You really don't understand the concept of black humor, do you.
It helps people vent and carry on when news is tragic, disasterous or frightening. This natural instinct is as old as mankind.
Uptight, holier-than-thou people don't like black humor one bit.
Leni
I wonder what a thread would be like if a relative of a FReeper who happened to be a journalist was wounded or killed in a combat zone?
Uptight, holier-than-thou people don't like black humor one bit.
Those types would hate to hear us over here. The gallows humor is thick. It is woven into our common conversations.
Those without the ability to "get" or appreciate black humor do not last here. I've seen it - they get easily freaked and end up going home.
Too bad you see politeness and good manners as “uptight and holier-than-thou.”
Black humor is supposed to be funny. The crass comments on this thread are not.
I live among conservative people who know how to laugh and who live with good cheer. They would never say these hateful things.
A legitimate philosophy or point-of-view that can’t be stated with civility diminishes the argument.
And, on a personal level, I simply don’t want to be associated with rudeness.