It's not the fact that it's an inappropriate joke which is the problem, the joke just isn't funny. Call me old fashioned but I like my jokes to be intelligent and witty, regardless of the subject matter.
Agreed. I enjoy inappropriate jokes. To be honest I enjoy inappropriate jokes that are so wrong they offend most of the people who're laughing at this thing. But this isn't a joke. Jokes need to be funny, this simply isn't.
What!? where have you been living the past ... however long the human race has been in existance?! Did you never hear jokes about September 11th, or Titanic, or the Holocaust, or any other horrific things our nations have experienced?! Jokes help humans deal with things where they don't want to engage the correct emotion (at least publically). To be honest, I'm surprised it's been this long since I heard one! Distasteful jokes are great, people get offended too easily by things that don't have any link to that individual (hearing it on the news doesn't count).
what were gays singing in sept 11? "its raining men!! hallelujah!" what about Satanists? "the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire....." yeah i know, its another lame joke for the lame joke thread.
Maybe those things were funny because they delt with groups of people instead of an individual person?
What about all the Senna jokes or Dianna jokes, also individuals. I don't see the difference between a tragic event happening to one or too many. Inappropriate jokes can still be funny (wrongly funny but still funny)
that made me laugh and that balloon/raep joke was a killer too. the OP joke though was pretty bland . edit: oh and pictures like this make me lol hard and piss off P.E.T.A. nutjobs at the same time so its 2xWin.
and Madeleine McCann, and Steve Irwin, and Heath Ledger. The lists go on and on, any tragic event will have a joke made about it but laughing about it doesn't make you insensitive or anything along those lines; makes you more human in my eyes.
That picture also made me laugh. Even when I had thought about how horrible it is, the joke is still funny. I don't agree with seal killing but the joke is funny. And the original joke, I didn't find the joke particularly funny, not because I don't agree with jokes about tragedy as you can clearly see above, but because it wasn't really funny. I had a slight titter, but that was all. I think people need to lighten up, no-one here is saying how they agree with kidnapping or inprisonment, they are just saying how its human nature to laugh at something that is pretty horrible, it is either a way of dealing with it, or you are just a tiny bit odd.
When one faces a risk of death or injury on a daily basis, black humour becomes a coping method. The only one I've ever heard that provoked the "torn between laughter and revulsion" came via Fark.com today. I love horses, and yet I found myself having a chuckle -- before getting sick at the thought of A) putting a horse down, and B) that I'd actually laughed at it. Am I a bad person? http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3580941
Yup, it becomes inappropriate if you crack the joke in front of the persons hurt by the actual subject your making the joke about. Or perhaps someone who has gone through similar circumstances.
