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Originally Posted by Sparrow
A newspaper cartoon on Stephen Hawking's illness asked 'Have they tried switching him off and on again?"
That's a bad taste joke in my book because it is about an actual person who is suffering.
Happily Stephen Hawking is expected to make a full recovery. |
But this is not really a sick person joke. It's a computer joke. Non-computer people wouldn't understand it and would probably be offended.
Several years ago when my father died, I had to be very careful about what I said. I tend to deal with adversity by using humor. I only had one friend with whom I could talk about his death freely (i.e. making jokes). About a year later his father died & I was the only one he could talk to freely without offending someone.
Another time I told my daughter a sacreligious joke. She's religious but I'm not. She burst out laughing but the next day she asked me to not tell her such jokes. She thought it was
very funny but felt she shouldn't have laughed at it. Interesting.
