stupid joke. thinly veiled Obama hate by right-winged Republican'ts
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...e/2008/11/liberals_vs_conservatives_who.shtmlCan liberals take a joke? Not as well as conservatives can. According to a recent study from the folks at Psychology Today, conservatives have the healthier funny bone of the two.
Here's how it worked: researchers gave self identified liberals and conservatives a series of jokes. Some were more traditional, like:
Husband: When I get mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger?
Wife: I clean the toilet bowl.
Husband: How does that help?
Wife: I use your toothbrush.
Others were a bit stranger, like this line from Jack Handy:
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
The end result? Conservatives found the jokes funnier. This surprised a few academics, some of them admitted though that their idea of conservatives as humorless stiffs may be more related to the political beliefs of liberal college professors than any real-world evidence.
lol Zin, you're not helping your cause... at all.
Besides, liberals really are less able to take a joke, and its proven.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...e/2008/11/liberals_vs_conservatives_who.shtml
Uber-liberal Bill Maher says conservatives can take a joke much better (i'm looking for the quote). Probably explains why most comedy is anti-conservative.. because conservatives are fucking grownups who can take a joke. Liberals call everything offensive and fucking sue their schools when they get picked on, srsly.
do liberals EVER have a sense of humor?
lol Zin, you're not helping your cause... at all.
Besides, liberals really are less able to take a joke, and its proven.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...e/2008/11/liberals_vs_conservatives_who.shtml
Uber-liberal Bill Maher says conservatives can take a joke much better (i'm looking for the quote).
Yes, when the joke isn't stupid.do liberals EVER have a sense of humor?
Liberals have more complex minds.
Liberals have more complex minds. We make more more mental associations. Conservatives construct fantasy worlds. Liberals connect to reality, which is often a downer.
Your "cleaning the toilet bowl with your toothbrush" joke brings up the image of unresolved marital tension, and passive-aggressiveness is not usually limited to one outlet. So, while funny on level 1, at levels 2, 3, and 4 it goes astray. Conservatives can only construct level 1 -- they need someone smarter to go any higher -- thus it's pure funny to them.
Your second joke implies assault on one hand and impotence on the other. Lots of laughs there.
Again: Level 1, funny enough. Levels 2+, downers. Conservatives again will never see past level 1 unless someone with an IQ over 100 is there to point it out.
As if Bill Maher speaks for The Liberals?lol Zin, you're not helping your cause... at all.
Besides, liberals really are less able to take a joke, and its proven.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/co...e/2008/11/liberals_vs_conservatives_who.shtml
Uber-liberal Bill Maher says conservatives can take a joke much better (i'm looking for the quote). Probably explains why most comedy is anti-conservative.. because conservatives are fucking grownups who can take a joke. Liberals call everything offensive and fucking sue their schools when they get picked on, srsly.
Complex doesn't always equal better.
No wonder you like stupid amounts of red tape and regulations to get anything done.
Blue Cross would allow it, then reverse the charges 120 days later, claiming fertility was a pre-exisiting condition, and dump it off into collections.Doubt it
Complex doesn't always equal better.
No wonder you like stupid amounts of red tape and regulations to get anything done.
As if Bill Maher speaks for The Liberals?
Who appointed him, King Limbaugh?
Offensive is just that, Humor is different.
And here we have the problem. Liberals point to Conservative pundits as references for Conservative thought, and Conservatives point to Liberal pundits as references for Liberal thought. So, given that most people have at least a mild idea of right and wrong, each side thinks the other is profoundly stupid/corrupt/whatever based on those images, furthering the "us vs them" ideology on both sides.
By the official party platforms there are very few people who are 100% liberal or 100% conservative; and identifying oneself as such is simply wrong for the vast majority of people and stupid due to the ambiguity. We need electoral reform. Badly. As it is we have a dual monopoly on politics with no room for new growth, so everyone makes a lesser of two evils choice come election day and doesn't really represent their ideals. If everyone could, and parties were more regulated, a lot of problems could be fixed.
/Digression
Conservatards just leave loopholes that crash the entire economy when exploited. Good job there.
Of course, when they tried to plug those loopholes, the democrats in Congress blocked their attempts. Oops.![]()
do liberals EVER have a sense of humor?
And here we have the problem. Liberals point to Conservative pundits as references for Conservative thought, and Conservatives point to Liberal pundits as references for Liberal thought.
