FIRST Comedy hour

[Briansmithtown]

Originally Posted by Arhowk

If this was your intention than you expressed your ideas with efficiency left to be desired, the post made it seem as if the initial joke was "Recycle Rush"

Unless you were a driver, there was noting interesting that most people found about this game... I have seen a big difference from the turnout of media and people outside FIRST coming to competitions then last year. This year was a terrible game... it is blatant. The lack of action was really boring. But thats not the point of this thread. The whole point of this thread is to make jokes. Thats it. Not get into these discussions about these games.

[RamZ]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

Unless you were a driver, there was noting interesting that most people found about this game...

I wasn't appointed driver until halfway through our first regional, and IMO, the game was still interesting. Though it wasn't as much of a "sport" as previous games (i.e. 2014) have been, I thought (based on my limited time spectating) that all the different ways that teams approached the challenge were still interesting and entertaining. Just my two cents.

[Kpchem]

There have been many, many threads discussing the merits of Recycle Rush and whether or not it was an "interesting" game. Let's not turn this into another one.

The intent of this thread is to serve as a place for people to share FIRST-related jokes. (Maybe the first shouldn't have been about Recycle Rush... but again, a different conversation.)

Let's try to get this thread back on track.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Briansmithtown

This year was a terrible game... it is blatant. The lack of action was really boring. But thats not the point of this thread. The whole point of this thread is to make jokes. Thats it. Not get into these discussions about these games.

Then WHY did you pick this year's game's goodness/badness as a joke?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by EricH

Then WHY did you pick this year's game's goodness/badness as a joke?

Because it was the best joke he could come up with.

Wow people are touchy.

[Briansmithtown]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Because it was the best joke he could come up with.

Wow people are touchy.

Thank you

[connor.worley]

Leave it to CD to misconstrue a joke this badly.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Because it was the best joke he could come up with.

Wow people are touchy.

If you can't come up with a better joke than that, then maybe you shouldn't be telling jokes until you can. (A "popular topic" isn't necessarily a good idea to make jokes about--for example, I could probably make a joke involving the eternally-popular student/mentor build ratio threads. But I'm sure that wouldn't go over well--trust me, I had one written down.)


Even the X robots drive into a bar joke is funnier than the supposed joke used to start this thread.


Or to put it another way: If someone has to read your "joke" multiple times and it's still not obvious you're telling a joke after that, there's a good chance that they'll think you're serious. That's probably what triggered this.

Mods, I think this thread may need to be closed for a while, and maybe someone can try again with a different opening?

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by EricH

Mods, I think this thread may need to be closed for a while, and maybe someone can try again with a different opening?

Why, aside from people derailing it? I say let the thread roll on.

[Insanity000]

This thread is already just completely ruined with people arguing over recycle rush.... in may. I'm calling a flame thread if I've ever seen one, which is a shame because this could have been a funny thread, but nope, got to argue about recycle rush instead.

[Briansmithtown]

How do you kill a joke?

Bring up a touchy subject....

[BrennanB]

Be in FIRST long enough and pretty much every game is hated in one way or another. Nowadays all the hate is pretty meaningless to me. You don't know how good a game is till you have seen worse.

Onto more jokes! (and more tasteful hopefully)

[John Retkowski]

Am I crazy for thinking it's wrong for people to say this is a bad game, and act as if them saying it just makes it a universal fact? I'm fine with everyone having an opinion. I get that, but some of us actually liked this game. Both as a driver and a spectator.

Also just needed to add in on an unrelated/related note. Every year I've been in FRC, the first couple weeks after the game has been released, everyone on CD seems to act as if the sky is falling with how terrible they think it is. We sure to know how to complain...

Just a thought.

[Gregor]

This is officially my new favourite thread.

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by Gregor

This is officially my new favourite thread.

Can't tell if this is a joke or not.