A Call For Humor!

[tengiz]

And why do banks look like temples?

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Missing link?

 

[tengiz]

Notice how the soundstage wide opens at 1:15.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[rationaltime]

 

[theREALdotnet]

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It may be some kind of exorcism?

 

[Philbo King]

Now that Paris Hilton isn't around very much, a replacement is needed. I suggest Peoria BestWestern.

 

[Robin L]

Now that Paris Hilton isn't around very much, a replacement is needed. I suggest Peoria BestWestern.

My favorite Paris Hilton moment:

 

[napfkuchen]

We had this joke before and someone complained that it was disgraceful, cruel and not at all funny. I thought it was disgraceful, cruel, in extremely poor taste and quite funny.

You have to embrace the hate.

 

[Brian Hall]

 

[Multicore]

You have to embrace the hate.

I have mixed feelings here.

When I was young there was an old guard of nationally-known entertainers known for the racism in their stand up comedy. These guys had come up in the theater, music halls, and clubs where I assume the could rely on the audience being receptive and were able to read the room. As the times changed and they got on national TV, a few of these guys ended up in public conflict with activism against racism. In the end the old racist comedians lost that conflict and it's hard to remember them today without remembering their overt racism. I don't feel bad for them or that we lost something socially valuable.

Otoh, if we can't use laughter to explore and understand social topics together then that would be a loss since it allows us to take some of the risk out of exploring delicate moral questions openly. I'd rather get laughed at and maybe ridiculed after venturing some idea in the ethical interzone than feel I must hold my tongue.

 

[Petrushka]

I have mixed feelings here.

When I was young there was an old guard of nationally-known entertainers known for the racism in their stand up comedy. These guys had come up in the theater, music halls, and clubs where I assume the could rely on the audience being receptive and were able to read the room. As the times changed and they got on national TV, a few of these guys ended up in public conflict with activism against racism. In the end the old racist comedians lost that conflict and it's hard to remember them today without remember their overt racism. I don't feel bad for them or that we lost something socially valuable.

Otoh, if we can't use laughter to explore and understand social topics together then that would be a loss since it allows us to take some of the risk out of exploring delicate moral questions openly. I'd rather get laughed at and maybe ridiculed after venturing some idea in the ethical interzone than feel I must hold my tongue.

All in the Family explored racism. I believe it was a knock off of a British show.

 

[somebodyelse]

I am grateful that I live in the USA where people still can make tasteless jokes on the internet without fear of going to jail, and can disregard people who would police the internet. At least today anyway.

But only if you're a US citizen, and even then you could get sued for defamation (more likely in a state without anti-SLAPP laws.) If you're foreign then liking the wrong meme or expressing the wrong opinion can get you detained at the border and sent home.

 

[snakedctr]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[Bleib]

But only if you're a US citizen, and even then you could get sued for defamation (more likely in a state without anti-SLAPP laws.) If you're foreign then liking the wrong meme or expressing the wrong opinion can get you detained at the border and sent home.

There appears to be some kind of loyalty tests these days as well.. keeping it short not to make it too political, so back to topic

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[Kuppenbender]

 

[Petrushka]

But only if you're a US citizen, and even then you could get sued for defamation (more likely in a state without anti-SLAPP laws.) If you're foreign then liking the wrong meme or expressing the wrong opinion can get you detained at the border and sent home.

There’s actual a law, it think, that naturalized citizens and their descendants are required to be xenophobic.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Bleib]