Tasteless Jokes by Blanche Knott - 6 out of 10

 

Tasteless Jokes by Blanche Knott

 

6 out of 10

 

 

Humor is one of the crucial elements of happiness, it is a Character Strength, and has been identified as one of the ten ingredients of Positivity by the ultimate expert in the field, Barbara Fredrickson https://realini.blogspot.com/2015/05/positivity-by-barbara-fredrickson-life.html in her classic book called…

 

Positivity – the other components would be awe, inspiration, serenity, interest, pride, hope, joy, gratitude and love – the problem is if the humor (if there is any) in tasteless jokes is compatible with inspiration, serenity and the rest, for you could maybe find merriment in some of them, but you might be aghast at others

Furthermore, there have been serious clashes on what can be said, where do we draw the line for jokes, is there a line, can you take shots at various categories in jest, such as the overweight, some comedians have pushed this further, Dave Chappelle was criticized for some of the lines in his shows, regarding people with challenges

 

As always, I jump out of the script, and using Lateral Thinking, or maybe no thought process at all, and refer to the crisis of the day – the past few actually – the assassination attempt on Orange Jesus, and the insistence that now, we cannot say bad things about him, because look, that fellow tried to shoot him dead…

Unless of course we embrace one of the conspiracy theories, one made its way all the way downtown, at the health club, where some insist that there is no way that that incident could just happen, and I say it just did, I am adamant that you could not have this coward just stand there, to have somebody shoot at him, as a show

 

Neither is the opposite version, with ‘Biden giving the order’ any more accurate – I could well return to all this, but let us see if I manage to squeeze in something about those tasteless jokes, and I will mention the one about this fellow, who dies, and has a pact with the spouse to come back and explain what happens after life

So, he tells her that the program is eating, then a run along the golf course, some fucking, another trip on the golf course, fucking again, eating and then she says ‘you must be in heaven’, and he replies no, I am a rabbit in Sussex, something like that, if I am not screwing this…incidentally, they even have jokes with Alzheimer, where they forget the punch lines and all else

Many, if not most of the ‘tasteless’ involve what I have been saying, the notion that they offend different nationalities, categories, only we could switch and when an Irish, Polish and whatever enter a bar, or has this insult proffered against him (by the way, one of the bar jokes was somewhat interesting, in that it had women, and then saying something about them changing the paradigm) you could put in anything else…

 

About paradigm shift you find in the blessed Vernon God Little https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/06/vernon-god-little-by-dbc-pierre-divine.html the Booker Prize Winner by DBC Pierre, many passages are phenomenal, and statistically, to be nationalistic, racist is to be stupid

If you take one hundred humans, you get there some awkward, silly, intelligent, cruel people, a large enough group will provide variety, vices and virtues, regardless of their birth, skin color, gender and so on

 

I have reached the section on Arabs, where they said, as a joke, that ‘they invented a time travel device, and they call it Islam, something like that – here the jesting targets the fact that dogmas, precepts, rules can be imposing, and bring you to the Middle Ages, only that is what most religions do, especially for the fundamentalists

Let me do my own shtick, joke and say that in the alleged most advanced place in the world, a cult has just confirmed A fool, Orange Jesus they call him, no less, to be the nominee, and he used to have two chances in three, just a couple of weeks ago, to win, but now it could be 80% sure that this is going to be the next most powerful eejit in the world

 

What do you call a thief in Saudi Arabia, the answer is lefty, referring to that barbaric law which punishes the crime with amputation, and there is another with eighty ways of making love, but they all involve some kind of weird, animal action, expect for one, and let us move on to the…CIA, which wants to hire an assassin

There are three candidates left, and the first is told they want to see how he obeys orders and say this is a gun, your wife is in the next room, you have to go in and kill her, but the first man says no, I will not do that, while the second, when he is told the same thing, walks in and then returns, saying he could not do it…

 

The third though, after he is instructed to get inside and murder the spouse, enters the room, and then they hear load noises, some screams and a kerfuffle going one for quiet a long time, after which the fellow walks out rather shaken and says ‘you never told me there were blanks in the gun’, the problem here is the way it is told

Finally, in this bar, we have a man coming in with an ostrich and a cat, he wants a drink and then the cat and ostrich, and he has the exact change for the barman, they come again, and for the whisky and the rest, he has the right money, after the third coming, the barman is puzzled and wants to know what is the scheme here, and he is told that the guy had met a genie, and was given three wishes, the first was to always have exact change, which was smart, said the interlocutor, but then the man fucked up for the second and third wish – he asked for a bird with long legs and tight pussy…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

 

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”