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Skriven 2014-05-01 13:35:48 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 12758 av DAVE DRUM (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Humour
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-=> Quoting DAVE DRUM to NANCY BACKUS on 30 Apr 14  03:47:00 <=-

 DD>> Cruelty and pain are *NOT* the same thing. Humour is based on
 DD>> someone's pain, be it physical or psychic. That's all.
 NB>> But when directed at someone else, often done cruelly...

 DD> "Jokes" directed at someone - whether verbal or physical are a
 DD> particularly vile form of bullying and have nothing to do with humour.

Agreed.

 DD> The only person to whom they are funny is the perpetrator - who in many
 DD> cases ought to be subjected to the same treatment as s/he dishes out.

Sadly, they may also be funny to the perp's circle of "friends"... seen
that much too often over the years....

 DD> I have managed to accomplish that only a few times - with the tag-line
 DD> to the bully "Not so funny now that you're on the other end, is it?"
 DD> Probably did not inspire them to change their ways or even cause them
 DD> to see or admit that they had done something bad. But, it certainly
 DD> made me feel better. 

I've been tempted to do such, but generally haven't had quite the right
opportunity... didn't think it likely to do much good... and usually I
figured it wouldn't make me feel any better about it either... ;)

 NB>> Another particularly apt punishment, though, would be for them to have
 NB>> to be the brunt of practical "jokes", to feel how it is to be on the
 NB>> other side...

 DD> See above - although, as I said, it probably doesn't leave a lasting
 DD> impression.

Aye, there's the rub.  And there's the risk that it would only encourage
such behaviour, especially if they didn't get the point that it hurt...
 
 NB>> Puns, or more specifically play with words, is a higher pastime than
 NB>> usually given credit, though...  ;)   Groaners though they may be...
 NB>> (G)

 DD> The only punsters for whom I have any respect are the ones who can
 DD> make a pun that works in more than one language. Isaac Asimov (Isaak

That's a higher level, to be sure... :)

 DD> Judah Ozimov) was such a person ... who also wrote pretty decent
 DD> speculative fiction and Edgar-winning mysteries as well as being a
 DD> professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

A well-rounded man.  :)   Many of his volumes reside at our house, too,
and have been well-enjoyed over the years...  :)

ttyl         neb

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