On 16 Mar 2015, at 11:47, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:34 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well of course laughing AT people you dislike is a classic bullying
technique. And then you say "oh come on it was only a joke!"
Yet bullies never make jokes about themselves, because they are
often humourless sociopaths.
I agree. I think people understand intuitively that making fun of
someone that is at a disadvantage in relation to you is just mean
and distasteful. It is sociopathic to find that sort of thing funny.
It's very common with teenagers, and I think that part of the reason
is fear: if you don't join in on the bullying, you could become the
victim yourself. Unfortunately, some people never develop past that
stage.
I don't think that this joke is mean in any sense. On the contrary,
I think that environmentalists that can't laugh about it a bit
should be worried that they are becoming too religious.
I even think that great jokes can be made about the senseless
destruction of everything we hold dear. People who don't believe me
should read "The Hitchhiker's Guid to the Galaxy".
Of course readers of this list knows that the Hitchhikers Guide the
Galaxy contains gross mistakes, like confusing 42 and 24.
I agree with you about the joke. I get surprised of Chris' reply. In
my mind the joke could have been done by an environmentalist, the
extreme exaggeration is too much funny. It is Monty Python like.
BTW, when I get more time, and more sleep to think correctly and avoid
too much typo errors, I will rewrite my yesterday comment. Apology.
When my poor soul want to say "X cannot do Y", my lazy body starts the
economy of work program and it suggests using the abbreviation "X
can't do Y". But then by an excess of enthusiasm in the procedure, or
perhaps because my virtual internal hearing miss the mental "t", my
poor hands end up with writing "X can do Y".
Please, note that most of the time when I say "can", I mean "cannot".
Bruno
Fiction: "Yes, we can,"
Reality: "No, we cannot."
Telmo.
Dunno if this is on topic but I thought I'd mention it anyway, just
in case.
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