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Where do you draw the line?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A lot of comments this week about jokes being in bad taste on several threads.
What is off limits for you? When it comes to joking and black humour or taboo subjects where do you draw the line |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
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"A lot of comments this week about jokes being in bad taste on several threads.
What is off limits for you? When it comes to joking and black humour or taboo subjects where do you draw the line"
Racist jokes and those which make fun of violence against women. For a start. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A lot of comments this week about jokes being in bad taste on several threads.
What is off limits for you? When it comes to joking and black humour or taboo subjects where do you draw the line
Racist jokes and those which make fun of violence against women. For a start. "
ths too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Nothing. What matters is the intention behind the joke. "
While I totally get what you're saying, you don't know what someone has been through so your intentions can be almost irrelevant. |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Nothing. What matters is the intention behind the joke. "
This - a joke can be used to condemn the topic - ie, 2 racists met at a Ku Klux Klan convention, they lived unhappily and narrow-mindedly forever after.
It can be neutral: how does a racist shag a black woman? Just as well as a non-racist, they just become racist again after they've shot their load.
Or it can celebrate the topic. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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i can see the humour in most stuff some just make you cringe at the same time - when some story hits the headlines and within a few hours texts are going round of a sick edge to the drama - i can smile but think not needed |
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If you think about it all humour is based on one of three things.
An unexpected ending
Insulting a person or country
Making a person seem stupid
i think if there is actual humour in the joke then a joke is a joke. I am from the westcountry living in kent so i am thick, a farmer or a westo but i do not find it upsetting. Jokes appeal to everybody based on their taste, so not everyone will find a joke funny. But can you condem a joke for not appealing to you?
No more than you can condem anything just because you personaly do not like it.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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To me a joke can be as close to the edge as they like.
As long as the person telling it knows the joke is unacceptable. Most comedy is accepted because of this.
And that is normally the joke.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm not keen on the 'jokes' that quickly do the rounds after say like a crisis / tragedy."
Chubby Brown is a multi millionaire acting on such things....his joke whats an exocet missile and the m1 got in common?
They both go straight through the centre of sheffield....Told a week after the conflict ended |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a wide range of acceptability.
In most instances the joke is on the situation, not the person involved.
One i'll always remember is :
Derek Redmond, 400m runner i believe, saying how Linford Christie was the most balanced athlete he knew, he had a chip on both shoulders. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not going to pretend to be goody goody and holier than thou - I don't draw the line at any joke and neither have I ever been offended by a joke.
That doesn't necessarily mean that I condone or agree with the subject matter of a joke, but I take a joke as it is meant to be - a joke.
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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago
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"To me a joke can be as close to the edge as they like.
As long as the person telling it knows the joke is unacceptable. Most comedy is accepted because of this.
And that is normally the joke. "
Totally agree with this |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm a sick twisted bastard" according to some old lady who was spying on me having a wank in the woods from behind her net curtains......the perverted auld nosy cow's got some cheek.....bloody oap curtain twitchers!    |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember a joke going around when I was a child about a murdered woman who was found in a sewer. I didn't find it funny then,I wouldn't now. If anyone posted jokes on Facebook about people being killed,abused or the like I would delete them regardless of who they were. I don't find that funny. |
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I may have had limited exposure, finding much that people do sickening and vile but don't feel I have any limits, from the right person.
I suppose that there must be some terrible humour but haven't heard it - crap, yes. Public jokes that are likely to hurt others would be a limit and it could also be a form of bullying or intimidation. Not on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
Bill Hicks's.
Remember though it's only funny till somebody gets hurt. 
Then it's fucking hilarious |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think sharing any humour that's nor politically correct in a public forum is a bad Idea.
I enjoy some dark humor from time to time but with friends who have asimilar sense of humor.
But we do it in private rather than risk offending people. |
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