@chai2,
Quote:I'm not going to "lighten up" just so you can feel ok about being disrespectful to people in general, and me in particular.
That is such a cowardly, passive aggressive way of bullying.
Tell you what Frank, you don't tell me to lighten up about something important to me and many others, and I won't tell you to stop being a tedious nudje that can't stop himself from beating dead horses.
This carlos person is ignorant, hateful and willfully stupid. He needs no encouragement.
Nobody need "encouragement" here to write jokes or, to edit jokes or, to suppress himself in telling a joke.
If people were to be ruled by your standard, then nothing funny should be heard in centuries.
Look, I myself have experienced a hard accident years ago. The pain was so bad that caused me to roll here and there on the floor. You have no idea how much I suffered because the incident.
So, when I watch those America funniest videos, and see a dude driving his motor bike trying to jump from one building to another, the bike falling down before reaching the other building while the driver is hitting with his body flat the wall -like the scenes in cartoons- I feel his pain, the same pain comes back to me, because I have experienced it, and I laugh like crazy. I roll on the floor again but with tears of laughing and laughing.
To me such video is funny, even when I know that the poor dude will be in therapy perhaps for years and years.
Even more, when I talk about my experience, I laugh because if someone was with a camera and made a video of it, I will watch it and laugh as well, because the way it happened was also funny... not my fault at all, but the faulty person was so dumb....
I just let it go.
I'm not the one to tell you to do the same, but this is a place to laugh, to make jokes, it won't mater if they are new or old, but coming here to this particular place is to open this thread looking for a moment of enjoy.
When you argue here about things instead of making jokes or saying that you like them or not, you are the one in the wrong place.
This thread of jokes is not intended to discuss social problems, something that you are trying to discuss here.
Of course, "freedom of speech" applies to your participation as well, and I read what you said about me... and as usual... I just let it go...