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Post by patty on Sept 20, 2020 6:05:44 GMT
Got to honest,this just said it all to me.Total,utter tw*t! Photo sharing more important than sense. Of course its idiotic but did you laugh? I didn't..I felt shock at the stupidity.
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Post by patty on Sept 20, 2020 6:09:30 GMT
When I went to Pulpits Rock in Norway I was sickened by the idiots doing star jumps for photo opportunities on the edge. I didn't see the need to queue to have the photo opportunity on the edge.. I was quite happy with the safe place I chose....
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 20, 2020 6:17:50 GMT
When I went to Pulpits Rock in Norway I was sickened by the idiots doing star jumps for photo opportunities on the edge. I didn't see the need to queue to have the photo opportunity on the edge.. I was quite happy with the safe place I chose.... A gust of wind as you jump is all it takes. You can clearly hear his mates laughing in this clip. You can just feel it hurt!
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 20, 2020 6:21:09 GMT
Anyway... here's a joke that will make kids laugh:
Farmer comes home after a day out in the fields and sees his wife bending over at the stove and sneaks up behind her and puts his hands around her pendulous bosoms.
"If you had four of these, we wouldn't need the cow," he says.
Wife spins round and grabs his cock and says, "And if you had two of these we wouldn't need the farmhand!!"
As it's a Sunday, there may be vicars who'll slip that into the Sunday Service sermon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 7:52:08 GMT
The current trend to view everything through a phone lens is quite strange ... I've been to concerts and seen people watching through their phone rather than living the experience ... art galleries where people stand with their back to the paintings and view them through their screen ... it's almost as if the moment cannot have happened unless there's a record of it.
Fashions change ... I'm just old fashioned.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 8:13:56 GMT
It is funny.
I saw a young couple, both looked rather attractive specially the female (to me) they were walking along in a nice place in lovely weather both staring at phone screens.
Romance is not dead. Maybe they were texting each other.
I do it but then I spend a lot of time alone which is my MO.
Apparently humans will become generally short-sighted over time.
I keep telling my kids they don't want to do this. For my generation it's a novelty toy but for them I sincerely hope the excitement wears off.
I hardly ever take pictures, I can remember things well enough (for now !)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 8:32:56 GMT
I never did take pictures ... but now when I see a cool boat, a bridge, an oddity I shout for Jane to take a photo for thunderboat I blame you @magnetman ... I didn't know how to post photos until you intervened Rog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 9:46:57 GMT
fork 'andles straight off the top and I can think of quite a few shaggy dog jokes but they're too long to be arsed to type out. I agree with dogless ..... some but a long way from all The four candles joke is funny because the viewer finds the frustration of both of them amusing. The snowman joke is funny because the snowman is a dope. And I think you are kidding yourselves. Pounds to peanuts if you took a survey of those who read the story of the girl falling from a car you would find the vast majority would have laughed. Incidentally the bodies at the cliff report would have been funny if another had come down while they were there. Jokes are about the 'other guy' who in some way isn't as good as the teller of the joke. Mostly. The pie in the face is the oldest gag in the world. Rowan Atkinson retired from comedy when he decided to make a fortune playing a complete idiot. All he had to do was pull a stupid face. That character is recognised across the globe and you don't need to speak English to get it.
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Post by patty on Sept 20, 2020 10:08:32 GMT
I never did take pictures ... but now when I see a cool boat, a bridge, an oddity I shout for Jane to take a photo for thunderboat I blame you @magnetman ... I didn't know how to post photos until you intervened Rog I take pictures to illustrate the blogs, the little books I write, for on here, to send to the kids and my old friend in Scotland wants some to paint...he's more or less housebound and I help to be the window in his world.. For me they serve as lovely reminders of where I been and what I've seen. I very often cull loads as daughter sorted 'cloud storage which I subsequently locked myself out of...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 10:08:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 10:11:08 GMT
Other people's misfortune, misery, or just bad luck - its the basis of nearly all humour (with the exception of children's humour). The Germans even have a word for it - schadenfreude. Does anybody know a joke which doesn't rely on having fun at somebody's expense? Its not as easy as you might think. I'd say most jokes/humour are based upon peoples differences, not necessarily at someones expense. Often poking fun at the differences. When the jokes/humour do/does aim to be at someones expense then that is where judgement/sensitivities start coming into play.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 10:53:30 GMT
Differences and misunderstandings ... I agree.
To say 'laughing at other's misfortunes is the basis of NEARLY ALL HUMOUR' just simply isn't true.
Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Sept 20, 2020 11:49:10 GMT
Got to honest,this just said it all to me.Total,utter tw*t! Photo sharing more important than sense. "A Kazakhstan woman reportedly was killed Sunday after plummeting more than 100 feet off a cliff in Turkey while posing for a photo to commemorate the end of the local coronavirus lockdown. To mark the end of quarantine, the adventurer scaled a safety barrier so her friend could snap her standing on the cliff’s edge. Her celebratory photo op went south when she slipped on the grass and plunged 115 feet to her death in front of her horrified companion." nypost.com/2020/04/30/woman-falls-to-death-while-shooting-selfie-to-celebrate-end-of-lockdown/A 21-year-old tourist from England died over the weekend when she fell off a cliff in Australia while taking a selfie. There are signs in the area warning people to stay away from the edge of the cliff. "My daughter was not self-obsessed she was a wonderful beautiful person that made a mistake,” her mother wrote, "She believed in universal oneness" people.com/human-interest/madalyn-davis-dies-australia-selfie-cliff/New 'idiotic' trend feared at Norway's Trolltunga. Last week, Swedish tourist Sarah Persson saw a group of climbers flirting with death in the quest for a perfect selfie. The climbers, who turned out to be British tourists, used straps to help one man dangle from Trolltunga as he took his photo with a selfie stick. “It’s idiotic behaviour. You can fall and die; it’s that simple,” Soldal said. Persson told The Local that others at Trolltunga could hardly believe their eyes. www.thelocal.no/20160927/new-idiotic-trend-spotted-at-norways-trolltunga 'Universal oneness' Is that the result of a socialist focus group, having decided that the word 'socialist' is now toxic?
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 20, 2020 11:57:48 GMT
Differences and misunderstandings Vincent Van Gogh once painted my front room. I asked for a lovely shade of natural hessian I'd spotted at B&Q. What I got was more of a pale magnolia. NEVER AGAIN I TELL YOU!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 12:00:26 GMT
Differences and misunderstandings ... I agree. To say 'laughing at other's misfortunes is the basis of NEARLY ALL HUMOUR' just simply isn't true. Rog Perhaps you are right and that 'laughing at other's misfortunes' is a bit too narrow a definition. Maybe 'laughing at the other guy' is more accurate. You haven't come up with a joke that disproves the theory, and as Ross has so predictably demonstrated, for every one example you can find that defends your position I can find ten to the contrary. At least. Its all about making the other guy look bad. Nation, football club, religion, politics - you name it. This a favourite joke: Two students are smoking a joint. One says 'Hey man, turn the radio on'. The other says 'Hey radio, I love you'.
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