Good, but it needs a line to include colour of victims’ skin. 145 dead in last week’s ferry sinking in Tanzania = not a peep; twelve Batman fans = OMG I SAW A BOB DENVER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL ONCE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME
I neither think that, nor said that, in fact.
But I do think it’s telling that it’s always inanely stupid humor. Just an observation, not a tsar like wish to rule all humor, sorry to disappoint.
Lemme guess. Your parents were wealthy socialites of Gotham City. You were eight at the time and were out together for the screening of “The Mask of Zorro” until a gang of clowns came in and told jokes. Your parents, being uptight folks, tried to stifle their laughs and ended up dying of brain embolisms. From then on you were determined to set an injustice right and clean up all areas of funny things.
True, formula to be revised as follows:
-(distance from white of average victim skin color * 6.5 minutes)
But in my defense, the original formula did account for distance from USA, which partially handles the Tanzania incident.
Ok, then how do you know whether the jokes are funny or not to most on the board?
To you they may not be and to others they may be hilarious and to others somewhere in between.
First, please let me know that I really do appreciate the reasonable tone taken so far. Would that all mod-member interactions could be handled this way.
However, one of the aspects of dark humor is that it almost always has to come “too soon”. Once people are reconciled to an event, the humor either fades (assuming, unlike elbows, you thought there was humor there to begin with) or becomes predictable.
It’s been mentioned earlier in the thread, but to me, the difference here is location:
MPSIMS - No crass jokes for at least a day (if ever)
The Pit - Free-fire zone from minute one to eternity
Personally I could live with that as a general guideline…
Dammit! But that’s the only “tragedy” joke I remember when I was in the 6th grade.
F+?
I never claimed to ‘know whether the jokes are funny or not to most of the board’.
I was simply making an observation. Sincerely. No ulterior motive, I promise. I’m not trying to decide any thing, speak for anyone else, or any other sinister thing you’re imagining.
I simply made the observation that it seems to be always, lame, sophomoric and not funny, when it does happen.
You may feel otherwise. I am okay with that, truly.
Upon thinking it over some, I see your point and agree with you.
I’d like to think that if I were in the theater at the time I’d try to talk the guy into shooting older, fatter, uglier people than me. But if I were at the movie, odds are good I would be the oldest fattest, ugliest target there.
So I’d like to think my last words would be telling him that his mama’s so fat she needs an assault rifle to scratch her ass.
I’d like to think that, but I’d probably be huddled down pissing my pants.
I agree with the OP. There is no too soon here. And if I was there outside the theater, I would have been asking, “Where the FUCK was Batman?” Then we would find out if any of the survivors were carrying concealed weapons.
You sir, are an evil bastard. And I’m laughing like a loon
Note to self: do NOT go to see Nzinga’s ventriloquist act.
Still too soon?
Me too.
Oh god, you’re hot.
I’m going to pretend that you posted that after seeing a real photo of me, so I can feel all worshiped and everything. 
I think it is a matter of taste. Dark humor about the general state of woe of the human race seems acceptable. Gallows humor has always been around, but making light of a blatant massacre is in poor taste, IMHO. Unsuspecting people were murdered. Families were changed horribly, forever. Imagine one of your loved ones being in the line of fire. Devastating.