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How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

Damn you to hell!!!!!!!
All those sig graphics and the excessive netspeek will cause me permanent trauma, I guarantee it! I feel like laughing at the hurricanes just to spite you now. In fact I’m going to do just that.
<----Laughing at hurricanes.

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

Does the word Schadenfreude mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?

"What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus hrist.” "-George Washington

'Jesus hrist'?

Aside from which - an 8 line sig is generally considered the limit round these parts. I'm getting 11 on yours.

How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

Despite all the leet, that was awesome!

What decent human being would find the way to?
Any decent human being with the ability to detach itself from the emotional excesses that are quite common these days.
Like Internet Nerds...

That was quite funny, if sadistic.

How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???It's long been known that the formula for humor is

Laughs=Pain*Distance

Maybe it hasn't been long enough yet--I didn't find it all that funny, but that's because that's my childhood home that was drowned in the flooding. But anytime there's a tragedy, jokes usually pop up pretty quickly afterward.

How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

People have been doing it since the beginning of time. Humor has healing powers not just for the body but for the psyche.

ANything can be funny if the joke is constructed right.

FOr instance; Why wasn't Bourbon Street badly damaged by Katrina?

Because they're used to dealing with hurricane-related damage every night. :D

Meh, it's not that bad.

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

*shrugs* Shit happens. No question, the hurricanes were terrible, aweful occurances that caused a great deal of suffering. You have two choices: You can let it get to you and lose yourself in sorrow about it, or you can laugh your ass of about it. No one's gonna benefit from you making it an "untouchable" subject, and frankly, no one's gonna be hurt by you laughing at it.

I dont know I laughed at it

Everyone deals with pain and anxiety differently. Some people pray. Some people avoid the subject. Some people overflow with sympathetic talk. Some people whistle in the dark and make jokes.

My family shared entirely inappropriate jokes at my mom's funeral. We all laughed. That's how we deal.

Don't you have to be a decent human being yourself before you start asking what decent human beings would do? Mich selbst und ich's earlier posts in this forum lead me to question the basis upon which rests his shallow indignation.

The only part I found detestable was the image of the body bag with "ne 1 got rez?". Totally uncalled for, IMHO. However, I don't think it entirely bad to try to joke off a traumatic situation... at least for the right reasons anyway. If someone laughs because people were victimized and killed (and I'm certain no one here did laugh for that reason) then I think they're sadistic bastards who need to be flogged a few times. If they laugh to lessen their shared pain over the event, then that's not something to reel over, methinks.

Aiiieeee. I think I understood like, maybe half of that. No. A third. We'll say a third.

However, I don't think it entirely bad to try to joke off a traumatic situation... at least for the right reasons anyway.
Very much agreed. It's part of the acceptance process. All the people that made jokes about the WTC attacks were called "insensitive" and "inhuman", but most of the people I knew who were laughing at those jokes -- myself included -- were personally influenced by the tragedy at hand.

Now I'm not saying that your pals (if pals they are) on the other forum weren't in the wrong for how outlandish and inappropriate it was at times....I'm just saying that I don't think it's right to say that if people now begin to regard the Hurricane season with humour as a healing tool.....who are we to judge them?

(The two teens from Louisiana who are *ahem* still staying in my basement guest rooms agree with me on this one.)

What the hell is wrong with you people?

ITs people that cna laugh at this that makes my blood boil. I hope every one of you that laughed at this gets flooded, loses everything that blongs to them, and loses half their family, and, lose their home town. I hope you all suffer dearly. It's not "the accepticance process"! This is just some a**hole making a joke about something that is not funny!

How would you like it if I made fun of you for something horrible that went on in your life??

What the hell is wrong with you people?

ITs people that cna laugh at this that makes my blood boil. I hope every one of you that laughed at this gets flooded, loses everything that blongs to them, and loses half their family, and, lose their home town. I hope you all suffer dearly. It's not "the accepticance process"! This is just some a**hole making a joke about something that is not funny!

How would you like it if I made fun of you for something horrible that went on in your life??

They already have, and I laughed, too.

How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???

I can, I do and I have. It is remarkably easy, it is called satire.

And given how detached we are from it all in the UK, it is no different to any other world disaster, and we find black humour in thsoe, why not Katrina?

