surpirsed this is still goin actually not used to my posts even makin it past page 1 :shock:
"I like freedom of speech, when it's in it's right place."
The funniest line on the forum this week.
It's a well known fact that people working in highly stressed jobs or dealing with tragedy regularly have the blackest of humour. It's a coping mechanism - never aimed at anyone in particular, never meant in a disrespectful way though it can be seen that way.
The day of my Dad's funeral, the undertakers were trying their best to negotiate the coffin out of the front sitting room of my Mum's house and had to do a few '3 point turns' ( for want of a better phrase ) I piped up 'It's a good job he's not a double wardrobe' Knowing Dad would have found that highly amusing, all the family cracked up when the funeral directors all turned to look at us stunned.
It's was a light hearted moment on what was the blackest day of my life but it helped.
I remember my uncle Jim's funeral and me and my sister pissing ourselves laughing when the vicar started talking about James Brown.....get on up indeed
I find humour / telling a story / telling a joke on here and other forums way more difficult than doing it with a live audiance. There is so much missing, the raised eyebrow, the tilt of the head, a hand gesture, a tone to the voice or accentuation of key words,in my mind, crucial to setting the tone and meaning of the words. It's those gestures, missing in written form, that give the listener clues as to the intent. We have emotes that can be slotted in to a post that helps, but thats very basic and no substitute for body language. I do think there are things that are no go, but thats difficult to pigeon hole and say this subject is , today tomorrow and forever, as they are moving targets, death, disability and disaster might not be up for grabs today but might be tomorrow depending on whats going on at the time, if that makes any sense.