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Me and my father have always shared a dark sense of humour. We like to tell off colour jokes, often to relieve tension in certain environments.
Here's and example. Taking a flight always has a little bit of anxiety during take off and landing, and let's face it the mandatory safety script the stewards have to go through gets rather boring after a while. So one joke I came up with some time back was "in the event of a water landing the child in front of you can be used as an emergency floatation devise". We've come up with others I can't think of right now.
Do you have a similar dark sense of humour? What jokes do you tell? Do you share this with your family?
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)dark humor - I think it is a way that we attempt to make sense of the madness we see around us!
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I think most people who love zombie media has a sick sense of humor.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)The humorless bastards and ultra PC police don't appreciate my humor around here. I'd probably be banned if I said what I want to say most of the time. My real personality is way too raw for this site but I do enjoy it here in spite of the fact that I have to self-censor constantly. There's no better source of news and intelligent commentary when I want to be serious.
I'd share a joke but I don't want to upset the easily offended.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)I hang back for you guys and, because I still give a shit about that silly ole transparency page.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Lol. Insane times call for insane humour. Thank you for the work you do!!
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)to end his life.
I asked him if there were any warnings on the bottle, like:
"Do not operate heavy machinery while taking this medication"
Or:
"Do not mix with alcohol"
"May cause dependency"
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)That's how I deal with difficult situations too. Nice to meet others of like mind.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)"Objects in the mirror may be deader than they appear".
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)It's not always appreciated. Once when asked if my parents smoked, I answered "I think my mother might be smouldering a bit yet" (We had just cremated her a few days earlier)
Reads awfully raw reading that back now, but I say things like that without thinking.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)If they take offence. Life is meant to be lived this way. At least IMNSHO.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)He had a somewhat dark sense of humor which I inherited and passed on in some respects to my own kids.
Anyway, being cold is a family trait. Except when it's like 100 degrees out.
So we're talking on the phone one day and I don't know how we got on the subject, but he was joking around about how when he died he wanted to be cremated because it would be about the only time he would be warm enough to suit him.
He died ten months later.
And he was cremated. I have a tiny little urn with some of his ashes in it on my dresser, and I often find myself wondering if he got his wish to be nice and warm that day in the barbeque...
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Thanks for sharing that.
My father has said he would like to be shot out of a canon when he dies. Cause the body means nothing to him, or me really, once dead. It's the absurdity of it.
polly7
(20,582 posts)First from my Dad, he was hilarious (he wanted to be buried standing up with one arm sticking out to keep collecting his Pension Cheque) ... and, EMT's and Paramedics have probably got some of the blackest humour out there. It's pretty shocking at first until you go on a few calls, and then you understand it's either that, or just curl up and cry.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Lol, now that's dark stuff. Hilarious too at times if you are in that mind set, even if it is a coping mechanism.
Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)but in my teens I'd listen to Dr. Demento and heard "Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun" and rolled on the floor-and I adore dogs.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Including some stuff that would probably get me banned from DU.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)As many as it takes to make a pile high enough to reach the bulb.
Ba dum tshh...
Initech
(99,913 posts)Willie: [to Marcus] Why don't you get going? You'll be late for your... Wizard of Oz Candy Bar Guild.
Marcus: Lollipop Guild, you asshole. Jesus! Two-year-olds flip me better shit than you.
Willie: You saying something to me?
Marcus: Yeah, I'm gonna stick my whole fist up your ass!
Willie: [gives Marcus the finger as he walks away]