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Started by Cindy, March 13, 2011, 03:29:37 AM

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Shaina

Quote from: Amelia Pond on November 12, 2013, 03:16:23 PM
Damn it! I didn't expect you to pull the female get out of jail free card. *HUGS* I still love you, I guess. :P

Yay **HUGS BACK**

Okay this is my last one I promise Amy lol

I was a child and she was a child   
    In this kingdom by the sea:   
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
    I and my Annabel Lee
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dalebert


Devlyn

Quote from: Shaina on November 12, 2013, 03:25:40 PM
Yay **HUGS BACK**

Okay this is my last one I promise Amy lol



That took me a minute!
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K Style Addiction

Quote from: Shaina on November 12, 2013, 03:07:38 PM
Really Amy?  ;)



I'm probably the only one that's going to say this but...THAT CAT IS LIKE SOOO CUTE :D
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like watchin' the puddles gather rain.

Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage
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Shaina

Quote from: Donna Troy on November 12, 2013, 08:25:23 PM
I'm probably the only one that's going to say this but...THAT CAT IS LIKE SOOO CUTE :D

I thought so too Donna! So are you btw! :D
I was a child and she was a child   
    In this kingdom by the sea:   
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
    I and my Annabel Lee
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dalebert


Beth Andrea

Hooray for Bill Nye, the Science Guy!!
...I think for most of us it is a futile effort to try and put this genie back in the bottle once she has tasted freedom...

--read in a Tessa James post 1/16/2017
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dalebert


Constance

So my 24yo son is a big Conan fan, and I told him this joke.

QuoteWhat is Conan's default web browser?
Crome!

He replied with...

QuoteDid you spend all night on that one?
What is best online?
Crush your cookies, see your history cleared before you, and hear the lamentations of webmasters!

Shaina

Haha you're son is funny Constance. I thought your Conan joke was clever too!
I was a child and she was a child   
    In this kingdom by the sea:   
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
    I and my Annabel Lee
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Kittenswithmittens

"She had blue skin, and so did he. He kept it hid, and so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by - and never knew."
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dalebert


big kim

I went to a pub quiz in Glasgow,the first question was what're you looking at?
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LordKAT

THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU MARRY A WISCONSIN GIRL

Three friends married women from different parts of the country.

The first man married a woman from Minnesota . He told her that she was to do the dishes and house cleaning. It took a couple of days, but on the third day, he came home to see a clean house and dishes washed and put away.

The second man married a woman from Illinois . He gave his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes and the cooking. The first day he didn't see any results, but the next day he saw it was better. By the third day, he saw his house was clean, the dishes were done, and there was a huge dinner on the table.

The third man married a girl from Wisconsin . He ordered her to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything but by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulty when he pees.
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dalebert

Quote from: LordKAT on November 16, 2013, 01:26:24 AM
...by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulty when he pees.

I'm sorry. I hate to seem like a party pooper, but this one's rather uncomfortable for me. It feels like it's only funny because a man is the victim of domestic violence instead of a woman and he obviously deserves it because he's a chauvinist pig and such. If the genders were reversed and a woman was demanding her husband abide by his traditional role--hold doors open for me, buy me flowers on V-Day, don't dare even look at other women, etc. and he beat her for that until her eyes sealed shut and her arm didn't work in order to set her straight, it would be appalling to most people and not funny, and rightly so.

big kim

I was a male domestic violence victim for 3 years, I saw the funny side of this joke and laughed.
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Devlyn

I think that's a point well made, dalebert. I may even forgive you for that cheap pickup line!  :laugh:
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LordKAT

I do see your point dalebert. If you like I will remove it, or if a mod thinks it is triggering, it can go with no issue far as I'm concerned.
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dalebert

No, I don't really want it removed. People have context now. I'd rather them have something to think about with regards to gender.

dalebert

I talked with someone else online about this and they pointed out that fictional violence is actually a common element of humor and that all humor has a dark element to it. I don't want to make people hyper-sensitive about such things. This is the bad jokes thread, after all. Example given:

QuoteWhat do you call a woman with two black eyes?

Nothin'. You done told her twice already!

And then you laugh because that is just awful, awful, AWFUL, and laughter is a relief valve. In your mind, you're thinking about the violence as in "OMG, that's SO wrong! HAHAHA" It's why we laugh at cartoon violence. The joke is justifying violence on its face, but is clearly being ridiculous and you're actually laughing at the perpetrator of violence and that's why it's funny.

In the other joke, you're laughing at the victim like "He SO deserved that! HAHAHA" And I think that's why I personally laugh at the "two black eyes" joke and cringe at the other one, but maybe I'm just hyper-sensitive because I tend to be hyper aware of how we're much more okay with violence as long as the victim is a man, and particularly domestic violence.

TL;DR version: You laugh at "two black eyes" because domestic violence against women is NOT okay. In the chauvinist pig joke you laugh because domestic violence against this man IS okay.