On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> > 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. > No need to apologize! > > 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. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
