Jokes in poor taste (Page 3): We like to elect our bigger jokes to public office.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Texcaster wrote:

Any number of Jesse Waters type videos have been m... (show quote)

We like to elect our bigger jokes to public office.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Sjfh wrote:

Why not? Everyone has something that they do or say or how they look that is funny.

Don’t tell me you’ve never told a Polish joke....or irish, Italian, whatever. Never a dumb blonde joke? Never watched SNL or Meatballs or Caddyshack? They’re all making fun of other people.....and they’re pretty freaking funny.

I've told more than I should. I don't wish to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. I'm not qualified and I don't have the right. I try not to insult anyone unless it's really worth it and usually it isn't. You've been here long enough to know I don't always follow that, but I try to.
I think mostly I was trying to say that laughing at yourself is different, than laughing at someone else.Some people can't handle being laughed at and those people don't look any different than you or I. I wish I could say I'm never intolerant, but I can't say that.

Sjfh

thom w wrote:

I've told more than I should. I don't wish to tell... (show quote)

If anyone is hurt by a joke, then they are the ones who need to hear them. It’s about time they figured out how to handle their feelings appropriately. Pussyfooting around to cow-tow to them doesn’t help them mature.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Sjfh wrote:

If anyone is hurt by a joke, then they are the ones who need to hear them. It’s about time they figured out how to handle their feelings appropriately. Pussyfooting around to cow-tow to them doesn’t help them mature.

Do you offer alcohol to alcoholics? I mean if they can't take a joke, they have a problem. If you don't give them a drink you can't know how strong they are. Why do I get the impression that you have a compassion deficiency? It's not your job to run around forcing people to "mature". Hard to believe, a serious accident like that and you still carry on as though you are bullet proof.

Sjfh

thom w wrote:

Do you offer alcohol to alcoholics? I mean if they can't take a joke, they have a problem. If you don't give them a drink you can't know how strong they are. Why do I get the impression that you have a compassion deficiency? It's not your job to run around forcing people to "mature". Hard to believe, a serious accident like that and you still carry on as though you are bullet proof.

You only live once. I’m not letting that accident beat me if I can help it.

As far as compassion.....it’s in the eye of the beholder. In my opinion, coddling someone isn’t good for either of us.

And....I offer alcohol to everyone, unless I know it’s not their drink of choice, and I’ll tell you I’m a lot more cued in to who is an alcoholic and who’s not. People are rather oblivious, truth be told. My in-laws still offer me wine with every meal. They still have no clue that I’ve been sober for nearly 14 years. Trust me, someone not offering an alcoholic alcohol isn’t doing any good....likely making it worse. You wanna help....hiding the booze isn’t helping. The alcoholic needs to want sobriety. Ditto for the snowflake who can’t handle a joke.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

DaveO wrote:

What they really meant is "So who gives a s***! Get over it and find something else to whine about!"

Now that's funny ...

Joe Blow

Sjfh wrote:

As far as compassion.....it’s in the eye of the beholder.

No, compassion isn't in the eye of the beholder. It does have a definition that doesn't depend on being belittled.

Sjfh

Joe Blow wrote:

No, compassion isn't in the eye of the beholder. It does have a definition that doesn't depend on being belittled.

We’re talking joke here. Not belittling or bullying. While I don’t condone the latter, I also take issue with the extent of the anti-bullying movement, craze, whatever. Kids are so sheltered from bullying that they never learn how to deal with it, to overcome and to put bullies in their place. Face it, bullies are bullies at any age. Elementary school, college, workplace, retirement home. We’re doing our kids a disservice by not letting them learn how to manage difficult situations....in many ways besides bullying (but that’s a topic for another thread). They get out of school where bullies have been subject to the “zero tolerance” policies and the bullied have been sheltered instead of empowered and guess what? The bullies are there in the real world, up against the new adult with no coping skills. No wonder they can’t take a joke.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Sjfh wrote:

We’re talking joke here. Not belittling or bullyin... (show quote)

Sjfh

DaveO wrote:

Thanks.

jcboy3

Joe Blow wrote:

My Friday morning rant.

Telling jokes where the theme is a minority or identifiable group are unintelligent or are less than socially acceptable is just plain wrong. I don't care if you want to substitute your favorite nationality, they are still unacceptable. If it is wrong to suggest a Black or a Jew would do something, it is just as wrong to suggest a Swede would do it.

The only exception would be Trump supporters. Just because.

There was this group of people on a tour-bus. The guide on the bus asked if anyone on the bus could tell the rest a joke, whereupon a guy got up and said that he could tell a Swedish joke. Suddenly a woman in the back of the bus said, "No, don't do that. I'm Swedish." The guide looked at her and said, "Oh, that's okay. We'll explain it to you afterwards."

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

jcboy3 wrote:

There was this group of people on a tour-bus. The guide on the bus asked if anyone on the bus could tell the rest a joke, whereupon a guy got up and said that he could tell a Swedish joke. Suddenly a woman in the back of the bus said, "No, don't do that. I'm Swedish." The guide looked at her and said, "Oh, that's okay. We'll explain it to you afterwards."

Banjo jokes are kept simple so bass players can understand them. I was born in basslandia, culturally I am bass and I hold a bass passport.

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