How would you like it if I made fun of you for something horrible that went on in your life??
Go for it I do all the time

It is amazing how many priest pedofile jokes I find funny dispite my history


In fact that may make it even more funny for me (all depends on the joke)

I think a lot of it has to do with using humor as a coping device for bad things. I'm not prepared to make the assumption that the author of this video is a "monster" or what-have you for making this; lampooning major negative occurances so that we may laugh at them has always been a tool for civilization [at least ours] to deal with things like this. In fact, I might go so far as to argue that we should be able to laugh at certain problems before tackling them.

That said, there are in fact some things that we shouldn't joke about; but most of those are personal occurances and not national ones. Just because I might laugh at a tasteless Katrina or Holocaust joke doesn't mean I wanted either of them to happen, and it certainly doesn't mean I approve of the outcome of those respective scenarios.

ITs people that cna laugh at this that makes my blood boil. I hope every one of you that laughed at this gets flooded, loses everything that blongs to them, and loses half their family, and, lose their home town. I hope you all suffer dearly. It's not "the accepticance process"! This is just some a**hole making a joke about something that is not funny!

How would you like it if I made fun of you for something horrible that went on in your life??

You just don't get it do you? Humour is a defence mechanism used in the face of those things we fear or which make us feel uneasy. You advocate that those who confront their fears and the inhumanity inherent in the world be punished?

Dude, I see no problem with making fun of anything, 9/11, the holocaust, AIDS, anything, as long as it's funny. That wasn't funny. They should be punished, not for making fun of hurricane victims, but for being corny.

It's in the human nature of people, especially average Americans, to laugh at the suffering of others and watch it like a spectator sport. Why else would shows like Survivor and The Apprentice be such big hits?

That's one of the funniest things i've ever seen!!

2days l0lrep0rt

WE G0T PWNT

How would you like it if I made fun of you for something horrible that went on in your life??

You already have. Several times. Hypocrite.

does anyone else find it a bit disingenuous that a guy who finds hurricane victim humor appalling should send us to a site featuring it?

does anyone else find it a bit disingenuous that a guy who finds hurricane victim humor appalling should send us to a site featuring it?

I find the irony funny *lol

I hope every one of you that laughed at this gets flooded, loses everything that blongs to them, and loses half their family, and, lose their home town.
Hmm. You're big on this 'decency' thing, so what is it that makes this a 'decent' thing to hope for?

does anyone else find it a bit disingenuous that a guy who finds hurricane victim humor appalling should send us to a site featuring it?
Um, well probably because he'd have a hard time getting a constructive response to his query without a link. It's sort of hard to condemn something if you're not entirely certain it exists. His linking to it shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of the link's contents.

Honestly, this is like yelling at someone for posting a news article s/he disagrees with.

Um, well probably because he'd have a hard time getting a constructive response to his query without a link. It's sort of hard to condemn something if you're not entirely certain it exists. His linking to it shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of the link's contents.

Honestly, this is like yelling at someone for posting a news article s/he disagrees with.
i dont think so. he finds it HORRIBLE plus its the site of his "former clan". i think he's just on a quest for hits.

i dont think so. he finds it HORRIBLE plus its the site of his "former clan". i think he's just on a quest for hits.
Whatever you say, but this sounds like a lose lose situation for Mich Selbst und Ich no matter how you cut it, at least from your perspective. If he posts what he did, and provides the link, you call him a hypocrite.

If, conversely, he posts the exact same thing without a link and says "Trust me, I found this horrible video offsite," then proceeds to describe it, you and twenty other posters will leap down his throat asking for links and such.

Oh, and hon? We're all on a quest for hits. If you don't like it, chances are an internet forum is not the place for you.

i dont think so. he finds it HORRIBLE plus its the site of his "former clan". i think he's just on a quest for hits.
A more likely assumption would be him wanting us to post nasty comments or something...

Not saying that's what he's after.

you are? then why have i never been to your website?

you are? then why have i never been to your website?
Two things:

One, I meant 'hits' in the larger sense; in that everyone here wants everyone else to read what they have to say [obviously]. I don't have a website.

Two, you sure didn't bother to say anything about the actual point I took the trouble to write out: I'd have thought those first four lines might be somewhat difficult to miss.

I can laugh at anything. Anything.

I love to laugh ... loud and long and clear.

I live in Houston and I was in NO helping out and even I can laugh at it. Comedy is tragedy. Comedy comes from tragedy. The funniest comics talk about tragic events in their lives, not the shiney happy ones.

Let them laugh. It harms noone.

Two things:

One, I meant 'hits' in the larger sense; in that everyone here wants everyone else to read what they have to say [obviously]. I don't have a website.

