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Originally Posted by milo
That would pretty much infer humour being freestanding and independant of personal context, which is really bollocks. Theres no inherently funny thing everyone on earth can laugh at regardless of their personal experiences. If i make a joke about face-aids to a stranger then find out he has aids and is about to die the funny levels plummet pretty dramatically. New information changes/alters the context of a situation and hence any humour within it.
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True, but I'd like to argue that aids is something you can't do anything about, but being a crazy fat christian chick on the other hand you can do something about.