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"Just heard on the radio.."

... the lead singer of the Animals apologising.

Apparently, there isn't a house in New Orleans....

It's times like these I really fancy breaking out the cancer jokes.

Go for it. Afterall, some of those that are whinging are guilty of exactly the same thing that they are moaning at me for. You know who you are, I'm sure.

Your Honour wrote:
> So I'm actively malicious.
>
> *shrugs*

Hmm...so it must'nt have been me who wrote;

> It all depends, and I can never judge which it is by words on a website; > I need to actually hear the person telling the joke to make a decision.

If you really don't mind what is thought of you off the back of a joke, stop going on about it like a wounded victim. You're annoyed at Goatboy's comment? Fair enough. So stop complaining at everyone else about it.

What can I say, it's a slow day at work and I'm just giving things a stir.

Shame none of you are rising to the bait though. I'm surprised and impressed actually. If this had been a couple of months back Light, you'd have been well off the handle by now.

Ah well, nevermind eh?

Woohoo, bait! Where? Where?

Your Honour wrote:
> Go for it. Afterall, some of those that are whinging are guilty of
> exactly the same thing that they are moaning at me for. You know who
> you are, I'm sure.

No, no. My bad taste jokes are funny.

Everyone knows the basic rule of comedy:

Comedy = Tragedy + Distance

However, bloated corpses still being pulled out of the water does not equal distance. I'm perhaps a worse culprit than anyone as I have a very sick sense of humour (I'm of the same mindset as Light, if you don't laugh about such things, you have to cry) but I know when and where to make such jokes and it's not on a public forum full of people I don't know. Would it just be a harmless joke if someone on the forums had a relative die over there? Would it still be harmless if it had happened in England?

Maybe this is overreacting, but you see my point. Personally, I think you only post these things for a reaction - you brought up the exact same topic soon after the tsunami with a badly-timed joke that was in very poor taste, so you obviously didn't take everyone's reaction on board.

In other words, you're trolling. And it wasn't funny.

monkey_man wrote:
> Whatever your views on the intention of the joke, it just wasn't very
> funny to start off with!

Yup.

All the highly offensive and moral stuff aside, it was a crap joke.

So, ignoring the fact that some (let's face it - nearly everyone) said it wasn't funny, it bascially boils down to the fact that it was in bad taste, correct?

Nothing to do with that. It was a crap joke.