Is It Okay To Laugh At Total Strangers Misfortune?

is “milk coming out the nose” funny?

Thu, Nov 12, 2009

on the drive with kenny jones – we dug into the email bag for ask kenny. this is where we tackle the tough issues like – who’s job is it to put the “next customer” sign up when standing in the checkout line or do you get wetter by running through the rain or walking?

our email box is flooded with inquiries daily. here’s a question one of the drive faithful sent in to the show today…

kenny,

last nite i was at popeye’s on the 6th circle. in the corner was a man and woman – they looked like they were on a date. he started laughing hysterically and all the dirt came out of his nose!

everybody around them began to laugh. is that wrong?

love you,

ela

i can only assume that “dirt” translates as “snot”. disgusting…and a very good question ela. that is quite the moral dilema.

is it okay to laugh at a total strangers misfortune?

here’s what the drive contingent had to say on the matter…

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they make very good points. but i think you’re within your right to laugh at someone if something (make that anything) shoots out there nose in a fit of laughter – stranger or not! while slightly disgusting – it’s comedy gold.

“slightly” may be an understatement ~~~~~~~~~~~>

i know, i know – what about the whole “do unto others as you would have done to you” thing. i get that, but the situation is comical.

so long as nobody is hurt or maimed by the misfortune – i think…

you get the green light

whether you know them or not.

and if someone laughs so hard that something comes out of their nose…odds are they’ve got a pretty good sense of humor ~ so feel free to laugh along with them.

bottom line…