Originally Posted by ronaldo

I have absolutely NO doubt that anyone IN our industry would know you were joking even IF they were offended by it.

I make jokes about black people ALL the time AROUND my black friends and they do the same with my white ass. Doing it one of their weddings probably wouldn't be an appropriate place for it though. Just like GFY isn't the most appropriate place for a joke like that. If you hang out at another non-industry messageboard and call someone that, there isn't a direct connection, or what could be PERCEIVED as a direct connection. Remember, I'm not talking about GFY people here. Enough surfers make their way around here now, all it would take is one of them to make a couple of phone calls and like I said, the feds would be all over this place.

If you jokingly called a friend of yours who happened to be a 6th grade teacher a pedo, no matter WHERE you are, SOME people that don't KNOW you're joking are going to take it seriously. It's a different situation them being in contact with children everyday sure, but we deal with naked people everyday and public perception about our industry being what it is, well, I don't think anyone wants the wrong person to take a comment like that seriously.