you know what's really funny

[shanier]

being funny WITHOUT doing it at the expense of someone else.

Joking is great, but why haul out negativity and try to make others look like fools? That's rude, and just plain sad. Have a good time, but be good to each other...Why can't all people do that??

 

[modest mouse]

Humor is, by definition, at the expense of someone.

 

[Arwen]

I totally agree with you. Even when someone is kidding, if they knock you around, it still hurts. It's the same as tapping a nail into a piece of wood. You can take the nail out, but the hole it left is still there.

 

[Blackbich]

being funny WITHOUT doing it at the expense of someone else.

Joking is great, but why haul out negativity and try to make others look like fools? That's rude, and just plain sad. Have a good time, but be good to each other...Why can't all people do that??

Well, my friends say I'm funny and I DEFINITELY don't do it at the expense of someone else, unless they're deserving. For example, if a guys is a complete ass, thinks he's the cat's meow and gets turned down by a gorgeous woman - yes, I'm going to give him a hard time about it. To do it just because someone looks different or something petty like that is tasteless and there's a reason people do it mostly pertaining to their issues.

I have a tendency to make dumb comments about myself that people think are funny. For example, last month at pokeno, I 'stole' a gift basket from someone that was a 'romantic bath for two' that one of the women had put together. It had candles, two bottles of wine and bubble bath. One of the ladies asked me if I had a boyfriend and I said, "No. I'm planning to get romantic with myself." Well, her husband was standing by the refridgerator in the kitchen and started choking on his drink laughing along with everyone else. I do stuff like this a lot. I try to avoid people who are backstabbing and if I know someone is the type to try to make other people the butt of their jokes I will drop them like a hot potato.

*stepping down off the soapbox now*

 

[shanier]

no, it's not always at someone's expense...because if they are joining in on the humor, it costs them nothing...it's only at their expense when you make them pay for it with a bit of their dignity.

I don't mean to be dire...but there is a difference between ribbing someone and making fun of them.

The difference maybe subtle, but then if you don't know it, you should probably keep your mouth shut.

*that's just my opinion*

 

[modest mouse]

no, it's not always at someone's expense...because if they are joining in on the humor, it costs them nothing...it's only at their expense when you make them pay for it with a bit of their dignity.

If they are 'joining in', its still at their expense. And it has nothing to do with 'cost'.

Give me an example of humor at nothing's expense.

 

[seXieleXie]

okay, here is a joke at the expense of no one:


Q: what do you call a cow with no legs?

A: ground beef.

 

[lavender]

 

[seXieleXie]

damn, foiled again!

 

[modest mouse]

At the expense of the cow and of me, the reader.

The play on words, etc.

This is why Lexie is cool. She turns the screws.

 

[shanier]

If they are 'joining in', its still at their expense. And it has nothing to do with 'cost'.

Give me an example of humor at nothing's expense.

things and people are different...


and it can't be at someones EXPENSE without costing them something.

some jokes are only meant to be hurtful.

 

[lavender]

 

[Rambling Rose]

Oh good, another thread demanding sunshine and rainbows. Who pissed in your cornflakes, shanier? You haven't even been here long enough to register on our radar. Politeness and tact have their place but you haven't been the brunt of any shit so stop asking to be mollycoddled.

There's a wet blanket somewhere around here for these kind of fires. I think PacificBlue had it last.

 

[modest mouse]

and it can't be at someones EXPENSE without costing them something.

See that button on the far left of your keyboard? The one with the blinking yellow light? The one that says "Push In case Of Being Too Literal And Failing To Grasp A Depth Of Language"?

Push it. Quickly.



*

I hear what you are trying to say with this thread but you cannot make your point with your current logic.

 

[Rambling Rose]

I would like to add that you have a nice set of tits. The milk of human kindness would look really good flowing copiously from them.

Welcome to Lit.

 

[shanier]

Oh good, another thread demanding sunshine and rainbows. Who pissed in your cornflakes, shanier? You haven't even been here long enough to register on our radar. Politeness and tact have their place but you haven't been the brunt of any shit so stop asking to be mollycoddled.

There's a wet blanket somewhere around here for these kind of fires. I think PacificBlue had it last.

oh, I'm new so I know nothing...you're so right...

LOL

fuck sunshine and rainbows, I just think people with REAL humor know how to be funny (even darkly so) without being mean...but I can see why you don't get that.

*shrug*

 

[perks]

I'm stupid, I really need examples.

 

[Rambling Rose]

You dont know me for shit, but I caught your little injured response to my play on words in lavy's Aggressive Sex thread. It didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out why you started this thread.

I meant nothing by that Depends comment. Nothing! I was playing around and having some obviously tongue in cheek fun with my friends. They got it. You didn't.

My claws came out. I now retract them. There are many nice posters here at Lit for you to snuggle up to. At least we know now that I am not one of them.

I am just that transparent.

 

[shanier]

lol full of yourself much...

go to the index page of this site.

see that really big number?

that's how many people are members here.

Just a tip from Becky


^^that's what I mean but inappropriate humor...I think it's funny but also indicative of the fact that I think you may be slightly feeble minded.

*shrug*

I guess I have no room to talk.

 

[perks]

ohhhhhh, this is sensitivity training?

 

[seXieleXie]

ohhhhhh, this is sensitivity training?

yes. i'm going to sensatize your ass with my palm. now c'mere!

 

[perks]

you know, I've wanted you for so long I'll let you spank me, and let me just tell you you'll be the first woman to ever do that, besides my mother and now that I've completely ruined my sex mood with that comment, can we wait a moment?


Look a run-on stream of consciousness, groovy.

 

[Rambling Rose]

*chuckling at the newbie calling me feeble minded*

Okay Becky, what did prompt you to start this thread then? What social injustices have you experienced here since May that pulled this out of your hatbox?

 

[seXieleXie]

you know, I've wanted you for so long I'll let you spank me, and let me just tell you you'll be the first woman to ever do that, besides my mother and now that I've completely ruined my sex mood with that comment, can we wait a moment?


Look a run-on stream of consciousness, groovy.

i promise, you won't be thinking of your mother.

 

[Eumenides]

1.) Cat's meow. LOL. That was cute.

2.) Cow's scare me. Please don't make jokes about them.

3.) Sensitivity training is fun when you look at it THAT way.


4.) I wonder where George Carlin, John Leguizamo, and all the other standup comedians in the world would be if they didn't make jokes at someone else's expense.