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If you want to avoid giving offence then humour has to be legislated against.

Wow, really, can it be done? LOL

Are you against telling jokes about attorney's, Mother In-Laws, Little Old Ladies, Men, Women? In general, I am not. I also laugh loud at some. For that matter I also enjoy some ethnic jokes. But I will or will not tell them, depending on my objective and the audience.

...Marieke is wrong.. Where was I wrong? (Please quote me and highlight my wrong statement. I want to learn from you also.)

...most humour is based on poking fun at others..." Well, this is true. Though other reasons why we laugh include : surprise, superiority, biological inclination, incongruity, ambivalence, releasing tension, and filing in configurations.

Quite frankly, I used to indulge in a lot of insult jokes during my college days, when I was involved in school politics. It was so sweeeeeet to dish out those
jests at the expense of my political opponents.

Now I have understood why I savored them that much.

As one writer explains, "There are two ways to feel superior...and one of them is to publicly criticize the accomplishments of others. This deflates their prestige and focuses attention on ourselves.."