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**Slonopotam845** · 05-04-2008, 04:49 AM

Permit me this digression app_engine

Can indians(esp tamilians) make fun without offendign anyone? Unfortunately Ive not found many!

Humour is the Siamese twin of offence.

Let me quote someone who put it much better than I can ever hope to.

Any humour is sadism. To see someone in a difficult situation (ofcourse, with the knowledge that they will come-out unscathed) is 'humour'.

To put them in a physical discomfort is 'slap-stick', to put them in a intellectual discomfort is the 'dialogue-comedy' and emotional discomfort is 'situational comedy'.

That we take offence only to some offences is a sign of insensitivity - not sensitivity as is widely understood. :P

05-04-2008, 04:49 AM	#14
Slonopotam845 Join Date Jan 2006 Posts 5,251 Senior Member	Permit me this digression app_engine Can indians(esp tamilians) make fun without offendign anyone? Unfortunately Ive not found many! Humour is the Siamese twin of offence. Let me quote someone who put it much better than I can ever hope to. Any humour is sadism. To see someone in a difficult situation (ofcourse, with the knowledge that they will come-out unscathed) is 'humour'. To put them in a physical discomfort is 'slap-stick', to put them in a intellectual discomfort is the 'dialogue-comedy' and emotional discomfort is 'situational comedy'. That we take offence only to some offences is a sign of insensitivity - not sensitivity as is widely understood. :P
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