Captain Limpdick!

Florida Man will never die.

People forget lift can make a 747 fly. Someone sitting on a mattress at low speeds will hold it down, at high speed they become passengers.

So close the first time I ran right over the thing. Fairly high speed freeway traffic is something you don't really want to brake and swerve in.

Since then I have learned to give ALL inadequately secured loads or homemade trailers and other road nonsense a wide berth. Really better to be IN FRONT of crap like that.

It can be fine to load stuff in a pick-up and move it on neighborhood street. But things happen fast at freeway speeds and things become wings and missiles.

Feel bad for folk. Because if you are moving heavy furniture by yourself. And you can't even afford the U-Haul you are likely in bad circumstances and also very likely exhausted physically, emotionally and every other way.

I used to travel I-94 south of Chicago regularly. I've dodged, among other things, kitchen chairs, a kitchen table, a camper top and a full vinyl carriage roof (shell and all)

I have seen something like this just a few weeks ago near Tampa...

but your post here made me LOL.

Stupidity kills.

Like if someone is outside target shooting, and they fire a gun, and then look down the barrel to see if the gun is still loaded.
If alcohol is involved, ("Hold m'beer!&quot makes it even stupider.

or too chicken to do that? Only say it here because no one can call you out on it?

So your relative runs a stop sign and dies? Pretty stupid IMO, that is funny also?

My entire family is known for dark humor. If you can't laugh at death then I'm truly sorry.

Dark humor is used to give release to how horrible life is. If you take that ability to laugh at death away from other people you are taking away a coping strategy.

The comments above are not intended to give release for how horrible life is. The Monty Python skit is, and it was very funny. It wouldn't be funny if placed in the comments section of a news report of one of the many people crucified in the Middle East. Then it would be sick and cruel. Get the difference? The is a real clear difference.

I'm sure have been occasions when dark humor having to do with your own condition were entirely appropriate and helpful. But it depends on the person using the humor and when they do it. And I would guess it is possible you, or someone else, with thinner skin, in a similar situation, might NEVER appreciate dark humor about the occasion coming from me, a total stranger with zero understanding of you or your sensitivities, simply so I could demonstrate my "clever" humor to my peers on DU.

We're also only allowed to laugh about things that happen to us personally. I see.

They are getting elderly and a couple of them have fallen a few times. And they did get hurt. Yet they start joking about it. And their canes and walkers and their joking comments about being old. They have always been people who love to laugh, and so now medical shit and old age is funny to them.

considering the circumstance, buy it's best not to assume everybody else's sensitivity about things like this matches your own. Black people are free to joke with each other about the n word or Jim Crow if they want, but I shouldn't be surprised if they took offense if I, a white person, did the same thing here on DU. It's all about situation and circumstance. Sometimes foul language is funny, other times highly inappropriate and offensive.

One of 3 things is happening here:
1--You really don't get why this man's tragic and bizarre death just isn't fodder for a good joke to most intelligent adults
2-- You get it but you'll argue to the death rather than just say this "humor" just isn't funny
3-- Slipping on banana peels, pies in the face, and an hour long video of guys getting hit in the nuts just puts you on the floor
Whatever the case, any further argument from me is just futile and I'm not wasting any more time. bye

How do you get to define what is and is not funny? That is different to everyone.

You are so judgmental.

Stick to that and you can't go wrong.

I'm a big MP fan.

if you think a man dying in an accident is funny those are a lost less tragic.

It's where you divert the argument away from the original topic to something that is in this case more difficult to defend or more widely seen as offensive, rather than staying on topic.

Now you're trying to drag me down in something that has nothing to do with death.

More red-herrings.

Come on, man, you're being irrational.

Was that offensive?

You're exaggerating. It's not that dying is funny, but the way he was sitting on a mattress on a truck and it flew off. But you are attributing to other persons your false version of "all dying is funny." Like when you accused me of laughing at videos of "people being killed" generalizing from this particular way of being killed to all ways of being killed. This is a bad faith way of arguing. You're avoiding the actual issue. You could come out and say no one should ever laugh at anything related to death in any way. In which case you should object to a lot of comedy. I would think you would call for American's funniest Home Videos to go off the air. No one gets killed, but some of those people might have gotten some bruises. Getting injured is not funny. So it follows you would object to all that.

I hope you feel better soon.

It's pretty awesome, huh?

You just have to explain how offended you are.

He gave me courage.

