Plain Weird14 Apr 2008 04:13 pm

Laugh? Not Laugh?

By Nelson

Thanks to Mark. This is from an article about people who really care about the Diana inquest.

British eccentrics at their best. We need (not quite clinically – possibly) mad people like this to keep the rest of us with smiles on our faces. Obviously, if they are (clinically) mad, then we shouldn’t laugh.
Mike Tomlinson, Salisbury

This is something I’ve had to wrestle with since the moment I created this blog. I thought about it long and hard. Then I examined my conscience. Then I thought “fuck it”.

10 Responses to “Laugh? Not Laugh?”

  1. on 14 Apr 2008 at 4:24 pm   Tom

    There needs to be a little tick box on HYS for those who are clinically insane. We can then feel sorry for the proper mentallers and laugh our collective cock off at the rest of ‘em.

  2. on 14 Apr 2008 at 4:59 pm   Big Jamesie

    There is already a button to click which indicates that you are insane. It’s called “Add Your Commment”

  3. on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:01 pm   milt

    There’s a caption underneath the photo of Diana. It says “Diana died in 1997″.

    11 years ago.

    People who write the names of dead people they’ve never met on their faces and put themselves out to show that they care more than you do deserve to be physically clamped until they mend their behaviour. Like the spoof Brasseye/Kim Wilde episode, but without the spoof. Clamp them to a tree, or some railings, or some sort of heavy immovable.

  4. on 14 Apr 2008 at 6:40 pm   Ben

    What? Since when is laughing at proper mentals not allowed? If they’re clinically insane, they won’t know I’m laughing at them anyway.

  5. on 14 Apr 2008 at 6:43 pm   Ben

    “It’s fine, I move on very quickly from things,” he says.

    Yeah, he moves on quickly. It only took ELEVEN YEARS.

  6. on 15 Apr 2008 at 8:42 am   P.T. Barnum

    I am going to compose a musical “Princess of Hearts (She behaved like a tart)” – I will pitch it to Rowntree Macintosh or his brother Cameron. I am sure it is going to be a massive hit.

  7. on 15 Apr 2008 at 8:55 am   fucko the clown

    I don’t have a problem laughing at mentals, most of the time they are in thier own little world so entirely oblivious to the amusement they provide others. perhaps we could put them to good use, the ones that enjoy licking windows for example, could surely find some application in the window cleaning industry?

    I fully love the religious mentals that stand in the street with a megaphone telling everyone that god will punish them etc etc

    but general madness is fine too, although they always seem to be found on buses, do mental people have important appointments they need to go to? they seem to just like buses, i guess its warm and dry?

  8. on 15 Apr 2008 at 9:03 am   Jim

    Given that 98% of HYS respondants express the desire to return to the way things were I would have thought they would welcome the opportunity to laugh at mentalists. But no, Mike rejects such behaviour. Perhaps this should be looked on as the beginning of a change process. Today not laughing at nutters, tomorrow having a slightly more enlightened attitude towards immigration.

    According to my calculator at this rate of progress they will be happy to accept their daughter marrying a gay, black paedophile who has entered Britain illegally by 2525.

  9. on 15 Apr 2008 at 10:25 am   Padwick

    Those other Great British eccentrics really wet my whistle. My favourite eccentrics are the murderous duo Rosemary and Fred West! They really made me laugh :)

  10. on 15 Apr 2008 at 12:54 pm   huck

    as much as i admire mike’s diligent use of punctuation, i’m not sure i get his meaning.

    we need people who are “possibly) mad”?

    hmm.