Austrian ‘hid daughter in cellar’

I was watching that Embarrassing Illnesses lastnight, there was a guy who had prostate cancer, his friends jibbed him about not having to buy a season ticket for next year, he laughed along with them, he keeps going with humour, I just wish people eould lighten up, life is a laugh on us, everyone takes things so serious, then, before you know it you’re dead!

Get a fcuking grip, Grrr @ do gooders!

@*Sian wrote:

I was watching that Embarrassing Illnesses lastnight, there was a guy who had prostate cancer, his friends jibbed him about not having to buy a season ticket for next year, he laughed along with them, he keeps going with humour, I just wish people eould lighten up, life is a laugh on us, everyone takes things so serious, then, before you know it you’re dead!

Get a French Connection UK grip, Grrr @ do gooders!

Thats what I was thinking about too. When his mates said to him dont get a season ticket for next year.

Poor fella aint over it yet either is he… still they left his sense of humour intact thank fook!

Samuel Beckett once wrote “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.“

Now, granted, dear old Sam didn’t seem to be the happiest of blokes – though there are many personal references to him being quite warm and approachable on occasion – but he was instilled with a particular gallows humour that is indeed quite common in Ireland and the UK.

Of course the whole “Where do you draw the line?” gig is THE question with regard to it all :roll: .. Are there ABSOLUTE no-go humorous areas? Or is a relative, contextual stance a more realistic (albeit challenging) alternative?

On a very personal level.. I have found such humour a massive release. In the midst of a pretty devastating tragedy towards the end of last year, my own family’s slightly offside humour had a curious alleviating quality, whilst at the same time producing a curious sense of fortification for us all.

I suppose in many ways the Joke / Don’t Joke debate bears many similarities to some kind of Transference / Repression argument in modern psychology :roll: ..
But that’s a matter for another day :wink: … Innit??

:roll:

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Samuel Beckett once wrote “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.“

Now, granted, dear old Sam didn’t seem to be the happiest of blokes – though there are many personal references to him being quite warm and approachable on occasion – but he was instilled with a particular gallows humour that is indeed quite common in Ireland and the UK.

Of course the whole “Where do you draw the line?” gig is THE question with regard to it all :roll: .. Are there ABSOLUTE no-go humorous areas? Or is a relative, contextual stance a more realistic (albeit challenging) alternative?

On a very personal level.. I have found such humour a massive release. In the midst of a pretty devastating tragedy towards the end of last year, my own family’s slightly offside humour had a curious alleviating quality, whilst at the same time producing a curious sense of fortification for us all.

I suppose in many ways the Joke / Don’t Joke debate bears many similarities to some kind of Transference / Repression argument in modern psychology :roll: ..
But that’s a matter for another day :wink: … Innit??

:roll:

INNIT just! 8)

How ya diddling Mr Peps?

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

@*Sian wrote:

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

Samuel Beckett once wrote “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.“

Now, granted, dear old Sam didn’t seem to be the happiest of blokes – though there are many personal references to him being quite warm and approachable on occasion – but he was instilled with a particular gallows humour that is indeed quite common in Ireland and the UK.

Of course the whole “Where do you draw the line?” gig is THE question with regard to it all :roll: .. Are there ABSOLUTE no-go humorous areas? Or is a relative, contextual stance a more realistic (albeit challenging) alternative?

On a very personal level.. I have found such humour a massive release. In the midst of a pretty devastating tragedy towards the end of last year, my own family’s slightly offside humour had a curious alleviating quality, whilst at the same time producing a curious sense of fortification for us all.

I suppose in many ways the Joke / Don’t Joke debate bears many similarities to some kind of Transference / Repression argument in modern psychology :roll: ..
But that’s a matter for another day :wink: … Innit??

:roll:

INNIT just! 8)

How ya diddling Mr Peps?

INNIT to be sure! :P

Greetings Lady Sian :wink:

Oo you called me a lady! Where have you been all my life? :twisted: :lol: