Are Michael Jackson jokes offensive to you?

[Dragonbones]

@jdsmith

The thing is most people do not approach this subject or similar subjects every day. And I doubt your nurse friends would tell a group of strangers the same jokes.

But MJ, Bill Clinton etc. are in the public domain. Fair game.

…so what category does the “MJ likes to blow Bubbles” joke fall into?
Wasn’t it a song line? “I’m forever blowing bubbles in the bath”?

@Stray Dog

I hate people making jokes about animal cruelty, because I see it as something we need to change and that can be changed

I’m a real animal lover too, and yet I find some animal jokes funny. Not real cases of abuse, but imaginary depictions, for example, of how someone should dispose of a pet goldfish which has exploded, or how to send your cats to Taiwan (my answer was a cartoon of a cat-apult flinging a cartoon cat).

I consider myself to be a caring person, and I find many jokes, like sexist, racist, Challenger disaster, 911, tsunami, dead baby, etc. jokes to be too tasteless to tell or enjoy. MJ jokes are a cheap laugh at his expense, yes! But he deserves it.

[Richardm]

A friend of mine had his legs amputated for being overweight and diebetic. Because his name is Bob, some people were making jokes about what do you call a man with no arms and no legs in the water. Stuff like that.

If you go visit Bob, he’ll just talk about how nice your legs are and can he touch them.

No matter what you do, you’re going to offend somebody aren’t you.

[bob]

There has been something bugging me about this Micheal Jackson thing and while it was quite simple I couldn’t figure it out till it came up in conversation in class today. I realized what it was when I heard myself say “I feel sorry for Micheal Jackson.” I realized that I felt sorry for him because he is so obviously crazy and I suspect that he became that way as a result of being famous his entire life. Who among us knows what that would do to a person? None, and yet so many of us so obviously enjoy making jokes at his expense. Kind of ignorant really isn’t it? Ignorant and scary in a way because it seems like the more that people bash him the more fashionable it becomes to do so. It is a cruel side of human nature that is not pleasant to observe.

Of course he should have been brought to task a long time ago over what went on with those kids but that is a somewhat different issue and not really a decent source of humour either.