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Why are people with diseases so god damn funny. It seems everyday humans get a laugh out of their fellow beings for being retarded, blind, short, deaf, mute, missing limbs, or various other physical and mental deformities but anyways keep going with the midget things cause its cool but really think about this one. :?:

because your a sick person with no conscience of human emotions and conscienceness and have no clue what kind of mental-trauma you may be causing?

It's a question, not a flame

I think it's bred from personal insecurity.

Need I elaborate?

it was a serious question. people constantly make fun of people with diseases and i just wanted to know what was so funny

i know it's terrible, but i crack helen keller jokes and such. oh well. they're terribly funny, but maybe it's humor bred in relief that we aren't like that.

it was a serious question. people constantly make fun of people with diseases and i just wanted to know what was so funnyapologies, I couldn't understand your position and immediatly assumed you were poking fun at others.

it was a serious question. people constantly make fun of people with diseases and i just wanted to know what was so funny

The way they act or there disablities give a sick humor to those with a black heart.

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it was a serious question. people constantly make fun of people with diseases and i just wanted to know what was so funny

The way they act or there disablities give a sick humor to those with a black heart.



my heart is as black as a smoker's lungs.

well mister ufx you seem to be border line black heart because of your pic but like they say dont trust a book by its cover

I think it's also the human fascination with destruction... like slowing down by a car crash.
Also, people laughing purely in self defense- an idea is frightening, out of the norm, peculiar to them.. they laugh.

But I still say the base of it all is personal insecurity. Sometimes peer pressure too, in various forms.

well mister ufx you seem to be border line black heart because of your pic but like they say dont trust a book by its cover

read the qoute on it. It is true ya know. Yes and never judge a book by his cover. Seph owns.

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Read Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein. He talks about how we only laugh at the things that it would hurt too much to cry about. So true.

I studied some comic theory in college (trust me, nothing is less funny than comic theory), and a lot of theories about humor basically boil down to:
anything that takes you further from being mentally, emotionally, or physically flexible (or able) is funny. Slipping and falling on your ass is funny because it shows that you don't have the mental attention to notice the slippery patch, or the physical agility to remain standing. So you're funny. Kinda effed up, huh? Nearly every piece of comedy in existence works like this. Bring me an exception, I'll try to give you a justification.
Hope I'm not ruining comedy for anyone else.
And Helen Keller jokes are HILARIOUS! You've heard the one about why her dog ran away?

well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

i don't know, i actually do find these things funny. nothing emotional about it.

well mister ufx you seem to be border line black heart because of your pic but like they say dont trust a book by its cover

Again to that quoth.

But this guy was born like this and it already seems you see him as a bad/Evil guy. Why do you think that when you see him?

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why did helen keller's dog run away?

(fyi- not asking the joke, trying to get the punch line cuz i don't know... heh)

there's not a lot of thinking to it. it might have to do with how his eyes are looking and the black and white gives it a more meniacle look but i dont know why you are trying to play phyciatrist on me

well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

i don't know, i actually do find these things funny. nothing emotional about it.

Even if your greatest love got diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said they had 2 weeks to live.... your still gonna laugh?

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why did helen keller's dog run away?

(fyi- not asking the joke, trying to get the punch line cuz i don't know... heh)
ahahaha that's my favorite one, too. but you have to say the punch line 'cause typing wouldn't do it justice.

there's not a lot of thinking to it. it might have to do with how his eyes are looking and the black and white gives it a more meniacle look but i dont know why you are trying to play phyciatrist on me

Actually you are right. He is an evil guy in the game and movie... But he does do some good things.

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[quote=Frozen Pain]well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

i don't know, i actually do find these things funny. nothing emotional about it.

Even if your greatest love got diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said they had 2 weeks to live.... your still gonna laugh?

aren't we talking about disable people, here? birth defects and whatnot? because cancer is a whole different bag. but i don't have a greatest love, so i can cheerfully say yes.

[quote=Frozen Pain]well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

i don't know, i actually do find these things funny. nothing emotional about it.

Even if your greatest love got diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said they had 2 weeks to live.... your still gonna laugh?

aren't we talking about disable people, here? birth defects and whatnot? because cancer is a whole different bag. but i don't have a greatest love, so i can cheerfully say yes.

It can still fall under the same catagory when it comes to death.... disabled people can actually die around 15 years of age.... same with cancer.... it isn't a laughing matter when you are so attacked to that person and they die at such a younge age...

