Is it even funny given that the event could easily be a part of a comedy sketch from Mrs Brown’s Boys?
Weekend at Bernie’s is now a documentary.
I say the shop is loving the press.
It’s a tricky one alright. On one hand, the story is so surreal that you can understand people’s joking about it.
On the other, the more we learn about that poor man the more tragic and frankly grim it seems
It’s absolutely mental that’s why, when I first heard about it my first reaction was to laugh.
This particular picture doesn’t look very funny. Not cos it’s in bad taste it just doesn’t look like it’s funny.
Nice to see people having fun and a sense of humour
We were throwing out jokes from the second it happened on reddit, I don’t think we exactly have the moral high ground.
Will some please explain who they’re mimicking?
A man died with no dignity. He probably spent a chunk of his life enduring addiction in his family. And is now a joke across the country.
It is hard to point the finger at these guys as we probably all have played our part in the disrespect with the flood of Whatsapp updates etc. These guys just happened to go viral with their banter.
But it is 100% bad form.
Funny. Possibly very funny.
> Funny or bad form?
The two aren’t always mutually exclusive and this is one of those times where it snugly fits in the Venn Diagram intersection.
The Independent noted that:
*The dead man’s appearance caused the An Post employee to become suspicious and she attempted to establish if he was unwell. It is understood that at this point one of the younger men suggested he might be having a heart attack, and dropped the body to the ground.*
It’s hilariously tragic
I think the idea of the situation is funny on the surface at least, because of the absurdity, but going to the actual place and reeanacting it isn’t funny and pretty bad form
It’s funny AND in bad form. It’s very conflicting.
Funny
As a society we don’t have to universally agree on if it’s funny or poor taste. You can make your own decision on that.
Personally, it’s humourous because it’s so bonkers but I can imagine the family of the man not being one bit happy. It’s all perspective
Well yes but is it any worse than all the other shitposts people have been making.
Easy to judge a couple of lads outside a post office, haven’t seen a post decrying all the Reddit posts about a poor dead man who had their body abused.
Both. Like a lot of dark humour.
When I first heard it, it sounded comical. But the more ye think about it the true horror dawns on ye… What drove it, the disrespect to the deceased and his family, the desperation and stupidity.
I’d find the above image funny and a bit bad
Hilarious
Funny
It’s both to be fair. I think the whole thing is so bizarre but it must be heartbreaking for the man’s family who don’t even know the truth yet. I personally wouldn’t make jokes about it.
I think the initial jokes coming off the back of how surreal and absurd it was, when we had no details and just a bizarre situation, were understandable and funny.
But this is not the same to me. They’re actively creating another absurdness, acting like they’re at a tourist attraction.
I have very dark humor, I made a joke immediately after hearing the initial news and I can never walk away from taking the piss out of Carlow but this is not funny to me at all.
In isolation it’s funny but you can guarantee the lads doing it are a group of arseholes who love this stuff so long as they’re not on the receiving end.
What happened in Carlow?
Litmus test for dry shitiness.
It’s like a train hitting a bus full of clowns.
Tragic. Awful. But still hilarious
If you find humour in it, it’s ok. Worlds very serious atm. Laugh, laugh loud
I think bad form tbh. A man’s dead and his body used in a disgusting way… Fairly accurate to say they picked his corpse. Like, only a week ago the nation was outraged by a horrific killing, maybe I’m nuts but what sort of country is it becoming?
I’d say the more pressing question is if it’s bad form to be taking pictures of people you don’t know and posting them to social media without blurring their faces?
The bad form element is the person who initially shared the photo online.
At that point it’s gone from a somewhat dark joke amongst friends, to something which might be seen by those who knew the dead man.
It’s not even accurate. I’m sure that the lads put a pair of sunglasses on the old man.
How many memes did we do of this in the last 48 hours, but THIS is bad form?
I can think of two successful comedy films on the very same topic. One of them is Irish.
My sympathy is not only for the family of the deceased but also the staff of Hosey’s for whom this was a traumatic experience
I’m OOTL what’s the deal here?
It’s funny. It’s dark and grim, but funny. Lighten up and laugh at the absurd.
He was only 66. I mean, ffs, the man had years of unclaimed pension ahead of him and he kicks the bucket. One wonders how long they’d have tried to keep it up if they got away with it the first time?
Ask Peadar Doyle’s family if they think it’s funny. He’s not even buried yet.
Nothing new here! Typical Dublin for you..
Jeff bezos is really struggling with the single life.
Kinda lads that watch Mrs Browns Boys.
Funny
It’s funny. People need to stop taking everything so serious. And considering the first thing this subreddit did when we saw the headline was take the piss, nobody is in a position to say otherwise.
Just read the article. I genuinely cannot believe this. This is actual slapstick comedy in real life. Fuck me.
Definitely bad form. I mean, who takes a picture of a few lads having a laugh and then putting it up on the internet with the intent of exposing them for making a joke.
Like, what part of this do you think could be “bad form”? Is it in case the family members saw it and got offended? I doubt the family members of the dead man who live in Carlow were ever going to see this joke between 4 lads from Dublin.
Of course, that was until you decided to put it publically on the internet. Now there’s a very high chance the family members will see this, all because of you, OP.
But hey OP, real glad you got to not only get some karma and do a bit of virtue signalling, all while being a hypocrite.
Gobshite.
Nah that’s funny shit.
Look, if we can’t laugh at how fucking horrible we can be as a people, what can we laugh at?
If you don’t like this, you’ll hate Weekend at Bernie’s.
Hilarious
I think the bad form was on the two lads in Carlow.
