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Humor or pushing a stereotype?
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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 29, 2024 at 5:41 pm
(September 29, 2024 at 5:21 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Humour is a very subjective thing.

I think we all know I have a VERY dark sense of humour (comes with the job).

What I find funny I'm sure some are offended by it.

I say things I find funny. If people get offended, I find that funny as well. Win-win.

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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 29, 2024 at 9:29 pm
The funny thing is that, knowing right-wing meme culture as I do, there's almost certainly a non-negligible overlap between right-wingers who believe that Haitians are eating dogs and right-wingers who believe that women are fucking them.
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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 29, 2024 at 11:47 pm
(September 29, 2024 at 5:21 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Humour is a very subjective thing.

I think we all know I have a VERY dark sense of humour (comes with the job).

What I find funny I'm sure some are offended by it.

I think comedy should often offend. I think it should take straight aim at sacred cows. If I'm offended, I think it's as much useful for me to ask myself "why?" as it is to go headhunting.





Why is that offensive? Sometimes it is offensive precisely because it shoots straight at the heart of bullshit that so many people never question.

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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 10:22 am (This post was last modified: September 30, 2024 at 11:01 am by Nay_Sayer.)
For me the most effective humor is the kind that punches up.

I know I've said it before but if your jokes only works because your offending someone, maybe you need better jokes.
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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 11:43 am (This post was last modified: September 30, 2024 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
In the current landscape of us political humor I think that punching up through a down punch is extremely subversive. Affirm every stereotype - and then muse on why it is that the master race can't deal with the mongrel invasion, for example. It makes the bigots laugh uncomfortably....which is mana. They're conditioned to find the humor in the setup, a trojan joke.
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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 1:13 pm
(September 30, 2024 at 10:22 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: For me the most effective humor is the kind that punches up.

I know I've said it before but if your jokes only works because your offending someone, maybe you need better jokes.

No one can offend you without your permission.

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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 2:04 pm
(September 30, 2024 at 1:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(September 30, 2024 at 10:22 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: For me the most effective humor is the kind that punches up.

I know I've said it before but if your jokes only works because your offending someone, maybe you need better jokes.

No one can offend you without your permission.

Not even remotely what I was saying.
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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 2:07 pm
‘An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted.’ - Robert Heinlein

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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
September 30, 2024 at 4:12 pm
(September 30, 2024 at 2:04 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:
(September 30, 2024 at 1:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: No one can offend you without your permission.

Not even remotely what I was saying.

So what? I have my own point to make. I already know what you're saying. I used your words to help me make my own point.

I get it. You like oatmeal. I prefer hot sauce.

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RE: Humor or pushing a stereotype?
October 5, 2024 at 10:11 am
(September 29, 2024 at 5:21 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Humour is a very subjective thing.

I think we all know I have a VERY dark sense of humour (comes with the job).

What I find funny I'm sure some are offended by it.

While we're on the subject of humor, how much has that doctor with the name of Patch Adams influenced the medical profession in hospitals by implementing humor? I mean, do you or your colleagues sometimes dress as clowns and joke around with patients?
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