Re:Update on an Employee Matter
by throwawaygh on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:44PM
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> Have you heard of "dead baby jokes"?
Not since maybe middle school?
I'm not sure what to say. If an adult made a joke like this -- especially in a workplace -- I would assume they have some sort of developmental disorder. I understand that assumption might be wrong and that in any case I'm not qualified to make a determination, but... I've literally never met a normal and functioning adult who laughs at jokes like these.
Re:Update on an Employee Matter
by davidivadavid on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:11PM
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No? I could find hundreds of clips from stand up comedians making similar jokes to audiences dying of laughter.
It's a whole genre of humor.
What's the difference between 100 dead babies and a Ferrari?
I don't keep a Ferrari in my garage.
Here's a sampling. https://thoughtcatalog.com/clint-conway/2016/08/50-of-the-fu...
Anyway, the thing that makes it funny is how absurd it is that the joke-teller would be an enthusiastic baby-murderer, -torturer, and/or -cannibal, depending on the joke (plus general surprise and shock).
For people who have grown up thinking that Nazis are obviously evil monsters and no civilized person could possibly be one of them, making jokes about gassing the Jews and that kind of thing can have a similar kind of appeal.