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Thread #118593   Message #2590109
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
16-Mar-09 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Gallows Humour-laughing at death/disease
Subject: RE: Folklore: Gallows Humour-laughing at death/disease
Taste my friend, is like style, you either have it, or you don't. This thread is without doubt, by it's inception, the most tasteless thread in many a long year.

In a word: Bullshit. Please, Guest, take the time to read what this thread was initially and is actually about before contributing any more sanctimonious crap like this; God knows we're wading through enough of it here as it is. No one is glorifying in anything, least of the pain and suffering of another human being. Rather, we are pondering the mechanism that might throw up such material in circumstances as adverse (and unprecedented) as those we are experiencing with respect of Jade Goody's celebrity demise. It is there; it is current; it is folklore - in its pertinence it tells us a lot about how we deal with these things. This is what we're attempting to discuss here - as I said my opening post, in the originally tiled Folklore: Jade Goody Jokes - A very public celebrity death, which raises all sorts of issues & provokes all sorts of responses, but the most immediate folkloric angle is the humour...