Apologies for the disappearance of my post entitled “Stupid?”

19 thoughts on “Apologies for the disappearance of my post entitled “Stupid?””

1. Such a shame,

   I thought it brought up an interesting argument.

   It did have a sprinkling of ad-hom however and I understand why you wiped it Minty MBE.

   Jay Dubya was very clear on his stance, I was a little taken aback when I read his comment. It definitely made me think about my take on the Darwins. I remember it went along the lines of “Nothing is amusing about someone dying.” and he went on to express his disgust. Thought provoking stuff Jay Dubya, thanks for that.

2. some interesting and pertinent comments on the subject of my post

   I thought so, too.

   It did have a sprinkling of ad-hom however

   I thought so, too. But I am a bit loathe to wipe out comments on other people’s posts – I’d prefer people to censor their own posts. It’s shame you felt you had to wipe the lot, but your choice.

   🙂

3. Hi Furry,

   I am sorry about it because I thought there were some very thought provoking comments too.
   I was out for most of the day, and really too tired to appreciate my post being turned into a bit of a war zone. I started to delete some of the comments and decided there were too many and the thread wouldn’t make much sense.

   I decided on the nuclear option before it turned into World War Three!

4. Ignore comment two!

5. Hi Boadicea.

   I agree but it’s difficult to do when one is absent from the scene, as it were, and I really was too tired. See my comment to Furry above.

6. hydra :

   Just reading.

   Hello Hydra! 🙂

7. I see my post is actually still there! 😉

   I am happy to resurrect it, after some er amendments, if this is acceptable. I’ll have a look at it later today when I have more time.

   But I don’t want to start another battle about my possibly heavy handed deletions!

8. Haven’t read the thread, Araminta, but I caught Ferret’s JW quote “Nothing is amusing about someone dying.”

   Well said, that man.

   A few front-line comedians have come unstuck with this one – I remember Billy Connolly taking extended leave of absence after a remark in a live show that the Islamic terrorists holding Ken Bigley hostage should “get on with it.” They subsequently did. Beheaded him. Bet Billy wishes he could have been there to see it in all its hilarity.

   I was in the audience at Chelters Town Hall when whey-faced comic Jimmy Carr made a particularly callous joke about breast cancer which elicited audible intakes of breath from a shocked audience. I doubt many of those there that night booked to see him again. I haven’t.

9. Excellent comment, Jan, and I agree with you, and JW.

   There is a fine line and it cannot be crossed and still be called “humour”; it becomes offensive and tasteless.

10. Humour, like love and indeed like many things is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly a balance needs to be found between being too callous and too po-faced, but that balance varies from person to person. Speaking for myself, I enjoy robust humour, provided it is not intended to hurt. Intention is everything. I believe that many people are too damn sensitive, and that leads to more conflict and unhappiness rather than less.

11. Arrers, I agree. Unfortunately things got silly.

12. Bearsy, no need to apologise, we all make mistakes. 😉

13. It seems to me that I may have misread your post – I was of the opinion that you did not at any point state that you thought the Darwin awards were tasteless, disgusting or otherwise. In fact you didn’t mention the ‘Awards’ in your post at all… Had you said so, my response (and I suspect a few others) might have been different: I can not abide ‘The Funniest Videos …” since they all seem to consist of people hurting themselves. I see nothing funny in that. I cannot abide slap-stick humour. What is amusing about people having custard-pies pushed in their faces? There are lots of other such things that I do not find one bit amusing.

    However, I was under the impression that you linked a throw-away comment about not contributing to the gene pool to a belief in the Nazi program of ‘euthanasia’. Way too over the top and I said so.

    I was hoping that your post might run to a discussion on whether ‘society’ should try to persuade some parents not to contribute to the gene pool (I’m thinking about children with heredity conditions like Huntingdons) but it all got zapped before that!

14. Boa, “In fact you didn’t mention the ‘Awards’ in your post at all… ” – exactly.

15. I don’t know if you misread my post, Boadicea, but as I said earlier on my comment #8, I can unzap it later if you would like to debate that aspect.

    My response above was just on the subject of Jan’s view and that of JW. I must away again but I’m back later this afternoon.

16. Janus

    I’m a simple soul who will debate the question as stated. I dislike intensely people reading more into my comments than I intend, and I try to give others the same courtesy.

    Araminta

    I think that might be an interesting topic! As a descendent of a family with Huntingdon’s Chorea (I think it’s called something else these days) I do have a ‘personal’ interest in the subject.

17. Boadicea and anyone else who may be interested.

    The post is back minus some comments.

    http://bearsy.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/stupid/

    I’ll catch you later!

18. Bearsy :

    … but it doesn’t become a Nazi eugenics program. That extrapolation is itself offensive and tasteless and debases those who suffered during WWII.

    I’ve answered this on the other post, Bearsy.

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