So as most or many of you may have heard, there was an attack at the Boston Marathon yesterday that resulted in deaths and many injuries to many people. And because it was such an awful attack, the internet started to flood with jokes belittling the situation.
In general, I find "Too Soon?" jokes rather funny because I have no class. So from holocaust jokes to tasteless assassination jokes or even natural disaster jokes, I tend to find the humour in them and not get offended. Again, because I have no class.
However, I realize many people are in fact, much more sensitive and respectful to these kinds of things. But the thing is, certain things trigger our "woah, too far/soon" jokes. For my one friend, she will laugh at anything, unless it involves rape. She says there is nothing funny about rape. Abortion, racism, sexism, fine, but not rape.
I used to think there were no boundaries for me, until my one friend made a joke about the death of a friend's father. Not a hypothetical death if the person were still living like "oh last time I saw him he was in the middle of the road, dead" (no that's not a joke, that's just an example), which my one friend finds SUPER offensive (joking that her still-living family is gonna die), but her father had actually passed away suddenly. From perfectly fine to dead in two weeks (Hanta Virus) and even I thought that that was out of line.
So what about you? Are you sensitive to jokes? Or do you feel they're just jokes? Do you have no boundaries or maybe just a personal one? Bestiality, pedophilia, tentacle porn, mental handicaps, I'm like "meh". But one does NOT joke about the death of a family member!
tl;dr: What type of jokes are always out of line?
Boggy
