Is any subject fair game for humour.

[Highlander]

I personally don't think so.

[Scunner]

I'm with soreass, the answer is quite possibly no but everyones acceptable/unacceptable split will be unique to them. Therefore, read all and enjoy some and be outraged and angry about the rest, or live in a bubble and read none of them.

[Highlander]

It never cease to amaze me just how quickly the so called "sick" jokes come out after an event.

Do the mobile companies have teams of people waiting to dream up something "amusing" and fire it out to the general public.

[Highlander]

Saoirse:

Is it your opinion that people can say anything and pass it off as "dark humour"

[saoirse]

Highlander I try to be as non hypocritical as I can

I can think of no subject that would be totally off limits

Before the moral mafia on here all reach for the heart pills lets look at that a bit closer.

lets take the ultimate-humour about loss of life-is there anyone that would never laugh at a titanic or WW2 joke?-and before the -yeah but that was years ago arguement is rolled out , I can think of little less hypocritical than to say some subject is sick now but leave it a lot of years and then its ok to laugh

As regards disability-I personally am not into such humour-however there are many disabled comedians who find it patronizing that they are singled out to be kept away from the firing line and some of those comedians would be extremely harsh in their disabled jokes

Another subject I dont find funny is sectarianism/racism-but again I am not going to sit on my high horse in shock horror at those who do

[Highlander]

Your last sentence is interesting because I was wondering what you would have tought if someone had psoted the following example of dark humour


"I lost all respect for them when they only shot 26 on Bloody Sunday

call themselves paratroopers"


I would have condemned such a post as being totally unacceptable and deeply offensive.

[saoirse]

As I say Highlander consistency/hypocrisy is the key

Would I have found the murders of those people or anyone here funny-certainly not

would I have been ranting about those who  told it being sick etc-def not

[Highlander]

And yet you seem to think that the idea of "torching two pensioners" can be classified as some form of dark humour.

I'm afraid I see no evidence of consistency there.

[saoirse]

with all due respect I think we are going round in circles

as Scunner has put it -everyones acceptable/non acceptable split will be unique to them when it comes to humour

Bottom line is we all have different views of whats funny. Some of you obviously long for the days of Harry Worth and norman Wisdom to return-and anyone who finds anything less wholesome funny is the devil incarnate

As I have said previously we do indeed have a gallows humour in this community-doesnt make us all monsters. Ironically the great and the good preaching to me on here should take a leaf out of their own book and try tolerance

If yhou dont find it funny, fair enough-doesnt make the author a bad person

[Highlander]

With all due respect to you sir....

What happened to your "consistency/hypocrisy is the key" arguement.

It seems to me that you are back pedalling rather than going round in circles.

You either find "torching people" and "shooting people" as both fine examples of dark humour or two totally abhorent statements.