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heliumbreath ([personal profile] heliumbreath) wrote in [personal profile] terriko 2011-02-03 03:42 pm (UTC)

There's a link between the funny and the disgusting, though, as a lot of humor pushes outside the box of normal everyday behaviour, and the gray zone isn't well-defined or the same for everyone, so what might be funny to one person is overdone and beyond funny, well into bad taste, for another. And some people seem to like to occasionally watch a horror film with buckets of blood and vomit and victims being violated every which way, or play such roles at Halloween, going far beyond what they'd ever want to actually experience in real life, because maybe it makes the mundane seem wonderful by contrast or somesuch (not my thing, though, but from outside one does try to figure out what it's about). Different cultures and subcultures set their limits in different places, which will make being an outsider difficult, and there is a need to set the accepted-behaviour bar to "bland" in situations like workplaces where a bunch of different people have to get along together for purposes other than their entertainment.

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