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Is it even funny given that the event could easily be a part of a comedy sketch from Mrs Brown’s Boys?
Weekend at Bernie’s is now a documentary.
I say the shop is loving the press.
It’s a tricky one alright. On one hand, the story is so surreal that you can understand people’s joking about it.
On the other, the more we learn about that poor man the more tragic and frankly grim it seems
It’s absolutely mental that’s why, when I first heard about it my first reaction was to laugh.
This particular picture doesn’t look very funny. Not cos it’s in bad taste it just doesn’t look like it’s funny.
Nice to see people having fun and a sense of humour
We were throwing out jokes from the second it happened on reddit, I don’t think we exactly have the moral high ground.
Will some please explain who they’re mimicking?
A man died with no dignity. He probably spent a chunk of his life enduring addiction in his family. And is now a joke across the country.
It is hard to point the finger at these guys as we probably all have played our part in the disrespect with the flood of Whatsapp updates etc. These guys just happened to go viral with their banter.
But it is 100% bad form.
Funny. Possibly very funny.
> Funny or bad form?
The two aren’t always mutually exclusive and this is one of those times where it snugly fits in the Venn Diagram intersection.
The Independent noted that:
*The dead man’s appearance caused the An Post employee to become suspicious and she attempted to establish if he was unwell. It is understood that at this point one of the younger men suggested he might be having a heart attack, and dropped the body to the ground.*
It’s hilariously tragic
I think the idea of the situation is funny on the surface at least, because of the absurdity, but going to the actual place and reeanacting it isn’t funny and pretty bad form
It’s funny AND in bad form. It’s very conflicting.
Funny
As a society we don’t have to universally agree on if it’s funny or poor taste. You can make your own decision on that.
Personally, it’s humourous because it’s so bonkers but I can imagine the family of the man not being one bit happy. It’s all perspective
Well yes but is it any worse than all the other shitposts people have been making.
Easy to judge a couple of lads outside a post office, haven’t seen a post decrying all the Reddit posts about a poor dead man who had their body abused.
Both. Like a lot of dark humour.
When I first heard it, it sounded comical. But the more ye think about it the true horror dawns on ye… What drove it, the disrespect to the deceased and his family, the desperation and stupidity.
I’d find the above image funny and a bit bad
Hilarious
Funny
It’s both to be fair. I think the whole thing is so bizarre but it must be heartbreaking for the man’s family who don’t even know the truth yet. I personally wouldn’t make jokes about it.
I think the initial jokes coming off the back of how surreal and absurd it was, when we had no details and just a bizarre situation, were understandable and funny.
But this is not the same to me. They’re actively creating another absurdness, acting like they’re at a tourist attraction.
I have very dark humor, I made a joke immediately after hearing the initial news and I can never walk away from taking the piss out of Carlow but this is not funny to me at all.
In isolation it’s funny but you can guarantee the lads doing it are a group of arseholes who love this stuff so long as they’re not on the receiving end.
What happened in Carlow?
Litmus test for dry shitiness.
It’s like a train hitting a bus full of clowns.
Tragic. Awful. But still hilarious
If you find humour in it, it’s ok. Worlds very serious atm. Laugh, laugh loud
I think bad form tbh. A man’s dead and his body used in a disgusting way… Fairly accurate to say they picked his corpse. Like, only a week ago the nation was outraged by a horrific killing, maybe I’m nuts but what sort of country is it becoming?
I’d say the more pressing question is if it’s bad form to be taking pictures of people you don’t know and posting them to social media without blurring their faces?
The bad form element is the person who initially shared the photo online.
At that point it’s gone from a somewhat dark joke amongst friends, to something which might be seen by those who knew the dead man.
It’s not even accurate. I’m sure that the lads put a pair of sunglasses on the old man.
How many memes did we do of this in the last 48 hours, but THIS is bad form?
I can think of two successful comedy films on the very same topic. One of them is Irish.
My sympathy is not only for the family of the deceased but also the staff of Hosey’s for whom this was a traumatic experience
I’m OOTL what’s the deal here?
It’s funny. It’s dark and grim, but funny. Lighten up and laugh at the absurd.
He was only 66. I mean, ffs, the man had years of unclaimed pension ahead of him and he kicks the bucket. One wonders how long they’d have tried to keep it up if they got away with it the first time?
Ask Peadar Doyle’s family if they think it’s funny. He’s not even buried yet.
Nothing new here! Typical Dublin for you..
Jeff bezos is really struggling with the single life.
Kinda lads that watch Mrs Browns Boys.
Funny
It’s funny. People need to stop taking everything so serious. And considering the first thing this subreddit did when we saw the headline was take the piss, nobody is in a position to say otherwise.
Just read the article. I genuinely cannot believe this. This is actual slapstick comedy in real life. Fuck me.
Definitely bad form. I mean, who takes a picture of a few lads having a laugh and then putting it up on the internet with the intent of exposing them for making a joke.
Like, what part of this do you think could be “bad form”? Is it in case the family members saw it and got offended? I doubt the family members of the dead man who live in Carlow were ever going to see this joke between 4 lads from Dublin.
Of course, that was until you decided to put it publically on the internet. Now there’s a very high chance the family members will see this, all because of you, OP.
But hey OP, real glad you got to not only get some karma and do a bit of virtue signalling, all while being a hypocrite.
Gobshite.
Nah that’s funny shit.
Look, if we can’t laugh at how fucking horrible we can be as a people, what can we laugh at?
If you don’t like this, you’ll hate Weekend at Bernie’s.
Hilarious
I think the bad form was on the two lads in Carlow.