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[Amigo]

I don't really wish such things on anyone, i'm a big softie really...but...how many of you are getting the jokes via phone, email etc. that we would'nt post here but laugh at none the less? be honest.

[Broomies Mate]

I find offensive humour extremely funny, even when the subject is me.

Obviously, real people are dying, real people are homeless, real people are in complete anguish, but a joke is a joke and had it been another nation, another disaster, another completely different circumstance, jokes would be manufactured to suit.

You arent actually laughing at the dead/dying/homeless/anguished people, you are laughing at some funny buggers quick wit. 

[robbo299]

Im getting at least 3 or 4 a day. Some funny, some not.

[Tonka.]

Do you want to send me a load? I'll send you my number 

[Amigo]

It's been reported over the years that finding the humorous side of anything pretty awful is a typically British thing & just our way of dealing with it. World wars, Princess Diana, our footy disgraces & any other unfortunate disaster. Laughter is the best medicine.
   I think the pretentious office types would call it a coping mechanism???

[jerry]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

[Broomies Mate]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

[Amigo]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

Still it's a point well made. I don't watch rallying then go out & try to emulate it in the real world...no really i don't. I hate the train of thought that something should be banned in case the weak of mind see it as reality.
    Lock up or treat the weak of mind accordingly. Most folk can distinguish between reality & lala land!!!!

[tidla]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

Still it's a point well made. I don't watch rallying then go out & try to emulate it in the real world...no really i don't. I hate the train of thought that something should be banned in case the weak of mind see it as reality.
    Lock up or treat the weak of mind accordingly. Most folk can distinguish between reality & lala land!!!!

slightly off topic, bbc showed "madness in the fast lane" (on i player)  expecting a rehash of roadwars but rather a showed a case as quoted above over two years.

back to topic,

someone posted "as titled" sick joke which i found funny. previous posters give it the  :-? so chose not to reply..

[Xplicit 2.0]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

Still it's a point well made. I don't watch rallying then go out & try to emulate it in the real world...no really i don't. I hate the train of thought that something should be banned in case the weak of mind see it as reality.
    Lock up or treat the weak of mind accordingly. Most folk can distinguish between reality & lala land!!!!

oh... so just me that, after seeing Avatar, thought he would try leaping from trees and trying to mount some poor birds back... the horse didnt take to kind to things either :S

[Banjax]

yep, that's the first thing that occurs to me when watching the news of people dying - hmmmmm, how can I turn this into an unamusing text? peurile, sick and in my opinion I've never met anyone who finds this stuff amusing that isn't a knuckle dragging, f-wit

[Chris_H]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

Still it's a point well made. I don't watch rallying then go out & try to emulate it in the real world...no really i don't. I hate the train of thought that something should be banned in case the weak of mind see it as reality.
    Lock up or treat the weak of mind accordingly. Most folk can distinguish between reality & lala land!!!!

I'd be interested in knowing how old you are.  Some of us remember when 'the camera didn't lie' and suchlike.

Not only are modern kids brought up in an environment where the truth is concealed, but where there are large teams of people working on methods to conceal the truth even more.  I'm thinking of games programmers and VR-developers, but certain solicitors and barristers might well be on the list.

[jerry]

yep plenty in circulation (few of them new of course, most did the rounds on previous disasters). Like many, I'm afraid that I too have the guilty secret at laughing at "sick" and definetly nonPC jokes. Great British humour or just our way at coping with the horrors that the world keeps throwing up ? I dont know. But I do know that I dont want to be branded insensible to the REAL victims of such tragedies . Because Im not. I can tell the difference between make-believe violence in movies and the real thing too and my enjoyment of the former in a film context doesnt make me want to go out and emulate it in the real world either.

LOL!  I love that little chestnut.

"My Son was a lovely little boy, and a fantastic, helpful, bright, intelligent Teenager.  It wasn't until he watched 'Nightmare On Elm Street' did he become a mass murderer"

 

Still it's a point well made. I don't watch rallying then go out & try to emulate it in the real world...no really i don't. I hate the train of thought that something should be banned in case the weak of mind see it as reality.
    Lock up or treat the weak of mind accordingly. Most folk can distinguish between reality & lala land!!!!

slightly off topic, bbc showed "madness in the fast lane" (on i player)  expecting a rehash of roadwars but rather a showed a case as quoted above over two years.

back to topic,

someone posted "as titled" sick joke which i found funny. previous posters give it the  :-? so chose not to reply..

'fraid that relates to my "oh shes eleven" post. See, I was right to get my coat !Seriously though, as Banjax said, it would never in a million years occur to me to think up  a sick joke on the back of any horror/tragic news story, and I have only ever been sickened/saddened/angered/horrified etc in my reactions to such news. HOWEVER, I still laugh at many of the "sick" jokes that follow. Go figure.. :-/Be interesting to see how many people on here would say that they too laughed at them . Maybe we should start an annonymous poll?

[hoofing it]

I mind when the space shuttle blew up all the old jokes surfaced again. like what does NASA stand for etc.
Still a joke is a joke if your offended by them then don't read them

[Banjax]

I mind when the space shuttle blew up all the old jokes surfaced again. like what does NASA stand for etc.
Still a joke is a joke if your offended by them then don't read them

how do you know its offence until you read it, exactly?

i think it takes a certain level of intelligence to find jokes about natural disasters funny, thankfully I'm above it - but whatever floats your little boat 

it's weird, but I find the people who take most offence at the slightest perceived insult or change to their way of life, the most sensitive and precious souls are the very same ones who cry foul when someone doesn't see the funny side of their childish humour.

the handy thing about idiots like you is, they easily give themselves away the minute they put pen to paper (or crayon to wall)