Today is National ‘Tell a Joke’ Day!

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With that being said, I would like to give a shout out to all the amazing, influential people, who have been fired, or forced to resign because of jokes they have told, regardless of what their accomplishments are.

  1. Sir Richard Timothy “Tim” Hunt FRS, FMedSci is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. Hunt said in an interview, “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.” After the joke was leaked to the internet, Hunt was bullied so intensely by feminists on the internet, he was forced to resign. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hunt , http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/15/nobel-laureate-tim-hunt-says-he-was-forced-to-resign-i-have-been-hung-to-dry-by-academic-institutes/
  2. While sitting in the 10th row of a Python programming conference, a developer who used to work for mobile monetization startup Playhaven apparently made a joke about “big” dongles and “forking someone’s repo.” Adria Richards, a developer evangelist sitting in front of them, called them out on twitter for making the conference environment unwelcoming toward women. Pyco fired both men for a making an immature joke, instead of doing the adult thing, and giving them a warning, or asking them what they meant by the comment. Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spiraled-way-out-of-control/
  3. A FIFA statement was released claiming that Gregorio had “relinquished his office”, but the BBC and Daily Mail are reporting that Blatter asked the 50-year-old to step down. Appearing on Swiss TV, De Gregorio said: “The FIFA president, secretary general and communications director are in a car. Who’s driving? The police.” According to Jerome Valke, the secretary general of FIFA, “Walter has worked incredibly hard for the past four years and we are immensely grateful for all he has done.” Regardless of all his hard work, though, he was forced to resign immediately. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/11/fifa-communications-head-walter-de-gregorio-resigns , http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/walter-de-gregorio-joke-fifa-communications-director-sacked-after-making-joke-on-swiss-tv/story-e6frf423-1227394006500 , http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/walter-de-gregorio-forced-to-quit-after-making-fifa-joke-as-sepp-blatters-senior-aide-leaves-role-with-immediate-effect-10313428.html , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Valcke
  4. Rafe Esquith, a fifth grade teacher, made an ‘inappropriate joke,’ that got him removed from the classroom. While reading a passage from Huckleberry Finn in which “the king came prancing out on all fours, naked,” Esquith remarked that if he couldn’t raise additional funds for his annual production, he supposed “the class would have to similarly perform naked.” Most of his student were low income Korean and Mexican children. Esquith did everything he could to educate those children, by taking them on field trips, and by taking the children to Shakespeare productions. Regardless of all he had done for those students, he was fired immediately. Source: http://www.freerangekids.com/one-joke-to-5th-graders-gets-worlds-greatest-teacher-fired/
  5. UK stockbroker Rayhan Qadar tweeted this joke: “Think I just hit a cyclist. But Im late for work so had to drive off lol.” He also reportedly issued two tweets of apology before locking up his account. The first read: “My previous tweet about the cyclist was obviously not true. I did not hit cyclist. Not today. Not ever. A bad joke on my part it seems.” Even an idiot would know that his tweet was obviously a joke, but apparently common sense was not applied to this situation, and Qadar was fired. http://www.cnet.com/news/man-tweets-joke-that-he-hit-cyclist-gets-fired/ , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2899148/Stockbroker-sacked-forced-apologise-tweeting-Think-just-hit-cyclist-Im-late-work-drive-lol.html

These are only five examples, but there are many others facing this kind of criticism. All together we have a Nobel prize winner, a developer, a communication head of FIFA, a fifth grade teacher, and a stockbroker all boiled down into nothing but jokes that offended weak viewers.

America, and other countries, please stop this nonsense. Grow a backbone, and tell an offensive joke.

In conclusion to this post, I leave you with a offensive joke: Two sperm cells begin talking to each other. One sperm cell says to the other, “When do you think we’ll get to the uterus?” The other sperm cell replies, “I think it’s going to take a long time.” The first sperm cells asks, “Why do you say that?” The other sperm cell answers, “Because we just passed the esophagus.”

Goodnight, everyone!

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