The Prize for Gayest Pose 1937 goes to...

Now, to get down to the chase fast and easy, I am one of the fiercest advocates that the best way to prevent National Socialism aka Nazism from ever rising to power again is by making fun of the hapless pillocks.



It's just that, some people don't understand that humour is in fact serious business. It is. Nothing gets me so riled as lazy jokes. Push-button jokes, you could call them. They usually involve some type of body-function and/or poking fun at people who know better. As if the underdog somehow has a God-given right to pull unfunny push-button jokes out of his arse.

Never is this truer than in the case of the Nazis. And the push-button joke in question is that the easiest way of making them seem silly is not to play on their hyper-organisation or overly bureaucratic manner (something that could work on any modern wel-fare state incidentially, but I digress). What seems to be the easiest way to mock the brown-shirts, who were so openly machismo and mysogynist? You've already guessed it, no doubt.

By making it look like they all liked it hard in the bum from hairy men.

I don't like this for several reasons.

The first is the most obvious: it is so incredibly disrespectful of the male (and to a certain extent female) homosexual community. Why is being gay considered an insult? Or rather, is it still? This is the 21st century, people. Calling someone gay is not a viable insult anymore, at least not in an enlightened and intellectual society.

The second is that it is lazy, because it only reiterates a joke that Mel Brooks did in the 1968 (!) film The Producers, in which the Nazis played back seat to the actual plot and the homo-vibes only comes from "L.S.D"'s somewhat... flipped-out rendition of the Fuehrer.

Thirdly, it has little relevance with ezisting facts. Okay, quite a few prominent Nazis were gay themselves (Ernst Röhm, Walther Funk, Rudolf Hess... jury's still out on Reinhard Heydrich) but there are precious little but rumours pertaining to Hitler being anything but heterosexual. I heard one rumour that Hitler supposedly was slut-boy in the trenches of WW1, but then again, there are also rumours of him having "deflowered" Henrietta Hoffmann (the Hoffmann's and Hitler were Catholic), thus striking a deal with her father Heinrich Hoffmann, that Henrietta would marry the allegiedly homosexual Baldur von Schirach in exchange for Herr Hoffmann becoming "court photographer". But these are nothing but rumours. There are no proof either way. Hell, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl even claimed Hitler was such an egomaniac that he couldn't have sex at all, effectively making him asexual.

But, it is hard to say there must be other ways to make fun of the bastards and at the same time refute the "gay Hitler" hypothesis when you see pictures like this one:

Oh I say!

(This picture is wildly out of context, but I did it for the lulz.)

Imagine what you can do with an image editor, Impact font and some crappy English (LOLspeak)... I can has world-war? or LOLNazis. The possibilities are endless.

And remember; stay clear of the gay-jokes. Then you'll do fine.

On a side note: I'm feeling better now. And the LHC did not destroy the world. I think the Earth is a bit more solidly built than to fall apart when two mosquitoes smack into each other. Yes, mosquitoes, because that is the amount of energy that the protons will be smacked into each other with, once collisions get under way.