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hey im afraid ot say this but this topic might blow my other topic about midgets out of the water

hey im afraid ot say this but this topic might blow my other topic about midgets out of the water

hey im afraid ot say this but this topic might blow my other topic about midgets out of the water

nice triple post.... I might have to disable it....

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[quote=Frozen Pain]well then it looks like we have an answer but people may word it differently or have a different view point but that about covers the comedy part of it i think

i don't know, i actually do find these things funny. nothing emotional about it.

Even if your greatest love got diagnosed with cancer and the doctor said they had 2 weeks to live.... your still gonna laugh?

aren't we talking about disable people, here? birth defects and whatnot? because cancer is a whole different bag. but i don't have a greatest love, so i can cheerfully say yes.

It can still fall under the same catagory when it comes to death.... disabled people can actually die around 15 years of age.... same with cancer.... it isn't a laughing matter when you are so attacked to that person and they die at such a younge age...

i hope i don't "attacked to that person and they die at such a young age..." i'd hate to be responsible.

I can't really put my finger on why, admittedly, I sometimes chuckle when I see a mentally or physically disabled person. Interestingly, seeing disabled people in public is almost never funny to me unless they are causing some sort of ruckus. It is usually when I see them portrayed in a comical situation on television or in the movies that I find them funny. I guess it does stem from insecurity as Avia said--seeing someone in such a diminished state is somehow funny because normally we have to be wary of others in such a competitive world. When they are so obviously inferior we don't necessarily feel outright superior, but we experience a kind of absurd relief or fascination with their misfortune, and begin to laugh.

why did helen keller's dog run away?

(fyi- not asking the joke, trying to get the punch line cuz i don't know... heh)

Ok, you asked for it. It is funnier out loud, but for you, Avia, I'll try.

Why did Helen Keller's dog run away?

Well, you would too if your name was Aaaghgghouahghgh...
(Imagine loud, incoherent noises made by someone who has never heard anything)

I know it is terrible. But I also know at least one deaf person who thinks it is hilarious (when she reads my lips and has her hand on my larynx).

why did helen keller's dog run away?

(fyi- not asking the joke, trying to get the punch line cuz i don't know... heh)

Ok, you asked for it. It is funnier out loud, but for you, Avia, I'll try.

Why did Helen Keller's dog run away?

Well, you would too if your name was Aaaghgghouahghgh...
(Imagine loud, incoherent noises made by someone who has never heard anything)

I know it is terrible. But I also know at least one deaf person who thinks it is hilarious (when she reads my lips and has her hand on my larynx).

:lol: :lol:
Got that

I'm at a friend's house... I'm gonna tell her that right now... yesss!

Haha thats a good one

just told it to her.. she's laughing really hard... as am I.. yay

its funny cause at the school I go to, we are all white, rich, racist bastards. ok, not true.

I think jokes of that sort are funny only to people who don't really think its funny. If you can follow that logic. We laugh because we know we are not being serious.

Personally, I don't see retards as people.

Now THAT's funny.

it was a serious question. people constantly make fun of people with diseases and i just wanted to know what was so funny

the way you worded it...made me feel what colodia was feeling...

Why are people with diseases so god damn funny. It seems everyday humans get a laugh out of their fellow beings for being retarded, blind, short, deaf, mute, missing limbs, or various other physical and mental deformities but anyways keep going with the midget things cause its cool but really think about this one. :?:

You sound like the kind of perosn i hate. and i am not a very hateful person. Please remove you post or clarify what you are trying to say

Why are people with diseases so god damn funny. It seems everyday humans get a laugh out of their fellow beings for being retarded, blind, short, deaf, mute, missing limbs, or various other physical and mental deformities but anyways keep going with the midget things cause its cool but really think about this one. :?:

You sound like the kind of perosn i hate. and i am not a very hateful person. Please remove you post or clarify what you are trying to say

He was actually being sarcastic about the people who laugh at people with disabilities.

Why are people with diseases so god damn funny. It seems everyday humans get a laugh out of their fellow beings for being retarded, blind, short, deaf, mute, missing limbs, or various other physical and mental deformities but anyways keep going with the midget things cause its cool but really think about this one. :?:

You sound like the kind of perosn i hate. and i am not a very hateful person. Please remove you post or clarify what you are trying to say

He was actually being sarcastic about the people who laugh at people with disabilities.

But he could have added a sidenote saying he having a rant towards these people, couldn't he?