what ISN'T funny to you?

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ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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ok. so you wouldn't know it from my avatar, but i've always been a pretty serious person. my sense of humor is just... i think more reserved than most.
i recently ended a friendship with someone over something they thought was funny that i didn't. but moreso for the fact that when i told them i was hurt by it, they didn't seem to care.

but it made me want to ask the question. what topics/events are NOT funny to you? what do some people find funny that offends you?

for me. any kind of practical joke. i am not amused. jokes about death or suicide or mocking other people. some people i know get a kick out that. or slapstick? america's funniest home videos? i hate that. i hate anything where anyone would be in pain, discomfort, in real danger of injury or pain, or pretending to do anything in that realm.

i hate making a person the butt of a joke. i hate testing their reactions by altering their reality. i just hate mockery. and i hate lies? so like. any video that's deliberately set up with fake dialogue or those picture memes and stuff. i just hate them
because they're not real. i can't put myself in a fake reality long enough to be amused.

some people also like to make jokes about serious things to lighten the mood. you know. about death or cancer. or whatever. and they say 'BUT IT'S NOT REAL!'
but if there IS a real scenario? and someone else is going through it? it's not funny. i don't think people should play with that.

it's always personal to SOMEONE. and that aspect of personal injury and loss is what makes none of it funny to me.

but so many people find those to be hilarious.
anyone trying to have a laugh at someone else's expense? just not funny to me.

so i just thought i'd ask.

thoughts?
 
lookwhatthelordhasdone

lookwhatthelordhasdone

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Well honestly, i find just about everything you posted to be funny at one point or another. I have a pretty universal sense of humor so I can find humor in pretty much anything. Now, making fun of people, illnesses, suicide, and death.. I don't think that's funny. But i poke fun at my friends and they return the favor. I'm a tough-skinned person so it doesn't bother me.

Not to mention I'm pretty morbid and twisted. The main types of humor i like is, dry and sarcastic, witty, blunt, and any type of improv. What really gets me laughing is when someone says what everyone else is thinking or anything that catches people off guard.

Some are more serious than others and there's nothing wrong with that.
 
Nautilus

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Anything can be funny when you look at it the right way. I mean im not really offended by anything.
 
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People dying without having ever known Jesus!
 
eugenius

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People falling down and getting hurt. That is something which is funny to many people, but not me.
 
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When people use Jesus Christ as a swear word.makes me very uncomftable
 
ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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when people know something bothers someone? and they deliberately do it anyway. i hate that
 
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Labeling something as "retarded" drives me crazy. Because of a medical condition, my brother and I were raised with a very real fear of becoming retarded. This is not something to joke about. In addition, I've with children and adults with special needs my whole life. My cousin was my best friend, and while he had no cognitive issues, people called him retarded. He couldn't speak, walk, or eat on his own; but he died praising Jesus.
 
ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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yeah people really shouldn't use that word like it's funny. i don't get the joke...
 
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I can find humor in everything, depending on the context, including the more morbid topics like death, crime, etc. I don't support cruelty against anyone, and there's a time and place to be serious, and sometimes you have to be mindful of the audience, but I can't think of anything where id say the subject was absolutely off-limits from jokes.
 
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I might post more later.

I'm someone who loves tricks, practical jokes, awkward humour, sometimes black humour, however, one thing I have learnt is that you Really need to be careful with it. Different people take things differently and some people can get very hurt by joking or teasing, while other people feel loved and find it endearing.
 
ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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Stuey said:
I might post more later.

I'm someone who loves tricks, practical jokes, awkward humour, sometimes black humour, however, one thing I have learnt is that you Really need to be careful with it. Different people take things differently and some people can get very hurt by joking or teasing, while other people feel loved and find it endearing.
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so how would you, personally, know when you're safe to use said humor?
i am in the first category. my whole family is a bit weird about joking and teasing actually. I believe we've all had at least one embarrassing public freak out over someone who was just trying to have a bit of 'fun'
 
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your new pic is not funny.
 
