Humor is Still Not Pretty — ‘It Was Brilliant to Catch It’: UK Fisherman Catches Monster 67-Pound Goldfish
No need to know how the sausage is made, as long as it has a good/safe/inclusive/non-threatening/diverse/edifying punchline.
(Caught in a 3o-gal long aquarium at Petco in Devonshire.)
Humor is Still Not Pretty
Humor is not easy on anyone anymore.
Sometimes it’s as rough on the humorist as the audience, too.
No longer can we tell a simple ***** joke. Jokes about *****s are off-limits, too. Self-deprecating humor makes your mom mad. You pretty much have to fall on your *** to be funny around here.
To keep from crying
To keep from crying, I have to distract myself, after I tell a joke.
The other day I was at a party.
“How about those *****?” I asked a group of the party-goers.
They each turned away from me as quickly as they could, but one at a time. They were all in a hurry to join other parallel conversations.
“What’s wrong? That was funny!” I said to them…
“That was a funny joke,” I said to myself. “That wasn’t just old goober humor- that was FUNNY. What is the matter with these people?” I further asked myself.
“Oh look, something shiny,” I finally said to myself, seeing a bottle cap on the floor.
When humor is as important as it is to me, one who uses it daily as a defense mechanism, it is especially hard to run into people who just have no ability to even grin.
When a person like me tells a wonderful story and it falls flat for organic reasons or no good reason at all, it feels as though I am on stage in my underwear. I feel intensely self-conscious and cripplingly embarrassed with self-shaming.
Written humor is just as bad or worse. And, for the record, yes, I do spend a fair amount of time picturing myself in my underwear, but not for the lurid reasons you are thinking.
Research shows
Research shows lately that it takes 40% more work for the prep of a humor article than a serious scientific treatise.
And over 80% of them miss the mark and cause some unintended consequences by insulting an innocent group who just happen to have attorneys on retainer for such occurrences.
Insults are universal, ubiquitous, and are detectable almost everywhere.
Therefore, this word of advice to new Medium writers…
Of the 79 useable tags and topics, there are none that are funny. The closest one is “satire” which must include the name of a former political figure named *****, to qualify.
Pick easy subjects like analytical geometry and calculus, or even intellectual anthropomorphism in the latest Disney release. Just be analytical, not humorous.
Then when people don’t understand or appreciate your effort, they blame themselves and not you.
As for the goldfish…
As for the goldfish, it was not actually a goldfish, but some cross between two carp species, a leather, and a koi. The story, of course, comes from Great Britain, where the people are known for their interest in breeding ornamental koi with other things.
And, yes, the koi named Carrot was weighed, released, and swam off into the sunset, feeling only slightly bullied.
Thank you.
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(Fish picture posed at Lake Creed in Tweedshire, UK. Goldfish is picturing himself in his underwear.)