TFF teaches us a lot about society.

[Pilatus]

I find TFF really interesting on all matters agricultural and in general .
When the odd member starts to get amusement by trying to make light hearted entertainment of Covid19 by their comments on TFF , I find that is in very poor taste

 

[shumungus]

Sometimes if you didn't laugh you'd cry...…………….

 

[Kidds]

There's quite a bit on here that in my own opinion the place would be better without, humour is definitely not one of them be it in poor taste or not.
Just don't read it if you don't like it and let the rest of us have a smile.

 

[Agrivator]

Friends and acquaintances, in private, say many things that they wouldn't say in public for fear of upsetting or incurring the wrath of the intolerant Thought-Police.

This forum should be more like the former, and sod the intolerant holier-than-thow Thought-Police.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Yet another of life’s issues that isn’t black and white, some humour is necessary to lighten the mood at what is a very worrying time for many but as allways some will over step the line into bad taste. Just where that line is isn’t easily defined as we all have different values.

 

[feilding]

The amount of jokes / cartoon pictures/ video's I get on WhatsApp is growing every day now , you've got to laugh, and why not !!!!. And I due my duty and send them on, life is to short , a easy way to lighten the load and keep in touch with people on their own, also I'm now spending about 2 hrs day phoning friends and family just to chat as most are on their own , everyone should do it to get through these difficult times

 

[jondear]

If you didn't make light of it you would struggle to function .End up a quivering wreck .! Because it's so serious

 

[Gong Farmer]

It's incredible what a smile or laugh can do for one's well-being, including immune system. Going around frowning and wailing all the time has the opposite effect. So laugh on and survive!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you didn't make light of it you would struggle to function .End up a quivering wreck .! Because it's so serious

Most of us have lost loves ones in life ,some under tragic circumstances , you have to brush yourself down and carry on , it can eat you up if you dont

 

[Hindsight]

I find TFF really interesting on all matters agricultural and in general .
When the odd member starts to get amusement by trying to make light hearted entertainment of Covid19 by their comments on TFF , I find that is in very poor taste

Apologies MX7, that will be I am afraid. I have posted a few irreverent items on the threads I think you are referring too. Sad dark sense of humour. I do treat TFF as the pub bar and usually there is a boorish individual, which is probably me - well my wife would say it would be me and my mates. CV19 is a very serious matter, that I appreciate, but for some humour, however, dark helps rationalise the situation. Not meant as an excuse but just how I feel it is.

Best wishes, and apologies in advance.

 

[DrWazzock]

Humour is fine.
Spreading misinformation, fomenting dissent, and sniping at and undermining the efforts of those who are doing their best to solve very difficult problems will cost lives, is corrosive and is completely unacceptable but sadly there are only too many media outlets willing to give a platform to these deviants including this one, often in the name of free speech but more likely because it generates forum traffic without which these sites wither and die.
So we see phone masts set on fire “because they spread Coronavirus” and other stupidity more akin to an era of reliance on witchcraft and superstition than science.
Every nutcase now has a platform to spread dangerous information without regulation or redress and sadly there are only too many naive consumers willing to lap it up.
That’s my view of it and I don’t want anything to do with it any more.

 

[Lowland1]

No one should post anything that they wouldn't put their name to there are a lot of people putting posts up that they shouldn't really put up either. There are always different sides to arguments but its good if people can listen or read to the opposite side without getting nasty or personal.

 

[DrWazzock]

Partly to blame myself.
Pointless entering into perpetual arguments.
Stupid relying on unknown posters for advice.
Get a qualified agronomist.
Ask your vet.
And it’s like an addiction. Hours is screen time spent everyday, hours wasted when productive stuff could be done.
Trying to kick the habit.
Thanks and best wishes.

 

[wr.]

Had a cousin who was nursing and she used to say that if she didn't make light of some of the things she had to deal with, she'd have needed a psychiatrist's help to be able to do her job.

 

[Lowland1]

Partly to blame myself.
Pointless entering into perpetual arguments.
Stupid relying on unknown posters for advice.
Get a qualified agronomist.
Ask your vet.
And it’s like an addiction. Hours is screen time spent everyday, hours wasted when productive stuff could be done.
Trying to kick the habit.
Thanks and best wishes.

Unfortunately of all the people posting most of what you have said has become reality. I personally disagree with a lot if not all thats being done but thats my prerogative and if we argue it should be done in a gentlemanly way if possible. With regard to timewasting i'm writing this one handed whilst subsoiling.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

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[egbert]

Partly to blame myself.
Pointless entering into perpetual arguments.
Stupid relying on unknown posters for advice.
Get a qualified agronomist.
Ask your vet.
And it’s like an addiction. Hours is screen time spent everyday, hours wasted when productive stuff could be done.
Trying to kick the habit.
Thanks and best wishes.

don't let em get you down Dr.
The world is chock full of Rsoles, but you don't seem to be one of em!

Back to the original post..... I guess the TFF is similar to any open social media platform (is that the right term?)
Those posting (esp behind some made up name said Egbert) regard it as different to saying things face to face.
I do try not to post stuff I wouldn't say f2f.

as for dark humour in difficult times?
Who's to say what's acceptable. Evidently, many folk are happy to propagate such things.My advice would be to skim past it and not let it get to you.

 

[M-J-G]

Why just Covid-19? Why not just stop jokes about any misfortune? Oh wait, that's what a lot of British humour is based on.

The OP makes a very difficult request.
Where do you draw the line and who draws it?
Do you draw it at not joking about mass graves or do you stop jokes about panic buying toilet roll?
Or somewhere in the middle of the vast gap in between, so where?

Some people often just say what many people are thinking, and you can't control people's thoughts.

 

[traineefarmer]

Gallows humour I think the term is. Extremely popular among the armed forces, police, medical services, vets and pretty much anyone who has to deal with death and misery as part of their career.

I'm surprised it isn't more popular with farmers.

 

[kill]

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Most of us have lost loves ones in life ,some under tragic circumstances , you have to brush yourself down and carry on , it can eat you up if you dont
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Very little as sad as people wasting a fair chunk of their life repeatedly going over the same one event of their life instead of moving on as that very often means one life gone but another stopped from living.