Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on December 13, 2010, 19:29:40 PM
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I personally don't think so.
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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.
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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.
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Saoirse:
Is it your opinion that people can say anything and pass it off as "dark humour"
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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how simple do you need me to be in what I write-you asked is any subject off limits for humour and I replied whist there are things I personally dont find funny-no subject should be off limits
if thats back pedalling you must have had some strange bicycles in your day
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Saoirse - as you may have gleaned from reading my posts I am indeed a simple soul. However....
You are correct regarding the subject of the thread. But, it was you, not I, who stated that "consistency/hypocrisy is the key"
Fact: You do consider the torching of two people as dark humour.
Fact: You do not find the murder of people in the same way.
You are correct in your assertions elsewhere that people do not know you. But what they do know is that they considered your post, which started all this, to be offensive and, in my opinion, they have every right to take you to task over it.
You maybe right about us going round in circles, but I would be obliged if you would address the consistency/hipocrisy issue one more time and we can leave it at that.
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Can I just say, he didn't make a remark about two people getting torched, he made a remark about the quality of the rioters.
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In the context of what exactly ?
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If the "dark humour" was observation based, the observation was about the rioters.
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I genuinely dont know where you see me as not being consistent.
I repeat all subjects should be up for humour
Do I find all subjects funny-no. If thats where you say I am being inconsistent you have lost me!
As I have said all along we all find different things funny-or not.
Where consistency and hypocrisy comes into it some of you on here are swooning and fainting over my royals jibe yet I doubt any of them has ever reached for the pills over a titanic or firing squad joke-indeed I often find many of the righteous moral types can go nuts over some remarks/humour but raise a wee smile with a "Pakky or similar joke
Bottom line Highlander I really couldnt care what self righteous type people think-especially if they are that shallow to make their mind up on someone on the basis of a joke!
I reckon that is the biggest joke of these threads!
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I lost all respect for them when they didn't isolate a female police officer and gave her a right good kicking.
Call themselves rioters.
(If off to bed - night all)
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The main, important fact to me is that FINALLY we have a topic loosely based on politics and have 12 pages of different opinions and it hasn't been locked. It almost resembles an adult conversation.
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Some of you obviously long for the days of Harry Worth and norman Wisdom to return
Even that humour could be seen as tasteless if you look at it as taking the P out of, should I say, "less fortunate" people.
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Analysing everything for correctness won't leave us with much left to laugh at. Even the Beano portayed today's thorny issues such as bullying and poverty as fair game for fun. This is why the line has to be drawn by the individual, nobody else can do it.
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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.....
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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