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i remember that one day i walked into a lamp post and banged my head so hard that needed stitches on my for head my friend thought that was really funny.
another time i hit my thumb so hard with a hammer that i was jumping up and down for like 2 minutes trying my hardest not to swear again my friend thought that was funny and i wanted to hit him on the thumb with the hammer and show him how it felt but when i look back at both of them i laugh at my self for being so stupid.

i can not stand to see people laughing at people but love it when people laugh with people like the for instance laughing its only funny when the person being laughed at does not mind and sees the funny side too but if someone does not find it funny than we should respect there wishes and try to find out what does make them laugh as laughter is always the best best medicine ..

like today
i though it was really funny to thousands of people all rushing to that mountain where they thought the world was going to end i wondered to myself what it would be like to be like that and to be one of them wanting to be first to the mountain and not bothering about knocking police men on the floor ... that made me laugh so much so having a sense of humour is also about having an imagination for me.
 
ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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quickfire said:
i remember that one day i walked into a lamp post and banged my head so hard that needed stitches on my for head my friend thought that was really funny.
another time i hit my thumb so hard with a hammer that i was jumping up and down for like 2 minutes trying my hardest not to swear again my friend thought that was funny and i wanted to hit him on the thumb with the hammer and show him how it felt but when i look back at both of them i laugh at my self for being so stupid.

i can not stand to see people laughing at people but love it when people laugh with people like the for instance laughing its only funny when the person being laughed at does not mind and sees the funny side too but if someone does not find it funny than we should respect there wishes and try to find out what does make them laugh as laughter is always the best best medicine ..

like today
i though it was really funny to thousands of people all rushing to that mountain where they thought the world was going to end i wondered to myself what it would be like to be like that and to be one of them wanting to be first to the mountain and not bothering about knocking police men on the floor ... that made me laugh so much so having a sense of humour is also about having an imagination for me.
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i completely agree :) i read your post with a big smile on my face as soon as you finished the part where you were in pain. yeah...sometimes something is really not funny in the moment but years later the absurdity of it brings humor. good points good points :) and i feel a bit sad for the mountain rushers. only bc. what's to become of their belief systems tomorrow?

will they feel lost? will they find what they need to? will they be disillusioned and depressed? it seems funny- their odd behavior today that we see based on a lie. but what about when the lie is unearthed. what then, of the people?
 
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i think they will probably feel like i did and laugh at there own stupidity lol hehe but yes good point to about there beliefs they will probably not laugh about it for quite sometime but hopefully one day they will and i suppose when we laugh about our selfs we also forgive our selfs for are own stupidity lol
 
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Sometimes I run across people who are SO reserved and cold, where its not just a matter of them not seeing the humor in things, but they feel others also shouldnt find things funny either, and it just becomes this




I think humor and comedy can be a great equalizer, even when someone is going through something tragic. Its actually incredibly effective as a tool for building rapport, which is why people keep going back to dentists who have the best bedside manner, why the most sucessful salespeople are the most positive people, why college professors with the highest student ratings are the most entertaining (or the easiest graders.)

I caught a comedy routine on the radio one Saturday, maybe a month ago, that I found absolutely inspiring. Tig Notaro did an entire standup routine on her cancer diagnosis 4 days after she was diagnosed, and her cancer jokes were way more funny than the jokes on bees that she had originally planned to tell. Going back to the equalizer thing, you can really draw people in to whatever you're going through if you have a sense of humor. Or on the flip side, you can draw people out of their shells if they are going through something if you can make them smile, or at least make them feel like they're not alone in whatever they're dealing with. That's why I personally don't have any topic that is completely off limits on principal, its all a matter of context.
 
ijustwanttheTruth

ijustwanttheTruth

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yeah. context is an important factor. but there are still things that i just don't find funny.
is there anything you don't find funny?
 
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