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Originally posted by Melusine:
I know you can make a joke about two people having Alzheimer's but not in this way - the idea of the news items is that there's something odd or unexplainable about them, but with the item in question that's not so.
And I knew when I typed it that people would fall all over me, but I still stand by what I feel on the issue. I know what Alzheimer can do to a person and I can think of few things that are worse. For those that think I have no sense of humour, I can see the way a joke about this could be funny, but I also think you cannot just laugh everything off - try to do volunteer's work in a home for people with Alzheimer and I bet your smile will be wiped off your face pretty quickly.
You can make fun of anything you want and I have nothing to say about it - it's just a disagreement on what is funny. I cannot tell anyone not to make fun of any disability or illness, but I CAN express my own opinion on it.
And Stormy, if you are referring to for instance the French bashing jokes ("can someone post something funny for one time without someone having to insult the people who think it is funny for once?"), then yes, I felt those were out of line too.
But don't worry, there's little on IW of interest for me these days, what with all the "hey I have this puss-oozing wound" "hey I have to go to the toilet now guys, see you later" "hey, another thought just popped into my head, I just HAD to post it" stuff - so I'll just shut up. If the majority of people feels a certain way, who am I to argue? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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true, but there are things I have to laugh off everyday, like being deaf, people make jokes about deaf people alot, and some of them are funny, as for the voluntering, I do not need to, as i said, it is in my family and I see it every day on how it works, as for the not laughing every thing off, if you can not laugh at the hard times life throws at you, then you are going to be miserable for a long time, I have learned this, my friends joke about me being the bionic woman because I have so many scars from surgeries, and I CAN laugh with them, because it is funny to think about being bionic, my husband laughs about a hole behind my ear, because it is an extra hole in my head,lol and it is also funny if you think about it, if you can not laugh at your self, at least smile [img]smile.gif[/img] and you are intitled to your opinions, as we are to ours
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and it is not just the french jokes i was refering to
but i do agree with you about somethings just should not be posted, and i am just as guilty of it i know, but i have tried to limit my topic making to things i feel are worth posting, but please, just because we have a disagreement on one issue does not mean that we can not agree on anything right?
[ 05-25-2003, 04:32 AM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]