Last post Sun, May 04 2008 4:19 AM by DSB. 22 replies.
Sorry, I don't find this post funny. Making fun of people with mental illness is not funny at all.
Becky: Sorry, I don't find this post funny. Making fun of people with mental illness is not funny at all.
Ditto.
This is an interesting topic! I've been wondering what makes some humor ok and other humor offensive. I'm OCD and not offended by this joke, but I also don't think it's all that funny. I wonder, though... if Justin has mental health issues, would this joke be ok for him to tell? I mean, is it ok for Chris Rock to tell black jokes? It's curious, isn't it?
"People who think rape is about sex confuse the weapon with the motivation."Alice Vachss
On a personal level I can see it on is it cool or funny well nope it is well bad taste. I may not be ablle to relate with people with mentl health issues but theyare just as real to them as my own physical things. So the questions is what is going to be done about this one? People do push the limits and sometimes out here they thing all of us are their personal friends and have the inside humor. To be frank mmy own post is in mods hands right now over what we all have in common the question is as mods debate it and pretty soon there will not be a place to debate it. This is in bad taste and should frankly not be on the main page. But what do I know you mods think you know what too look for and debate. Knows I have been offended many times here by kids this post is like an ack ack ack.
As a mental health disability advocate, I find this "joke" to be just as funny as the "redneck" jokes posted here, and even the great cartoon recently posted. All this busines of laughing at ourselves; well, to me, that is what this is: laughing at our own frailties. I am certainly not a "kid," and I think it is hysterical. So do several people with mental health disabilities that I emailed it to.
I found the joke funny. It was a joke. No harm, no foul. We're not made of tissue paper people. It is okay to laugh at ourselves.
At what point did our country become full of people that are so sensitive that simple words hurt us to the core. I understand not finding it funny or even dis-tasteful. If you did, your response should be "Geesh, whatand idiot" and just ignore it.
You can usually tell when someone is being mean and hurtful. I don't believe that Justin was going for that effect. I love "quad jokes".
Stay Strong
Vinny
I trully beleave it was ment as a joke!!! If you are the type that get offended easly maybe after line one you should stop reading.......If any of you have been in a place like this(wich i have) you know this is only just that a JOKE! While spending time in a hospital like this there more concerned of you killing yourself(even if you have stated it 100X your not suicidel). So I hope it taken as a daily chuckel, and thats all. If you found it offencev, it only proves the need for help. Lets try not to take things out of context, and learn how to move on when things upset us. Gosh knows there are plenty of things that can upset us durring the course of a day! God bless everyone and lets all hope for a better tomorrow!
I thought it was funny. I have depression ( they tell me its part of the stroke thing) and take Cymbalta. I think humor keeps a lot of us going!
i dont know to me its not a rip roarer of a joke. do i find it offensive, no. maybe if it was talkeing about my disability. chris rock i think it was was making fun of amputes and talking about sex. well i am not an amputee but i found it very very offennsive. i boiled that he would do that. so what offends people and doesnt is different. 44444444444444444
Yuppers! If we can't laugh at ourselves, then no one else should!
Don't forget to press 2, if you want to speak to someone, in ENGLISH! How's that for being depressed.
Anybody catch that TV commerical for some anti-psychotic drug that is on the market? The disclaimer at the end says it might cause depresession? Every time I whatch the commercial, I go, "Duh!? What if you are taking it "for" depression?"
I was in the bathroom once, when Gloria (my ficticious significant other who I always pick on with my daily jokes) was watching TV. A Viagra commercial came on, and when the disclaimer said that it might cause 6 hour erections, she jumped up and changed the channel. Our remote is broken. So, I screamed out, "What did she say?" And Gloria comes into the bathroom with a bg smile on her face, and says to me, "NOTHING, honey!" And I said, "OK."
Boy, am I dumb!
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I don't get it. This phone menue seems to be offensive, whereas everybody goes crazy over those disability t-shirts that circulate through the forums these days.
I've seen/heard that menue in several variations, and I always thought it was very funny.
It isn't offensive. It just points out the characteristics and quirks like is the nature of a good joke.
Here in Germany we are of the opinion that you just don't belong until somebody makes a joke about you. (That doesn't include mean spirited harassing "jokes")
I think it seems to be of importance who is telling the joke.
And what matters to me is who is laughing about a joke. I think ethno comedy is great, but I wouldn't want to have a bunch of racists laugh about it.
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