WHY is humour often missing from the political section of Y/A..?

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pamcarter

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Not at all! Most questions and answers make me smile at least and sometimes laugh so much I double over with tears. Some of the people here have really great senses of humor if you don't miss it. You are right though that humor is engaging and also healthy.
 
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Darwinall

New member
I try, but there are a great number of people here who are so intent on answering with anger, displaying their anger and disagreement with anyone they even think may be professing different beliefs than theirs.

Check out my most recent Question, and the replies.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj9keo.m6xMJbtrZiPVP3UXsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100315202949AAJ3ymn
 
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noname1

Member
The political issues being discussed affect a lot of lives so people don't take it lightly.

It's true that often the world laughs with you when you laugh, but not everything is funny. There are serious issues too, and that doesn't mean it's necessary to cry about it. It's possible to discuss some things seriously without laughing or crying.
 
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JacobW

Member
I have been a participant for three years. It was not always like this. But, these are very serious times. I was born in the early 1950's. I have never seen a greater threat to the Political health of America as I am seeing now. This President and these Congressional Leaders appear to have an agenda based on some wildly un-American concepts of Progressive Tyranny unlike anything this country has seen before.

For instance, if Pelosi and Reid use this unconstitutional measure they call the "self-executing rule" it will create a Constitutional Crisis of Biblical proportions. I have lived through hard times before but never have I seen anything like this. For the first time in my life, the future of America is truly in the balance.

Serious times, indeed.

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TheMom

New member
There are a few on here that have a great and witty sense of humor and make me laugh out loud. But I admit, it's few and far between.
 
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Thomas

Member
I try to share my pathetic humour in this section which is helped by the black comedy of living in a country being screwed out of sight by the EU and having a Labour government about which we have to laugh or go completely potty!

I will now attempt to kill off humour in Y/A Politics for ever by posting the worse 'joke' I ever heard. You have been warned!

'A guy's car broke down miles away from anywhere. It was a muddy road bounded by high hedges. The guy got out and lifted the bonnet (hood) but couldn't see anything wrong. From over the hedge came a deep voice - "Slap the fuel pump with your shoe!" Guy looks up and see a large black horse towering the hedge. "Do it NOW!!" the horse shouted. The guy, frightened out of his mind, slapped the pump with his shoe and almost like magic the motor sprung into life." The guy jumped in the car a drove at speed to the nearest pub, shaking like a leaf he swallowed three Jack Daniels one after the other. "Hey," said the bar tender, "You had a fright or something?" The guy explained. Bar Tender laughed aloud. "You were lucky the black horse found you first. His brother, the white one don't know a thing about cars!"

Pathetic enough?
 
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GoneGalt

New member
I wish I knew. I like to joke around, but I also like to have serious debates on the issues.

This is politics. It's bloody, muddy, and not for the weak of heart.

But if it pleases you, I'll tell a joke about a fart.
 
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