Two, you sure didn't bother to say anything about the actual point I took the trouble to write out: I'd have thought those first four lines might be somewhat difficult to miss.
well i didnt have anything to say about it. you gave a different perspective, one that may welll be true not matter what my doubts are of it. i didnt see any reason to restate MY postion since you already know what it is.

i just find it doubtful that anyone who finds a particular thing utterly appalling would invite people to look at it. but hes probably rather young and may not have expected the responses he got.

oh and when i said a quest for hits, i meant a quest for hits to THAT page, not to this thread. i know we all want our threads read. thats why i start so few.

i just find it doubtful that anyone who finds a particular thing utterly appalling would invite people to look at it. but hes probably rather young and may not have expected the responses he got.
And this is what I'm talking about. In the past, people who have posted in criticism of $MEDIA_SOURCE, without bothering to link to $MEDIA_SOURCE have either been dolerously chastised by the NS community or banned for trolling. The link, regardless of whether or not he agrees with it, is a necessity if we are to discuss its contents. Honestly, I think you're just trying to find more things to complain about here.

Really, im suprised so many people made posts thinking that this was funny.


I dont think that calling the victums of this hurricane "n00bers" and saying that Texas is "laggy" is very funny. Thhe entire video compaired these horrible disasters which took 10,000+ lives and messed up more to a GAME (Hence the scene with the woman crying and the captiol "I quit this game"). I mean, Come on! Here's one personal account of suffering (Source (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478976/posts)
The water is quite foul and has a horrible smell as you may imagine.
Analytical tests by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality found
very high levels of fecal coliform (from sewage) in the water, but no
organic chemicals or metals. This is to be expected in a flood of this
magnitude. Folks exposed to the water are to receive Hepatitis A vaccines
and tetanus shots as a precautionary measure.

HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT THIS? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? These are REAL people, REAL suffering, REAL heartbreaks, REAL disrupted lives, and you people can site here and laugh about this? You people can say "Look at these poor baastards, Lol!" Your laughing at your fellow AMERICANS, no your fellow HUMAN BEINGS suffering greatly.

Sometimes, you people make me sick.

Here's one personal account of suffering (Source (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478976/posts)
<snip>
HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT THIS? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Of course the personal accounts aren't funny. Of course we don't laugh at them. That's because they aren't jokes.
These are REAL people, REAL suffering, REAL heartbreaks, REAL disrupted lives, and you people can site here and laugh about this? You people can say "Look at these poor baastards, Lol!" Your laughing at your fellow AMERICANS, no your fellow HUMAN BEINGS suffering greatly.
Most of the people who found the cartoon funny probably don't think Hurricane Katrina was funny. They probably don't find it funny that people suffered and died.

They do, however, think jokes are funny.
There is a difference.
Sometimes, you people make me sick.
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Really, im suprised so many people made posts thinking that this was funny.

Welcome to the real world. It has been pointed out numerous times that humour is a healing mechanism.

HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT THIS? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? These are REAL people, REAL suffering, REAL heartbreaks, REAL disrupted lives, and you people can site here and laugh about this?

Yes, because I'm sure the two hurricanes really used a chat room to discsuss "pwning n00bs" before they hit the States.:rolleyes:

Come on, it's the video, not the disasters, that are funny.

You people can say "Look at these poor baastards, Lol!" Your laughing at your fellow AMERICANS,

I'm laughing at who now?

no your fellow HUMAN BEINGS

That's better, thank you for boarding "America=/= teh w0rld" airlines flight 1776 to the Real World.

suffering greatly.

Again, the video us funny, the incident is not.

Sometimes, you people make me sick.

Only sometimes? Damn, must try harder.

Mich, lighten up for the love of God. I honestly don't think the author of the video is trying to imply that the disasters are anything less than they were. In all likelihood, an internet-created slideshow with text isn't likely to have any measurable effect on how the situation will be handled.

Getting upset over every little thing like this is only likely to usher in a short lifespan. Generally, people who get as worked up as you seem to be over something as inconsequential as this tend to be vulnerable to things like Aneurysms or heart attacks when an actual "Big Deal" happens.

Now, this primative flash film is hardly what I would call the zenith of comedy, but it has its moments. Either way, it's not worth getting worked up over. Methinks you should lie down for a bit or something if you think this is that bad. If tasteless comedy offends you so much, you might as well blindfold yourself and stick in the 'ol earplugs now.

Oh, and keep them there for the rest of your life. Otherwise, you will be exposed to tasteless comedy.

