Please Scrap the Jokes, Links & Levity Section

[Sac_mec (imported)]

Earlier today I looked at the "New Posts" section and it lead to a link on the Jokes etc board. This particular one was a funny on the politics of Howard Dean ( a name no-one outside the USA knows anyway, now).

The content of the joke contained displayed an anti Canadian side swipe.

I loathe humour which is used to hide or mask hostile feelings and reactions.

Comedy should be a vehicle to make you laugh and lighten your heart, it should never be used to laugh "at a group". Among close friends we can use humour to "laugh at ourselves" and that is very different.

Please drop the term "anything goes" and better still for the integrity of this excellent site, please remove this scar on our face.

A hyperlink to a joke website can be made and more importantly the chatroom can be a great place for shared fun and laughter amongst ourselves and on theme.

I am asking that the Jokes Section be removed. Do you agree?

[incuse (imported)]

Earlier today I looked at the "New Posts" section and it lead to a link on the Jokes etc board. This particular one was a funny on the politics of Howard Dean ( a name no-one outside the USA knows anyway, now).

The content of the joke contained displayed an anti Canadian side swipe.

I loathe humour which is used to hide or mask hostile feelings and reactions.

Comedy should be a vehicle to make you laugh and lighten your heart, it should never be used to laugh "at a group". Among close friends we can use humour to "laugh at ourselves" and that is very different.

Please drop the term "anything goes" and better still for the integrity of this excellent site, please remove this scar on our face.

A hyperlink to a joke website can be made and more importantly the chatroom can be a great place for shared fun and laughter amongst ourselves and on theme.

I am asking that the Jokes Section be removed. Do you agree?

I normally skip over a lot of stuff in the jokes section granted, because some of them don't seem funny to me.

Your post seems disturbing though, so Im going to reply and hopefully it wont break out into a fire on politics.

My friends and I are always making fun of jews. Not sure why they come up so often, but they do. Now, I personally dont know any jews, but if one were around to listen to our comments on these people, I would hope that they would have a good set of jokes regarding the white man or s/he would teach us that our views on jews are wrong and set us straight. I try to teach tolerance in everything I do. If I dont like something, as long as it doesnt DIRECTLY involve me, I give my own comments, maybe, on the subject or I stay out. When I say DIRECTLY, I mean direct as in, the Canandian Sac_mec, not a canadian in general.

Apparently people like the Joke's section, otherwise it wouldnt be used. I notice a lot of times the views on a partcuilar thread in jokes are sometimes high. so it must be worthwhile.

I don't think anything should be changed. Learn tolerance of other people and if you can't learn that, teach people how there views need changing. Personally, I practice both tolerance and trying to teach understanding.

Odd how this http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=4635 got posted and no women started the same comments you have.

[Dave (imported)]

I actually like the humor boards and the deep dark cellar. I think humor is a good release for the tensions of the day.

I voted to keep them...

[Bboy]

I definately think there is a place for boards like the J,L&L section. It provides an outlet for people and keeps off topic discussion (semi) contained in an area where at least you KNOW it's likely to be irreverant.

[colin (imported)]

No, don't scrap it.

There will always be someone who can find offence in the most innocent of remarks and who will take a 'put down' very seriously. All I can say is that they must be very sad people.

Politicians, have no one but themselves to blame if they become the butt of someones humour. I believe, that originally, the person mentioned was Billy Graham or, if not him some other fundamentalist evangelist.

If people find the section offensive, then they do not have to read it.

LOL

[Christina (imported)]

I vote to keep the section. I enjoy reading a good joke. I do hope that people don't take them as a personal attack towards any ethnic or racial slander. I, for one, would miss then should they be removed.

[talula]

No. This is a good thing.

[Slammr (imported)]

By my count, my vote makes it 8-1 to retain the board

[Andrew (imported)]

But every now and then I get this URGE to write a godawful shaggy dog story capped by an atrocious pun. Where else could I publish it besides here and in alt.callahans?

[radar (imported)]

But every now and then I get this URGE to write a godawful shaggy dog story capped by an atrocious pun. Where else could I publish it besides here and in alt.callahans?

And Andrew, I must say, I would miss them terribly. There's nothing I like better than a pun that's simultaneously terrible and clever.