tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post856978476534160280..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: POLISH (AND OTHER) JOKES ARE VANISHINGTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-49114823140372427522010-09-22T10:17:15.706-05:002010-09-22T10:17:15.706-05:00Hi Astrology Unboxed/Fabienne: you are right with ...Hi Astrology Unboxed/Fabienne: you are right with you-tube etc. It's changing all over the place. There is a writing on an old house in Bamberg (Germany) which I remember (I translate): people always say "times are getting worse", what's taking place is that "times change, but people get stuck". It's better in German because of the rime, of course.Gian Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-30140820486430342522010-09-22T09:39:42.430-05:002010-09-22T09:39:42.430-05:00Hi Gian Paul & Twilight:
I have been thinking...Hi Gian Paul & Twilight:<br /><br />I have been thinking about what you both said. The type of humor we are used seems to have disappeared. However, I am wondering if it has not so vanished as changed forms. I am thinking specifically about the success of You Tube and all the videos that have become instant successes by depicting some form of silly slapstick humor.<br />As for Pluto in Capricorn,I think we will see a transformation of the sort of humor we are used too. Maybe in the way it is distributed (you tube)and the subjects (more about corporations,capitalism, greed and all Plutonian and Capricornian matters). But since Pluto is in Capricorn, I think the transformations will not be readily visible, but more in the Saturnine way (one step forward, one step backward or one step forward, two backwards). But one think is for more, humor as we are used is going to be radically transformed.Astrology Unboxedhttp://astrologyunboxed.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-79018352318427678772010-09-21T13:07:14.130-05:002010-09-21T13:07:14.130-05:00Hi Twilight, its entirely agreed. Times are changi...Hi Twilight, its entirely agreed. Times are changing, even regarding humor. In my view much has to do with the way people occupy their minds.<br /><br />TV probably is to blame, not just for less stuff to laugh, but who knows for the alarming rise of Alzheimer.<br /><br />(Since we are on the subject: A son living far away from his mother went to visit her after quite some years. He found her in good shape,<br />except for her mental agility. On his questioning, she replied that she was suffering from that German doctors disease, but couldn't remember his name...)Gian Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-24805164431891658262010-09-21T12:32:33.485-05:002010-09-21T12:32:33.485-05:00You're right, Gian Paul. Good jokes and truly...You're right, Gian Paul. Good jokes and truly funny humour are becoming harder and harder to find these days, especially in the USA.<br /><br />I was never a fan of the "nationality" jokes though, but they do present a kind of yardstick, easily identified. Political correctness, necessary as it is, did put a damper on that particular segment of humour. <br /><br />Looking back, even during World War 2, in Britain, blasted by blitzes, destruction and death, and during the hardships and shortages that followed, people still managed to joke, there were funny radio shows to lift spirits. I can just about remember some of the later ones.<br /><br />I don't know whether the Brits are as gloomy as Americans now. I'd be sad to think so.<br /><br />Current transit of Pluto through Capricorn is one place to lay blame, for colouring the "atmosphere" dark and gloomy.<br />That's going to last a l-o-n-g time!<br /> <br />The younger generation has lost the key to humour it seems. Or maybe it's just that their key doesn't open my door ?Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-63977113101897586092010-09-21T12:28:06.680-05:002010-09-21T12:28:06.680-05:00To Anon: had difficulties with my previous reply, ...To Anon: had difficulties with my previous reply, the net here in Brazil is becoming a permanent "joke": Had nevertheless to laugh today when I red the the Pope's chief financial wizard has been indicted for money laundering. And his name is GOTTI. Sounds like another divine appointment the Vatican made!Gian Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-69362299706982785732010-09-21T12:08:58.706-05:002010-09-21T12:08:58.706-05:00Anon, your comment is right to the point. I am tem...Anon, your comment is right to the point. I am tempted to respond - and don't think please that I am joking, the past times (when one could quite normally tell and hear a "good one") were largely brought down by an excess of mind-bending publicity etc.<br /><br />Some PR guys have sensed it. They tried to get their public back by offering (what they thought) "funny PR spots". Even that did not work anymore - or their humor was not good enough.<br /><br />And, Pluto in Capricorn may be putting an end to easy promises. Had to think that when a middle class person tells your president that he/she was getting tired to defend him, he/she was not exactly joking...Gian Paulhttp://(optional)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-40583002982058376382010-09-21T09:55:12.205-05:002010-09-21T09:55:12.205-05:00“Right now, with Pluto in Capricorn, I have the im...“Right now, with Pluto in Capricorn, I have the impression that in general the penchant for jokes and similar light stuff is receding.” <br /><br />I have the same impression... For these are dark, truly **dark** times - a Dark Age... <br /><br />It is the peculiar atmosphere of our age, in those past decades there was still a hope in the future, that now exists no more... <br /><br />The future can only be the dictatorship of neo-liberism - as Tea Party demonters - the weak reformism as Obama is doing or the religious far right that strikes back... The religions resurrected and then they wer zombies! <br />In fact it is impossible not to see the poor spiritual state of those people, if we compare their religions in their glory days and the parody of today! <br /><br />So no future is the strong sensation... <br /><br />Not exactly the best mental atmosphere for jokes...Anonhttp://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=453782385&blogId=531137435noreply@blogger.com