See the rapier-witted satire.
See the CPC talking point stenography-flavoured outrage from Sandy Crux:
OOPS!
Probably not, since the tags “Humour” and “Posts not to be taken too seriously” didn’t do the trick. And they say feminists are humourless??
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If I couldn’t stop laughing I would think it’s sad.
Well done.
It’s sick and it’s sad, alright. And funny, very funny.
*ahem* “Attention Blogging Tories!” Achtung! BAHAHAHAHAHA!
James Bowie – Screenshots at 11! HAHAHAHA!
Has any one ever done any research vis a vis conservatives and humour? None of them has a sense of humour (how’s that for generalizing?), and if they do try to do something funny, they fall flat on their respective faces. Hunter puts up Saturday “funnies”. It mostly consists of racist/feminist/toilet stuff. Straight out of grade school. Do people become Conservatives because they have no sense of humour? I guess it’s only a matter of time before Suzy ALL-CAPS does fetus funnies…
Wow! Did I speak tooooo soon. She just put up a video. Creepy (It’s supposed to be funny.)
olaf is funny. and that was extensive reading of a short, short list. poor sandy, dumb as dirt and cabbage.
Its like watching Forest Gump blog. Except its an evil Forest Gump that is slightly dumber and angrier.
Wowo.
The problem is that irony becomes an intellectual challenge to people who think a certain way. It would be funny if we didn’t have the sense to understand it. Oh fuck it, I’ll laugh anyway.
Is there a co-relation between the lack of wit and the inability to recognize satire, and the capacity for intellectual development and cognitive adaptation?
Using a limited sampling of Blogging Tories & Blob Blogging Wingnut as proof that the absence of humour is a determinant factor when identifying subjects with limited intellectual abilities might perhaps be unfair to … to … someone?
sq:
Regarding conservatives and humour, I have my own pet theory on this. Humour at its heart is based on pain and suffering and finding a way to deal with such, after all when you look at a joke or something that really makes people laugh you find someone(s) ending up negatively damaged by it in some manner/fashion. We laugh so as not to cry as the old expression goes, and to have a good sense of humour instead of simply being cruel requires a level of empathy and compassion for others that appears to be lacking with most conservatives. I really think it is that lack of sufficient empathy and ability to feel compassion and to relate to the butt of a joke that is at the root of why so many conservatives have limited to no sense of humour, and why what humour they do tend to show appears so juvenile and petty so much of the time. Now, of course, we are dealing with generalizations here with their inherent limitations, but within those limits I would argue this is the most likely explanation for their lack of an ability to appreciate humour, especially satire and such. Not to mention their inability to be self-deprecating and to laugh at themselves, indeed the inability to laugh at oneself is one of the most common aspects I find in zealots of all flavours, not just conservatives.
If you take everything too seriously then you miss out on so much in my books. I may be a serious sort as my scribblings tend to show (in both content and volume) but I also know how to laugh at myself and to see myself as occasionally being over the top in my passion over an issue. I also can poke fun at the fact I am a rather lengthy/tedious type of commentator/blogger with my comment lengths, whereas many conservatives I have seen cannot even manage that little self inflicted humiliation/humour. It is a sad thing to go through life with such stunted sense of humour (when there is one at all), and that the cruel juvenile humour that passes as sophisticated humour with such people only shows just how little they understand themselves and their fellow human beings and is something more to be pitied than mocked (most times that is, although that does not mean one should just ignore it entirely, it can lead to nastier and nastier situations otherwise) in my books. Mind you, Crux’s inability to understand what was going on here even with the tags and the obvious nature of the post in question is even more pathetic than usual IMHO, and well deserved the mocking. Not to mention the removal of the criticism once she realized she had made a fool out of herself yet again, too bad for her the internets tend to leave records of ones stupidity even after one tries to vanish it down the memory hole.
Me, I never remove something once I wrote it, but then I proof what I write before publishing it not just for spelling but for content to be sure it says what I want it to, that I have the underlying facts involved correct as well as not writing about things I do not understand. The simplest way to not appear like a fool is to actually not act like a fool after all. Pity this is so hard for so many on the right side of the political blogosphere in my experience, and it speaks volumes to their inability to be intellectually honest when they resort to the delete button so freely once they have been shown to be in error instead of simply accepting such and moving one after treating it like a learning experience.
P.S. forgive the poor writing style, I am still recovering from a minor procedure this week and the pain meds tend to make it a bit harder to properly focus.
What you said, Scotian. Excellent and relevant observations.
My only quibble is your use of the word fool. To be a wise fool or to act foolishly in great conscience can be a powerful expression of humility, compassion and wit. Which rarely is the case with rightwing zealots and ideologues.
