Gallows Humor

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Gallows Humor:

  1. Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation.
  2. Comedy that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a horrible, deathly, tragic, dramatic, perfectly hopeless situation.

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  2. Your post needs to meet the definition of gallows humor above. Otherwise you should post it in Jokes, Dad Jokes or another community.

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I'll never forget my father's last words to me just before he died (self.gallowshumor)
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"Are you still holding the ladder?"

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data_irl (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)
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My daughter is into astronomy these days. She asked me "how do stars die?" (self.gallowshumor)
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I said “its usually an overdose.”