wheelspinner
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Post by wheelspinner on Jul 6, 2010 3:06:37 GMT -5
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Post by Georgina on Jul 6, 2010 9:23:00 GMT -5
Y'know what? I'm having an awfully difficult time seeing any humour in this situation whatsoever. Not to say that you shouldn't have posted this cartoon, WS, I'm just saying. I was watching The Daily Show and they were cracking wise about it -- not about BP but about the spill itself -- and I just can't bring myself to see any humour. Crack off about BP's president, though, and yep, I'm there.
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Post by MacBeth on Jul 6, 2010 9:39:03 GMT -5
It may be a case of a situation that is so overwhelming that humor is used to break momentarily the morose atmosphere...seems to be the way of things.
So sad to be in Florida when the tar balls arrived.....
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Post by MacBeth on Jul 6, 2010 13:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by Georgina on Jul 6, 2010 15:04:49 GMT -5
Oh, absolutely, Beth, people use humour to break the tension all the time. I'm just giving personal commentary that I can't seem to get there right now. I find that odd, so I mentioned it.
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Post by MacBeth on Jul 6, 2010 17:02:55 GMT -5
I did not mean to be critical, if that is how it sounded...
Kate got Richard a T shirt recently - looks sort of like a rorschach test that is really a pelican covered with oil, and the oil is dripping in the shape of the Gulf Coast. She went back and forth about how her Dad would react, but went with it because she thought he would like the message (and the fact that the money went to wildlife rescue on the Gulf Coast).
But there are things that I will probably never find funny. Those things happen to all of us
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Post by Georgina on Jul 6, 2010 22:37:58 GMT -5
Nope, not how it sounded at all, Beth.
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wheelspinner
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Post by wheelspinner on Jul 7, 2010 2:30:40 GMT -5
Y'know what? I'm having an awfully difficult time seeing any humour in this situation whatsoever. Not to say that you shouldn't have posted this cartoon, WS, I'm just saying. I was watching The Daily Show and they were cracking wise about it -- not about BP but about the spill itself -- and I just can't bring myself to see any humour. Crack off about BP's president, though, and yep, I'm there. I can appreciate that. There's probably some cultural difference here; Australians tend to have a pretty mordant sense of humour. There is also the geographical distance; we are not as adversely affected as North Americans are. |
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Post by Georgina on Jul 7, 2010 9:10:10 GMT -5
Maybe it's the geographical distance. Canadians tend to list towards black, sarcastic humour too.
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