Is society getting more and more sensitive?

[Night Fox]

"haha 5% of the world died from spanish flu!"
"omg lol more than half of the humans that existed died from malaria lmao"

neither of those are jokes so of course they're not funny

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OP something tells me you browse tumblr regularly

[Funkadelic]

neither of those are jokes so of course they're not funny

just an example, but if you want to nitpick that's okay.
What I'm saying is that when you make a joke, there are limits.

[Funkadelic]

yes it is
it's different if they make a personal joke relating to the death of one of your loved ones specifically but I doubt that it often the case
death is something that happens to everybody and if you can't handle jokes about it you need to stop spending time on the internet

9/11/2001 was almost twelve years ago, get over it. it was a terrible thing to happen, but it's been way too long for people to continue to get offended about it

oh and sorry i got offended by something horrifying i went through lol. sorry i'm not on the make fun of thousands dead bandwagon that you guys are on

[_Rave_]

is this because i took offense to the way you spoke about grieving for 9/11

i wasn't pissed because people told jokes, humor is final step in overcoming pain.  i was pissed because you said that it wasn't worth remembering

[Funkadelic]

i think night fox and op should tell this to the children whose fathers and mothers died in 9/11

[Vortex]

yes it is
it's different if they make a personal joke relating to the death of one of your loved ones specifically but I doubt that it often the case
death is something that happens to everybody and if you can't handle jokes about it you need to stop spending time on the internet

9/11/2001 was almost twelve years ago, get over it. it was a terrible thing to happen, but it's been way too long for people to continue to get offended about it

I'm sorry but /this/ is out of line.

You think it's funny that thousands of people died for going to work?  That's funny to you?

It's funny that firefighters risked lives to save people, knowing what they were going into?  It's funny that families are scarred to this day because they lost all kinds of relatives that day?

It's funny that America was attacked on home ground for one of the only times in history?  That people jumped from windows to fall to death because jet fuel was going to burn them alive?

If you think that's funny, you're the definition of a psychopath, you're a sick forget.  That's exactly what you are.  Dark humor is one thing, stating a tragedy to no longer be a tragedy and that it should be seen in different light is forgeted up.

Jokes are one thing, you don't have to agree with a joke for it to be funny, what you just said.  That's forgeted up.

[Funkadelic]

^^

[Caribou]

A joke isn't something you make about a serious event like 9/11 or the Holocaust or about an event where thousands or even millions died for nothing.

[Blockzillahead]

OP something tells me you browse tumblr regularly

No, what makes you say that?

i think night fox and op should tell this to the children whose fathers and mothers died in 9/11

And no this thread isn't towards you, it's in general. I've already said if you lost family or someone close, feel free to get offended or mourn, otherwise you can forget off. And that's to people who whine about 9/11 who weren't even there or cared about it until the media or other people told them to. I wasn't telling you to forget off because you were there, hence why my posts weren't replies to you, I just ignored you because I had no fight with you.

[JPSC]

neither of those are jokes so of course they're not funny

neither is 9/11

it happened 12 years ago, so? the lives that were lost in the tragedy won't ever be returned.

[Night Fox]

sorry i'm not on the make fun of thousands dead bandwagon that you guys are on

wtf are you talking about

i think night fox and op should tell this to the children whose fathers and mothers died in 9/11

tell them what...?

You think it's funny that thousands of people died for going to work?  That's funny to you?

no, but good jokes about it can be

Jokes are one thing, you don't have to agree with a joke for it to be funny, what you just said.  That's forgeted up.

dunno what this means

/this/

also there is bbc for italics

implying 9/11 is a funny joke

9/11 isn't a joke period

[Isolation]

Society getting more sensitive? No.

For Christ's sake you have girls walking around with their tits in your face half the time and no one says a thing. 50 years ago if you were Frankie Boyle or made a joke about the Jews or Cancer - you'd get your head kicked in. Society is FAR more acclimatised to touchy subjects nowadays - the only reason we're sensitive to subjects such as Islam is if we slag them off we get our children blown up in a car bomb.  Seriously, just go outside and look at some of the puns in advertisements. There's so much innuendo etc around us that no one even takes not of.

[The Resonte!]

Society getting more sensitive? No.

For Christ's sake you have girls walking around with their tits in your face half the time and no one says a thing. 50 years ago if you were Frankie Boyle or made a joke about the Jews or Cancer - you'd get your head kicked in. Society is FAR more acclimatised to touchy subjects nowadays - the only reason we're sensitive to subjects such as Islam is if we slag them off we get our children blown up in a car bomb.  Seriously, just go outside and look at some of the puns in advertisements. There's so much innuendo etc around us that no one even takes not of.

[Jairo]

itt people getting touchy over old news