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Rich`

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Dazzler

Posted: 13 years ago

Watching yesterday's episode.. the journalist and the man from AA, when they were telling their experiences, some points were in fact amusing but i felt the laughter at the horrid situations the addicts were in was in bad taste or maybe the fact when we dont know how it feels it doesnt sound as bad?

Maybe i am being very judgemental but then i would love to know other peoples views on this.

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Purva

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Posted: 13 years ago

What one finds amusing may be due to the fact that it is awfully stupid or obvious to a sane person. But we have to remember that to a man under influence of alcohol or substance abuse, that might be a logical course of action.

Having said that I wish they'd edited out the bit about railway toilets - someone else who's not thought of it may be inspired.

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Rich`

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Dazzler

Posted: 13 years ago

Umm.. its not really about that. my sense of humor is pretty disastrous. i laugh at everything which may not be funny to many. but if someone tells me or i hear something which is more of somebody's struggle, be it funny or not, i wont laugh.

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Purva

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Dazzler

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Posted: 13 years ago

Am with you on that one - the humor bit. Someone might be telling me the most involved tragic story and I would be like "Yeah right, and don't you find it funny that ..."

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tulasi prasad

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Posted: 13 years ago

There is nothing wrong in it in my opinion. Both the journo and the man from AA told their stories with a tinge a humour. I felt it funny especially when the man from AA narrated about the hospital episode. Life does not run on only 1 colour. there are diffrent shades to it. If you remember in the episode about disabled people even they told their experiences with a tinge of humour.

In fact I appreciate the sense of humour shown by these people. Nobody was making fun of them or hurting them there. So it was all in good taste.

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Rich`

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Dazzler

Posted: 13 years ago

i dont think the audience laughed at the men. but i felt the sense of expressionwasnt required as it is a touchy subject. and not everyone can be so light about it.

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charminggenie

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Stunner

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Posted: 13 years ago

What bothered me more was the impact of that journo's addiction, he lost his parents, that letter his father wrote-shows how his life was spirally down, to still live with that memories and trying to build a new life is very commendable.

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Rich`

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Dazzler

Posted: 13 years ago

i was almost hoping fr a filmy reunion.. 😊

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Purva

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Dazzler

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Posted: 13 years ago

There's another thought that stuck me just now.

When a person goes through so much personal trauma he/she might be inclined to turn it into a humorous anecdote in order to not appear an object of pity. Maybe what we respond to as audiences is that superficial humor. It takes time for the actual tragedy to sink in because our response has been neutralized.

Sometimes when we try to cling on to that bit of self-respect, we inject humor into the most painful of incidents in our personal life too, don't we? At such times it becomes difficult to judge how much humor is adequate and how much is destroying the message that we're trying to convey.

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Rich`

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Dazzler

Posted: 13 years ago

#10

i agree .. people do mask it ..
i still felt the audience was being a wee bit insensitive

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