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Original Message Date: 06-May-03 @ 12:28 AM - the force is strong with this one
Message 31/163 07-May-03 @ 05:43 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
This is where I step in. Being fat is not funny, and it's not always "their" fault. Imagine growing up you entire life, being picked on because you were fat. Taunting, name-calling, being beat-up, not having friends, all because you were fat. You didn't know why you were fat, you didn't overeat, and no matter how hard you tried to get thin, it just wouldn't happen. You grow up, build a tolerance, and you just deal with it. It doesn't matter how much talent you have, how beatiful your face is, or how amazing your personality is. No one cares about what a wonderful person you are, all they see is a fat person, and that stigma will never leave you. So, you hit your mid-twenties, still fat, and the doctors finally tell you that you have a disease, a disease caused by infertility and your body's confusion of how to work. So they say, hey, it's not your fault, it never was, it's not your fault you're fat! Well what to do next?? Sorry...you can take these pills to make your body work now, but it took to long to figure out. So, no children for you, and I'm sorry, you're still fat. FUCK YOU ALL who say it's funny and it's "their" fault. You haven't walked a step in anyone else's shoes. Have a little compassion for chrissakes for people who might be different from you. Please........ the fact that this argument is even here, makes me want to puke.
Trills
Message 32/163 07-May-03 @ 05:48 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
misfortune is funny. somebody else's misfortune is even funnier. this poor kid has the misfortune to end up being laughed at for his crap lightsabering. that's funnier still.
everything is funny. sex, life and death are funny. everything in between as well. except steve, he's not funny at all.
Message 33/163 07-May-03 @ 05:56 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
its just...well..there are clearly some of us here who feel like theyve been hindered by social ridicule, and that is NOT funny.
Message 34/163 07-May-03 @ 06:02 PM Edit: 07-May-03 | 06:06 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
Its always easier to say "its their own fault", isn't it? Making oneself feel better about being a loser whose self-esteem rests upon deriding others is an important character trait to develop when one has decided to become a tool. Perhaps being a tool is a genetic defect as well and the world should have some compassion....? Oh wait, lets just ridicule the tools. That's it! Hmmmm being a tool, wanker, as$#ole, cu@t, spineless coward, etc., is something to be made fun of. Of course, I have a theory that the wankers of the world end up being ridiculed in their old age by kids the likes of themselves.
Puerile name calling has made me feel better now, thanks.
Dharma is real. I've had the pleasure of seeing it in action.
Message 35/163 07-May-03 @ 06:18 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
Laughing directly at pain, in an existential way is valid... of course it's all funny (death, pain, happiness...), hell what's funny is that ANY of us take ANYTHING seriously. But I suspect those who laugh at this kid are not taking that tact... in fact, i suspect it's more of a "glad it's not me" approach... which makes the laughter sad as well.
Monty Python did a great sketch once on the village idiot... it was hilarious... but in reality, when confronted with this brand of disfunction (or rather, just... difference) how funny is it? If you're laughing at other people's misfotune, you're an ass...
You surely doon't need me to tell you guys that!
Mick, careful with that word, you sound like a religious nut! hehehe
e
Message 36/163 07-May-03 @ 06:22 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
But if you are going to restrict yourself to not lauging at anyone who may have some sort of condition or problem, what the fuck are we going to laugh at? "Hey! you shouldn't laugh at that kid who just ran into a glass door! He may have eyesight problems" or "Now don't tell me you just laughed when that dude busted ass during the silent prayer at church, he may have rectal-discharge syndrome" no, not gonna work well.
Message 37/163 07-May-03 @ 06:31 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
and I suspect you know it... it's simple misfortunes you're on about... unavoidables. That's SLAPSTICK, this isn't. I'm not saying, "Don't laugh the things that happen to people"... I'[m saying,
"You're an asshole when you laugh at the person and not the event!"
If I hit my head on a branch, It's funny. And we'll laugh together. If I hit my head on a branch and you call me a graceless idiot, we'll have a problem!
Can you see the difference?
e
Message 38/163 07-May-03 @ 07:12 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
but why should you care, asshole? you'll always need someone to take the jobs you wouldn't, so just demean everyone you can to fill those slots.
hand up your ass, monkey-puppet.
Message 39/163 07-May-03 @ 08:28 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
LOL!
Where do you come up with this stuff. Xoxos, you really remind me of a guitar player, Palmer, I worked with in Orlando, FL. An infuriatingly caustic wit with a disturbingly keen eye for absurd irony and senselessness. A maddeningly incomprehensible human being sometimes.
I miss the guy. His GF offed herself and I never heard from him again after he related the story to me over the phone.
By the way, did you just agree with me?!?!?!
Does this mean we're on "speaking terms" again? Do I have to, like, be nice to you an' shit?
Message 40/163 07-May-03 @ 08:49 PM - RE: the force is strong with this one
you too influx, social ridicule isn't funny.
and you old mick.
i hope this poor kid can laugh at himself later on in life.
btw errata, you're a graceless idiot.
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