Given that the use of jokes can minimise harm to people during a tense
time, bring people together around a common understanding or illustrate
a conflicting issue between them and that others may well then misuse
humour as a method to divert attention from a real intention or use
humour in such a way as to confuse, is it any surprise there are
various interpretations of when it is appropriate.
Considering the
various uses of humour, a failure of humour would most regularly appear
as a general form of conduct where fear of misuse is a ruling factor.
Humourless or humorously it seems you make your own personal choice to
include or exclude humour in the different facets of the life you
choose to live, or recognise it.
Having spent many years around the
legal/security area, which are more inclined to generally be more
humourless, because, as has been stated in other posts, humour when it
goes wrong in those situations costs lives so is seen as dangerous and
often difficult to control within appropriate boundaries (note the
control word, on the surface somewhat paradoxical in that context).
Conversely the education sector frequently seems to use humour as part
of play and almost as a means of motivating learning.
Question:- Is
humour in areas where lives or wellbeing are not in any way at risk
acceptable?
Is it acceptable in any way within the DP arena?
Shoud
DP protect jokers?
Smiling.
Ian W
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20 February 2012 18:36
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Subject: Re:
[data-protection] Truly amazing!
It isn't just a US phenomenum and the
consequences over here can be more serious than a missed holiday....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/09/twitter_joke_trial_appeal/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/feb/08/twitter-joke-case-court-appeal
Chris Bayliss
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Subject: Re: Truly amazing!
I think the bad
guy being lucky once is one of the bad guys that only NEEDS
to be lucky
once - when you are dead, you can't have a second go.
Luck is also an
interesting word. Was it Arnold Palmer who, when a
commentator said to
him "That was a lucky round" said, "funny, the more I
practice the
luckier I get"?
I sort of side with the authorities on this, but
that's probably just me
with sense of humour failure. Which reminds me
of a guy going through
Atlanta Airport about three years ago, in the
same queue as us for passport
control. He was 6ft 3in at least and had
a T-Shirt proclaiming "Department
of Homeland Security. Fighting
tourism since 1945". Not a peep out of the
authorities on that one.
Simon Howarth MBCS CITP
www.informationedge.co.uk
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In message
<[log in to unmask]>,
at 14:00:20 on Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Chris Brogan <[log in to unmask]
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writes
> remember; the bad guys only have to be lucky once. The
good guys have to
be lucky all the time.
A quote that's sometimes used
the other way round - the bad guys have to be
lucky every time (not to
get caught) and the good guys just have to be lucky
once (following a
lead that this time does identify the bad guys).
--
Roland Perry
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