Video: Ivan Basso leaves Tour de France due to testicular cancer

gareth2510 wrote:

I find the fact that you consider your comment as a form of humour to be quite baffling. Maybe you should visit an Oncology dept and see just how funny you 'sense of humour' really is.

Pathetic

Luckily we are all different.
I have not had cancer but I have had several serious operations, the latest a triple heart bypass. I assure you I joked about them, and my fellow patients understood the humour.

felixcat wrote:

gareth2510 wrote:

I find the fact that you consider your comment as a form of humour to be quite baffling. Maybe you should visit an Oncology dept and see just how funny you 'sense of humour' really is.

Pathetic

Luckily we are all different.
I have not had cancer but I have had several serious operations, the latest a triple heart bypass. I assure you I joked about them, and my fellow patients understood the humour.

Keep explaining, maybe someone else will eventually get the humor. Or not.

I've not been explaining. Either you get it or you don't.
When did the British become so po-faced? We used to like a bit of robust, blach humour.
"If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined up."

I could give you some jokes from mountain rescues, but they would upset you too much.

felixcat wrote:

I've not been explaining. Either you get it or you don't.
When did the British become so po-faced? We used to like a bit of robust, blach humour.
"If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined up."

I could give you some jokes from mountain rescues, but they would upset you too much.

Keep going, your making yourself look a total arse

felixcat wrote:

I've not been explaining. Either you get it or you don't.
When did the British become so po-faced? We used to like a bit of robust, blach humour.
"If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined up."

I could give you some jokes from mountain rescues, but they would upset you too much.

There's a time and a place for black humour, and the announcement that someone has cancer is not it.

YorkshireMike wrote:

There's a time and a place for black humour, and the announcement that someone has cancer is not it.

The only time for black humour is when things are black. How can it work when everything is nice and rosy?
Do you remember when the rocket blew up?
Need
Another
Seven
Astronauts
The nearer the knuckle, the sweeter the flesh.

I guessif you can't see it I won't be having a drink with you. No fun at all.
Toodle Pip.

felixcat wrote:

I know, I have an evil sense of humour. But at least I can express myself without swearing.

So can I. But in this case I'll choose not to - your comment can fuck off. And if it's a representation of your character, then you can too.

YorkshireMike wrote:

felixcat wrote:

Testicular cancer turned out to be a good career move for a certain Texan.

What a stupid fucking comment.

Agree

YorkshireMike wrote:

felixcat wrote:

Testicular cancer turned out to be a good career move for a certain Texan.

What a stupid fucking comment.

Really? Actually, I thought it was rather funny. IMHO there's nothing in life so big & important we can't laugh at it. After my mother died the thing that helped me most was when all of us - her 3 children & 4 grandchildren - sat around after the funeral telling stories that started "& what about the time she..." & ended with us all laughing.
I suspect (or anyway, hope) that if someone said to Ivan Basso "hey, look on the bright side, think what it did for Lance Armstrong's career" it would crack a smile. Pro cyclists are tough kids, & Basso has always been one of the toughest.

oceandweller wrote:

YorkshireMike wrote:

felixcat wrote:

Testicular cancer turned out to be a good career move for a certain Texan.

What a stupid fucking comment.

Really? Actually, I thought it was rather funny. IMHO there's nothing in life so big & important we can't laugh at it. After my mother died the thing that helped me most was when all of us - her 3 children & 4 grandchildren - sat around after the funeral telling stories that started "& what about the time she..." & ended with us all laughing.
I suspect (or anyway, hope) that if someone said to Ivan Basso "hey, look on the bright side, think what it did for Lance Armstrong's career" it would crack a smile. Pro cyclists are tough kids, & Basso has always been one of the toughest.

The "relieving" aspect of dark humor (gallows humor) depends on the context of the joke: whether the joke is being told by the threatened person themselves or by someone else. Both you and felixcats analogies are to jokes about your own personal situation, that's where it is most appropriate. Not towards an unfortunate victims. And I don't recall anyone joking about LA until after he had been cured.

Its kind of like when I slap my wife on the Arse, I can get a laugh out of her. I doubt I would get the same reaction if I slapped your wife on the Arse in public.

oceandweller wrote:

Really? Actually, I thought it was rather funny. IMHO there's nothing in life so big & important we can't laugh at it. After my mother died the thing that helped me most was when all of us - her 3 children & 4 grandchildren - sat around after the funeral telling stories that started "& what about the time she..." & ended with us all laughing..

There's a time and a place for everything.

I would suggest it isn't now, you idiot.

felixcat wrote:

Testicular cancer turned out to be a good career move for a certain Texan.

Dear oh dear.

felixcat wrote:

Testicular cancer turned out to be a good career move for a certain Texan.

teaboy wrote:

I'm not a fan of Basso, but wish him all the best in these circumstances.

+1

Hopefully that accident was fate, in a positive way