Why do people with disabilities make you laugh?

pcwares · 27-12-2005 04:49PM

comming from the dyslexic poster with a blonde gf that used to suffer from epilepsy who likes to hear jokes about blonds dyslexic people and epileptic badgers on smack[/QUOTE]

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simu · 27-12-2005 05:13PM

Laughing at disabled people ... not funny for anyone above 5, I would hope.

Laughing at the strange ways in which disabled people are sometimes treated by able people - can be funny because it shows up hypocrasies and the gap between what people say and do.

OsamaBinLaden · 27-12-2005 05:20PM

hullaballoo wrote:

That's pure comic genius, but this thread is abhorrent.

could you point out what it is that you find abhorrent in this thread?
i only ask because i don't see anything wrong with it.
handicaps are something that need to be spoken about and not buried under the carpet. are we supposed to ignore the guy in the wheelchair? are we to look past the autistic kid down the road? (that would be my cousins kid). these people exist and we can't ignore the fact that they are different to the majority of us, and they are different. laughing at things that are different is human nature. i'm not saying that's it's right, but it does happen. i'm also not saying that i'm gonna point at the guy with downs syndrome and start laughing at him. i will laugh though if he does something that i find funny.

rubadub · 27-12-2005 05:29PM

The only thing I would have a problem with is the title
"Why do people with disabilities make you laugh?"
Which is presuming that everybody does laugh at them. Sort of like the joke question "are you still riding dogs?", if you answer "no" the reply is "oh you finally gave it up, good for you"

pcwares · 27-12-2005 05:39PM

cop on for yourself and get over yourself. Take part in it or dont. Title has been dealth with. Your about as perceptive as mo in the stoges, ya clownbag!

And ithink if a title draws more people to it like the honeypot effect then it makes for a more interesting resultant debate or view stance etc

hullaballoo · 27-12-2005 06:18PM

OsamaBinLaden wrote:

could you point out what it is that you find abhorrent in this thread.

You.

the_syco · 27-12-2005 06:34PM

rubadub wrote:

Sort of like the joke question "are you still riding dogs?", if you answer "no" the reply is "oh you finally gave it up, good for you"

Or you could answer "yes, yore ma...".

Oh, and elexes, PM me that joke about the epileptic badgers on smack, will ya?

Atrocity · 27-12-2005 06:59PM

I have a sick sense of humour and I find a lot of that stuff funny.

Fighting Irish · 27-12-2005 08:11PM

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Post reported (are the Mods gone till Jan the 3rd or something? :rolleyes: )

Disgraceful

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

pcwares · 27-12-2005 09:04PM

i know fighting irish but what ya going do ..some people pulpit bash their way through life. This is not in reference to one of the poster who was genuinely upset by this btw.

pcwares

Mossy Monk · 27-12-2005 09:43PM

PullMyFinger! wrote:

Post reported (are the Mods gone till Jan the 3rd or something? :rolleyes: )

Disgraceful

you post 3 minutes after OP and wonder why the thread is open?

Miss Fluff · 27-12-2005 10:03PM

Having worked with kids with special needs and mental and physical disabilities, I was massively tickled by a story related to me by a friend recently. A school nativity play was arranged in a special school recently where a child with Down's Syndrome, lets call him James, having difficulty learning his lines being given the part of Joseph was "demoted" to the part of Inn-Keeper. He was NOT happy. :mad: In front of a packed hall of proud parents, siblings and teachers, the Virgin Mary and the newly appointed Joseph came to the Inn and asked whether there was any room.....James replied, "There's plenty of room for Mary, but that Joseph can go F*CK OFF".....:D

elexes · 28-12-2005 12:15AM

Miss Fluff wrote:

Having worked with kids with special needs and mental and physical disabilities, I was massively tickled by a story related to me by a friend recently. A school nativity play was arranged in a special school recently where a child with Down's Syndrome, lets call him James, having difficulty learning his lines being given the part of Joseph was "demoted" to the part of Inn-Keeper. He was NOT happy. :mad: In front of a packed hall of proud parents, siblings and teachers, the Virgin Mary and the newly appointed Joseph came to the Inn and asked whether there was any room.....James replied, "There's plenty of room for Mary, but that Joseph can go F*CK OFF".....:D

lol class

Mossy Monk · 28-12-2005 12:26AM

Miss Fluff wrote:

Having worked with kids with special needs and mental and physical disabilities, I was massively tickled by a story related to me by a friend recently. A school nativity play was arranged in a special school recently where a child with Down's Syndrome, lets call him James, having difficulty learning his lines being given the part of Joseph was "demoted" to the part of Inn-Keeper. He was NOT happy. :mad: In front of a packed hall of proud parents, siblings and teachers, the Virgin Mary and the newly appointed Joseph came to the Inn and asked whether there was any room.....James replied, "There's plenty of room for Mary, but that Joseph can go F*CK OFF".....:D

lol. thats brilliant

Atrocity · 28-12-2005 01:04AM

I don't see how anyone could be surprised that this type of thread would cause offense; it's obviously going to upset people. As I said earlier, I have a sick and twisted sense of humour and the kind of things I find funny would upset and anger a lot of people. For that very reason I try to keep my humour to myself unless I'm in the company of someone who I know has a similar taste in jokes.

