- 1 day
Hasn’t happened yet. I still unfortunately feel empathy for even people I probably shouldn’t.
- 2 days
Speaking as a therapist, with a developed sense of empathy, and humor so dark the American police would shoot it, I think it’s possible to sustain both through awareness and choice
2 daysI walk that line very well. Dark humor helps me cope, and when combined with self-awareness, at least in my experience, allows me to keep my empathy/sympathy muscles well maintained. That is to say, making the dark joke with the awareness of its darkness allows me to continue to feel empathy. I dunno if that makes sense, but that’s how it works in my head and I continue to have an incredible sense of empathy, sometimes even to my detriment.
- WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
Well, any world where you have to resort to dark humor to stay sane, deserves only ridicule and lack of empathy.
- 2 days
All humor is dark humor. Name a joke that doesn’t revolve around someone’s pain?
We laugh and cry for the same reasons. To cope with pain.
There’s a reason the best comedians are depressed.
“My mother never breast fed me, she always said she considered more of a friend” the late great Rodney dangerfield. His jokes are funny because no one loves him and he’s left as a husk emotionally. We laugh at that. One of the best comedians of all time and he’s funny because his life sucks.
Knock knock.
Who’s there’s?
On second.
On second, who?
No, Who’s on first, What’s on second.
- 2 days
That’s a reference to a joke purely around frustration. That’s the pain in that joke. Extreme frustration and confusion.
- 1 day
Aren’t trolls supposed to rile people up and start arguments? I had a pretty peaceful conversation with a couple people. There’s nothing here to even be angry about lol.
But okay
- Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 days
The majority of jokes aren’t around pain. Don’t conflict your own limited humor with everyones.
Here is one:
There are 2 pizzas in the oven.
Says one of the pizzas: “It is getting warm, isn’t it?”
Says the other pizza: “EWW, a talking pizza!”
- 2 days
You added the word eww for no reason then? A pizza in an oven having sentience…
Those two things make the joke funnier, why is it funnier that they are in an oven, why is it funnier that one pizza is disgusted with the other pizza? Why is the second pizza in this oven such a hypocrite
Or just the classic “oh you shocked me”
Bit I feel the pain on those jokes is again “oh I feel foolish for not expecting that”
- 2 days
Knock knock jokes: the pain is you have been made to look foolish. You did not expect such an obvious trick. “Boo who” why are you crying it’s just a joke.
Puns: how do people react to puns? With anger. People tell puns to get that reaction from people. The pain is how cringy the joke is.
Fart noises and penises. Embarrassment at a social taboo. Something private is now public and shame is the pain of the joke. Or if some purposely the pain is the vulgarity of the joke teller and the feeling of disgust it causes .
- 2 days
Bro. Subverting expectations ≠ pain. No one’s cried over a knock knock joke. Unless you have and in that case you’re a big baby.
I think people react that way to puns literally because of current societal pressure. Puns have existed since time immemorial, and there hasn’t been documentation for people reacting with the “ooo I hate you” response till modern times. Also those reactions are in jest almost the entire time.
The historical context also applies for farts and peens. There’s been less puritanical societies that also felt those were funny.
Also, even if ask humor is derived from suffering of others, which it isn’t, we’ve made a distinction between all types of humor and dark humor. Dark humor is jokes about morbid situations, and is not every type of joke ever.
Your argument holds no water and is a parroting of someone else’s quote, Rowen Atkinson (and possibly others but I know he said this at one point), when he was complaining that people are too pc and/or too worried about offending people.
- 2 days
There are different levels of pain lol. Just because we determined snake bites hurt worse than a paper cut it doesn’t mean paper cuts aren’t a version of pain. Same thing actually with the word “dark” you think nighttime is dark? Have you ever even been in a cave? That’s dark!
I’ve said nothing about the ethics of jokes. If anything you can take what I said to mean all jokes are in poor taste. That wouldn’t fit your narrative of what you think I’m saying tho so you ignored that lol the truth is I said nothing about ethics or what is appropriate.
I’m not parroting anyone. If I were I would have quoted him. More than one person can have a thought lol
Less puritanical societies… that remain nameless. Are we in a Puritanical society right now? Unless you’re going back to caveman times we’ve always been naked in private. Before that being naked wouldn’t have been funny. No one is laughing at boobs in societies that are shirtless. Same with farting. It wasn’t a joke until it was taboo.
Have you ever seen anyone rolling on the floor laughing just at a pun? I mean you mentioned me crying at knock knock jokes. Have you ever audible laughed at the talent of a pun or do you laugh because it’s stupid? Do you have any evidence of that being recent or just someone didn’t specifically write down the puns were stupid? Where is you’re source? Because we typically don’t create historic records of things that are considered “obvious”
- 19 hours
Bro see a baby laughing at peekaboo and goes “hmm yesss this is pain, what dark humor”
- 12 hours
Dude that’s the easiest one lol. A baby has no object permanence. Thier parent just disappeared in front of their eyes! They might never come back! Oh wait there they are again, thank god.
Have you ever audible laughed at the talent of a pun
…Yes.
I didn’t say this in my other comment because I wasn’t sure how to explain it, but you know that “bad puns” are just one particular genre of pun, right?
I mean, I think you’re likely to describe them all as painful regardless. “It is painful that two definitions of a word are not easily reconciled,” or something.
Can I ask you something? I mean sincerely, like I’m trying to understand you as a person. Why do you think this pain model of comedy is useful? You’re describing pain that is so miniscule and modest, but pointing at it nevertheless, insisting that it is pain and thus justifies what you’re saying—what is this revealing to you about the world?
- 2 days
How do we as a society react to a pun? With hatred and anger lol. There’s the pain. People who enjoy telling puns also enjoy that reaction to them.
The pain is how cringey the joke is.
Absurd humor is my favorite! But alas the joke is how shocked you feel by the absurdity. You were not expecting what was said.
I mean absurd kinda depends on the kind of joke ig. But there are people who like sharing puns or telling them to people who like puns too.
- 2 days
It all depends on the joke lol
That’s why I said “tell me a joke that doesn’t involve pain”
You are telling me TYPES of jokes so I’m telling you the Types of pain the might revolve around.
I can’t give you specifics about a vague concept.
Which joke would you like to talk about? Otherwise youre pretty much just saying “I’m sure there are jokes that aren’t like that”
Which it’s fine if you want to belive that but it’s not really disproving what I said.
For the record I like puns too I share them with people too. To which they always respond “ughhhhhhh” which is the normal response to a pun.
- 3 days
I don’t make any of the SpongeBob Adventures, I just find them and try to post one a day! I think these quotes are just from random people on the Internet.
Thank you for posting these, I only saw the 7 sins and virtues ones. Also props to always answering this question on like every one lol
