What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbit?
You gonna eat that?
Who’s the bad guy in this joke?
Do you think I’me a “cut off the penis” or cannibalism advocate? I’m not, but when I heard this for the first time I laughed!
Ah. So, when you jump into a humor thread to post a serious comment on the subject, you’re just posting deliberately confrontational opinions in an attempt to provode an off-topic, emotional response.
Not trolling at all. Got it.
Seeing the humor of some aspects of this story does not mean that you feel that this case isn’t bad or wrong. You can still see this as part of a black comedy and also feel that it is wrong. It is not at all like your death penalty example. See just about every headline on FARK. Or the Darwin awards. If you don’t look to closely it can be funny. If you look deep and see the hurt that felt be the families not so much. I have no trouble finding humor in dark places.
And I happen to agree somewhat with you about the male/female disconnect with regards to DV. I forget which movie it was that showed the star setting her boyfriends expensive car on fire because she cheated on him. The scene was meant to cause applause with the audience. I just thought, “Felony Criminal Mischief under Domestic Violence.”
Of course you can’t: you’re an idiot. That’s the same reason you can’t come up with a way to understand how Obama can have opinions on the economy and the DTV transition at the same time, or why we can allow gays to marry without letting men fuck children and dogs.
You’re trying to play gotcha here, and maybe start a one-trick pony campaign, but it sounds like you’re actually not smart enough to have a sense of humor. Domestic violence isn’t funny. The daughter of the owner of a trainwreck failure of a football team having her hair set on fire by her girlfriend, who is herself the daughter of the former CEO of Yahoo, is simply absurd.
By the way, your “cause celebre” is bullshit. Get over yourself, you sound like those Christian fundamentalists who say they’re being oppressed if someone wishes them a happy holiday instead of merry Christmas. Of course, the irony is that humorlessness is very funny. But it’s probably not funny to you…
Yeah, and they’re usually being douchebags when they do. Congratulations on being douchey in the same way as a bunch of other people often are! Your prize: a very lame Pit thread in which you look like a silly prig.
A correlation you have extracted, with great and painstaking care, from your transverse colon.
OK. Now demonstrate where I, Omniscient, or Marley indicated that we thought that the domestic violence in this case wasn’t bad because it was funny. I can’t believe I have to say this aloud, but all domestic violence, including the funny cases, is bad. I oppose domestic violence. In 1993, this womanengaged in a particularly notorious act of domestic violence. I formally and without reservation condemn her act, which was vicious and unacceptable in any civilized society. I also made and laughed at jokes about it; did you? Later, the same woman was accused of punching her mother in the face while watching television, which again, I condemn as unacceptable and wrong. I also laughed when I read about it, because it is mordantly funny.
In June of 1994, a very famous former athlete and movie star most likely crept onto the property of his ex-wife. He then (most likely) stabbed her in the throat so many times and so deeply that she was nearly decapitated. He also stabbed to death a waiter of her acquaintance, who happened to be on the scene. This famous athlete was acquitted of the murder, but has subsequently been imprisoned. The two children he had with the murdered woman, who are now 23 and 20, were left motherless and now are essentially orphans, who have to live with the knowledge that their father took their mother from them. The families of the two murdered people have very nearly given up their sanity in a fruitless quest for real justice, and had to watch the likely murderer give a series of interviews in which he all but taunted them with the corpses of their dead loved ones.
This is a categorically awful series of events, one with devestating consequences for all those involved. Yet, oddly enough, some folks find humor in this series of events. What, murder is bad, unless it’s really funny murder?
Nope. Puns are stupid.
Whoa, you are going to get SO burned for that one around here.
“Burned”? :dubious:
And yet if a man had set a woman’s hair on fire it’d be in the Pit as RO.
Not the way you tell it. But I bet Richard Pryor could have made it hilarious.
You have to work on your delivery.
What if it was Michael Jackson setting Britney Spears’ hair on fire?
Are these things mutually exclusive? Do you, like our OP, subscribe to the notion that it is impossible to simultaneously condemn an act and find some aspect of the comission of that act funny?
Thank you all for an enlightening exchange.
And, believe it or not, I actually mean that.
G’day.
I have to take what other people are pitting into consideration before I laugh?
Not funny. But if R. Kelly pissed on Britney’s head to put the fire out, that’s funny.
OK I give up. Who was it?
That would be funny.
Too bad Britney’s too old for him.
Not nearly as funny as Michael Jackson setting Diana Ross’s hair on fire.
You win.
Maybe without the Hah-hah.
It may sound funny but the next time someone bakes an apple pie, try sticking your “finger” into it ala American Pie. You will get to understand the definitions of 1st and 2nd degree burns.
It’s okay to think that something is horrible and funny at the same time.
I laughed at a guy with only 1 arm, whose shirt was buttoned incorrectly. I couldn’t help it!