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What's your take on it?

I'm rarely offended. I say bring it. Laughter is like foreplay for me.

DaniGirl

whatever makes me laugh. I think people should get a back bone when it comes to jokes. People that get easily offended should stay in a plastic bubble and not leave there hole in the ground.

Punk.of.Ages

I can handle any joke. It's pretty near impossible to truly offend me. Life's too short for that shit...

Usually, I'm the one offending with a joke anyhow...

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Offensive humor is fine, but people that try to be edgy just for the sake of being edy annoy the fuck out of me

Jetée

I like to hear the creative spin of nearly all jokes, so I can tolerate listening to yours. But, of course, there are some that are bawdy or loathsome just for the sake of standing out and/or shock factor. They disgrace the routine.


It's like that one time I asked my a group of friends, "Whats the main cause of paedophilia?" and they just stared at me blankly. Needless to say they didn't have much reaction to the punchline of "sexy children" as I had originally hoped.


It's different planes when it comes to mirthful storytellers; you have to know two things to have success: 1) you need to be able to spin a yarn and build the eventual suspenseful conclusion to the tale, & 2) you need to know your audience.

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squeeeb

it depends for me. not much offends me, so even if i don't find the joke funny, it doesn't bother me.

one of the only "jokes" that ever offended me was about fucking a bald pussy and having to remove the diaper. maybe it wasn't so much the joke that bothered me as the dude who told it to me.

there is a line that is crossable for me, it's just waaaaaaay out there.

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fresnelly

Dirty or gross is usually fine. Misogynistic or Rasicst is mostly not.

I guess my line is really about the cruelty in the telling. If the teller has that knowing twinkle in his eye (or voice) I can usually appreciate the craft. Are you poking at convention and decorum or are you just being a dick?

Just think about how The Aristocrats joke can weave back and forth across the line.

And take those awful sex position jokes (donkey punch, angry dragon etc...) I think they're borderline and at least creative on some level when told in jest, but offensive when told maliciously.

Tell me a new one and I might gasp out a guffaw. Tell me twenty and I won't be able to look at you the same again.

I don't know if that makes sense but humour is bound to context.

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The_Jazz

I don't have too many sacred cows, but a lot of ethnic ones irritate me. But that's probably because the family members that told a lot of them when I was growing up are people that I avoid at reunions (for personal reasons, not the jokes).

But if the jokes about a specific individual, bring it on, especially if it's funny.

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ASU2003

Anything goes. The more offensive, the better it is. Then again, I've never been offended and nothing will offend me.

tisonlyi

I <3 black humour, offensive humour, insult humour, anything really.

I don't consciously like racist humour, but I do laugh at that stuff sometimes, so I suppose it's funny to me on some level. Stupid bigoted upbringing.

What's this?

*looks over both shoulders, surveys he room*

The start of a <Insert your racial insult here> joke.

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At least this one makes a gesture toward knowing it's wrong...

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wooÐs

Hmph. Close.

Psycho Dad

Different people have differing senses and tastes in humor as they do in all other forms of entertainment.

If somone doesn't like the last joke they saw, heard, read, etc... Mayhaps they will like the next one.

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Reese

off topic, but I find if funny how recently many threads have been directly influenced by other threads. I mean it's obvious that this thread was spawned by Michael Jackson's death. As was the joking about dead people and of course the new Michael Jackson jokes thread over in the humor forum. Plenty of other threads can be traced back to other threads too..

Back on topic, I laugh at pretty much anything that's clever. I wonder if Humor is nature or nurture? hmm new thread idea.. GO GO!

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Punk.of.Ages

I've noticed this too. I'm starting to get some threads confused with others even...

But, hey, it seems like there's more life around this place as of late.

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robot_parade

I'm not a fan of 'bathroom humor', but I'm not really offended by anything. Also, I don't really want the kids exposed to (and therefore copying) scatological humor.

thespian86

It's completely relative to the situation. Depending on when, who, and where anything goes.

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