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I have been told by many that I have a dark sense of humor at times :-)
I have rarely been voted down; but, I have been voted down in a humorous discussion which is both sad and amusing in a dark way "-)
I enjoyed the satire of Jonathan Swift and National Lampoon while I was growing up. In the military in the 1970's and 1980's dark humor was common in the Combat Engineer and Infantry units I served with. I realize not everybody likes dark humor.
The Humor topic seems to be focused on light humor. I think that dark humor is appropriate to politics, current events, ancient calamity, etc. Dark humor should not be a place to insult RallyPoint members or political figures.
Do you think the Humor - Dark topic group should be established?
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I have rarely been voted down; but, I have been voted down in a humorous discussion which is both sad and amusing in a dark way "-)
I enjoyed the satire of Jonathan Swift and National Lampoon while I was growing up. In the military in the 1970's and 1980's dark humor was common in the Combat Engineer and Infantry units I served with. I realize not everybody likes dark humor.
The Humor topic seems to be focused on light humor. I think that dark humor is appropriate to politics, current events, ancient calamity, etc. Dark humor should not be a place to insult RallyPoint members or political figures.
Do you think the Humor - Dark topic group should be established?
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Don't we already have a group devoted to dark humor? It's called "politics" isn't it?
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LTC Stephen Ford, Sir humor is humor. That's the way I see it. If ya don't like it don't read it......
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LTC Stephen F.
I was critiqued by RallyPoint for tagging Humor in some serious political discussions I started SGT Neil Chandler. That is why I think having a dark humor group would allow us to post what used to be called Black humor without offending those who are more thin skinned. :-)
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I think the dark humor group should be established. We could tag that group for political, tragic events, world news and other groups that conventional humor would not seem appropriate for many :-)
I remember the Black Death nurse rhymes like "Ring-a-round the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down" which children repeat while being clueless about what they mean.
I remember the Black Death nurse rhymes like "Ring-a-round the rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down" which children repeat while being clueless about what they mean.
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According to some of the post on RP, we do have a dark side, it's called the The Officers Corps, naturally, I think of it as the lightside. Very much needed in the corps.:-))
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CPT (Join to see) Well, you know what they say. What do they say and who is "they".
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LTC Stephen F. The humor depicting an aircraft carrier fitted with a golf course was strongly objected to and one of my posts was jerked. I wonder if the Benny Hill approach to subletly is too subtle.. lol
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LTC Stephen F. Well if Quarks were Quirks, would Quirks be Quarks and would they not cancel each out? CPT L S PO2 Ed C.
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LTC Stephen F.
SSgt (Join to see) - it would depend on their colors since Quarks were referred to by color. That being said I doubt if Quarks would "organize" at the sub-atomic level to form a rainbow :-)
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SSgt (Join to see) - I do remember Your post on the Golf course on the aircraft carrier, I didn't see anything wrong with the post. It also seemed to Me it pointed out one Chief Executives misplacement of His priorities as to what was important and watering down Dept of Defenses needs and expenditures while He was more concerned with things that that either were not important to Him or misplaced focus. Seems that the Liberal left objects to anything that doesn't represent their "Hero" in the light they want Him depicted but its ok for them to do that to others they choose not to worship. It seems to Me Your Freedom of Speech and expression was imposed upon. You failed to comply with the guidelines as to what You can and can't express in the view of others Who are there to control what You can and cannot say as determined by them.
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LTC Stephen F.
I expect that you too were a fan of Gary Larson's Far Side Sgt David G Duchesneau :-)
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
Yes Colonel I was! And I too agree with Sgt Neil Chandler that if you don't like it, just don't read it! Like I always say, WTF-Over?
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LTC Stephen F. - the most amazing thing in life or one of them is the fact through difference perspectives (dark humor) we learn stuff about us and the world.
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Sgt David G Duchesneau - and for the life of me, I do not get that some people do not get that.
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Voted yes. I think most of us in the military have some dark funny bones. Coping mechanism.
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