I laughed at this when I read it. Does this make me a bad person or has society just gotten way, way too sensitive? Where do you draw the line between humor and bad taste?
FM’s Question of the Day
I laughed at this when I read it. Does this make me a bad person or has society just gotten way, way too sensitive? Where do you draw the line between humor and bad taste?
At least they didn’t take a knee.
They gave a knee.
At least one has no knees at all. The more tasteless the better is how i like my humor. And i like beating a joke to death as well.
I didn’t laugh and it is in bad taste.
I wish I had the smarts to be able to conceptualize and explain where you draw the line between humor and bad taste.
I dunno. I think people are too sensitive.
My back and neck are fused pretty much from my hips to the base of my skull. When I took my last manager out to lunch for a job interview to talk outside of the shop we both went in my Jeep. When we pulled up to the restaurant I parked at the opposite end of the lot from the building. He asked me: “Why don’t you park in the handicap spot?”
I knew what he was getting at and the angle he was coming from right away – he was trying to be a nice guy. I screwed with him anyways and said:
“Because my fucking legs work just fine. Do you want this God damned job or not!!!???”
He was stunned. Then I laughed and we went for lunch.
Maybe it’s just perspective. I dunno. I still think it’s funny…
If it makes you laugh it’s humor.
If it doesn’t and makes you cringe instead, you’re a liberal.
I laughed, my wife said it was not funny. My ten year old son laughed, my teenage daughter was outraged.
I sensed a pattern.
I laughed…
Sounds about right…
It was funny!! Your women were just messin’ with you.
“Where do you draw the line between humor and bad taste?”
Probably much lower than most people. Not much is off limits. Even sacred cows make good pot roast if slo-cooked long enough.
We laugh at being surprised as well as what hurts. Neither the politicization of sports or disability is funny in and of themselves. However, the above made light of both in a good-natured way and it worked for me. I laughed. I would say north of 90% of those whom I call friends (some sports fans and disabled folks alike) have a great (and sometimes grim) sense of humor. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Life’s too short.
The essentials of a good joke are 1) it should be true 2) it should contain a surprise and 3) it’s told by a male.
The joke above is funny because it follows those rules. Something can be very painful or mean to the object of the joke, but that doesn’t preclude the fact that it is funny to someone else. The Three Stooges are a prime example of someone’s pain being another person’s laughter. The joke above has added benefits of being timely (the take a knee protests) being irreverent (certain groups may never be the object of a punch line) and being visually discordant (guys in wheelchairs smiling at the camera when being made fun of).
HF – Joan Rivers made a huge fortune telling jokes of that nature.
Francis, I laughed …….reason being it was a joke and in very bad taste, but still a joke…..right?
Clue me in if I am wrong.
purrrrfect on you HSF, and you should know!
BB, how is the joke in bad taste? The guys are athletes.
They are having fun.
When something like this:
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gets a kid suspended from school, we know that America (or at least the worthless government gulag of day prisons masquerading as schools) has completely lost its collective mind. Given that, I could see plenty in this country getting upset that this team would not stand. That is exactly HOW STUPID America has become. The TRUTH is staring them right in the face and they refuse to see it or even acknowledge its presence.
I thought it was funny. Society has become too sensitive. What used to be funny in the 1970s couldn’t be done today because people are so easily offended. People need to get a sense of humor again. Can anyone even tell a Pollock joke anymore? Not since “All in the Family” and the rise of modern-day liberals.
What ever happened to “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
That’s what we kids were taught when we were young.
Pollock are fish. Pollacks are white guys who speak English with a funny accent. They’re fair game. Not sure about the fish. 🙂
I thought it was Polack?
But no, I wouldn’t touch that joke with a ten-foot Pole named Kwasniewski.
I really liked those fish! Can’t eat fish anymore.
Haliburton companies keep pouring dump loads
of toxins in the water, when no one is looking.
That would be offensive, no?
So, after working hours, I don’t care any longer about my spelling or sentence structure. I have to deal with that all day long. I need a break.
That ought to be posted in every NFL locker room.
It must be funny, they were rolling in the aisles.
It’s funny.
I have a non scientifical theory about the utility of jokes pointing to handicaps.
You know, a people with any handicap sometimes tend to develop a nasty trait: resentment.
So you make a joke and look at them. If they are offended, you know that they are probably resentful, that they believe that their back luck is other people’s fault, that they deserve to be treated in an special way, that they have some grievance against you. Your instinct yells “stay away”.
Now, that person laugh, takes it easy. You know that that person has assumed his handicap, that you should not be guarded, and you can consider him/her part of your group.
So for me, people that laugh, are people that actually respect those paralympics as equals to the point of saying “see, I know you need a wheelchair, by I don’t care, I can even make a joke about it”.
The people that see that as offensive, internally think that handicaped err…different abled people are some kind of inferior beings that should be protected from offense.
These people push their own limits everyday. I doubt they would be terribly offended. They are not helpless like the FSA or the pampered celebs.
It’s ironic, which make it humorous.
Colin Kaepernick can stand but won’t.
The players in the wheelchairs can’t stand but would if they could.
Besides, the joke is on the selfish narcissist nigger Kaepernick, not the disabled.
If anyone has a right to make fun of wheelchair folks its the guy destined for one, also ironic.
I think I may have just crossed “the line between humor and bad taste”
I laughed.
You would laugh Bob, because you are human.
It is very funny, as is “rolling in the aisles”…
lol funny!
Funny. Fuck em if they can’t take a joke
Sorry, but I found it amusing, and if I were back in a wheelchair I would still get a kick out of it.
I knew this girl with a wicked bad lisp. She would have a couple beers and say ” who’s the son of a bitch who put the ‘s’ in lisp?” Very funny. Self depracating humor is the best.
The difference between humour and bad taste is about a week.
Jokes started popping up immediately after the shuttle disaster.
What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts.
How do we know the astronauts had dandruff? They found their head & shoulders on the beach.
That sort of thing. Not funny the day after. Funny much later. Maybe.
Foxy,
i thought it was funny as hell,though i’m known for having a warped sense of humor–
your hunting/climate change article was good too–come on down when it gets too cold & bring rins w/you,but leave the pet bears home–
back to the funny–here is a serious video about being in a wheelchair–it is john parr doing an acoustic version of “st elmo’s fire” and the story behind it–
very powerful–
Even though no one will click on it, here’s Steady Eddie’s take on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbGOjmNAsb8
he was moderately funny and able to laugh at himself–
however,when i have him and every other aussie comedian pop up in my playlist i will be cussing both of us,you for posting it and me for clicking–