COPD & Emphysema Support Group

jona:

Try a Yahoo or AOL chat site for your jokes and frivolity.
This site is for real people with a real disease. Yes, we toss in a bit of humor now and then enabling us to smile at ourselves and others, comic relief one might say.

You are not a comic. You asked in one of your posts if your kind of talk was appropiate for this forum. I vote no. However it's not up to me.

It takes quite a tweak on my nerve to irritate me. You irritate me for far more reasons than I've spoken. Nuf said?

Mike

My word ole chap, if you couldn't find the humor in that, then YOUR disease robbed you of more than God meant it to. If I irritate you ole son, don't read my posts, you asked me personal questions, I answered them truthfully, if you can't handle the truth or my personality simply do not communicate with me, and above all refrain from the childish sideways threats, I am not impressed, nuff said?

Mike:

You posted the joke quoted below which you felt appropriate. Made me think perhaps this is a case of the "pot calling the kettle black."

We all have a disease in various stages, and all are different....in how we handle it is also different, and what may be offensive to one is not necessarily offensive to another.

Best way, me thinks, is to just pass over it if it is offensive to you ....Live and and let live.

In my humble opinion, all are welcome here and the last thing that is needed is personal affronts on the forum. We went through this before and I don't think anyone wants a repeat. Just dealing with this disease can be stressful enough. Private messages can be used if you have a disagreement.

I sincerely hope you don't take offense at my writing this, nor am I taking "sides". It is not meant in that vein. It is simply I hope peace can prevail.

You posted:

"A doctor and a nurse just got married. As they were lying in bed one night, the doctor said to the nurse, "Honey, to avoid any problems, let's try the following system. When we go to bed at night, if you would like to have sex, pull at my penis one time....
....and if you don't want to have sex, pull at my penis 100 times!!"

Best to both....

Joni

Thanks to Joni for being the calm voice of reason. No sides taken.
PEACE to all. Please let all of us "play nicely" with one another. LOL

Deja Vu!!!!!!!!

Mike, I don't believe you just did that after reading the joke as reprinted in Joni's reply. I am sure that there were more than just I that thought that joke was a little too "edgy" for here.

I was uncomfortable when I orginally read it, not because I have delicate ears but the fact that there are probably members that have given access to their account to family members and quite possibly "younger" family members and I just think that it would have been better shared in a forum for the more out there jokes.

JMO

Mon Nov 2, 8:47 pm ET
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

The study, authored by psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, showed that people in a negative mood were more critical of, and paid more attention to, their surroundings than happier people, who were more likely to believe anything they were told.

"Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, cooperation, and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking paying greater attention to the external world," Forgas wrote.

"Our research suggests that sadness ... promotes information processing strategies best suited to dealing with more demanding situations."

For the study, Forgas and his team conducted several experiments that started with inducing happy or sad moods in their subjects through watching films and recalling positive or negative events.

In one of the experiments, happy and sad participants were asked to judge the truth of urban myths and rumors and found that people in a negative mood were less likely to believe these statements.

People in a bad mood were also less likely to make snap decisions based on racial or religious prejudices, and they were less likely to make mistakes when asked to recall an event that they witnessed.

The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style."

"Positive mood is not universally desirable: people in negative mood are less prone to judgmental errors, are more resistant to eyewitness distortions and are better at producing high-quality, effective persuasive messages," Forgas wrote.

The study was published in the November/December edition of the Australasian Science journal.

(Writing by Miral Fahmy, editing by Belinda Goldsmith)

Sorry, but I gotta side with Joni the peace maker. Not to mention, I hate when people are rude to other people. I think using our sense of humors to deal with the awful stuff we have to deal with is a good thing. No this is not necessarilty a joke site, and we do have our varied member groups dedicated to using laughter as the best medicine...but an occassional bit of humor on the board is wlcome as far as I am concerned. Lets not judge one another and just be friends and support each other positively.
JoAnn

Excellent comment Joni
Great article on moods Mike. -
How about we let all our negative grumpy thoughts remain focused on battling this whoopy disease we have and keep the board as is.. a welcoming supportive site that occ. has a "oops" .
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IMHO personality battles are kept where they should be, personal and private and off list.......................
And as it says in the guidelines here " In adding this comment I do promise to be nice"
Hugs to all
Lisa

Wow !!!!!!!!!!! Talk about DEJA VU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gotta agree with the Jams Lady and the rest below.

Laughter is Great medicine and we all use it here at one time or another. Laugh hard , Breathe Well !!

IMO, maybe you guys should trade places, one be the doctor, the other the cowboy.

Have a Great Evening and Breathe Well !!