Racist jokes are a public display of ones ignorance.
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Great minds and all of that …
Ditto but with the addition of most sexist jokes. Racist and sexist jokes make me suspicious of the person making them. You have to wonder if they think the joke is funny because they’re laughing at the silly views of the racist/sexist who came up with it - or if they think it’s funny because, to them, the joke holds some truth.
The only problem with telling people this is that, when you say you don’t appreciate a racist joke, any other people listening will usually agree and not think any less of you. Tell a guy you don’t like his sexist jokes and you’re instantly a knee-jerk feminist. :rolleyes:
Misandrist jokes
Maybe for you, personally, but the OP whats to know what each of US, personally, cannot handle.
I would say jokes about animals or pets getting hurt. Even racist jokes I can handle, more to make fun of the type of person who would say such a thing without irony.
Gross-out jokes; “I can be more sick than you.” That would include dead baby jokes and any other joke where the point isn’t the nominal subject, nor humor, but simpleminded showing off. Hur, hur, hur.
Some ‘yo mama’ jokes are works of art, but a lot are just mean and stupid. Hard to know where to draw the line, sometimes.
Around my neck of the woods they already are.
Personally I don’t understand how complete strangers or people I just met feel no compunctions about making anti-Republican/anti-Democrat jokes. That represents a level of arrogantism too much for me to stomach, assuming everyone in their group is automatically on their side because, y’know, they couldn’t possibly not be dumb enough to vote for the other guy.
Oh, yeah, and making Southerner jokes if you’ve obviously never been in the South are going to be a great turn-off.
I thought the original intent of the joke when it was concieved was more focused on the mother, rather than the baby, i.e. “how can she expect us to believe something so silly”?
Practical jokes. There are plenty of verbal jokes I don’t like/don’t find funny, but I can ignore them. I find practical jokes mean spirited. They seem to exist to make the person on whom the prank is being look stupid, and I don’t like that.
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Some practical jokes – the ones that are really clever and require some effort – I really relish.
I don’t like Holocaust jokes, famine jokes, racist jokes.
On another level, I don’t like bathroom humor. It’s boring. Fart jokes stopped being funny when I was twelve. (Why do men of all ages find farts so hilarious?)
I don’t really care for dead Ranchoth jokes, myself.
I’d say racist jokes but I’m guilty of joking racialy. But thats usually with my black friends.
For example: One time I locked my keys in my car so I told my Black friend: “Jon, you’re Black. Do you think you could help me break into my car?”
To me that’s just guys being guys rip’n on each other.
OTOH if it’s just a buch of White guys sitting around talking about “How many n*ggers does it take to screw in a light bulb?” THAT"S the kind of shit that gets under my skin.
I once heard a joke where the puchline ended up being a guy performing oral on an infant. [shivers] Why anyone would tell that joke and why anyone would find that the least bit funny is beyond me. :dubious:
So the one that finishes “…No, but it’ll sure teach you what your butthole’s for!” is right out, then?
Oh, jokes. Personally I despair at the people who imply that Bubba’s basically sound moral sense will ensure that some other crim will receive the just and due reward for his deeds. :smack:
Is anyone else having to fight the urge to tell jokes in just about every subject listed so far?
I think you’re supposed to find the fact that it’s completely wrong funny, rather than the actual joke itself.
With every subject I may find it offensive to joke about, I know there must be a joke about it that would make me laugh.
The Holocaust- “How many Jews can fit into a VW?”
Jesus’s Crucifixion - “I can see your house from here” and “Can you put me up for the night?”
Racism - too numerous to single one out
Sexism- ditto
Pedophilia- I can’t think of a joke at the moment, but I know I’ve heard some.
The Virgin Mary - “Anyone without sin, cast the first stone… Mom, stop that!”
Hurting little animals- The Kitty Cannon computer game, Vincent Price feeding Robert Morley’s poodles to him in THEATRE OF BLOOD
Bob Saget’s comment to a friend after his wife went through a hellish labor!
You can do a search of the boards- key words “Saget” “finger” “dollar”
I’m not telling you bastards. Be like handing you kryptonite.
For me, it’s all about my audience (or the teller of the joke). I can exchange ANY kind of joke with my dad and know that he appreciates it for the cleverness and not because he’s secretly seething with hatred for a particular group. But I know other people who would take that same joke and start a hate bandwagon with it. I am very careful not to tell a joke within earshot of anyone who’s motives or attitudes are even slightly questionable.
Because it’s the truth, maybe?