Humour in Serious Threads

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I am heartily sick of members jumping on any humourous interjections to serious threads.Go out in to the real world and study various scenarios as follows.The House of Commons.Serious discussion on many topics may be in full swing.There may then be a wry or humourous comment from a member,which is then responded to in the same fashion by another member across the floor.General laughter follows,then the serious discussion continues.In the boardroom of many major businesses across the globe,serious,solemn meetings will be broken at times by some light hearted banter.Then again serious discussion continues.Situations such as these go on throughout society,in schools,union meetings,in the pub etc.
The converse may also apply,whereby a group of friends,out for an evening are laughing and joking.Then one member may relate something heard in the news that may be tragic.Serious conversation may then take place,after which it is back to the enjoyment.Take the wit,repartee and banter out of this or any other forum and you will remove the soul.In my short time on here I have read some outstanding posts by people who in my opinion, posess a high level of sophistication and intelligence.I also note that they have an incisive wit.Go back and study the serious threads.If anyone is committed to making their point,the interjected humour will not detract.

[Bitter End]

In yer ain words ---I am usually a soft target. ----

Noo jist git yersell alang tae Dr Snoddy fur its himseel thetle sort oot yer boakin fur ye ;an wi yer guts settled ye wull be feelin a wild loat better !!!! an jist maybe a wee turn o his dreaded psychoanalysis wull soart oot yer heed !!!!!! an aye remembir 'offence' is jist a title fur a bit o a barrier roon a perk!

[Ship called Dignity]

Roger,

I don't think anyone is saying the humour etc can't form part of the forum - as you say it is integral to its success. I actually think the mods dealt with the couple of issues very well this week, splitting the topics and moving posts that were off thread. I agree with your sentiments and examples of serious discussion but the problem is a forum is not 'real time' so alot of the humour is lost on others and it is also very easy to misconstrue the posters comments. So not at all easy...

Regards

[Govangirl]

aye remembir 'offence' is jist a title fur a bit o a barrier roon a perk!

Aye, an that 'offence' is no keepin' Roger and ma good sel oot o that forum perk, as ye can see yirsel Bitter, the new cerperk keeper!!!!!!

[ionnsaigh]

An wit aboot seriousness - in humour threads.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

An wit aboot seriousness - in humour threads.

How about a new section entitled."House of Miserable Gits"

[LO]

Interesting thread - in general I agree with the premise that humour can be used leaven a debate and make a serious point. However, I suspect that the nub of the problem here is that what might be funny for one person is seen as puerile drivel to another.

[Mary G]

This is interesting - more so that than the earnest title suggests . Ship Called Dignity highlighted the issue of 'real time' humour. In fact, most comedians will tell you that timing lies at the heart of good comedy.

There is also the issue - as any speaker/ performer will tell you - of audience. Even Billy Connolly talks differently when he is in NZ, or Australia, compared to performing in front of a Glasgow audience. And if he does private functions, I guess that is different again. You need to judge your audience, and adapt how you communicate accordingly.

And here on the forum, we only half-know a tiny number of our audience. Not easy at all .... but we should still persist - albeit carefully. It paid off for Billy

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Great thread, Landrover Roger, and good post.

Sometimes the humorist's timing is perfect for 10 and not for 1. It doesn't matter if it is real time or not. Much of humor is written and not spoken and it is up to the reader to get it or move on.

I think this thread was started in response to the response to 5 deadly words. If someone doesn't find what I say funny (sometimes I think I'm hilarious ), I apologize in advance, but I'll probably still say it. Does it seem ironic to anyone else that 5 words caused such a hornets nest, and yet someone can demean, insult and degrade whole groups of people and the majority don't say a word? If there is a choice between me coming here thinking something I say is at least humorous enough to make someone smile, or demonizing individuals or whole groups of people, I'll take the chance of giving someone a laugh.

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Great thread, Landrover Roger, and good post.

Sometimes the humorist's timing is perfect for 10 and not for 1. It doesn't matter if it is real time or not. Much of humor is written and not spoken and it is up to the reader to get it or move on.

I think this thread was started in response to the response to 5 deadly words. If someone doesn't find what I say funny (sometimes I think I'm hilarious ), I apologize in advance, but I'll probably still say it. Does it seem ironic to anyone else that 5 words caused such a hornets nest, and yet someone can demean, insult and degrade whole groups of people and the majority don't say a word? If there is a choice between me coming here thinking something I say is at least humorous enough to make someone smile, or demonizing individuals or whole groups of people, I'll take the chance of giving someone a laugh.

Good for you Bobbie!

[Rolling Wave]

Great thread, Landrover Roger, and good post.

Sometimes the humorist's timing is perfect for 10 and not for 1. It doesn't matter if it is real time or not. Much of humor is written and not spoken and it is up to the reader to get it or move on.

I think this thread was started in response to the response to 5 deadly words. If someone doesn't find what I say funny (sometimes I think I'm hilarious ), I apologize in advance, but I'll probably still say it. Does it seem ironic to anyone else that 5 words caused such a hornets nest, and yet someone can demean, insult and degrade whole groups of people and the majority don't say a word? If there is a choice between me coming here thinking something I say is at least humorous enough to make someone smile, or demonizing individuals or whole groups of people, I'll take the chance of giving someone a laugh.

Good for you Bobbie!

Whilst this pair of sad, unfunny clowns continue their mutual backslapping the big, bad world rolls on. In these parts the word on the pavey today is that Opportunity Kintyre lost a corporate table on Saturday morning for that night's Ball because the sponsor had heard that his money was going to a Nigerian scam. What a hoot, eh?

[LANDROVER ROGER]

I feel that you are on the wrong wave length rolling wave.Please clarify your point with reference to this thread

[WC1]

I don't think he's on the wrong wavelength at all. One of the most appalling points made on this Board recently was that the whole Opportunity Kintyre/Sirolli Institute tie-up might be some sort of scam (it wasn't stated that it was a scam, just that if it sounded like a scam to one person (the person who made the post) it might sound like it to others. The intelligence and integrity of some very good local people were thereby undermined, whether intentionally or otherwise I don't know, but undermined they most certainly were. Some tickets (amounting I understand to one big table of guests) for the Opportunity Kintyre September Ball were indeed returned on Saturday morning. I don't want to speculate on the reasons for that, but I hope it wasn't because of an ill-considered post on here.

[Rolling Wave]

I feel that you are on the wrong wave length rolling wave.Please clarify your point with reference to this thread

Roger, maybe you should read Bobbie's previous post again slowly? Especially the bit where she bangs on about her "5 deadly words" which, ever the martyr, she seems to want to promote as some kind of twisted badge of honour. Can you guess what the 5 deadly words might be? Assuming you're able to work it out, would you now like to carefully reconsider your response to her? If not, then I rest my case.

[Malky]

OMG. Surely to goodness the people involved in OK would have been able to put these corporate guests minds to rest over what they were getting involved in. To pin the blame on a couple of posters on this forum is a bit far fetched. If that's all it takes to put these corporate guests off then perhaps they weren't as committed to the ideas of OK and Sirolli as they should have been. Surely OK doesn't need fair weather friends.

Malky