Why do people find September 11 jokes funny?

The day after the Shuttle Challenger blew up we were telling jokes in school. Not sure why, it is pretty disrespectful but it is what it is.

Making a joke about 9/11 doesn't strike me as any less tasteful than making a gay joke or racist joke.

The terrorist attacks aren't so special they they are the 1 thing immune from jokes.

I tend to not laugh anytime I hear one.. Sure its been a decade since it happened, but just the thought of seeing the WTC hit that day still lingers

If you don't find this funny you're a humourless douche.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSpwEpEnv4

People make jokes about everything. Don't take it seriously they're just jokes.

Granted it has been over 10 years, but lately I have been subject to several jokes and I can't help but be offended. Everything from wow must have been Stevie Wonder steering the plane to dropping like its hot faster than jumpers out the windows of the world trade. Does anyone else think this type of humor is insensitive or is it time america gets over it and uses laughter as part of the heeling process?

GreenPatchSky

I think you need to grow the **** up and learn how to humor.

People think that watching rl footage of peoples heads being cut off is funny or that rape is funny. So is it really a suprise that people would find terrorist attacks funny? As for why, I don't know what the why would be maybe it's just what gives them their kicks or whatever.

I will laugh at some of the most offensive jokes around---there's nothing funny about 9/11...

junglist101

If that's the case then the first part of your statement obviously isn't true.

Your levity is good, it relieves tension and the fear of death.sSubZerOo

But seriously, it's been a decade, get the hell over it.

Who cares about 9/11? It happened a long time agoCapitan_Kid

Ahahahhaaa, your a funny guy there brah. :roll:

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Who cares about 9/11? It happened a long time agoCHOASXIII

Ahahahhaaa, your a funny guy there brah. :roll:

I agree with him actually, it's been near eleven years, time to get the hell over it.

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Who cares about 9/11? It happened a long time agoKhan933

Ahahahhaaa, your a funny guy there brah. :roll:

I agree with him actually, it's been near eleven years, time to get the hell over it.

Well do you think it's appropriate to run around making jokes about people jumping out of buildings or something? It's fine to say, "lets stop talking about it" but it's not alright to go around justifying making jokes about it.

[QUOTE="Khan933"]

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

Ahahahhaaa, your a funny guy there brah. :roll:

CHOASXIII

I agree with him actually, it's been near eleven years, time to get the hell over it.

Well do you think it's appropriate to run around making jokes about people jumping out of buildings or something? It's fine to say, "lets stop talking about it" but it's not alright to go around justifying making jokes about it.

I'm sorry to sound like George Bush here, but if people are still so hung up on this then the terrorists won, brah.

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Khan933"]

I agree with him actually, it's been near eleven years, time to get the hell over it.

Khan933

Well do you think it's appropriate to run around making jokes about people jumping out of buildings or something? It's fine to say, "lets stop talking about it" but it's not alright to go around justifying making jokes about it.

I'm sorry to sound like George Bush here, but if people are still so hung up on this then the terrorists won, brah.

That's not what I'm saying. It's alright to just get over it, cause I did a long time ago but making jokes about it isn't funny though.

[QUOTE="Khan933"]

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

Well do you think it's appropriate to run around making jokes about people jumping out of buildings or something? It's fine to say, "lets stop talking about it" but it's not alright to go around justifying making jokes about it.

CHOASXIII

I'm sorry to sound like George Bush here, but if people are still so hung up on this then the terrorists won, brah.

That's not what I'm saying. It's alright to just get over it, cause I did a long time ago but making jokes about it isn't funny though.

I'm not denying it's rather tasteless humor, but I still find it funny.

[QUOTE="Khan933"]

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

Well do you think it's appropriate to run around making jokes about people jumping out of buildings or something? It's fine to say, "lets stop talking about it" but it's not alright to go around justifying making jokes about it.

CHOASXIII

I'm sorry to sound like George Bush here, but if people are still so hung up on this then the terrorists won, brah.

That's not what I'm saying. It's alright to just get over it, cause I did a long time ago but making jokes about it isn't funny though.

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Khan933"]

I'm sorry to sound like George Bush here, but if people are still so hung up on this then the terrorists won, brah.

Capitan_Kid

That's not what I'm saying. It's alright to just get over it, cause I did a long time ago but making jokes about it isn't funny though.

Don't take what I am saying out context, the point is people dying isn't funny.