Boudreaux and Thibodeaux are watching the evening news when they see a report of a man threatening to jump off the roof of a tall building in New Orleans.

Boudreaux tells Thibodeaux, "Hey watch dis guy. I bet you 40 dollars he jumps off dat roof."

Thibodeaux thinks about it a little and replies, "Okay, I'll take dat bet!"

A few seconds later the man jumps to his death.

Thibodeaux pulls out his wallet, cursing, and hands Boudreaux two twenties. Boudreaux giggles and says, "Thibodeaux, I gotta told you something yeah. I already saw dat. He jumped already on da 12 o'clock news."

Thibodeaux says, "Me too I saw it on da 12 o'clock news, but I didn't think that couillon would be stupid enough to jump again!"

couillon - pronounced "coo yahn," and generally means something like "that crazy idiot"

I guess you have to like cajun, bayou country humor, and especially Thibodeaux and Boudreaux jokes to think it's funny, and, yeah, Thibodeaux and Boudreaux jokes are frequently about ignorance. Cajuns like to make fun of themselves and their culture.

Arsenic and Old Lace is more up my alley.

Quite frankly I could be hospitalized on a regular basis from my bipolar. Did you ever think of shit like that? Humor heals.

This is an ad hominem attack, your argument is deteriorating as we go. Good bye.

Laughing at the movies The trouble with Harry or Arsenic and Old Lace is apparently something you cannot understand.

But now that you get it. Good, now we're done.

Which won't change no matter how much I blather on about dark humor.


You know, I read a lot of non-fiction. The stuff that is very hard to read due to its content, like Gulag and the Holocaust, Uranium, Cancer, and so on. You do have to have some sort of insensitivity about death to read shit like that and not come out crying. Although I did end up crying about someone who plucked out their own eyeballs... If someone is alive and suffering I take it a lot more to heart. This guy died in a really weird way, and I took humor from that. I cannot apologize for finding humor in death.

the surgeons would make a lot of dark humor jokes. To survive mentally as a doctor, there is some dark humor in real life too.

I have back-up plans in case I cannot stand the med field (Microbiologist?) but that's my main goal if I can withstand the med field. Specifically I want to be a pediatric neurologist. Taking away my dark humor would just be a bad idea.

You're laughing at tragedy. Huge difference. One can be an heroic act of defiance, the other is just disgusting.

Categorizing them differently is offensive. All death is a tragedy.

Death and tragedy are not the same thing. They CAN be in certain circumstances obviously, but there's a reason they are two distinct words.

BTW, you know this. Now you're just arguing to defend yourself and there will be no end to it, will there?

I saw someone else's point of view and I ended up agreeing with it. I am laughing at the way he died, not his actual death. Ta-Da!

to get through my life without jumping off a bridge. Because tragedy has occurred in my life that often.

but not mine or anyone else's.

You can laugh at what you want to laugh about and you can choose not to laugh about the things you choose not to laugh about. Don't tell me what I can or cannot laugh about and I won't tell you what you can or cannot laugh about.

Otherwise, YOU CANNOT LAUGH ABOUT THE MARX BROTHERS! I just declared!

But at the way it happened. Had he not died or even been injured, it would be hilarious.

And then there is the running "Florida Man" joke. Surprised people aren't getting mad at that as a bigoted generalization. There are lots of smart men in Florida!

Are you indeed responding to me? Please read again. I think we're on the same side on this issue. Unless I'm reading you wrong.

What if a healthy twenty year old falls down the steps?

You must have been outraged at this:

But many years down the road, it might be. Old Paul, he sure was a character!

no, it's never going to be funny to them like it is to you, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't care to have you cheer them up with you hilarious sense of humor.

Or agree to disagree.

Nowadays funerals look at people's lives, and the eulogy is about how they were. Maybe good old Paul was a crazy-fun guy. He certainly was adventurous.

Or maybe there is some element of our not minding about the people we don't know. We don't know he or his family and so can focus on the crazy way he died. But mostly, I think people will look back fondly after the first shock is off and talk about the things they did throughout their lives.

It must be hard. And you ignored my points completely.

You've never laughed at anything in spite of yourself?

It's starting to sound rather prim. Like "I never do wrong things like that" and enjoy berating people who are not perfect.

comments trying to elicit humor at the expense of someone else. I'm condemnatory of indefensible thoughtlessness regarding others. And your last two sentences are simply ignorant conjecture in a desperate attempt to save face. This is easy. Sorry, but it is.

