Dark humor is funny and so is self righteous objection to dark humor yes?

**YupItsMe** · 06-03-2012, 01:23 PM

An old lady getting run over in the cross walk by a teenage extroverted female texting her BFF about hair clips is hilarious yes?

Isnt it also hilarious when some self righteous bible thumping zealot insists it is cruel to laugh at it?

Is it cruel to laugh when I find out the football coach that benched me shot himself?

Midhiel · 06-03-2012, 01:30 PM

So funny I forgot to laugh.

**HeavyRain** · 06-03-2012, 02:17 PM

Yes, no, no.

I can laugh at someone's misfortune, but I'd like to think I have tact.
If you expressed your amusement in a way that others would pick up on I am assuming you were looking to agitate someone?

**YupItsMe** · 06-03-2012, 03:08 PM

No its a serious question for the purposes of my own understanding not meant to bother anyone.

Regarding tact, I would not intentionally indicate my finding them funny to anyone other than close friends also known by me to have a dark sense of humor, since I know its highly controversial socially to find all three funny in the company of the more empathetic.

However, when my sister told me my coach had died in a hunting accident I laughed out loud without the ability to hide it.

The teenager injuring the elderly while callously ignoring well known safety precautions to discuss something totally insignificant likes it some sort of emergency communication is funny to me on many levels.

I also perhaps arrogantly so, think the self righteous are often either fake or incapable of their own untaught thoughts or opinions. That to me is also funny.

I also think Wiley Coyotes mishaps are hilarious and find the other misfortunes in Looney Tunes hilarious as well as Lucy pulling away the football on Charlie Brown

**Shahira** · 06-03-2012, 03:34 PM

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	I also perhaps arrogantly so, think the self righteous are often either fake or incapable of their own untaught thoughts or opinions. That to me is also funny.

First, yes. Second and third no.

The self righteous do have their own thoughts and opinions but choose not to express them as they want to be percieved as righteous. They may probably believe in those thoughts and opinions and agree with them but also have their own opinions. They probably want to appear righteous so others think they are righteous and pride themselves on the fact that others think that they are righteous, but of course they wouldn't show it as that wouldn't be very righteous.

Midhiel · 06-05-2012, 03:51 PM

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	However, when my sister told me my coach had died in a hunting accident I laughed out loud without the ability to hide it. The teenager injuring the elderly while callously ignoring well known safety precautions to discuss something totally insignificant likes it some sort of emergency communication is funny to me on many levels.

I'm not being self-righteous when I say that I find absolutely nothing about those situations funny. I do not derive amusement from the pain of others.

On some level I can understand not feeling bad for the teenager who caused the accident, but there's nothing funny about an old lady getting run over due to the teenager's mistakes. Being the kind of quietly arrogant person I am, I often find other people stupid and do not like the prospect of being injured due to that stupidity.

	Originally Posted by YupItsMe To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I also perhaps arrogantly so, think the self righteous are often either fake or incapable of their own untaught thoughts or opinions. That to me is also funny.

Maybe you're more affected by society than the self-righteous, only its influence affects you in the opposite way it affects them. Unless you were raised on an island in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no human contact, I don't think you can really measure that.

	Originally Posted by YupItsMe To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I also think Wiley Coyotes mishaps are hilarious and find the other misfortunes in Looney Tunes hilarious as well as Lucy pulling away the football on Charlie Brown

Personally I never found these things funny, even as a child. But I know that that is a more sensitive reaction than the norm and don't fault people for finding it amusing - primarily because they're cartoon characters, not real people, and no one is harmed by it. You could probably benefit from understanding that your reactions are less sensitive than the norm and not faulting people for not sharing your sense of humor.
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**mieu** · 06-05-2012, 03:54 PM

Yes, yes, no, but only because I probably would have been over the whole 'being benched' thing like 10 minutes later when I quit the team. You carry that flame, though. Carry it high.

**Faux hawk** · 06-05-2012, 04:03 PM

Self-righteousness is never funny.
Dark humor is hilarious with the right audience.
Today I told my best friend: "If I kill myself it will totally be because the teenager finished me off emotionally, but don't tell him. I'd hate for him to feel bad."
In the moment w/in the context of the conversation it was piss your pants funny.
Humor has to be set up, and have context and timing. It doesn't always work w/o the perfect recipe...
It's all important.
All of it but the self-righteous indignation. That's just bullshit projection because you don't want to admit something, or are frightened of the truth of it.

