It also depends on how much blacker you like your humor. There were some jokes that were extremly common among the rank and file like me that I heard when fighting in the South African Border War that were hilarious in that situation and I could laugh at them then: but I doubt that I could now unless it was at a Vets gathering and I cert…
It also depends on how much blacker you like your humor. There were some jokes that were extremly common among the rank and file like me that I heard when fighting in the South African Border War that were hilarious in that situation and I could laugh at them then: but I doubt that I could now unless it was at a Vets gathering and I certainly wouldn't mention them in public. It also seems to me that Japanese culture(which originated most of the memes above) has a special apreciation for that sort of thing both in military and civilian life. Not that long ago I was given a book that was translated into English from Japanese and it dealt with servicemen who were stranded on small island outposts in the Solomans after the Allies had bypassed their positions early on in the War in the Pacific. The poor buggers were of course were no longer getting supplies and were left to fend for themselves. Many turned cannibal early on and some went to the extreme of eating their own people near the end of the War. Early on in the book there were frequent references to eating 'white pig' amd 'black pig' and it wasn't until about the middle of the book that it was explained that the terms were black humor code words for eating natives and Europians('black pig') and their own('white pig'). That's an extreme example of really black humor of course but but compared to say a group like the Donner party, who were unwilling to even mention the subject most of the time, the Japanese servicemen who went through that were strangely willing to talk about their own cannibalism, even if it was in gaurded terms like the ones I mentioned.
It also depends on how much blacker you like your humor. There were some jokes that were extremly common among the rank and file like me that I heard when fighting in the South African Border War that were hilarious in that situation and I could laugh at them then: but I doubt that I could now unless it was at a Vets gathering and I certainly wouldn't mention them in public. It also seems to me that Japanese culture(which originated most of the memes above) has a special apreciation for that sort of thing both in military and civilian life. Not that long ago I was given a book that was translated into English from Japanese and it dealt with servicemen who were stranded on small island outposts in the Solomans after the Allies had bypassed their positions early on in the War in the Pacific. The poor buggers were of course were no longer getting supplies and were left to fend for themselves. Many turned cannibal early on and some went to the extreme of eating their own people near the end of the War. Early on in the book there were frequent references to eating 'white pig' amd 'black pig' and it wasn't until about the middle of the book that it was explained that the terms were black humor code words for eating natives and Europians('black pig') and their own('white pig'). That's an extreme example of really black humor of course but but compared to say a group like the Donner party, who were unwilling to even mention the subject most of the time, the Japanese servicemen who went through that were strangely willing to talk about their own cannibalism, even if it was in gaurded terms like the ones I mentioned.