# I Pit Myself For Thinking This Is Funny **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926 "2008-09-24T01:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/21 "2008-09-24T05:38:16Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Bunch of stupid fucks. Don’t make this thread a pile-on. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/22 "2008-09-24T12:03:52Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > “Such a heinous act is bound to sully India’s image among overseas investors.” If by “sully” they mean “reinforce”, then yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/23 "2008-09-24T12:36:12Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Don’t make this thread a pile-on. Don’t worry. The OP expresses a liberal douchebag sentiment, so there will not be a pile-on. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/24 "2008-09-24T12:57:08Z")
I pit you for thinking it’s funny, too. From the article: > [@](#): > > It is understood that Mr Choudhary, who was married with one son, had called a meeting with more than a hundred former employees who had been dismissed after an earlier outbreak of violence at the plant. He wanted to discuss a possible reinstatement deal. They get fired for being a bunch of violent thugs, and they respond by killing the guy who was offering them a second chance. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/25 "2008-09-24T12:57:53Z")
Also in the “inappropriate but funny headlines from India” category is this one: [Two jawans, four militants killed in gun battle.](http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/23/stories/2008092357590100.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/26 "2008-09-24T12:59:12Z")
> [@5-HT](#): > > If I’m dead, why would I care if you thought it was funny or not? Likewise, why would your dancing location be of any concern? He might be aiming to piss off your loved ones, instead. If you have any. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/27 "2008-09-24T13:01:37Z")
I admit it. I don’t see anything funny about a mob of people beating a guy to death. It wasn’t funny when the McDonald’s worker stabbed his female boss to death in England. It wasn’t funny any of the times in the US when fired workers go back and slaughter their bosses or co-workers. So please explain how this is remotely funny. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/28 "2008-09-24T13:01:45Z")
I’m an NRI (non-resident Indian) and I have to admit that I chuckled, too. A sort of gallows humor is necessary for survival. However, this: > [@aankh](#): > > I did what a lot of Indians have done. I ran away like a coward and became an expat. So now I sit in front of my computer in a first world country, watch 1950s black and white Hindi movie songs on Youtube and weep at the sheer beauty of the music and the poetry of the lyrics. I read books about ancient India, about the Independence movement and I shed more tears about the lionheartedness of the people who created, who unchained my country. > (snip, since I have been naturalized in my new country) > > I love my India but I will not go back to stay. Struck a chord in my heart. (At least I can say I was brought here as a child. Still won’t go back, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/29 "2008-09-24T13:05:04Z")
Hey, look, everybody! A Rand fan who’s also an asshole! You sure don’t see _that_ every day. The man being beaten to death following the layoffs isn’t funny, it’s terrible. The statement from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is unintentionally pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/30 "2008-09-24T13:07:44Z")
I IM’d my Indian co-worker and asked him if we should send the link to our boss. He didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/31 "2008-09-24T13:16:40Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Don’t worry. The OP expresses a liberal douchebag sentiment, so there will not be a pile-on. How is “death of boss = funny” a liberal sentiment, exactly? We don’t like guns, remember? I would start calling you a conservative douchebag, but you’re not. You’re just a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/32 "2008-09-24T13:18:29Z")
[QUOTE=Rand Rover] Don’t worry. The OP expresses a liberal douchebag sentiment, so there will not be a pile-on. [/QUOTE] “Liberal?” Entirely new depth of stupidity plumbed. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/33 "2008-09-24T13:26:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Hey, look, everybody! A Rand fan who’s also an asshole! You sure don’t see _that_ every day. Pardon me for thinking this was funny. It’s my goddamned monkey nature acting up again. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/34 "2008-09-24T13:39:57Z")
I… don’t see what’s funny either. I mean, it’s not not funny in a ‘that’s not funny’-way, but merely in a ‘I don’t get it’-way; death can be pretty funny, such as when a clown slips on a banana peel, but I just don’t see the joke here… Anybody care to explain? ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/35 "2008-09-24T13:43:21Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Also in the “inappropriate but funny headlines from India” category is this one: [Two jawans, four militants killed in gun battle.](http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/23/stories/2008092357590100.htm) I’ve wracked my brains, mentally gone over a whole slew of cheap puns, and I still don’t get it. What’s inappropriate or funny here? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/36 "2008-09-24T13:44:02Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I pit you for thinking it’s funny, too. Finally, someone who agrees with me. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/37 "2008-09-24T13:48:17Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > death can be pretty funny, such as when a clown slips on a banana peel “AP: The clown, Chadsworth Phartsalott, leaves behind two small children and a very large wife. At the time he was attempting to put the skin back on the bannana.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/38 "2008-09-24T13:53:16Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > … I just don’t see the joke here… Anybody care to explain? I think it’s the irony of it that’s the issue. Not funny, ‘ha-ha’ … funny, ‘well isn’t that a hell of a thing’. Fat-cat CEO controls the fate of the hoi-polloi, but the hoi-polloi swings it back and brings fat-cat CEO to his fate. Not exactly Sheckey Green material, but irony is a tricky thing. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/39 "2008-09-24T13:53:54Z")
> [@aankh](#): > > I’ve wracked my brains, mentally gone over a whole slew of cheap puns, and I still don’t get it. What’s inappropriate or funny here? Sorry, forgot the important part: “Two jawans, four militants killed.” Tusken Raiders claim responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926/40 "2008-09-24T13:58:50Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Don’t worry. The OP expresses a liberal douchebag sentiment, so there will not be a pile-on. Oh good. Another “HAW HAW HAW liberuhls iz teh lame!” poster. We were in serious danger of running out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-myself-for-thinking-this-is-funny/464926.md?page=3)