The ultimate taboo? Page 13

Quote: Pete @ November 19 2008, 3:23 PM GMT

I saw a movie with a wailing disabled person (they were in the audience, not on screen) I said they should be left at home with a video, others thought they should integrated into ALL aspects of life, even if it screws with my flick. Has no bearing on this discussion.

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Ooh that's more my area.

I'd question how much he was getting out of the film.

And if social integration means anything it means compromise on both sides.

E.g if you want to goto the cinema learn the rules and expectations that come with it.

There's no point in integrating into a society that foam like shapes its' self around you.

Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 3:22 PM GMT

That wasn't even a joke and I still laughed.

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That's because it was funny and the original "joke" wasn't. It's likely that your original reaction to the first joke was born from your desire to be slightly subversive whereas the reaction to my post was natural.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 19 2008, 3:19 PM GMT

Well, no. They have to have some sense behind them.

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Yeah, and the sense is that holly is plant. Plants smell. Very few people will make the connection that holly doesn't have an odour. Very few people would be sober in a situation where they'd hear the joke. Even horticulturalists. Jokes don't have to make sense on every level. You're making such a ridiculous over-analysation.

Quote: sootyj @ November 19 2008, 3:27 PM GMT

There's no point in integrating into a society that foam like shapes its' self around you.

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Is that like a society where everyone is dressed up as those giant foam sumo wrestlers, sounds like fun.

Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 3:24 PM GMT

What a ludicrous statement. You can't judge if something is funny before there even IS anything. A basic scenario has been highlighted. No joke or routine written.

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I was asked to make a joke. I was there and it wasnt funny so i'll not make a joke about it. You can, if you like. It's ludicrous to tell me what i should find funny.

Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 3:27 PM GMT

Yeah, and the sense is that holly is plant. Plants smell. Very few people will make the connection that holly doesn't have an odour. Very few people would be sober in a situation where they'd hear the joke. Even horticulturalists. Jokes don't have to make sense on every level. You're making such a ridiculous over-analysation.

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No, I'm pointing out how the joke doesn't work on levels it was orginally praised for. For someone usually so pedantic and keen on accuracy, I'm very surprised. Standards are slipping...

Quote: sootyj @ November 19 2008, 3:23 PM GMT

I found with Maddy stuff, no matter how much one focused on the media or the police.

It always came back to how can you even joke in that area?

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What do Madeleine McCann and a submarine have in common?

They're both at least 6 feet under and full of semen.

Funny then, and funny now. And that is specifically about her, not the media, the police, or a more general idea of children disappearing.

Over analysation?

Isn't that what FAMOUS PROBABLY GAY PERSON is into?

n.b. don't Glade sell holly scented shit masker at Xmas?

I think I may need to write to Watchdog.

Quote: Nigel Kelly @ November 19 2008, 3:28 PM GMT

Is that like a society where everyone is dressed up as those giant foam sumo wrestlers, sounds like fun.

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Believe me it isn't.

Whats yellow and reads the news?

Jeremy Pacman

Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 3:30 PM GMT

What do Madeleine McCann and a submarine have in common?

They're both at least 6 feet under and full of semen.

Funny then, and funny now. And that is specifically about her, not the media, the police, or a more general idea of children disappearing.

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I can't help thinking that if you ever have children one day, memories of this will come back to you, and you won't believe you found that funny. Or you might believe it and just feel terribly guilty and bad about it all.

Quote: Aaron @ November 19 2008, 3:30 PM GMT

What do Madeleine McCann and a submarine have in common?

They're both at least 6 feet under and full of semen.

Funny then, and funny now. And that is specifically about her, not the media, the police, or a more general idea of children disappearing.

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But are you laughing at that because you're picturing a sexually-abused little girl lying dead at the bottom of the ocean, or because it seems "naughty" that you're laughing at something you shouldn't be?

There's another factor to all this that people rarely point out - you tend to find humour like that a damn sight less funny when you have kids of your own, because your first thought is picturing your own children in that situation. Which isn't funny.

That's not even slightly offensive.

Now Jeremy Paki-man.....

Quote: Pete @ November 19 2008, 3:27 PM GMT

That's because it was funny and the original "joke" wasn't. It's likely that your original reaction to the first joke was born from your desire to be slightly subversive whereas the reaction to my post was natural.

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Likely, but incorrect. The original joke was, to me, genuinely funny.

Quote: Nigel Kelly @ November 19 2008, 3:33 PM GMT

Whats yellow and reads the news?

Jeremy Pacman

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I did, just thought I'd throw it in to lighten things up.