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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 09, 2010, 07:21:42 AM
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A campfire from Skins's island brought over here by our esteemed colleague Freeper prompted this question.
To be bluntly honest, I myself don't know.
I mean, just because something is invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I suspect "no," however, because the primitives are starkly reminiscent of the busybody Puritans of 18th-century Massachusetts, or the sour dour 20th-century Prohibitionists; the sorts of people who think they know what's best for everybody else, and that everybody else is just stupid (or recently, racist).
People Who Know Best rarely, if ever, have a sense of humor.
The first requirement of having a healthy sense of humor is that of having a sense of humor about oneself.
After which all the rest comes easy.
But one has to first have a sense of humor about oneself.
One searches in vain on Skins's island, overturning every single grain of sand to see underneath, for any example of self-deprecating humor among the primitives.
The primitives take themselves too seriously; they really believe they count.
Ha ha.
ROTFLMAO.
As far as I know, the only primitive--in ten years of Skins's island, remember--who displayed a sense of humor about himself was the cboy4 primitive. Well, the cboy4 primitive got chased off Skins's island, mostly by the insufferably boring truemud primitive, who doesn't know a damned thing about sports (or anything else); the primitive who's nice to his mother only because she's ancient, and he wants to inherit her money the minute the old lady kicks off (for the record, the insufferably boring truemud primitive actually said that).
I suggest that if the primitives want to prove they have a sense of humor, they start a mirror-reverse of P-J Comix's most-excellent DUmmie FUnnies--"Freeper Follies" perhaps?--or of our old home's Best/Worst of DU--"Best/Worst of CU," perhaps.
Decent and civilized people have a healthy sense of humor--which begins with themselves--and I'm sure we'd all have great fun reading "Freeper Follies" or "Best/Worst of CU." In fact, such features would increase traffic to Skins's island, decent and civilized people chuckling at themselves, and seeing what miserable failures the primitives are, at trying to ape their betters.
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Voted no,at least not in the sense of having a laugh to have a good time.
Being obsessed with what someone else has to the point of constant rage and bitterness takes all the fun out of living.
Their only joy and laughter comes at the expense of an "enemy" losing something.
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I voted no because the majority of regressives are too angry all the time to ever laugh, although there are some liberals who have a sense of humor, Ron Kuby used to have a radio show with Curtis Sliwa and Ron had a very good sense of humor, as do liberals that I post with on other boards. No sense of humor or enjoyment of any kind must be in the rules of regressivism.
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Abso****inglutely no. They couldn't buy one (even) with an unlimited line of credit.
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I voted 'no'. There are some entertaining and funny posters over there (usually in the Lounge), but taken as a whole, they are bitter and unhappy.
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Almost every forum I've visited has a humor/joke board which is fairly active. I haven't seen one on Skin's Island. The 9-11/Troofer board comes close, though.
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I voted no as a whole. Like others have said there are a few that have come up with stuff that will make me laugh. But it is hard to laugh when you are offended by everything.
That said I have a good friend that is a flaming lib. We stay away from politics when we talk but he has the ability to make me :rotf: :rotf: at the drop of a hat. I swear the guy is Harpo Marx reincarnated.
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I voted no. The vast majority of them are perpetually bitter and angry.
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I voted no, even though there is an occasionlly amusing comment. Even their periodic "DUzy" awards were barely funny. I don't think anyone is doing that particular project anymore, mostly because there is a dearth of comedy there. Except of course for the unintentional comedy.
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Ron Kuby used to have a radio show with Curtis Sliwa and Ron had a very good sense of humor,
Nope, nope, nope, girlfriend, I have to disagree. I used to listen to that show, Ron never made me laugh or want to do anything but hurl the radio thru the window. He's not even good on World's Dumbest. His most annoying habit, aside from being Bestest Friends Forever with the execrable Lynne Stewart, was to begin sentences with "I, I, I, I" "You you you you" "But but but but" "Now now now now" Everything in quadruplicate.
As for the poll, I voted no simply on the basis of what they come up with for bumper sticker and Tshirt contests. embarrassingly lame. There is no wit there. And, you're right about self-deprecation, Frank.
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Could you picture Alan Colmes doing stand-up?
Me neither.
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Could you picture Alan Colmes doing stand-up?
Me neither.
Skeletor? No way.
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Could you picture Alan Colmes doing stand-up?
Me neither.
He would be about as funny as a colonoscopy.
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I was going to vote Yes because I've seen some things there to make me believe so but upon reflection they're most likely moles so I said No. :naughty:
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These petulant, self-absorbed, thoroughly repugnant little shits wouldn't know funny if it were balls deep in their collective rectal cavities.
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Absolutely not - the closest it comes to a sense of humor is their sarcasm and snark.
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I think this DUmmie has been visiting here and is trying to prove us wrong.
madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-09-10 05:41 PM
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They just evacuated a Walmart I was at.
There was a suspicious package on a self. Turns out, it was just something actually made in America.
Ha ha. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9522767)
Unfortunately it isn't just Walmart, it's true of every big chain.
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I think this DUmmie has been visiting here and is trying to prove us wrong.
Mole :-)
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I went with 'Not sure.' I think a handful of them actually do, though they hide it well. Most of them are humorless apparatchiks who would fit in perfectly as German Block Captains in 1944 or informers, wannabe commissars or politicals in the Soviet Union.
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Madinmaryland stole that from Jay Leno last night. I voted no they do not have a sense of humor. Humor however is as much your point of view as to what makes you laugh as anything and we all know here what their point of view is and how twisted it gets.
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Could you picture Alan Colmes doing stand-up? Me neither.
:lol:
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Could you picture Alan Colmes doing stand-up?
Me neither.
No, but I could certainly picture him doing kneepads in front of a glory hole. :bird:
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I voted no as a whole. Like others have said there are a few that have come up with stuff that will make me laugh. But it is hard to laugh when you are offended by everything.
That said I have a good friend that is a flaming lib. We stay away from politics when we talk but he has the ability to make me :rotf: :rotf: at the drop of a hat. I swear the guy is Harpo Marx reincarnated.
That about sums it up. One of my best friends is a self proclaimed socialist-loving lefty. His words, not mine. And the funniest, wittiest guy I know.
But, he doesn't hang out on DU. I asked. ::)
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This is all the answer you need. This is what they consider "Comedy Gold." :bird:
babylonsister (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-08-10 07:27 PM
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Bush Book Comedy Gold!
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/11/8/181414/178
Bush Book Comedy Gold!
by Steven D
Mon Nov 8th, 2010 at 06:14:14 PM EST
Hey, we know Bush didn't write his book, but at least he picked a great comedy ghost writer, one particularly good at satire. Want proof? Just read the following:
A presidential aide, Andrew Card, tells Bush that a second plane has hit. The president looks as though he has been paralysed by shock. For seven minutes he sits there before a group of children, immobile while America was under attack.
But Bush says he was thinking.
"I looked at the faces of the children in front of me. I thought about the contrast between the brutality of the attacks and the innocence of those children. Millions like them would soon be counting on me to protect them. I was determined not to let them down," Bush writes.
What a laff-riot.
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I voted yes because I do see sadonic humor and some twisted, faux-intellectual humor. It's still humor even if it isn't good humor, or rational humor.