# My Last Word On a Closed Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 12, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891 "2020-08-12T15:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/21 "2020-08-15T03:51:20Z")
Reads that way to me. If you’re just telling jokes you think are funny, you’re not going to make a point of how they upset other people. If you’re making a point of it – by buying and displaying that sign, or a tshirt, or whatever – then at least part of your enjoyment is from upsetting other people. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/22 "2020-08-15T03:57:33Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > If you’re just telling jokes you think are funny, you’re not going to make a point of how they upset other people. If you’re making a point of it – by buying and displaying that sign, or a tshirt, or whatever – then at least part of your enjoyment is from upsetting other people I’m fairly certain that almost all comedians are making their living from upsetting other people. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/23 "2020-08-15T12:38:01Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They recently added a sign in their window that never fails to boil my blood. Both for what it says and for what it says about the people that would think it’s funny. > > It’s a fake warning sign about like [this](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/warning-sign-danger-sign-blank-space-your-text-printable-paper-templates-available-paper-vector-warning-sign-danger-152293633.jpg) but instead of being blank the words read “My sense of humor will hurt your feelings” > > F\*\*\* that noise. And F\*\*\* the people who’d think it was funny. Spin-off: [Is mockery funny?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/918178) ~Max ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/24 "2020-08-15T13:39:05Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > It’s entirely down to your own judgment whether to make _any_ joke, bigoted or otherwise, and to decide for yourself whether the feelings of others should be taken into consideration. Other people may form some opinion of you accordingly. Are there any other parts of normal human social interaction that you’d like me to explain to you? This. > [@Slash1972](#): > > > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > > The sign is saying ‘I enjoy causing other people’s pain.’ > > No, I don’t think that is what the sign is saying. Then please tell us, in a post longer than half a sentence, what you think the sign is saying. Or at least what it is saying _to you_. To me it clearly says “I enjoy pissing people off simply for the enjoyment of watching them be pissed off.” Which is a very aggressive and anti-social attitude. And hence undesirable in a civilized society. If you have a different interpretation I’d genuinely like to learn what it is. Otherwise it might seem to be JAQing. Which is a passive-aggressive version of the same sort of deliberate annoyance of others for one’s own entertainment. A reminder to all, including me. This is ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/25 "2020-08-15T13:46:07Z")
Yeah, it is. If it said, “My sense of humor _may_ hurt your feelings.” then that is a warning. Maybe we don’t enjoy the same things, and maybe you are too sensitive. Since it says, “My sense of humor _will_ hurt your feelings.” That’s a threat. That is saying that I will get enjoyment out of harming you. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/26 "2020-08-20T02:38:40Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Since it says, “My sense of humor _will_ hurt your feelings.” That’s a threat. That is saying that I will get enjoyment out of harming you. Perhaps, but that goes with almost any joke. If someone told me a dead baby joke, I’d probably laugh, even if it hurt another listener’s feelings. I know myself, and I know that I would laugh at jokes that would probably hurt another’s feelings. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/27 "2020-08-20T06:32:11Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I know myself, and I know that I would laugh at jokes that would probably hurt another’s feelings. And you think it’s okay to hurt somebody’s feelings? Even from a practical point of view, leaving moral considerations aside, don’t you think you’re harming your own interests by making people dislike you? Wouldn’t it be better not to laugh than to deliberately make enemies? We have to live in society whether we like it or not. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/28 "2020-08-20T17:36:10Z")
And if you knew someone that just lost a child, and I told a joke not about _a_ dead baby, but _their_ dead baby would you laugh? That’s more the way I see it. It’s not a matter that what they think is funny you may not, it is what they think is funny is your pain. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/29 "2020-08-23T00:26:26Z")
Depends on what you find funny, obviously. Surely you understand that? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-last-word-on-a-closed-thread/917891/30 "2025-12-07T05:53:31Z")
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