RE: The world's most environmentally friendly car

['Chris de Morsella' via Everything List]

 

 

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Subject: Re: The world's most environmentally friendly car

 

 

On 16 Mar 2015, at 11:47, Telmo Menezes wrote:





 

 

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:34 AM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> 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.

 

I agree. I think people understand intuitively that making fun of someone that 
is at a disadvantage in relation to you is just mean and distasteful. It is 
sociopathic to find that sort of thing funny. It's very common with teenagers, 
and I think that part of the reason is fear: if you don't join in on the 
bullying, you could become the victim yourself. Unfortunately, some people 
never develop past that stage.

 

I don't think that this joke is mean in any sense. On the contrary, I think 
that environmentalists that can't laugh about it a bit should be worried that 
they are becoming too religious.

 

I even think that great jokes can be made about the senseless destruction of 
everything we hold dear. People who don't believe me should read "The 
Hitchhiker's Guid to the Galaxy". 

 

Of course readers of this list knows that the Hitchhikers Guide the Galaxy 
contains gross mistakes, like confusing 42 and 24. 

 

I agree with you about the joke. I get surprised of Chris' reply. In my mind 
the joke could have been done by an environmentalist, the extreme exaggeration 
is too much funny. It is Monty Python like.

 

Have been pretty busy so don’t have much time these days.

Hey in some ways it was funny; perhaps my response was quick on the draw; 
certainly not proposing it should be banned or anything. I like dark humor.

My comment was more directed – if I recall – at John; it seemed to me to 
reconfirm the scorn he holds environmentalists in, which I don’t think he will 
deny. His scorn and despising of environmentalism, of notions such as 
sustainability etc. is I believe quite well known on this list. He has 
certainly made it abundantly clear to me. My response was directed towards 
John’s motivation, in the context of his own political views. I am sure John 
found it very funny; he posted it after all, and in a dark way it is funny, but 
it is also – I am saying – an act – the act of posting that particular piece of 
humor (out of the universe of contemporary potential items of mirth) that can 
be interpreted as being motivated by scorn  that is held by the actor – in this 
case John – and the subject of the humor.. in this case the impaled greenie in 
the Prius.

In any case I had more or less even forgotten I had made that post. And the one 
right after that when I got net nannied by someone.

I am also certain that John has thick skin; I doubt I even flustered him at all.

-Chris

 

BTW, when I get more time, and more sleep to think correctly and avoid too much 
typo errors, I will rewrite my yesterday comment. Apology.

 

When my poor soul want to say "X cannot do Y", my lazy body starts the economy 
of work program and it suggests using the abbreviation "X can't do Y". But then 
by an excess of enthusiasm in the procedure, or perhaps because my virtual 
internal hearing miss the mental "t",  my poor hands end up with writing "X can 
do Y". 

Please, note that most of the time when I say "can", I mean "cannot".  

 

Bruno

 

 

Fiction: "Yes, we can,"

Reality: "No, we cannot."

 

 

 

 





 

Telmo.

 

 

Dunno if this is on topic but I thought I'd mention it anyway, just in case.

 

 

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