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# ^he's kidding.
Don't repost it tomorrow.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:03, archived)
# Spoilsport.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:05, archived)
#
Hmm, I should calculate the time between 9/11 and when it became funny and repost after that time interval :o
(nmitnu, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:06, archived)
# multiply by the ratio of dead people.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:10, archived)
# Measuring of the 'decent interval' is tricky. And, as others have pointed out, largely pointless.
Some things are funny to some, and offensive to others.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:11, archived)
# I don't find it offensive,
so much as a massive empathy fail.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:13, archived)
# ^This
And by this, I mean that but Moon Girl was too fast for me.
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:13, archived)
# For example, today my econometrics lecturer posed the problem "Prove that sinx/n is always equal to 6"
And proceeded to write

sin x       six
-----   =  ----- = 6
  n          1


Some people laughed, but I was offended.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:14, archived)
# Hmmm.
Okay, lets say that for any joke (J), there are a range of response classes (R1,...,Rn) which partitions the set of respondents.

Of course, since people change their position on a subject depending on the responses of others, we should model the network of relationships as a graph with edges weighted by influence factor....
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:20, archived)
# I reckon there's correlation between laughing when others laugh and watching ITV.
Factor that in
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:22, archived)
# The mathematics compo has been and gone, you know.
you know.Sorry and all that.
(I helped save b3ta! wuffle, the b3ta bunny 's flea collar isn't working on, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:27, archived)
# i laugh when other people laugh
it's infectuous

members.tripod.com/chris_haresnape/laughter.mp3
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:27, archived)
# A BIG EGG
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:23, archived)
# A salient point, Professor, thank you.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:27, archived)
# i think if the joke was stronger it'd carry it off
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:20, archived)
# Nah, that's specious reasoning
 
(I helped save b3ta! El Cid ...wing attack plan R..., Mon 18 Jan 2010, 23:19, archived)