What is "Funny"? To what standards?

[Estro Felino]

As you know there is the button funny among the ratings possibilities...but the truth is...that we all come from different cultures...

So what is funny to my culture can sound inappropriate to say by other cultures...and vice versa.

If I have to be blunt..the kind of humor certain posters have is so eww...because it is not liked in my culture.

Vice versa...my jokes are not usually liked here or rated as funny..and yet my best friend literally die laughing when I tell them....

 

[viole]

As you know there is the button funny among the ratings possibilities...but the truth is...that we all come from different cultures...

So what is funny to my culture can sound inappropriate to say by other cultures...and vice versa.

If I have to be blunt..the kind of humor certain posters have is so eww...because it is not liked in my culture.

Vice versa...my jokes are not usually liked here or rated as funny..and yet my best friend literally die laughing when I tell them....

Are you writing from prison? I have to ask, because I thought you could use jokes that cause literal death only during war.

Ciao

- viole

 

[dybmh]

"What is funny?"

It's one of life's great mysteries. ( Although viole's post did receive a chortle I must admit ).

 

[Estro Felino]

Are you writing from prison? I have to ask, because I thought you could use jokes that cause literal death only during war.

Ciao

- viole

Besides...you are living proof...if your husband is from Rome...and married a Swede...he can understand me perfectly...

 

[viole]

Besides...you are living proof...if your husband is from he can understand me perfectly...

My husband is from Rome, and he hates Monty Python, the owners of the killing joke. Bloody Romans, no sense of humor, lol.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Estro Felino]

My husband is from Rome, and he hates Monty Python, the owners of the killing joke. Bloody Romans, no sense of humor, lol.

Ciao

- viole

Exactly. A TRUE ROMAN.
I bet he prefers (as I do) this scene...especially...

- Ma che e'? Te s'e' engrassato er dito?
- Po esse
- Mo carza

 

[Estro Felino]

Exactly. A TRUE ROMAN.
I bet he prefers (as I do) this scene...especially...

- Ma che e'? Te s'e' engrassato er dito?
- Po esse
- Mo carza

Btw I want Jessica's dress on my wedding day

 

[Estro Felino]

Hey @Revoltingest ...join...tell us your take

 

[viole]

Exactly. A TRUE ROMAN.
I bet he prefers (as I do) this scene...especially...

- Ma che e'? Te s'e' engrassato er dito?
- Po esse
- Mo carza

Well, I can hardly understand what they say. A friend of mine from Monza, a supporter of your Salvini, asked that all such things, coming from Florence and more south, including the news reports, are always subtitled.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Revoltingest]

Hey @Revoltingest ...join...tell us your take

I thought I knew what was intentionally funny here.
But then I saw a post loaded with feminist jargon.
It sounded funny.
But it could've been serious.
If I gave it a <funny> frubal, I could be sanctioned for abuse.
So without a <confused> rating, I just passed on by.

 

[Estro Felino]

Well, I can hardly understand what they say. A friend of mine from Monza, a supporter of your Salvini, asked that all such things, coming from Florence and more south, including the news reports, are always subtitled.

Ciao

- viole

Well maybe your husband can explain that scene to you

 

[Nakosis]

As you know there is the button funny among the ratings possibilities...but the truth is...that we all come from different cultures...

So what is funny to my culture can sound inappropriate to say by other cultures...and vice versa.

If I have to be blunt..the kind of humor certain posters have is so eww...because it is not liked in my culture.

Vice versa...my jokes are not usually liked here or rated as funny..and yet my best friend literally die laughing when I tell them....

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Funny is according to cultural standards.

The two parties in the US have developed different cultural standards, to where what a person in one party finds funny is completely humorless or crass to a member of the opposing party.

 

[viole]

Well maybe your husband can explain that scene to you

I will sure ask him to translate. He is a big fan of Alberto Sordi and Verdone, so I guess he likes comedies in incomprehensible dialect.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Nakosis]

I thought I knew what was intentionally funny here.
But then I saw a post loaded with feminist jargon.
It sounded funny.
But it could've been serious.
If I gave it a <funny> frubal, I could be sanctioned for abuse.
So without a <confused> rating, I just passed on by.

It is rude I suppose to find humor in someone else's culture. One has to determine whether their humor is culturally appropriate.

 

[Estro Felino]

I will sure ask him to translate. He is a big fan of Alberto Sordi and Verdone, so I guess he likes comedies in incomprehensible dialect.

Ciao

- viole

That scene is realistic. That is the typical wedding of the Suburbanites , from Trastevere, or some parts of Tor Pignattara Tor Bella Monaca...
And..I have seen much worse honestly....in a church...

 

[viole]

That scene is realistic. That is the typical wedding of the Suburbanites , from Trastevere, or some parts of Tor Pignattara Tor Bella Monaca...
And..I have seen much worse honestly....in a church...

Ach, you Italians are so charming with your Monacas, Pignattaras, raccordi anularis, and such.

Bowever, I have to admit I get all weak if someone plays a serenata in italian for me, lol.

Ciao

- viole

 

[Tumah]

The answers to the titular questions are "me" and "all".

yet my best friend literally die laughing when I tell them

I would be scarred for life from ever saying a joke again!

 

[Estro Felino]

I would be scarred for life from ever saying a joke again!

We Italians use these hyperboles

 

[Estro Felino]

Ach, you Italians are so charming with your Monacas, Pignattaras, raccordi anularis, and such.

Ciao

- viole

Actually..."Tor Pignattara" is one of the most boorish names in Rome's topography

 

[Estro Felino]

a supporter of your Salvini,
- viole

I wish Salvini was mine...
I would marry him...