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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 10:55 pm
(June 18, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Losty Wrote: I have a pretty dark sense of humor. It's rare that I find a joke that is just so offensive that I can't laugh.
Same. Just today I ended up doing a Cremation joke, one of my siblings laughed, but my mom just kinda stared.
"You can change my name to... ASHley"
It was really.... I was just amazed someone got the joke, and their reactions made me laugh more than anything... 
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 10:57 pm
There is nothing over the line.
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:09 pm
(August 11, 2014 at 10:55 pm)Raevoryx Wrote: (June 18, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Losty Wrote: I have a pretty dark sense of humor. It's rare that I find a joke that is just so offensive that I can't laugh.
Same. Just today I ended up doing a Cremation joke, one of my siblings laughed, but my mom just kinda stared.
"You can change my name to... ASHley"
It was really.... I was just amazed someone got the joke, and their reactions made me laugh more than anything...
The same decade that brought us dead baby jokes, brought us paraplegic jokes:
What do you call a paraplegic at the door? Matt.
In the pool? Bob
At the firing range? Mark
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:10 pm
(August 11, 2014 at 11:09 pm)Jenny A Wrote: (August 11, 2014 at 10:55 pm)Raevoryx Wrote: Same. Just today I ended up doing a Cremation joke, one of my siblings laughed, but my mom just kinda stared.
"You can change my name to... ASHley"
It was really.... I was just amazed someone got the joke, and their reactions made me laugh more than anything...
The same decade that brought us dead baby jokes, brought us paraplegic jokes:
What do you call a paraplegic at the door? Matt.
In the pool? Bob
At the firing range? Mark
With a spade in his head: Doug.
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:24 pm
On the beach? Sandy
Can Timmy come out to play?
Boys, you Timmy is a paraplegic.
That's okay Ma'am, we just want him to be first base.
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:26 pm
Not necessarily offensive but I found this funny.
This morning I saw a woman in a wheelchair with a sticker on the back saying, "667: Neighbour of the Beast"
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:37 pm
Offensive and funny are not mutually exclusive. As Beccs pointed out, it is possible to laugh at stuff that is in the same breath horribly offensive.
That said, the things I rarely find funny but always find offensive:
Racist humor
Rape humor
Death/illness humor (specific individuals)
Of course, there are exceptions (except maybe to the rape humor) but in general these topics just shouldn't be joked about.
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:55 pm
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(August 11, 2014 at 11:37 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Offensive and funny are not mutually exclusive. As Beccs pointed out, it is possible to laugh at stuff that is in the same breath horribly offensive.
That said, the things I rarely find funny but always find offensive:
Racist humor
Rape humor
Death/illness humor (specific individuals)
Of course, there are exceptions (except maybe to the rape humor) but in general these topics just shouldn't be joked about.
One caveat about all of these: self humor. Minorities get to tell jokes on themselves. Rape victims get to indulge in black humor about rape. People dying or ill get to tell jokes about it.
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 11, 2014 at 11:57 pm
(August 11, 2014 at 11:55 pm)Jenny A Wrote: (August 11, 2014 at 11:37 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: Offensive and funny are not mutually exclusive. As Beccs pointed out, it is possible to laugh at stuff that is in the same breath horribly offensive.
That said, the things I rarely find funny but always find offensive:
Racist humor
Rape humor
Death/illness humor (specific individuals)
Of course, there are exceptions (except maybe to the rape humor) but in general these topics just shouldn't be joked about.
One caveat about all of these: self humor. Minorities get to tell jokes on themselves. Rape victims get to indulge in black humor about rate. People dying or ill get to tell jokes about it.
Completely agreed. A couple of black guys at work and I are constantly mocking stereotypes with each other. 
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RE: "Offensive" Humor; there will be blood (or laughs)
August 12, 2014 at 1:13 am
Click if you dare:
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Offensive humor is always a tricky subject for example there was this guy(I think he was hindu or latin I'm not sure the thing is that he was tanned skin and black haired) who was traveling on a commercial flight and he made a offensive joke. He opened his laptop in the middle of the airplane and puts this on the screen.
http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
While he starts acting like praying. All the passengers freaked out and screamed: OH a suicide bomber, terrorist, islamic extremest, Al-Qaeda you can imagine. And beated the crap out of him. Because after 9/11 the panic pretty much invaded the minds of most American flight passengers.
A clever joke indeed but very offensive an inappropriate.
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