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by voz_ 1172 days ago
I never find this kind of stuff funny... it's more snark than humor. It's also got a weird racial tinge on the tiresome trope of a somewhat distrustful middle eastern laborer, which makes it gross.
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How is he somewhat distrustful? He’s Honest Achmed, it’s right there in the name. And the application is certainly very honest.
This is the same logic i use to disallow microsoft on my network. You need to at least be regular size or get hard to be on my network..........
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Nah bro, google "Achmed". Top search is "Achmed the Dead Terrorist".

Also, there's a lot of racist nails lying around, so being a nice strong anti racist hammer is not the worst thing I've been accused of.