Is any subject fair game for humour.

[Rindaloo]

I think humour is a personal thing.  The 'sick jokes' that pop up, predictably, after an event, usually annoy and sicken me and I delete them.  

But it has to be said that a lot of humour concerns things that aren't actually funny (in reality) yet we laugh.  Firemen and Policemen see terrible things on a regular basis ans have a long list of black humour type jokes.  Its a way of coping.  

Humour is a funny thing.....

[saoirse]

very true Rindaloo

its been said before that if we heard someone had been beat on the head with a hammer we quite rightly wouldnt find it funny-yet if we heard someone had been thumped with a frozen chicken we may raise a smile

as regards the texts after disasters etc again its been said that  the difference between comedy and tragedy is simply time-I reckon in the immediate aftermath of the titanic jokes about it would be frowned upon-yet now they are told regularly. surely theres hypocrisy there or is there an official time limit after which sick jokes become acceptable