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IainB:
@wraith808: As a boy in North Wales, in school holidays I used to go round in the mornings to help out at the dairy farm next door (Evans the Milk's farm). I'd help out with the milking and the mucking-out (shit-shovelling) in the milking shed, and do various other odd-jobs (e.g., help out on the milk delivery round, move sheep to another paddock), and as payment I would take home to Mum two pints of fresh, pure and creamy milk (still warm from the cows that had been milked that morning), and freshly hand-churned butter - which sometimes I was the one to have been given the job of churning.
      
Years later (approx. 5 years ago), with my head stuffed full of business management, science, IT, computer programming, computer modelling and financial accounting, I was coincidentally assigned to a contract as a programme manager overseeing 80+ projects (some of which were multi-million dollar projects) relating to the set-up, operation and improvement of manufacturing and supply-chain processes in the operation of NZ's largest dairy producer in diverse parts of the world - e.g., including Australasia (New Zealand, Australia), Asia (including Japan), and South America (including Argentina, Brazil).
I learned a tremendous amount about the relevant foreign nations' laws, and the peculiar lengths that dairy manufacturer's have to go to, to ensure and maintain pure and consistent/stable quality in their output, in order to meet the stringent statutory quality standards of local and overseas markets.
      
With this background, and with what I have learned, I therefore considered that the image you posted was:

* (a) rather clever
* (b) quite acceptable (inoffensive) humour - especially in a NSFW forum
* (c) valid comment
* (d) presumably and arguably relatively accurate (about the US FDA I mean)
* (e) making a valid point in a factual and amusing way, without making any person or class of people the butt of the joke.      
Above all, it was simply funny. But you seem to have felt compelled to "self-censor" by taking the image down. What a pity! It is our loss!
Your opinion of what is funny is as valid as the next person's - as you say "I thought it was pretty good for a laugh."
Well, so did others - e.g., including myself and @Tomos:
...But I did enjoy it; and (unfortunately) trust the FDA about as far as I could throw them collectively.
-tomos (April 03, 2013, 10:47 AM)
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I feel sure that @app103 did not intend for you to remove your joke on his/her say-so. No, that would be censorship. Quite the contrary, it was, I would suggest, a rather subtle joke on @app103's part to start debating the veracity/validity of your joke and then (rather amusingly) contradict that by saying that it must not be debated in this forum thread   ;D   , pointing ironically and in self-deprecating fashion to a statement of personal opinion (Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !) as though it was the absolute last word on the facts in a debate (which it categorically was not, if you read the thread). Very droll.
(I suspect that @app103 is a bit of a wag with a dry sense of humour.)
      
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The three wise monkeys have long been a favourite of mine.

By the way, though this is stated as being a NSFW (Not Safe For Work) silly joke forum, I didn't think that meant that it was "Not Safe For People Whose Opinions Conflict With Ours". I feel sure that no-one here really intends to ram their opinions about what is funny or "right" humour and what is not, down our throats.

app103:
I feel sure that @app103 did not intend for you to remove your joke on his/her say-so. No, that would be censorship. Quite the contrary, it was, I would suggest, a rather subtle joke on @app103's part to start debating the veracity/validity of your joke and then (rather amusingly) contradict that by saying that it must not be debated in this forum    ;D   , pointing ironically and in self-deprecating fashion to a statement of personal opinion (Re: Staple of people from State and Europe !) as though it was the absolute last word on the facts in a debate (which it categorically was not, if you read the thread). Very droll.
(I suspect that @app103 is a bit of a wag with a dry sense of humour.)
-IainB (April 03, 2013, 11:15 PM)
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No censorship intended...not even self censorship. And I never suggested that it must not be debated on this forum, only not debated in this thread. I pointed to only 1 thread where it was slightly debated. There are already others here, if you care to search for them. I don't want to participate in any debate about the subject on this forum any more due to how tiring it is to debate with people that continuously bring up unrelated, irrelevant topics of things like playground equipment to defend their position, rather than debating the actual topic.

I don't find the subject of dead kids due to the stubbornness or ignorance of their parents (or those trusted with their care) to be a laughing matter. That's not something that's part of my sense of humor. Especially when if my child was only one year older, it could have been her among those kindergarten kids on that class trip, that died from raw milk.

And if you think that makes my sense of humor dry, oh well.

To be honest, you haven't seen my full sense of humor. I have always it on a short leash and my really nasty side off this forum, because I don't want mouser to have to ban me. I like it here.  ;)

Now, back to the funnies, please, which is what this thread is all about.  :)

IainB:
I don't really know who he is, but I found this comedian's joking remark (in the context of Egypt's political turmoil) pretty astute:
"Democracy isn't democracy if it only lasts up until someone makes fun of your hat." - comedian/satirist John Jon Stewart on the Today Show.

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Interestingly, it was apparently Tweeted by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and supported by the US State Department in Washington.

app103:
I like Jon Stewart.

Here's the whole thing. The part you quoted is around the 4:46 mark, but the whole thing is great when taken in context, and obvious why it was tweeted by the embassy and supported by the US State Department.  :D

Renegade:
Removed image... I thought it was pretty good for a laugh, but I guess not...
-wraith808 (April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM)
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Too bad. I thought it was quite funny!

But, I guess there's no sense in crying over spilt fresh milk. :P ;D

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