It means that the person making the joke and the person who’s the subject of the joke both have to find it funny. And you can’t be mad at a joke made at your expense if it’s funny. Funny trumps all.

Not as much as your dolphin porn post, that one’s got me through some dark lonely evenings, but still.

The thing I’ve been thinking about is the funny trumps all rule. It’s something I saw Britt write a couple of times too.

The problem i have with it is I don’t think it works. Because there is an issue surrounding “funny to who”. There are a lot of jokes that some people find funny, but others don’t find funny at all. racist jokes are a good example, but so are jokes made by playground bullies (of all ages) made at the vulnerable.

Just because you make a joke that you and your contemporary’s find amusing, doesn’t mean to say that to someone else those comments aren’t psychologically damaging. And that surely can never be a good thing.

The reason I’ve been thinking of it is that I initially agreed with you, and still do to some extent. And i can’t seem to rewrite it to fit my uncomfortableness with it. Because most jokes will offend someone, and that isn’t really a problem. It’s the ballance between offence/damage with freespeech/humour that I’m finding interesting I guess.

I dunno