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ArianSkyy

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That's not funny
« on: December 04, 04 11:22:39 AM »
What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?


I am a very open person and like to joke around a lot but to me, it would cause my worst side to come out hearing anyone joking about anything having to do with child abuse, spousal abuse, any type of abuse to another human be it physical or mental.  But especially to a helpless child.
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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 04 02:12:17 PM »
have to agree with you there Arian....any sort of abuse shouldn't really be joked about....makes me cringe when I hear people do this. doesn't matter if it's to humans or animals....I hate to hear it.
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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 04 02:36:07 PM »
I don't know.  It's fairly difficult to offend me and I can find humor in almost anything, so I just don't know.  I guess I would have to wait and see if something someone joked about offended me before I know.
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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 04 02:52:22 PM »
Yeah, Shadow...I know....I thought about this for a bit too.  Especially because I am so open minded and because of an episode at work recently where something could have been [well, it was] all misconstrued as sexual abuse [against me] but to me, it just wasn't.  It was merely joking around between coworkers... I'm so accustomed to working with males...I joke around like most guys and am not offended by much at all.  So off they all go trying to make a big incident of nothiing at all...and I just sat back and watched the mayhem, watched them get all frantic over something that didn't even involve them.  I thought it was funnny.

But anyway, since I'm the open minded person that I am, and am not bothered by much at all, the only thing I could think of was just that what I said, abuse to another, especially a helpless child.

OK, why did I just ramble all that?  I donno.  Guess I miss being here and rambling to everyone.  lol
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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 04 12:46:10 PM »


If it's serious enough to get upset about - it's serious enough to joke about.

Nothing is too serious to make fun of.

That's not to say that there are no offensive jokes, it's just that the subject matter isn't what makes it offensive - it's the attitude of the person making the joke that makes it offensive.

For example: Bill Hicks did a long series of jokes in a stand up show about a wife being beaten and then defending the bastard that beat her. And it's funny. The situation is tragic, but the jokes are funny and he used them well to shed a little light on the problem.

What always pisses me off, over in the UK at least, is that you can happily make a joke about the Irish without anyone blinking an eye or you tell a joke about Jesus and no one cares. But you tell a joke about a black man, or about a Jew and suddenly you're way out of line.  (a little fairness here please?)

ha! Not that I tell many jokes - so I guess it doesn't bother me too much.   - go on - tell me the one about the Irish electrician - I dare you.

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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 04 01:38:04 PM »
What hangs to...all.. ..er... crinkled? oh.  Maybe not...
 
She's got that wild gleam in they eye that has an odd sensation of mayhem attached to it...

Did you hear the one about the really tall wall?  

Ok ok I'm going....



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Re:That's not funny
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 04 08:15:05 PM »
Yeah, crinkled and tall walls... I'd say you'd better be going.

Or you may slip on the gigantic orange peel up ahead...or is that banana?  Ohh... no, it was a prune.  And lemme warn ya, they're mighty slippery.  I wouldn't joke about that, trust me.
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