**Monte314** · 06-05-2012, 04:32 PM

Mark Twain said that there is no laughter in Heaven, because all humor is based upon someone's misfortune.

I don't think that's true. But I've noticed that many more men than women think the Three Stooges are funny. And I've noticed, too, that maudlin scenes in chic flicks that make girls cry often make guys laugh. There is a lot of gender mixed in with this question; I suspect it is related to the manner in which we identify with others: women want to identify, and men want to dominate.

I remember watching a Clint Eastwood movie with my wife a few years back. There was this scene where he walks across an empty room... all you can hear are the jingling spurs... and the camera fills the whole screen with his GUN. Just the holstered gun, swaying along as he walked toward the exit to go out and dispense some "Street Justice"! I loved it!

But my wife said, "What the heck was THAT!?" So we went back and watched it again... the jingling and the swaying... wow. My wife didn't get the coolness of the readied VENGEANCE DISPENSER floating across the room, as though the disembodied power of LAW had come to life... invincible... and taking NO BACKTALK! She thought it was stupid.

Men love that stuff. Slapping leather, lots of lead action, and instant justice, with no "loose ends" to clutter up the court system.

And what about Moe raking an enormous cross-cut saw across Curly's noggin'? Priceless stuff... Jules White, where are you now, when all we have left is girly-men and "America's Next blah blah blah"?

**porousshield** · 06-05-2012, 05:38 PM

Tim Horton, famous hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and founder of the wildly famous donut and coffee store; Tim Hortons. One day he was driving through the streets of St. Catharines Ontario extremly drunk. He went under the lake St. Overpass at around 150Kmh in his car and hit a support column. He and his car were obliterated. To this day, you can still find Tim-Bits everywhere. (from Tv tropes Black Humor)

I have to admit that's pretty funny. With that being said, I've never found any humour in slapstick since I've always been too soft hearted at the characters getting hurt but I enjoy dark humour.

**Uriel** · 06-05-2012, 06:36 PM

	Originally Posted by YupItsMe To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	An old lady getting run over in the cross walk by a teenage extroverted female texting her BFF about hair clips is hilarious yes? Isnt it also hilarious when some self righteous bible thumping zealot insists it is cruel to laugh at it? Is it cruel to laugh when I find out the football coach that benched me shot himself?

None of these are dark or self-righteous. They're all rather juvenile and immature.

**Collide** · 06-05-2012, 06:50 PM

I find your humor boring. It requires no intellect. I prefer to laugh at subtle abnormalities and bizarre situations.

**YupItsMe** · 06-05-2012, 08:14 PM

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	I find your humor boring. It requires no intellect. I prefer to laugh at subtle abnormalities and bizarre situations.

I also find it funny that your humor requires intellect, subtle abnormalities and bizarre situations because to me you are so overly serious about your silliness requirements.

**Nonsuch** · 06-06-2012, 08:52 AM

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	An old lady getting run over in the cross walk by a teenage extroverted female texting her BFF about hair clips is hilarious yes? Isnt it also hilarious when some self righteous bible thumping zealot insists it is cruel to laugh at it? Is it cruel to laugh when I find out the football coach that benched me shot himself?

This stuff might be funny when it's in the movies or on TV, but it isn't funny in real life.

There's a big difference between Wile E. Coyote getting run over by a steam roller and a wild coyote getting run over by a steam roller in real life, if you ask me.

