The mechanics of the taunt have two functions.

[RandomThoughts]

There is the function to create a bad feeling in someone to draw an attack from someone else, but there is another function.

If you are in some position, and it feels wrong, and you can paint someone else as wrong, then it transfers that feeling from your actions onto someone elses actions. Also why most judgments of other people occur.


So if a person taunts another, they can move the feelings they are having about themselves onto someone else.

If you are walking around tared and feathered, some think it is best to find someone tared and feathered and shaved, then make fun of them.

The best comedians, don't do mean spirited jokes, but do so to help people release tension not meant to be hurtful, but that people can laugh with.


Personally I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences, so I don't taunt much. :shrug: No real reason to taunt.

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8cDmi7-U8

[bluesbassman]

1. The third function is to draw a personal foul.

Here's a quarter toward the fund.

[RandomThoughts]

2. But what do they follow?

Hence why much of it is asking what they think God is telling them to do, and who they think God is.

As far as offering quarter, I do believe in mercy, but do not need quarter, since not in any jeopardy or threat. Although if meant as a kind comment, and not a snide one, that would be nice thought.

I will however be paid the beer and travel money that is due to me, and the world will be more just and compassionate.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. when one is taunted, sometimes the tauntee has to defend themselves by

putting the onus back on the taunter in order to hold them accountable for their actions.

[Swede]

4. Are you saying you want a piece of me?

I'll drop you like a bag of dirt,old man.

[Swede]

5. This was posted as a joke. It's a direct quote from a Seinfeld episode.

:toast:

[struggle4progress]

6. Thanks for posting

I frequently can't make head or tails of your posts, but I really appreciate this one

[rbnyc]

8. +1

[siligut]

7. The most ignorant and abusive people I know of use taunting as a strategy

They also use shame and humiliation.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

9. If you ever get your travel money & are looking for a travel companion

I would like to travel someplace with you
for a while.

[pokerfan]

10. In Defense of Mockery

I read with profound weariness a piece in Salon by Michael Lind entitled Hey, liberals: Time to give the Beck bashing a rest. Lind is apparently under the impression that (a) Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews engage in “constant mockery” of bloviating right-wing demagogues such as Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck, and that (b) this would somehow be a bad thing, because it is likely to backfire on “liberals.”

He could not be more wrong.

First, Lind’s charge of “constant mockery” is patently ridiculous. Rachel Maddow has committed some of the most astounding acts of journalism on a major cable network that a U.S. primetime audience could possibly hope to see. Maddow regularly does long, in-depth interviews over multiple segments for which she is extremely well-prepared, enough to swat away any bullshit a guest might dare to fling at her. Even Tweety has his moments. Lind’s implication that anyone on MSNBC fills all or even most of their airtime snickering over the jaw-droppingly stupid and inane bullshit that right-wing politicians and pundits say every day is simply absurd. I just cannot fathom how anyone – much less someone with a platform on Salon – could possibly be unaware that one can report on our devastated economy, or revolution in the Middle East, and also mock morons.

Read the rest: http://perrystreetpalace.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/in-defense-of-mockery