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I agree with your description of how humor typically happens, and because of that, I don't enjoy working in most places. While it seems "fun is fun" for you, th
by pingswept 15y ago
I agree with your description of how humor typically happens, and because of that, I don't enjoy working in most places. While it seems "fun is fun" for you, the same fun sucks for me.
But I'd suggest that an alternative exists-- you can actually be hilarious without knocking other people down. I think that's a worthy goal.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoWell, neither am I comfortable working with people as fragile as Ming vases. Received autism is not a virtue. Some people seem to be honing their internal conflict and blaming it on people whose jokes (or anything, really) touched it accidentally. A person without serious internal conflict would not be hurt by a mild nerd humor. Hate there isn't, just some reflection on the awkwardness of human existence.
- pingswept 15y agoAgreed that we should strive to be less fragile. I think Jon Postel put it well in RFC 793: "TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793#page-13 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793#page-13