I thought I'd apologise for a thread I posted a while back. Initially I was puzzled by the offence taken. But I see it now.
There's a kind of humour called, "black humour." It relies on knowing that the subject of the joke is offensive to many people. It wouldn't otherwise be funny.
As such, it must be contained within a group that you know for certain your true feelings on the matter - it cannot be for general consumption. I don't mean to say that some won't get it. It takes a known understanding between people before you can, for example, make jokes about Nazis etc.. The trick is that within a group who know one another, everyone knows that everyone else is anti-nazi, so a joke about nazis is taken as black humour. If you don't know that, you may think that the person responsible is promoting Nazism. And it would be totally justified to think so.
On a public forum like this - where we know one another only slightly - such humour will only cause offence. I see that clearly. So I wanted to apologise for my oversight, and any offence caused.
There's a kind of humour called, "black humour." It relies on knowing that the subject of the joke is offensive to many people. It wouldn't otherwise be funny.
As such, it must be contained within a group that you know for certain your true feelings on the matter - it cannot be for general consumption. I don't mean to say that some won't get it. It takes a known understanding between people before you can, for example, make jokes about Nazis etc.. The trick is that within a group who know one another, everyone knows that everyone else is anti-nazi, so a joke about nazis is taken as black humour. If you don't know that, you may think that the person responsible is promoting Nazism. And it would be totally justified to think so.
On a public forum like this - where we know one another only slightly - such humour will only cause offence. I see that clearly. So I wanted to apologise for my oversight, and any offence caused.