**Tocsin** · 06-06-2012, 10:26 AM

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06-03-2012, 01:23 PM	#1
YupItsMe Member [19%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 765	An old lady getting run over in the cross walk by a teenage extroverted female texting her BFF about hair clips is hilarious yes? Isnt it also hilarious when some self righteous bible thumping zealot insists it is cruel to laugh at it? Is it cruel to laugh when I find out the football coach that benched me shot himself?
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06-03-2012, 01:30 PM	#2
Midhiel Veteran Member [92%] MBTI: IxTJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 3,704	So funny I forgot to laugh.
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06-03-2012, 02:17 PM	#3
HeavyRain Member [02%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 119	Yes, no, no. I can laugh at someone's misfortune, but I'd like to think I have tact. If you expressed your amusement in a way that others would pick up on I am assuming you were looking to agitate someone?
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06-03-2012, 03:08 PM	#4
YupItsMe Member [19%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 765	No its a serious question for the purposes of my own understanding not meant to bother anyone. Regarding tact, I would not intentionally indicate my finding them funny to anyone other than close friends also known by me to have a dark sense of humor, since I know its highly controversial socially to find all three funny in the company of the more empathetic. However, when my sister told me my coach had died in a hunting accident I laughed out loud without the ability to hide it. The teenager injuring the elderly while callously ignoring well known safety precautions to discuss something totally insignificant likes it some sort of emergency communication is funny to me on many levels. I also perhaps arrogantly so, think the self righteous are often either fake or incapable of their own untaught thoughts or opinions. That to me is also funny. I also think Wiley Coyotes mishaps are hilarious and find the other misfortunes in Looney Tunes hilarious as well as Lucy pulling away the football on Charlie Brown
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06-05-2012, 03:54 PM	#7
mieu Core Member [185%] $/)^3^(\$ MBTI: xNTx Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 7,432	Yes, yes, no, but only because I probably would have been over the whole 'being benched' thing like 10 minutes later when I quit the team. You carry that flame, though. Carry it high.
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Faux hawk Banned MBTI: XXXX Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 2,542	Self-righteousness is never funny. Dark humor is hilarious with the right audience. Today I told my best friend: "If I kill myself it will totally be because the teenager finished me off emotionally, but don't tell him. I'd hate for him to feel bad." In the moment w/in the context of the conversation it was piss your pants funny. Humor has to be set up, and have context and timing. It doesn't always work w/o the perfect recipe... It's all important. All of it but the self-righteous indignation. That's just bullshit projection because you don't want to admit something, or are frightened of the truth of it.
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06-05-2012, 04:32 PM	#9
Monte314 Core Member [412%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 16,502	Mark Twain said that there is no laughter in Heaven, because all humor is based upon someone's misfortune. I don't think that's true. But I've noticed that many more men than women think the Three Stooges are funny. And I've noticed, too, that maudlin scenes in chic flicks that make girls cry often make guys laugh. There is a lot of gender mixed in with this question; I suspect it is related to the manner in which we identify with others: women want to identify, and men want to dominate. I remember watching a Clint Eastwood movie with my wife a few years back. There was this scene where he walks across an empty room... all you can hear are the jingling spurs... and the camera fills the whole screen with his GUN. Just the holstered gun, swaying along as he walked toward the exit to go out and dispense some "Street Justice"! I loved it! But my wife said, "What the heck was THAT!?" So we went back and watched it again... the jingling and the swaying... wow. My wife didn't get the coolness of the readied VENGEANCE DISPENSER floating across the room, as though the disembodied power of LAW had come to life... invincible... and taking NO BACKTALK! She thought it was stupid. Men love that stuff. Slapping leather, lots of lead action, and instant justice, with no "loose ends" to clutter up the court system. And what about Moe raking an enormous cross-cut saw across Curly's noggin'? Priceless stuff... Jules White, where are you now, when all we have left is girly-men and "America's Next blah blah blah"?
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06-05-2012, 05:38 PM	#10
porousshield Member [16%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 668	Tim Horton, famous hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and founder of the wildly famous donut and coffee store; Tim Hortons. One day he was driving through the streets of St. Catharines Ontario extremly drunk. He went under the lake St. Overpass at around 150Kmh in his car and hit a support column. He and his car were obliterated. To this day, you can still find Tim-Bits everywhere. (from Tv tropes Black Humor) I have to admit that's pretty funny. With that being said, I've never found any humour in slapstick since I've always been too soft hearted at the characters getting hurt but I enjoy dark humour.
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Collide Member [06%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 242	I find your humor boring. It requires no intellect. I prefer to laugh at subtle abnormalities and bizarre situations.
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Tocsin Core Member [126%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 5,075	The wisdom of Sam Watterson... To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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