Wouldn't it be better to leave these obscene comments for websites like reddit or slashdot? I come to HN to get away from the numerous attempts at humor. When everyone is doing it, it grows tiresome.
You might have observed that it wasn't all that funny or witty and I might have agreed with you.
But commenting on what you wrote: obscene doesn't mean what you want it to mean. Perhaps you should take your prudery, your censorship, your sense of entitlement and your geeky elitism elsewhere.
"""I come to HN to get away from the numerous attempts at humor. When everyone is doing it, it grows tiresome."""
1) Not everyone at HN is a robot trying to avoid humor (or "attempts at it"). I don't propose we narrow everything to the standards of suits and/or Asperger's sufferers.
2) Humor is totally compatible with hacker culture --hell, 60% of "the hacker dictionary" documents pans, inside jokes and "trenches" humor.
3) Some of the best technical documents have "attempts at humor" inside. There is even a whole programming language named after a comedy troupe from what I hear.
4) I find the notion that humor is something unworthy, or beneath a HN thread insulting.
5) I also take particular offense with the "OBSCENE" accusation. Is a hacker culture site supposed to be a hangout for prudes? We are consenting adults here, and we know what a bj means. And --I would like to believe-- we don't find mere words "offensive" --words are only offensive if they are used AGAINST someone (and in that case, any word can be offensive).
6) The comment also teaches you the pronunciation of two valid foreign words, and notes an amusing coincidence with two recent internet legislation acronyms.
(Also note that you can't separate humor from "attempts at humor").
SOPA means "Shut up" in Greek (σώπα), while PIPA (πίπα) means "blow job".
Is the legislator telling us "shut up and blow me"?