Social Psychologists: 36 Days After a Tragedy, Jokes About It Become Funny

These kind of jokes are a time honored coping mechanism. I can remember that it wasn't long after the shuttle disaster in 1986 that I first heard the "Head & Shoulders" joke.

You are walking around with a hatchet stuck out of your forehead and it's ghastly cause you don't know you're dead.

God says... fool chump_change SupremerCourt joking failure_is_not_an_option BBC why_do_I_put_up_with_this prosperity tiffanies bickering what's_up Moses That's_my_favorite class__class__shutup busybody what's_it_to_you rubbish debt busybody I_pitty_the_fool so_let_it_be_written tree_hugger where's_the_love Ramsay when_hell_freezes_over Ghost not_too_shabby humility well_I_never BRB repent Ivy_league Jesus you're_wonderful

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Just talking up a storm, chatting. "What?"

For comparison, the Onion 9/11 cover: http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/onion-911.jpg

Getting AIDS was the best thing that could have happened to me.

Does this mean one has to return in 36 days to comment on some posts, could work.

But are we talking somebody not associated/involved or influenced by the tragedy and just other people as with most things, relativity applies.