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The best thing this recession-ass economy has done, outside of a few investment banker suicides, is instigate prolific drink bargains.

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Anna Tarkov 35 weeks 4 days ago
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Soooo, let me see if I'm understanding this correctly. The recession sucks, but yay, at least some investment bankers killed themselves! Not funny in my book. Ira, if you drop by here, what's up with that?

Ira 35 weeks 4 days ago
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Anna, these guys just blew up our economy. I think %90 of us can take an non-PC joke at their expense.

Anna Tarkov 35 weeks 4 days ago
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I guess I see it differently and I bet so would the family and friends left behind when someone takes their own life. Whatever people might have done in their lives, these are still human beings we're talking about. And for that matter, do you know for a fact that the ones who have killed themselves were directly responsible in some way for the economic downturn? I'm saying, it's not excusable to make the joke even if you DO know it for a fact. But if I'm using your logic (where it's ok to joke about someone's suicide if they caused the recession) then it still doesn't wash.

Ira 35 weeks 4 days ago
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The joke isn't whether suicide is really a good thing for anyone, it's about juxtaposing anger toward financial institutions and their lackeys with a simple pleasure: cheap cocktails. The opening line clearly distracted you from the content of the post, which is not my objective.

Anna Tarkov 35 weeks 3 days ago
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No, I read the whole post and found it witty, informative and amusing, as per your usual style. But I still think a bad, inappropriate joke in service of a somewhat nobler goal is still a bad, inappropriate joke. We can just agree to disagree I guess.

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