Have you never laughed in spite of yourself?

You're not even defending yourself. I mean, if I say you're still sounding sort of stupid would that trump you calling me prim? Or is your insult better than mine and therefore you win?

and get frustrated that is does not work.

I'm starting to think there is nothing you can ever laugh at.

I don't mean it to be heartless, but sometimes even death can happen in a way that just makes you laugh. I guess it's the same impulse that makes you laugh when you watch those American's Funniest Videos where people are falling off of trampolines and the like. Doesn't mean we don't feel bad for the people involved at the same time.

From the funny videos to well, just about anything others would find funny. There's some tragedy in a lot of comedy. Avoid those sick comedy channels.

Paul being killed is not funny.

But the way he "became a passenger" of the flying mattress is. We can separate that from his death. Suppose it would have not been funny had he survived it somehow without a scratch?

I would think you'd find the whole "Florida Man" thing offensive, too. A lot of those involve mishaps, sometimes including death.

and you are not answering any of my questions. It seems you enjoy finding someone you can find "bad" and then gloating about how proper and pure you are.

No wealthy Banker will die like that, which doesn't mean they are not stupid. It just means they can afford better transportation.

RIP to someone who most likely left behind a family who will miss him!

As you said, this might have been related to poverty. At the very least, his family has suffered a tragic loss. Laughing about it just makes people look like assholes.

and the cab has passenger seats in most of those. Likely illegal, and he could have gotten a ticket had he lived through it.

Anyone can die in a freak accident, even bankster corporatist Third Wayer.

He might have reproduced!

Thus making more Florida Man's.!

Some of his recent adventures:

California Man Loses $1 Million Powerball Ticket, Can't Claim Prize

Naked California Man dives into minivan's window

Police hunt for California Man who used fake $100 bill to buy Girl Scout cookies

California Man assaulted brother over cat care

California Man calls police on self after attempted robbery

California Man says he's a werewolf, pleads insanity in shooting death of neighbor, a suspected vampire

California Man arrested after suitcase of body parts found

California Man whose 'penis split in two and eroded' sues his insurance company

California Man steals hearse with casket inside

California Man Dressed As Santa Claus Robs Bank

California Man charged with smuggling endangered fish

California Man sent to federal prison for turtle smuggling

Pirate ship for sale on Craigslist by California Man

California Man Robs Gas Station Only to Return and Apologise

California Man Steals And Then Crashes Ambulance That Came To Save Him

California Man Treated for 'Google Glass Addiction'

LAX-Bound Plane Forced To Land Early Due To Frenzied, Masturbating California Man

https://twitter.com/calimantales

What are the odds that a Werewolf lives next door to a Vampire?

But the vampires have to sparkle, don't forget.

Yeah. There.

Thanks

how many Florida Mans are into frenzied masturbation?

But I'm sure Delaware Man is out there.

oh wait:

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Delaware+Man%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Delaware Man Busted for Dealing Crack: Police -

Delaware man sues after awaking from colonoscopy in pink women's underwear

Police: Delaware man, 18, leads trooper on chase

Police: Delaware Man Charged With 3rd DUI After Crashing (into police cruiser)...

And ideas are mattress proof.

We often wish for mistakes to be learning experiences only. But in the real world mistakes often have tragic consequences. One can only hope to observe and learn, and not do.

there is a very anti-south bias to DU. Unfortunately, the Democratic party will never regain control without Southern support.

first hand experience and all that as for his thread there is no bashing

California got made fun of too.

One thing I never seen happen in the North is someone saying 'Here Hold My Beer" as they proceed to do something stupid. That is a Southern Exclusive!

If the southerners can or want to make fun of the North, go right ahead but it will be difficult finding material IMHO.

It's tragic not something to ridicule, and people make mistakes as you say.

RIP 51-year-old Paul Ginther Jr

I wouldn't have thought a mattress could go flying out of the back of a truck with someone's weight holding it down.

The guy made a dumb mistake. He doesn't get to unmake it. It wasn't the sum total of who he was as a person. Turning his death into a public joke just makes it that much more painful for his friends and family members.

I speak as someone who has seen my friends' lives and memories reduced in the public media to their final mistakes (never in such a noteworthy fashion, but still). It's awful.

As for the rest of this thread? "ick"

Laughing in this instance is for the weak-minded and feckless morons of the...world.

Thank you for saying it.

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