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    Gallows Type Humor

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    I didn't mean to offend. I thought it would lead to a thread like "dick moves" or "overheard in passing" but with things that have made you laugh in times of hardship, devestation, sorrow, frustration, etc. Maybe it was a bad example or not well written. I could provide a less intense example since I think the thread still has potential.

    When I was graduating high school there was a scholarship that I really wanted to win. They read off the list at graduation I was visibly devestated. Someone leaned over and said, "There's always next year.' It made me laugh and I felt better.

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    I usually don't start joke threads, but lately I've come to appreciate how funny Alzheimer's can be. My girlfriend Samantha's father has it and we've gotten some good laughs outta him. He's blind, so we have to guide him to the bathroom and sometimes, when he's especially disoriented, he'll ask, "Where are you taking me?" and we'll say, "The bathroom." And then he says, "Bathroom? But I have to go to the bathroom!" He's got this little watch that tells him what time it is, so sometimes, when he's in a very angry state, he'll be cursing everyone's name, and all you here is, "Fuck Ben, Fuck Samantha--the time is 5:00PM--Fuck you!" Gold!
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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    i agree, the mentally diminished are a great source of laffs


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    I love gallows humor, none of that is funny, Alzheimer's is a fucking tragedy, and that post made me feel uncomfortable.


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    In Keith's defense there may be some "laugh to prevent yourself from weeping uncontrollably" mechanism kicking in.


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    Mods: Please rename thread "Invitation to Sanctimony"
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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    What I am is Bipolar 1, currently in a manic phase. I do my fucking best.



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    I didn't mean to offend. I thought it would lead to a thread like "dick moves" or "overheard in passing" but with things that have made you laugh in times of hardship, devestation, sorrow, frustration, etc. Maybe it was a bad example or not well written. I could provide a less intense example since I think the thread still has potential.

    When I was graduating high school there was a scholarship that I really wanted to win. They read off the list at graduation I was visibly devestated. Someone leaned over and said, "There's always next year.' It made me laugh and I felt better.



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    Then can we please start a new thread, because i'm embarrassed for us both.



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    Quote Originally Posted by P-Dub View Post
    Then can we please start a new thread, because i'm embarrassed for us both.
    Don't be embarrassed. This thread so far is a testament to the AST community. Someone was offended and it didn't turn into a flame war!


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    A certain person I know is constantly getting cancer, and I make fun of him for it. I don't know how else to deal with difficult things in life. My wife's mom had a small stroke and we called her stroke tard for a while (after she said it about herself). I have always said that if I'm dying, I hope people make fun of me for it. Who wants to sit there dying while everyone treats you with kid gloves?
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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    EDIT YOUR FIRST POST BACK YOU FUCKING PUSSY

    FUCK YOU
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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    Quote Originally Posted by Jixby Phillips View Post
    EDIT YOUR FIRST POST BACK YOU FUCKING PUSSY

    FUCK YOU
    I can't listen to you and listen to you at the aane time!


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    One time I saw a headline on TV news program that said "WRONG DOG EUTHANIZED" and it made me laugh so much

    Q. Why did it make you laugh so?
    A1. It is a funny turn of phrase
    A2. It sounds like such a small-town headline. Like wow, a dog got killed? Slow news day right?
    A3. But fuck that. A dog getting killed for no reason is heart-breaking and terrible and genuinely makes me sad. But when the news is delivered to me via a muted television that reads "WRONG DOG EUTHANIZED"

    I tried to share all these thoughts by declaring it the "saddest Headline I've ever laughed at" on various social networking internet websites. It didn't work out well for me. What happened was the overly sensitive wrote at me like I was artlessly laughing a dog getting killed. This was followed by chowderheads telling me that I was awesome. For laughing at a dog getting killed. Everyone missed the point.

    ANYWAY, back to the original post: if somebody gets upset that you found something funny in the moment no matter how horrible it was, they should go get fucked and realize that it's their problem, not yours, that they're upset about it. I didn't get to see the post in question, mind you, and I do personally get annoyed with people when they delete their posts because whiny whiners whine about the content of it. Please, everyone, shut up! Shut up and get fucked! END OF STORYBOOK.
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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    Oh wait I actually have a story for this I guess I'll post.

    THE WORST THING I EVER LAUGHED AT:

    So, are you guys aware of Channel One News? It is (was?) a national news program with teenage hosts/reporters made specifically to show in classrooms before the morning announcements and to sell kids Mountain Dew and chewing gum and such. We used to actually get in trouble for doing homework or writing or anything while it was on.

    Well, one day a few years ago I was watching Anderson Cooper. It was apparently the anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, and Anderson was remembering it by showing a report he did from the scene back in 1994. At the time he was a reporter for Channel One News. The story starts with a bunch of terrible shots of death and destruction and young Anderson talking over it, then it cuts to him. He's wearing (and I'm positive my memory has embellished this but it's how I remember it) 90's "cool" grunge drag - flannel shirt and faded jeans - and he has big floppy 90's teenager hair.

    I completely lost my shit at this. As the report went on it started showing more of the tragedy and at one point he was standing next to literally a pile of dead Rwandans. This just made me laugh even harder. I lost it for a good five minutes and was telling myself to stop the entire time, but no such luck. Channel One News sent one of their cool teen reporters to stand next to a pile of dead Rwandans wearing instantly-dated, obviously trying-too-hard "cool" fashion. Although again, his clothes were probably less absurd then I'm remembering.

    THE SECOND WORST THING I EVER LAUGHED AT:

    Pictures of Chris Farley's corpse. I guess I just thought it was funny that I clicked on a link that said "pictures of Chris Farley's corpse" and sure enough, that's what it was. I don't know.

    Also, the way the first post was originally worded did sound kind of callous, even though I'm sure that wasn't the intention. Just saying.


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    I double-posted leave me alone



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    I put it back because Jixby is a true hero!



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    I want to see Anderson Cooper with grungewear!!!

    Edited: holy shit!
    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5lkNlOldnP...J%2B-%2Bm1.JPG

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    Last edited by smartbunny; September 24, 2012 at 7:14 AM. Reason: come as you are



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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    ahahaha Wow I guess my memory(yyyyyyyyy-ah) was right after all.


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    Re: Gallows Type Humor

    The first attempt at styling had Cooper in a Super Bowl Champion Buffalo Bills t-shirt.



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