Wtf! I think I better log off before I get myself banned.
"youve been framed"/250,000 at least, killed in a matter of hours?
I give up ,I fucking GIVE UP
This is just mad
Lb
There are far worse jokes about the Indonesian disaster than this (this is not an excuse for you to PM me to find out what they are). Why do people laugh at sick jokes? Perhaps it is a contradiction to people's own sense of morality, or maybe it's because something that is forbidden or frowned upon triggers that shock factor inside your brain. Either way, sometimes the sickest jokes are the funniest. Time placates morality, are Hitler jokes now funny "What's the difference between Paula Radcliff and Hitler?
At least Hitler tried to finish the race!" is that funny, well is it?
What about something more recent, Diana Goblin of Wales can she be ridiculed now she is cold
"Lady Diana and Pamela Anderson die on the same day, and they both go before to find out if they'll be admitted to heaven. Unfortunately, there's only one space left that day, so St. Peter must decide which of them gets in.
St. Peter asks Pamela if there's some particular reason why she should go to heaven, so she takes off her top and says, "Look at these. They're the most perfect ones God ever created, and I'm sure it will please him to be able to see them every day for eternity."
St. Peter thanks Pamela, and asks Diana the same question. Diana drops her skirt and panties, takes a bottle of Perrier out of her purse, shakes it up, and douches with it. St. Peter says, "OK, Diana, you may go in. Have a nice day."
Pamela is outraged. She screams, "What was that all about? I show you two of God's own creations, she performs a disgusting, pornographic act, and she gets in and I don't?!!!"
"Sorry, Pamela, but a royal flush beats a pair any day."
Personally I laugh at anything that is funny, although sometimes it can be a nervous laugh.
So you don't want to hear the one about a Sri-Lankan, a deckchair and Helen MacArthur then ??
i think it is always going to be a case of knowing the people you are telling the joke to.. there are jokes that i would tell my friends that i would never air in a public place...
for example....
my friends probably know a lot of 9/11 jokes... but they would never tell them to me as a lost 6 people on that day...
it is more a question of tact rather than anywhere else and to tell a joke like that in a public domain where the odds are that someone might have been directly or indirectly involved is at the best unthoughtful and silly.. and at the worse just plain rude and sick...
sean xxxxxxxxxxx
Of all the people who say they find this, or any other joke, "offensive", how many can honestly say they have never seen humour in someone else's failure or misfortune?
If I tell a joke that involves death, someone who has recently been touched by death will not be amused. Last year they might have found it hysterical.
If you find jokes about dyslexics funny, many dyslexics will not share your mirth, and if your child turns out to be dyslexic you won't find it funny any more.
If seeing someone slip on a banana skin causes us to laugh, the person whose neck got broken as a result will not be laughing quite as hard, and you won't be laughing when it happens to you.
Humour is often a defense mechanism. A way of coping with tragedy, or an expression of relief that the tragedy is someone else's. It is instinctive, and everything you've ever found funny would seem less funny to you if you were the butt of it. Are you going to renounce your sense of humour on that basis? Of course you're not.
I dislike the joke in question, not because I am offended or upset, or because I think it is malicious, but simply because it's just not funny. The joke could have been backdated a bit and adapted to the biblical story of Noah and the flood or any other historical natural disaster. In essence it would be the same joke and nobody would find it offensive, they'd just say "That's a crap joke."
Ok,the point I was (badly)making is that gags like that mentioned propagate ignorance and pain.
MLK said that if you laugh at OR ignore racism you are part of point being that if you take the stand and say "that is just not funny" and explain why, perhaps the story teller may think twice about retelling it in the future.
Of course there is humour in death as in the Darwin awards,but prejudice hurts.
As some on here may know by now I am a loooooooong way from being a party pooper and I'm not trying to force my views on others,but I have witnessed people getting really hurt by ignorance.
Thanks
Lb :love:
my own view on this
lifes a bitch at the best of times to most of us, so some develop the willingness to laught at the deaths of many in a effort to negate their own intrinsic fears of mortality, I neither condone them, nor will I dispute their right to do so
Because a persons humour shows what some consider a lack of empathy for people suffering does not mean that they lack the compassion shown by others, it may well be that they are hurting deep inside, but they lack the ability to express their emotions about such an incident. After all, its not that long ago when a man would sooner lose his balls than be seen as a wimp who would cry about anything.
Perhaps this post is ill thought out and expressed, but I believe that everybody does feel for the victims and families involved in the Tsunami, just some have no way to express themselves without appearing weak in their own view by doing so
do we need to draw aline, if it aint funny to you don,t laugh 
: I can find humor in almost everything,some folk can,t, but would not tell somebody they can,t find something funny,if i don,t find it funny I don,t laugh :roll: :wink: 
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