Don't take what I am saying out context, the point is people dying isn't funny.

CHOASXIII

To you.

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

That's not what I'm saying. It's alright to just get over it, cause I did a long time ago but making jokes about it isn't funny though.

CHOASXIII

Don't take what I am saying out context, the point is people dying isn't funny.

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Does that mean i cant make jokes about the black plague too?Capitan_Kid

Don't take what I am saying out context, the point is people dying isn't funny.

I give up. -walks out of thread-

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

infinite884

Let it be known that I was 7 when 9/11 happened, and my mother happened to be on a buisness trip in new york, I think you see where this is going. Yet I still lol at 9/11 jokes if they're funny, perhaps that makes me a bad person. But just throwing this down there.

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

infinite884

So you've never made a joke about starving people in Africa or anything like that?

[QUOTE="CHOASXIII"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] Does that mean i cant make jokes about the black plague too?Capitan_Kid

Don't take what I am saying out context, the point is people dying isn't funny.

Fair point actually.

[QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

JML897

So you've never made a joke about starving people in Africa or anything like that?

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

infinite884

Yawn.

Sh*t happens, you need to grow up and get over it.

Time isn't going to bring the dead back, your whining is completely useless.

because peope are disrespectful.

[QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

Khan933

Let it be known that I was 7 when 9/11 happened, and my mother happened to be on a buisness trip in new york, I think you see where this is going. Yet I still lol at 9/11 jokes if they're funny, perhaps that makes me a bad person. But just throwing this down there.

[QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

N30F3N1X

Yawn.

Sh*t happens, you need to grow up and get over it.

Time isn't going to bring the dead back, your whining is completely useless.

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

infinite884

[QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

Capitan_Kid

The reason people care more about 9/11 than various atrocities in the Middle East/Africa is because people can relate to 9/11 more. With 9/11, many Americans thought "Holy f*ck, that could have been me or somebody I love".

You'd be hard-pressed to find a recent attack on a western country that was even close to as deadly as 9/11 was.

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

JML897

The reason people care more about 9/11 than various atrocities in the Middle East/Africa is because people can relate to 9/11 more. With 9/11, many Americans thought "Holy f*ck, that could have been me or somebody I love".

You'd be hard-pressed to find a recent attack on a western country that was even close to as deadly as 9/11 was.

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"][QUOTE="infinite884"]

theres really nothing funny about 9/11, or any tragic event like that, people burned alive, people jumped out of buildings, kids had to grow up without their moms and dads. Freedom of speech is alive and well and you can say anything you want but (and excuse my french )your a b*tch if you joke about something like that. I would like to see you go through what the families of people who where in those buildings and planes had to go through or better yet i would like to see you in those buildings on the top floors with no way to get out and see if you find it funny.

JML897

The reason people care more about 9/11 than various atrocities in the Middle East/Africa is because people can relate to 9/11 more. With 9/11, many Americans thought "Holy f*ck, that could have been me or somebody I love".

You'd be hard-pressed to find a recent attack on a western country that was even close to as deadly as 9/11 was.

Love ?

Love ?!?!?!

What is love, baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

see, I don't waste time with people who talk sh*t behind a computer screen. you have a good day thoughinfinite884

Yeah, you do, otherwise you wouldn't be here dumbass.

If everyone had your crappy morals and complete lack of introspective thinking we'd still be living in caves.

[QUOTE="JML897"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] 9/11 is just another death filled day. People die all the time for various reasons. Why should i care about this day more than any other?Capitan_Kid

The reason people care more about 9/11 than various atrocities in the Middle East/Africa is because people can relate to 9/11 more. With 9/11, many Americans thought "Holy f*ck, that could have been me or somebody I love".

You'd be hard-pressed to find a recent attack on a western country that was even close to as deadly as 9/11 was.

theres really nothing funny about 9/11infinite884

[QUOTE="JML897"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"] 9/11 is just another death filled day. People die all the time for various reasons. Why should i care about this day more than any other?Capitan_Kid

The reason people care more about 9/11 than various atrocities in the Middle East/Africa is because people can relate to 9/11 more. With 9/11, many Americans thought "Holy f*ck, that could have been me or somebody I love".

You'd be hard-pressed to find a recent attack on a western country that was even close to as deadly as 9/11 was.

Because the death toll of September 11 is a joke when compared to how many innocent people died during the US military intervention in the middle east?