NP Friday March 18, 2016

[Drachefly 30]

On March 18, 2016 at 1:06 AM, WR...S said:

Y'know, there was a time this would've been funny, but now it just feels a bit tragic.

You mean, at this point, Tedd still hasn't had a bunch of the revelations about himself that he's had by the furthest-forward times we've seen, and so here we see little bits of inner conflict welling up and out? Yeah.

[The Old Hack 2,448]

13 hours ago, Drachefly said:

On 3/18/2016 at 6:06 AM, WR...S said:

Y'know, there was a time this would've been funny, but now it just feels a bit tragic.

You mean, at this point, Tedd still hasn't had a bunch of the revelations about himself that he's had by the furthest-forward times we've seen, and so here we see little bits of inner conflict welling up and out? Yeah.

The Moderator: Ahem. I just realised that I did WR...S an injustice when I initially posted a remark speaking out against his post. I misread it as a rather rude criticism and now I see that it clearly was not intended so.

My apologies to both WR...S and the forum at large.

~tOH.

[ijuin 572]

I think the intended meaning was "tragic for Tedd that (s)he is dealing with all of these internal conflicts", not "tragic for the readers that a joke is not funny".

[The Old Hack 2,448]

30 minutes ago, ijuin said:

I think the intended meaning was "tragic for Tedd that (s)he is dealing with all of these internal conflicts", not "tragic for the readers that a joke is not funny".

Indeed.

[Stature 96]

34 minutes ago, ijuin said:

I think the intended meaning was "tragic for Tedd that (s)he is dealing with all of these internal conflicts", not "tragic for the readers that a joke is not funny".

Incidentally, the latter made me snicker. What is wrong with me? 

[Conflicts (e.g. "the most obvious", death; aggression; dealing with stranger; dealing with danger; no squirrels; dogs)]

4 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

Indeed.

"Indeed", indeed.

[Scotty 1,061]

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[ijuin 572]

On March 23, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Stature said:

Incidentally, the latter made me snicker. What is wrong with me? 

[Conflicts (e.g. "the most obvious", death; aggression; dealing with stranger; dealing with danger; no squirrels; dogs)]

"Indeed", indeed.

I forget the soirce, but. . .

"Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall in a sewer and die."

In other words, comedy is heavily based upon schadenfreude.