Re: OT:Thanksgiving



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Pete Dashwood wrote:
****> Well, Peter, at least he has a sense of humour... :-)

Paranoics, Manic-Depressives, and democrats were sent forth to work
their
insults upon the masses.


We take it, then, that Democrats are all paranoics and/or
manic-depressives?

***> I think it was a joke... (hope so :-)). Anyway, it made me smile...

Republicans have to rely on the Roe Effect, but that takes
generations.

No Republican woman ever has had or ever will have an abortion?


Whatever else HeyBub may be, he has demonstrated through long time posts
here that he is not venomous. In fact, some of his posts are the most
entertaining I find here.

I think this is a case where you took it a bit too literally, Peter.


Concerning the above remarks, originally made by Heybub, and approved by
P.
Dashwood:

I find it significant that Heybub thought it necessary to claim he was
joking. If he'd been making fun of HIMSELF I might have found it so, too,
but he wasn't. If his entire posting is meant to be funny, I can't find a
single line in it that comes across as anything but nasty.

That reflects more on you than it does on him, Peter.

He only claimed he was joking AFTER you took his comments seriously.

His entire post was not a joke, but there were parts that were. Venomous it
wasn't.

Did you seriously think HeyBub thinks that all Democrats are insane?
It is the juxtaposition of these ideas which makes it amusing.


There's a certain kind of personality that finds offensive things funny if
they are directed at someone else.

Not me. And I don't think HeyBub does either. Sometimes people are easily
offended, and sometimes offence is taken where none was intended.

Turn the remarks against them and their
best response is a wounded plea: I just meant it as a joke. Such persons
find bullying and actual abuse amusing if it's aimed at people or groups
that they don't like.

I'll remind everybody that a while ago I was roundly panned in this
newsgroup for suggesting that most humour consists of MAKING FUN of
someone
else.

Ah, now I see the source of your sensitivity...:-)

I don't recall the "panning" you refer to but I'd agree that SOME humour can
consist of making fun of people and situations. In general, this is not the
best source of humour and most posters here would avoid it. (That's probably
why there was general disagreement with your point.) Most of us give and
take personal ribbing from friends and colleagues PROVIDED it is not "meant
to wound".

Heybub's remarks, if intended that way, make a classic example.


The key point here is "if intended"...

Perhaps you gents could analyze the original posting and tell me and other
joking-challenged persons which sentences are meant to be funny and which
are meant to be factual.

Well, I was tempted to do exactly that, but there isn't much point; for the
most part, a joke explained is a joke that's lost.


I am indeed from Canada; we regard the US as a demented older uncle. We
shudder at the ignorance of its leadership. We console ourselves with the
thought that said leadership reflects its contituents.

And you don't think that's offensive?

Whether I agree with you or not :-), the difference here is that you are
lashing out as a reaction to perceived offence, and your statement is meant
to wound. See the difference?

I know very well from your previous posts here that you are not vitriolic by
nature, but now you have been stung and are posting stuff that you wouldn't
normally. You can save yourself some irritation and anger if you don't rise
to HeyBub's (or anyone else's...) bait quite so readily.

It was not meant to wound, Peter.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."




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