Reminds me of the joke where The Mother is giving pizza to her kids. The Brother measures his slice with a micrometer and starts howling that The Sister’s slice is 3 molecules bigger than his, so The Mother takes the knife and cuts his slice in half.
“There. Now you have 2 slices and she only has 1.”
I agree with that.
To anyone that cannot find humor in a dark subject, I say it’s time to more fully develop your sense of humor.
No matter how bleak a situation is, humor can be derived from that situation.
It’s called gallows humor, and it’s healthy to partake in gallows humor, according to the famous Dr. Drew Pinski (and myself.)
I live in Southern California, although in a part that does not typically have crazy fires (like Los Angeles County sometimes has.)
Both of my parents were born in the city of Los Angeles, and my entire family sympathizes with those that have lost their homes, but my family also believes in gallows humor.
I have a personal challenge:
Watch this YouTube video and tell me that Pete Lee’s comedy about the Southern California fires is not funny.
Warning:
If you do that, your name will be added to a list of people that don’t have a fully developed sense of humor.
True story:
When I took high school chemistry, I pronounced NaCl and HCl phonetically.
I thought I was being funny, but looking back now, it wasn’t that funny.
To call me and the chemistry teacher in high school “best chums” was as likely as me doing warp speed on my moped. Every time he and me had a “minor difference of opinion”, his way of saying goodbye was “see you at the aural exam”, meaning he would rather burn me to a cinder than hand me over my high school diploma. This time in class he wanted to hear the order of corroding elements, and I told him fclobris. His reaction was he never heard of that element. It was the only way I could remember them, and I told him it meant: F, Cl, O, Br, I and S. Which he sadly could not deny.
BTW my chemical knowledge was at least questionable, but this time my written exam was so good that I did not have to face him at an aural exam
Okay, here’s a joke that appeals to me, but I admit that it’s pretty stupid.
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Unit Circle
They’re continuing to search for a square with the same area as the circle, as efforts to construct one have run into difficulties.
That’s from NKVD or whatever? Yeah, I don’t get the “humor” they think is funny.
It’s like they take something esoteric, make a bad joke about it, draw some picture to go with, and eggheads of various fields think they’re real knee-slappers… or just act like it to look “kewl” over non-eggheads who Just Don’t Get It.
Like someone will come up with captions:
“Man, it’s so cold outside I had to wipe all the Bose-Einstein Condensate off the windows… and they’re triple-pane windows, yet!”
“Yeah, man, that really is pretty cold!”
And all the eggheads hoot’n’holler at how hy-larious it is.
Urg.
Hmm, actually, that one above is probably better than most of their comix. Hope they don’t steal it…