My Last Word On a Closed Thread

[thorny_locust]

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.

[Slash1972]

@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.

[Max_S]

@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 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?

~Max

[LSLGuy]

@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.

[k9bfriender]

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.

[Slash1972]

@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.

[GreenWyvern]

@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.

[k9bfriender]

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.

[Guinastasia]

Depends on what you find funny, obviously. Surely you understand that?