SQ
Something like that. Though conservatives aren’t generally known for their keen sense of humour, not all humourless people are conservative. There are wet blankets on every side of the political spectrum — the common thread is taking oneself too seriously and being paranoid and self-righteous. That said, I think there are moderate conservatives out there who can appreciate a good laugh.
psa – Agreed, Olaf is one conservative who can be pretty funny.
Mike – I’m not all that familiar with Crocky except through CC, but from what I’ve seen she really does seem to be a propaganda machine for the CPC, with a corresponding sense of humour (or lack thereof).
Bruce – Laugh anyway. That’s what they are there for, to humour us
deBeauxOs
*ahem*
Maybe it’s the painkillers 
I guess you’ll have to count me in as one of the intellectually-underdeveloped. I didn’t get that
scotian
Exactly. Taking oneself over-seriously is definitely not limited to conservatives. Zealots of all flavours, as you say, are guilty as charged of being pretty humourless. That said, religious conservatives tend to be the absolute WORST as far as having ZERO sense of humour. I don’t know why — maybe they think this world is for pain & suffering and they’ll have their laugh-riot in the next world?
(PS – How are you feeling? Hope you’re well.)
Interesting observations scotian. (I hope you feel better soon by the by.)
One thing that makes me find Harper even more loathsome than GW Bush is that the Chimp actually has shown signs of self-deprecating humour. Mind you, he’s also been pretty insensitive and cruel in his choice of what constitutes “teh funny” as well. But at least it’s an emotional pulse of some sort. Harper, she of the capitals and Sandy all strike me as so single-minded in their respective goals that they have shunted any emotional feelings — I guess it’s their zealotry as you remarked.
But in general, there does seem to be a strong correlation between lack of humour and strong conservative values. Every once in awhile, I will catch this woman who is on the conservative circuit of comics and she is dreadful. Her humour is confined to pushing Republican speaking points.
JJ:
Recovering, recovering. More the stamina it took out of me than anything else, since I live in chronic pain to begin with I am used to having to put up with it, even if in this case it is coming from a different area than normal. I’ve only upped my usual painkiller dose by 20%, thankfully I haven’t needed to go higher because then the side effects would really get into a range I find hard to manage. What has sucked though is I’m sleeping only every other night since the procedure, basically Thursday night and last night are the only times I’ve slept. For example I left a rather lengthy and disjointed comment at RT’s yesterday on Cadman and the links to the Grewal fraud since both happened at the same time and what it showed about Harper in part because I was overtired at the time.
Then though I have always had a particular burr under the saddle where the Grewal fraud was concerned given how unprecedented it was and that Harper got away with it including not just the cover-up but who did the editing, when did Harper find out about it and how did he miss it if he only found out when the public discovered it, and how did the LOO have the recordings for three weeks and not notice edits so obvious the general public did as soon as they were released. That any party leader would use faked recordings to claim specific criminal charges against their opposition, vouch for the truthfulness and completeness of the recordings, then have it come out almost half the recording had been edited out to make the allegations appear valid when they weren’t is bad enough and then cover it up by claiming no CPCer did anything wrong and that any claims otherwise were creations of the Liberal war room and the evil liberal media conspiracy out to get Conservatives is bad enough. That he was screaming about the bribery attempt of his MP by Liberals that didn’t happen while at the same time authorizing close members of his staff to try and bribe an independent MP with a million dollar inducement just really inflames me as well as showing what utter contempt Harper has for the rule of law and responsible use of power. It is like the Plame outing for me, something I will never forget, never let go of, and always hold as a basis for my contempt for a person and political party.
As to your point about religious zealots, that is my experience as well, although I have to say some of the zealots/fanatics from the far left are about as bad (especially if you dare consider yourself a progressive, if you aren’t as far as they are then you are a traitor, sellout, or liar in their eyes, something I find more than a little offensive personally. If you don’t agree with them completely in their mission to save mother earth (in whatever form it is taking from environmentalism to vegetarianism) you are akin to Hitler or worse as one example. There is a reason why I make points about zealotry in general, because it is not ideologically specific nor only one side of a spectrum political or other is immune from. Fanatics of all types really worry me, because it is not the focus that scares me but the at any/all costs whatever the means mentality to get to the goal of that focus that does.
deBeauxOs:
Fair enough, and a valid point, well taken.
Well Scotian, if this is you feeling the effects of lack of sleep, my hat’s off to you, you are one ultra-articulate dude
When I’m over-tired it’s all I can do to grunt and go “HAHAHA”.
Amen
As a non-partisan “progressive”, I can certainly appreciate that.