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Title: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 03:49:26 PM
This is such an awkward moment for me. Every time someone mentions cancer, I can't help but notice how funny it is.

The most awkward thing related to this was when I was in a doctor waiting room and there was a TV playing a show about people with cancer. I help my laughter in for about five minutes before I couldn't help myself anymore, I think it was an interview with someone with a month to live that did me in and had me bursting into laughter. Jeez, all the people looking at me in the waiting room. I'm just worried if I ever see a person in real life with cancer, I won't be able to hold my laughter in. How awkward would that be?!
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Skylark on June 07, 2008, 03:50:19 PM
THat would be very awkward! But I don't think cancer is funny.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Lovefoxxx on June 07, 2008, 03:52:59 PM
i had the same problem with AIDS, and that hasnt been funny in like 20 years now.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Houdini on June 07, 2008, 03:53:26 PM
I don't really get what's so funny about cancer.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Feynman on June 07, 2008, 03:56:19 PM
I hate it when you make a joke about a disease, and someone says "that's not funny"; they just act like they care by sticking up for those with the disease, but really they don't give a shit. It's that hypocrisy that gets to me. If they really cared, they'd be doing something more than saying "that's not funny" with every mention of cancer or AIDS in a joke--like donating their genitals to those with herpes.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 03:57:44 PM
Quote from: Bassir on June 07, 2008, 03:56:19 PM
I hate it when you make a joke about a disease, and someone says "that's not funny"; they just act like they care by sticking up for those with the disease, but really they don't give a shit. It's that hypocrisy that gets to me. If they really cared, they'd be doing something more than saying "that's not funny" with every mention of cancer or AIDS in a joke--like donating their genitals to those with herpes.
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Skylark on June 07, 2008, 04:04:53 PM
No, I don't find it funny because it's really a terrible disease. Have you ever lived with somebody with cancer? No? I have. So, yes, I do care. And no, I don't find it funny at all.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: CutLess on June 07, 2008, 04:06:46 PM
quick, someone get my UV rays
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 04:07:37 PM
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 04:04:53 PM
No, I don't find it funny because it's really a terrible disease. Have you ever lived with somebody with cancer? No? I have. So, yes, I do care. And no, I don't find it funny at all.
ok what about excited delirium
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Nyerp on June 07, 2008, 04:20:27 PM
Cancer isn't funny.

AIDS, however, is a knee-slapping good time.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Selkie on June 07, 2008, 05:15:53 PM
I really don't find it funny.

I suggest you get your sense or humor evaluated, it's seriously ill. 
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Lozal on June 07, 2008, 05:35:21 PM
Cancer isn't funny when you've had seven people in your family die or have it at one point.

AIDS, however, no matter how terrible of a disease it is, makes me laugh.  powerofone;
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:18:17 PM
Goddamn, do you guys understand the hidden meaning?
Not the surface meaning, the real meaning?
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: ME## on June 07, 2008, 06:22:07 PM
lol
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:22:57 PM
Quote from: ME86 on June 07, 2008, 06:22:07 PM
lol
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:27:08 PM
(http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3995/cancerlolnw4.png)
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: don't let's on June 07, 2008, 06:28:12 PM
Maybe it's funny for the same reason why people watch those skateboarding videos just for when the guys fall on a pole and are no longer able to reproduce.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: ME## on June 07, 2008, 06:28:15 PM
Quote from: Beth Gibbons on June 07, 2008, 06:27:08 PM
(http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3995/cancerlolnw4.png)

lol
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:31:30 PM
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: ME## on June 07, 2008, 06:34:30 PM
Quote from: Beth Gibbons on June 07, 2008, 06:31:30 PM
(http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8332/alzheimerslolcj5.png)

lol
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:40:12 PM
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 06:54:17 PM
(http://i26.tinypic.com/25kso4w.jpg)
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Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: ME## on June 07, 2008, 06:58:44 PM
Quote from: Beth Gibbons on June 07, 2008, 06:54:17 PM
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lol
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Sam on June 07, 2008, 07:05:22 PM
I'm not stickingup for those with the disease like Bassir sys, but I on't really see why caner's funny.  doodthing;

I mean, it;s just a disease, it doesn't make me laugh or anything.

but like Lozal says, AIDS is highly humorous. I think that's just because it's so easy to pass it's on, it's so easy to make jokes about. That and it's sex-related.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 07:12:23 PM
Quote from: Sam. on June 07, 2008, 07:05:22 PM
That and it's sex-related.
Cervical cancer is sex-related in most cases.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: [REDACTED] on June 07, 2008, 07:23:11 PM
guys i think i have
omg lol rolfmao
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Tomboh on June 07, 2008, 10:41:31 PM
my uncle died of cancer about a week ago

doodthing;
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Ringo on June 08, 2008, 12:26:00 AM
It's not really that funny. A friends dad died of kidney cancer so the disease lacks that comedic punch so seemingly prevalent here.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: The artist formally known on June 08, 2008, 01:01:41 AM
why is it that when people tell me something that happened to someone, they make it sound SO funny and then like they have a 5 second pause and they announce that they died after the pause.


during the pause i usually laugh. below is an actual conversation

"so my friend's drill sargent drank 6 red lines and climbed up a huge mountain"


i laugh

"yeah he had a heart attack and died."


"oh. ahha what?"
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Nyerp on June 08, 2008, 07:29:56 AM
[Laughs]
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Feynman on June 08, 2008, 08:26:53 AM
Every single disease is hilarious and can be made fun of. Of course, that doesn't work well for me in the house considering my father's a doctor and my mother's a typical woman.
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: LCK on June 08, 2008, 08:32:36 AM
they can just laugh right back at you because you're gay and you'll probably get aids and most likely die of something as simple as the common cold

baddood;
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Ezloﺕ on June 08, 2008, 08:43:49 AM
because you will soon be diagnosed with cancer
Title: Re: Why is cancer so funny?
Post by: Geno on June 08, 2008, 10:09:22 PM
My mom has cancer asshole  :(