followed by, “If anyone does that to you, just say, ‘Shame on you’ to that person.”
A few weeks later we were at the dinner table when my husband let out a huge belch. I reprimanded him by saying, “Shame on you.”
Imagine my husband’s shock when my daughter held up her middle finger, showed it to him, and exclaimed,
“Mom, you forgot to give Daddy the ’shame on you’ sign.”
thats too funny
No, that’s the problem.
We’ve taken a total lack of civility down to where its a common gesture with little meaning. So now even little kids who, at one time, would have never DARED to utter certain words or gestures are now flipping off their parents, their teachers and everyone else around them.
When you take away the shock and the meaning it becomes an everyday gesture with no shock value and no repercussions. No one grows up and everyone acts like a-holes.
….and society disintegrates.
(Lenny Bruce is somewhere rolling in his grave.)
Err, I thought what the mother tried to say was: “If anyone does that to you, just say, ‘Shame on you’ to that person.”
So the kid should say “Shame on you!” to the person who gives the sign, not the other way around.
Well, at least if I were the kid I would act like that.
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Way to go Gerry…turn summit funny into something that your looking way too deep into……its a joke ffs….wise up lol
Am I seriously the only person here who had to read the joke over 10 times because the wording is wrong?? The little girl is supposed to say “Daddy, you forgot to give mommy the “shame on you” sign” because the mother is the one who said “shame on you”. In the joke, the girl tells the mother that she forgot to give the father the sign…. Why would she give the sign of she’s the one who said “shame on you” ???
You should read it 11 times, maybe.
I thought it was a funny joke, but by now…..
“When the horse is dead, get off.”