On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 6:03:37 PM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 16 Mar 2015, at 00:34, LizR wrote: > > Well of course laughing AT people you dislike is a classic bullying > technique. And then you say "oh come on it was only a joke!" > > Yet bullies never make jokes about themselves, because they are often > humourless sociopaths. > > Dunno if this is on topic but I thought I'd mention it anyway, just in > case. > > > > May be the joke was a bit too gross. > > We can laugh at the little misery of the others, and we can laugh at the > big misery on ourselves, but we cannot laugh at the big misery of the > others. > > The line is fuzzy, and partly cultural, that is why there is something > like diplomacy. >
That *is* funny because now, Bruno has to justify why for example any grey diplomat/politician, say Angela Merkel is among the funniest comedians on the planet... Her degree is in Physical Chemistry (surprise aristotelian attack!) I think, which may explain some of her success in current political climate. Also, she is conservative and the conservatives find her too green/social while for the greens and socialists, she is not green/socialist enough. And she doesn't hate gays but doesn't help them either. But funny? She's prohibitionist as long as it is popular to do that, so I'm not so sure as Bruno maybe had too many induction axioms for breakfast. PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