Mich, lighten up for the love of God. I honestly don't think the author of the video is trying to imply that the disasters are anything less than they were. In all likelihood, an internet-created slideshow with text isn't likely to have any measurable effect on how the situation will be handled.

Getting upset over every little thing like this is only likely to usher in a short lifespan. Generally, people who get as worked up as you seem to be over something as inconsequential as this tend to be vulnerable to things like Aneurysms or heart attacks when an actual "Big Deal" happens.

Now, this primative flash film is hardly what I would call the zenith of comedy, but it has its moments. Either way, it's not worth getting worked up over. Methinks you should lie down for a bit or something if you think this is that bad. If tasteless comedy offends you so much, you might as well blindfold yourself and stick in the 'ol earplugs now.

Oh, and keep them there for the rest of your life. Otherwise, you will be exposed to tasteless comedy.

"Lighten up" thats all you can say?

This isnt a healing mechinism, this guy was a complete asshole! Yes, there is a difference beteween the disaster and the actual movie, but, still, I mean, put it this way.

What if someone stabbed your mother and father to death, and I sat there and made a joke about it. Wouldnt you even be a little offended? Wouldnt you reguard that as a little immoral? Seriously, come on. This is REAL people suffering and your making jokes.

This is REAL people suffering and your making jokes.

Question: are people allowed to laugh in the face of their own suffering?

"Lighten up" thats all you can say?

This isnt a healing mechinism, this guy was a complete asshole! Yes, there is a difference beteween the disaster and the actual movie, but, still, I mean, put it this way.

What if someone stabbed your mother and father to death, and I sat there and made a joke about it. Wouldnt you even be a little offended? Wouldnt you reguard that as a little immoral? Seriously, come on. This is REAL people suffering and your making jokes.
Depends on the joke ... like he said sometimes it can be a healing reaction
Like I said I make jokes and have jokes made about me being molested by my priest ... no biggie anymore

"Lighten up" thats all you can say?
No, actually there's ten lines of text after the phrase that you obviously didn't pay any attention to.

This isnt a healing mechinism, this guy was a complete asshole! Yes, there is a difference beteween the disaster and the actual movie, but, still, I mean, put it this way.

Asshole? Probably. That's what comedy is about. Ever watch Comedy Central for chrissakes?

What if someone stabbed your mother and father to death, and I sat there and made a joke about it. Wouldnt you even be a little offended? Wouldnt you reguard that as a little immoral? Seriously, come on. This is REAL people suffering and your making jokes.
You're not paying any attention to what I'm saying, are you?

I stated earlier that there are some things that you just don't joke about, but those are typically isolated, personal acts--often involving the initiation of physical force by an entity on another entity, be it yourself, your mother, my mother, the Pope, or what-have you. It's a lot harder to joke about $RAPE or 9/11 for this reason, since these things are contrivances of human action as opposed to an act of nature.

The example you're showing here is a distorted one at best, as it compares two completely different circumstances and attempts to ascribe the same moral code to each. Hurricanes aren't [i]manufactured by man. Someone stabbing my parents would consitute a man-made threat, and the application of humor is in most cases much harder, unless we're talking about that crazy Lorena Babbitt chick hacking off her husband's jacobs. I'm sure a lot of comedians struggled with that one.

Asshole? Probably. That's what comedy is about. Ever watch Comedy Central for chrissakes?
Dennis Leary's "I'm an Asshole" (http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/5742/Dennis_Leary/I'm_An_Asshole/)
My hero.

Other than in-lining a 1800kb gif, that was absolutely hilarious. I almost died laughing.

How could you laugh at the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina

What decent human being would find the way to?

Appearntly some people did.

http://scenarioelite.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=PublicChat&action=display&thread=1129265106
(my old clan forum)

What the hell is wrong with people these days? How could you laugh at human pain and human suffering? What is wrong with people???
Two things:
1) Your site sucks. I'm not sure if it was the 1337 bullshit or the fact I was sodomized by random pictures and colour. But I was physically ill
2) Your signature is over the acceptable limit.

Two things:
1) Your site sucks. I'm not sure if it was the 1337 bullshit or the fact I was sodomized by random pictures and colour. But I was physically ill
2) Your signature is over the acceptable limit.

pwned, Rot is the man, and hiskids will also pwn. ZzYou the ,man, Rot

Dennis Leary's "I'm an Asshole" (http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/5742/Dennis_Leary/I'm_An_Asshole/)
My hero.
I own the DVD and cd of his no cure for cancer tour :)

...

LOL.

Am I a bad person now?:(