That looks like it hurt....

[reveal]

And AMFV had tapes that people sent in. No one's going to send in a tape of Johnny running headfirst into the plate glass window if he ended up dying of a brain hemorrhage.

Most of the videos on the net are ones that people think are funny so they post them. Whether or not the person is really hurt is irrelevant.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Nothing funny about it that I see. I don't get why the internet has so many videos of other people getting hurt and people find it humerous.

Because it's funny watching other people get hurt through their own stupidity, and it always has been.

As the wise Homer once said, "It's funny because it's happening to somebody else!"

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Because it's funny watching other people get hurt through their own stupidity, and it always has been.

Stupidity? I've seen people laugh at videos of someone getting hit by a car running a red light. That's because of the persons stupidity? The guy in this video trips and falls off the stage, and he's stupid? You've never tripped and fallen?

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Stupidity? I've seen people laugh at videos of someone getting hit by a car running a red light. That's because of the persons stupidity? The guy in this video trips and falls off the stage, and he's stupid? You've never tripped and fallen?

No, and I'm feeling pretty smug about it right now.

But, as you well know, I was responding to your "why do people" post, not the video in question. Just because I ooze schadenfreude doesn't mean I'm completely heartless. People need to have played into their own injuries for me to find true hilarity there.

Accidental injuries can merit at best a mild chuckle if they're particularly stylish.

 

[reveal]

No, and I'm feeling pretty smug about it right now.

But, as you well know, I was responding to your "why do people" post, not the video in question. Just because I ooze schadenfreude doesn't mean I'm completely heartless. People need to have played into their own injuries for me to find true hilarity there.

Accidental injuries can merit at best a mild chuckle if they're particularly stylish.

Some random comedian whose name I can't remember:

"I'm getting old. Yesterday, I fell down some stairs and someone actually asked 'Are you alright?' You know you're getting old when no one laughs at you falling down the stairs."

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Some random comedian whose name I can't remember:

"I'm getting old. Yesterday, I fell down some stairs and someone actually asked 'Are you alright?' You know you're getting old when no one laughs at you falling down the stairs."

Now that's funny!

 

[Darth K'Trava]

And AMFV had tapes that people sent in. No one's going to send in a tape of Johnny running headfirst into the plate glass window if he ended up dying of a brain hemorrhage.

Most of the videos on the net are ones that people think are funny so they post them. Whether or not the person is really hurt is irrelevant.

True. And to think just how many people crane their necks to watch a car wreck on the highway.... People are drawn towards things that cause others hurt and pain.

 

[reveal]

Time to blow some minds. I a NTLer is going to suport BK here. I find seeing others hurt funny. I can't watch the video as I am at work to attest to teh funny, but I am sure I would get a chuckle.

Guy's on a game show. He goes to shake the hand of the host and falls off the stage to the floor which is at least 8 feet below. There's nothing to cushion his fall. When they pan down to show the host coming down the ramp to check on him, the guy's not moving.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Accidental injuries can merit at best a mild chuckle if they're particularly stylish.

Accidental injuries end up on America's Funniest Videos.

 

[Tewligan]

Guy's on a game show. He goes to shake the hand of the host and falls off the stage to the floor which is at least 8 feet below. There's nothing to cushion his fall. When they pan down to show the host coming down the ramp to check on him, the guy's not moving.

Gosh, that DOES sound hilarious.