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"The key to comedy is to put a delicate idea indelicately or an indelicate idea delicately" – Cicero. Worth bearing in mind Chaos Monkeys came out 8 years ago
by 0898 5y ago
"The key to comedy is to put a delicate idea indelicately or an indelicate idea delicately" – Cicero.
Worth bearing in mind Chaos Monkeys came out 8 years ago – an age in cultural years. That same year Warren Buffett was quoted as saying this: “Credit worthiness is like virginity. It can be preserved but not restored very easily so it is crazy to play around with it.”
I'm not sure if he'd would say that now, but I'm not sure this was such uncomfortable syntax in the 2010s.
- mdc2161 5y agoIf he were a comedian, I believe he would be given more slack (assuming he changed the tenor of his jokes in the intervening years). As a manager, as someone responsible for others' livelihoods and careers, he has to be held to a much higher bar. Even if it were purely in jest, is it fair to have his direct reports try to figure out the line between what he publicly writes and privately believes?