People can't take a joke any more

Donstar · July 21, 2019

I often make sarcastic comments to exaggerate a compliment or to make a correction. I often tell my wife she is the most beautiful woman in the world or the world's best mom. Tone is important and so is your audience. My father was a master at the art of sarcasm. I remember when I was 13 and I did something significantly worthy of extreme parental reprimand. My father was not shy to give harsh consequences so I thought for sure I'd be seeing stars. The moment arrived for his wrath to be unleashed. He walked up to me, stared at me and said, "I'm sure proud of you son". He then walked away and nothing more was said on this subject. This incident happened before the first footprint on the moon and I remember it like it happened yesterday! His words still resonate with me long after he passed away. I often measure accomplishments by asking myself if my father would be proud!

Colossus · July 21, 2019

2 hours ago, KARNUT said:

I wonder how Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, George Carlin would think?

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Who are they?

KARNUT · July 21, 2019

Who are they?

The best in comedy ever, and not politically correct.

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Colossus · July 21, 2019

hmm thanks. I may have to look them up.

Donstar · July 21, 2019

2 hours ago, KARNUT said:

The best in comedy ever, and not politically correct.

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Pryor and Carlin are up there on my list. I wasn't much of a fan of Rickles comedy.

KARNUT · July 21, 2019

Pryor and Carlin are up there on my list. I wasn't much of a fan of Rickles comedy.

Jeff Dunham is my favorite now. Talk about political incorrectness. But he picks on every one, like Don Rickles.

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Donstar · July 21, 2019

36 minutes ago, KARNUT said:

Jeff Dunham is my favorite now. Talk about political incorrectness. But he picks on every one, like Don Rickles.

Jeff is pretty tame. Bubba, Walter and friends can be a little outspoken!

Grumpy Bear · July 22, 2019

10 hours ago, KARNUT said:

I wonder how Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, George Carlin would think?

About what? The feelings of their targets? Just a guess but pretty sure they didn't care as long as they were making money.

Wife and I were at one of Carlin's last shows. Joliet. 1/3 of the audience got up an left with him yelling FU at us at the top of his lungs as we left.

His target that night was parents whose children had committed suicide. How he thought that their grief should be exploited is beyond comprehension. He should have quit with 'Seven Dirty Words". Ya know, when he was actually funny.

KARNUT · July 22, 2019

About what? The feelings of their targets? Just a guess but pretty sure they didn't care as long as they were making money.

Wife and I were at one of Carlin's last shows. Joliet. 1/3 of the audience got up an left with him yelling FU at us at the top of his lungs as we left.

His target that night was parents whose children had committed suicide. How he thought that their grief should be exploited is beyond comprehension. He should have quit with 'Seven Dirty Words". Ya know, when he was actually funny.

I could have done with out the profanity. You usually knew what you were getting into. One slip today you’re done. Instead of it being called a bad night. People in the spot light today are being judged by something said 20 years ago. Tom Jones singing she’s a lady at a college. He probably wouldn’t make it out alive. People are too quick and angry these days. We need to lighten up. One man kneels and points to the sky, run him out of football. Another kneels during the national anthem, he’s a hero and gets richer. Backwards.

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Grumpy Bear · July 22, 2019

That we can agree on. Over sensitive and insensitive will have a hard time in the same room. The world is getting more and more divided. Agree on that as well. BTW I wasn't condoning 'Seven Dirty Words" I was pointing out humor doesn't have to have a target and chose that one as it is popular and was most likely to be recognized.

Donstar · July 22, 2019

When I think of Carlin I think of hippie dippie weatherman skits. I may not find it funny today but I recall enjoying him in the context of my age and norms in the 70's. I'm fascinated with the number of documentaries celebrating the 50th of Apollo 11. The snippets of footage and information describing the political, technological and social environment of the time makes me question whether we are in a better or worse place. We can easily list improvements in areas like technology, medicine etc. but were we any less divided in the 60's?

Grumpy Bear · July 22, 2019

3 hours ago, Donstar said:

When I think of Carlin I think of hippie dippie weatherman skits. I may not find it funny today but I recall enjoying him in the context of my age and norms in the 70's. I'm fascinated with the number of documentaries celebrating the 50th of Apollo 11. The snippets of footage and information describing the political, technological and social environment of the time makes me question whether we are in a better or worse place. We can easily list improvements in areas like technology, medicine etc. but were we any less divided in the 60's?

Ah the "Good Old Days".....well.....me thinks they are old for sure..... Does close count?

Cosby isn't so popular today but before the light was turned on in his closet he was. His actions didn't make his comedy less funny now or then. NOAH is still one the makes my sides hurt. No PC required during one of his performances. What a command of the microphone. People of every shape, size and color laughed at Fat Albert.

"Jerry" Clower and the Coon Hunt is a masterpiece of comedy that offends no one.

MaverickZ71 · July 23, 2019

This all relates to a concept known as Emotional Intelligence.

There is far less intelligence per person today in America than there was 60 years ago. Not convinced? Go watch Jay Leno's 'jaywalk' videos on YouTube. Today's high school graduates can tell you everything the Kardashian clowns have tweeted in the last 5 years, but cannot identify the North American continent on a world map, tell you who the current Vice President of the United States is, tell time on an analog clock, or make change if their computerized cash register is down.

So if you remove the 'intelligence' quotient from Emotional Intelligence, all you have left is uneducated, overly-emotional people who never outgrew their toddler temper-tantrums. Animals who increasingly think it's fashionable to get butthurt over everything and scream their outrage over issues they have no clue on, mainly because too many of them have nothing to do except live in their parents' basement, and some ignorant entertainer or MSNBC or Jerry Springer suggested it was cool to act this way. In the end, it's just all a part of their efforts to draw maximum attention to their pitiful selves. All the while we have to hustle around them to work 2 jobs to try to better ourselves and our country, not to mention paying the welfare to carry their dead weight.

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KARNUT · July 23, 2019

It’s our fault mostly. I worked since I was 12. Married at 18. I said like every parent of my time my kids aren’t going to work like I did. The whole country started catering towards the kid, everything geared toward their entertainment because both parents worked and felt guilty. We shoved games in their face took them to stupid non intelligence movies. Mostly we’re too busy to play with them. The ones that do want everyone to get a trophy. So no one has a reason to excel. My recently graduated 18 year old grandson is in no hurry to drive. Even though I have a car waiting for him. He’s not a bad kid. He gets his entertainment from his computer. If he wants to go any where he’s got Uber. He says he wants the summer to be a kid. He get in gear come fall. We’ll see.

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Donstar · July 24, 2019

Sixty years ago my parents had a lot to say about the youth of the day. Some of the comparisons were different but generally the same type of skepticism. My grandchildren's' reliance on electronic entertainment can be annoying but they are sure good at troubleshooting problems on my computer! I more often see things as different rather than worse. When I was the age of my grandson, I could find and replace the faulty tube in a television set. My grandsons don't even know what I'm talking about when I tell them this story. I don't know how they can go through life not knowing which tube to replace!