How it feels to make an anti religion joke, in a non-religous workplace, with religious coworkers.
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Why would I?
Good question.
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My experience is that when comedy fails, it's the comedian's fault. Even when the material is terrific and the crowd is lame, the fault is the comedian not reading the room.
A comedian blaming the crowd is like a carpenter blaming the hammer.
Not living up to your name
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Have you considered not being an asshole?
Jokes don't necessarily make you an asshole, even with sensitive topics, it's about good faith in it being light-hearted. Jokes bridge the gap in talking about topics that are uncomfortable normally.
For example, I have a good friend who is disabled who I game with. My friend group calls him Cripple, and I'll also give him a hard time about by mentioning things about his specific handicap and he'll call me an ableist fuck, but he knows it's not being said in a mean way.
What's worse to him? Being treated different just because he's handicapped. He'd rather have that banter and feel like part of the group, not isolated.
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Jokes don't necessarily make you an asshole, even with sensitive topics, it's about good faith in it being light-hearted. Jokes bridge the gap in talking about topics that are uncomfortable normally.
For example, I have a good friend who is disabled who I game with. My friend group calls him Cripple, and I'll also give him a hard time about by mentioning things about his specific handicap and he'll call me an ableist fuck, but he knows it's not being said in a mean way.
What's worse to him? Being treated different just because he's handicapped. He'd rather have that banter and feel like part of the group, not isolated.
Of course. It all depends on context.
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Jokes don't necessarily make you an asshole, even with sensitive topics, it's about good faith in it being light-hearted. Jokes bridge the gap in talking about topics that are uncomfortable normally.
For example, I have a good friend who is disabled who I game with. My friend group calls him Cripple, and I'll also give him a hard time about by mentioning things about his specific handicap and he'll call me an ableist fuck, but he knows it's not being said in a mean way.
What's worse to him? Being treated different just because he's handicapped. He'd rather have that banter and feel like part of the group, not isolated.
No, they do. They do. If you know you're in an inappropriate setting and still do the joke, joke's on you. It would be exactly the same if it was the other way around.
Don't joke with things people care about if you're not willing to come off as an asshole. You're not doing a Netflix special. You don't have 'jesters' privilege' if no one sees you as a jester, but as a coworker.
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Yeah, best not to socialize too much in that way. I used to work a contract government gig and would usually be the only person there at 5am to avoid traffic/get home early for kids and the only other person to come in pre-8am was an extremely religious person (well, and a janitor who believed in nephilim who had human decendants who walked along us--- but he didn't socialize, so much a listen to crazy shit while cleaning)
Anyway, you better believe I didn't share my dark athiest humor and still got along fine somehow, maybe since I let out just enough edgyness to be interesting without being alienating. It's indeed walking on eggshells, but so is having pro-trans views, anti-capitalist views, etc.; that's what we have online circles on Lemmy for.
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Props if true, that's a hard job. I'm a field service engineer(glorified mechanic) for shit that couldn't arrive on site, much less be installed without forklifts.
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Yeah, best not to socialize too much in that way. I used to work a contract government gig and would usually be the only person there at 5am to avoid traffic/get home early for kids and the only other person to come in pre-8am was an extremely religious person (well, and a janitor who believed in nephilim who had human decendants who walked along us--- but he didn't socialize, so much a listen to crazy shit while cleaning)
Anyway, you better believe I didn't share my dark athiest humor and still got along fine somehow, maybe since I let out just enough edgyness to be interesting without being alienating. It's indeed walking on eggshells, but so is having pro-trans views, anti-capitalist views, etc.; that's what we have online circles on Lemmy for.
wrote last edited by [email protected]This joke isn't to say that I don't get along with my coworkers. Just that a joke about religion and prostitution being two of the oldest professional only surpassed by farming, didn't go over well.
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What the joke & structure? What’s the setup? What’s the punchline? Asking legitimately so I can hear your comedic take.
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What the joke & structure? What’s the setup? What’s the punchline? Asking legitimately so I can hear your comedic take.
The punchline was about how religion and prostitution are two of the oldest professions known to humanity only superseded by being a farmer.
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The punchline was about how religion and prostitution are two of the oldest professions known to humanity only superseded by being a farmer.
What’s your setup? I do joke writing as a hobby.
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What’s your setup? I do joke writing as a hobby.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh cool! Show us! Can you write joke about Amelia Earhart? No coconut crabs, that's too easy.
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My experience is that when comedy fails, it's the comedian's fault. Even when the material is terrific and the crowd is lame, the fault is the comedian not reading the room.
A comedian blaming the crowd is like a carpenter blaming the hammer.
Sometimes, the crowd is the joke
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Don't make anti religion jokes at work unless you're with people you know well and that they will be ok with it, and you're in a private area.
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Oh cool! Show us! Can you write joke about Amelia Earhart? No coconut crabs, that's too easy.
I could have sworn I had one, alas it's nowhere to be found.
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I could have sworn I had one, alas it's nowhere to be found.
Like God when someone really needs she/he/they?
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The punchline was about how religion and prostitution are two of the oldest professions known to humanity only superseded by being a farmer.
I guess you haven’t learned the unwritten rule on the three things you don’t talk about in the workplace: sex, religion, and politics.
You got sex and religion in there, did you also try to work something in there about politics too?
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I guess you haven’t learned the unwritten rule on the three things you don’t talk about in the workplace: sex, religion, and politics.
You got sex and religion in there, did you also try to work something in there about politics too?
I called religion a profession/business. I think that covers it.
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I called religion a profession/business. I think that covers it.
This is unwise. Best case is people don't laugh at a lame variation of a very old joke, worst case is you lose your job for expressing intolerance of people's religion and/or for being demeaning towards women. Middle case is you get a lecture by HR.
Unless your workplace is a comedy club, maybe stick to dad jokes. You're being paid to work, not be an edgy comedian. And your co-workers are most certainly not being paid to laugh at your jokes.
If your workplace was a comedy club, the audience is still not being paid to laugh at your jokes and a big part of your job would be to read the room.
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I guess you haven’t learned the unwritten rule on the three things you don’t talk about in the workplace: sex, religion, and politics.
You got sex and religion in there, did you also try to work something in there about politics too?
This is so american, people should talk about politics