If there was a specific thread for sick jokes or politically incorrect jokes I would post there straight away, but I would be wary of starting such a thread or sharing my humour without being asked.

I think there are loads of people who find certain things funny that strictly speaking are wrong to laugh about or in bad taste. I am one of these people, and while I make no apologies for my taste in humour, I'll try not to inflict it on other people wherever possible.

FranknFurter · 28-12-2005 05:10AM

Hehehe.........Been following this thread with great interest and amusement.

(The only stuff that even comes close to offensive to me in it so far is the terminologies that have been used by some....."Wheelchair Bound"...."Handicapped"........."Invalid".....thought they had gone out with liza minelli *sigh)

Anyone here who knows me, (an there are quite a few lol), can verify I have "quite a few" disabilities

And yes, Im an electric wheelchair user with Spina-bifida, Multiple Sclerosis, epilepsy and asthma (tho i still smoke 20 a day hehe), as somone wiki'd recently, if there is a minority group I prolly am in it.

There is somthing Iv noticed over the years on this topic, the majority of PWD's (people with disabilities) seem to be of the opinion that if the person *making* the joke has a disability then it is *more* ok, than if not. Personally I dont agree, to me its more *how* its made.

Personally, if it makes me laugh, it makes me laugh. If It dosent then Ill say it dosent. If I dont have the balls to object if I want to, then I cant complain about the attitude of the joke-teller.

I tend to topple more towards the "screw political correctness, it originated from a great concept but (imho) has gone way overboard over the years", camp.

If somthing is obviously wrong, (as was refferred to earlier),like jokes about the holocaust, or priests / abuse, an such, or based on such things like the colour of somones skin, etc, then hell yeah, that is NOT accecptable, and I am perfectly capable of there an then making my opinions clear on it.

Of course, I can only speak for myself but, its not about anything other than the context the joke is told in,............For example, a friend of mine has emphysema (sp?), and in her presence I wouldnt (need to) think twice about making a quip such as "Eh wheezy, use yer inhaler"..... as I say, context.
And, on that, I spose I tend to think a joke, if made as a general lash at a particular disability, is *very* dodgy, whereas a joke about a particular person in their presence Is usually harmless fun. In the same way as I would slag a friend about being a blonde, or saying somthing funny unintentionally.

In a good natured, way.

Now, anyways..........

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A priest, a rabbi, a bishop, a transexual, a wheelchair user, a blonde, a homosexual & a epileptic walk into a bar.........................

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spanner · 28-12-2005 05:53AM

tonymontana wrote:

I was wathcing Ricky Gervais "Politics" over Christmas and he starts out by taking the piss out of disabled people, just wasn't funny, easiest thing to slag, doesn't show any genius or anything, and then he went on to the next easiest thing, gays, just turned it off, a load of sh*t.

I told like wise that it was not very funny, however I was watch the dvd in a friends house and if you go to the extras with the bit were he is interviewing his producer its hilarous
best bit of it

ronbyrne2005 · 28-12-2005 06:53AM

theres this mildly mentally impaired lad living in my area,he's about 13 looks a bit like the devil and he stands at the entrance to his estate and sticks his fingers up at everyone,i think he knows well what he's doing and trys to get away with everything,he goes into local shops with a couple of 5 cent pieces and trys to buy things costing far more than what he throws at the shop staff,he's hillarious!

nlgbbbblth · 28-12-2005 04:37PM

Re: the insult 'spastic'.

I've never seen a an actual spastic being called one - only able-bodied people who do/say something stupid (in the eyes of the person throwing the insult).

Why is this?

dbnavan · 28-12-2005 04:54PM

here's my tuppence worth.... I have cerebral palsy and I went to a 'Normal' school some of the students gave me a hard time especially as my second name was Browne and My left foot came out around the time. It got me down BIG TIME i even considered suacide because of it, then one night while watching TV I saw a comedian in a wheelchair on TV, to this day have no idea who she was, but she was making disabled jokes. It turned a key for me, you can cry or laugh about it. So I decided to laugh, next time i was slagged I said wait I have a better one then that......... The guy nearly sh*t himself cause he had no reponse for it.

It is like Eddie Murphy using the N word, he gets away with it cause he is Black,

On the other hand laughing at someone's disability just cause you can is just unitelligent, and ur the fool.

I recekon it all comes down to if the person sets out to cause offence, for instance my best friend would get away with alot more then a complete stranger would.

pcwares · 28-12-2005 05:05PM

Your strength of mind and character turned it around.

I know so many able bodied people who actually seem to enjoy being depressed and snivelling serial moaners about pretty irrelevant sh't. Hell i used to be one of them.

have you seen the film inside i'm dancing?..i have it in my dvd collection and will be watching this evening. two lads with muscular dystrophy escape from a home for the disabled..and get up to all manner of antic

dbnavan · 28-12-2005 05:08PM

pcwares wrote:

have you seen the film inside i'm dancing?

Yes I have, cant remember a film that made me laugh me so hard, it was excellent!!!

Why do people with disabilities make you laugh?

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