Just Joshing, If You Will

Recently an issue of "poking" preverbial fun at people has arisen. Some people have been possibly "going too far" for some people's egos. A cetain unnamed jewish resident has perhaps taken things a bit too seriously. Granted, this person may not have the iron hard esteem like the person making the fun, and so I think we should all take a deep breath. Slowly inhale, slowly exhale, there, feel better? Alright lets adress some issues. Some people have more family than others and therefore more people to make fun of them. Some people are born with a natural hard iron ego that resists mocking well, some are born naturaly shy and can't endure the slightest "poking." I think that we all need to take a step back, and think about the person we are commenting about. I myself resist mocking well because I was born into a 7 person family that made-fun of your every "stnank" or mistake. I learned gradually to throw it back, or as my eldest brother once said "he woke up and started cracking jokes like the rest of us." Sometimes you just gotta shake it off, and throw some back. As far as I know any fun-poking that goes on is utterly in jest, unless I'm missing something. So if someone calls you ugly, call them stupid, if you're so critical about yourself that you take every little comment seriously then you won't develop a sense of humor, which is very useful (the sense of humor.)Granted also there are some things we should jest about, Moms for instance, I can realize that we aren't being serious but we need to think about it before we go with the derogatory term of "your mom." So my main point is before you "poke-fun" think - who,what,why. Who am I making fun of and can they handle it? What am i making fun of? Why am I making fun of said person, to hurt,help, or just to "josh" if you will? so remember the 3 dubyahs of "Joshing"


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