Atlas Shrugged Part II: Return to the Valley of the Value-Destroying Parasites

[EK WAFFLR]

She wouldn't know parody if it hit her in the head.
A more profound lack of humour is extremely rare.

Have you ever encountered anyone from the very unlikely (and very un-Norwegian) Ayn Rand-worshipping semi-cult that is DLF, Waffle Iron? They also seem to struggle with that same problem.

Yes, DLF are hilariously self-righteous. I have a few aquaintances that have fallen for that shit. I thouroughly enjoy rubbing their faces in their own feces.

Seems to be a european libertarian problem. Our rand fans are hilarious in america.

Oh, European randians are hilarious too. They are just, as I said of Rand herself, profoundly humourless.

Humor is the denial of metaphysical importance to that which you laugh at. The classic example: you see a very snooty, very well dressed dowager walking down the street, and then she slips on a banana peel . . . . What's funny about it? It's the contrast of the woman's pretensions to reality. She acted very grand, but reality undercut it with a plain banana peel. That's the denial of the metaphysical validity or importance of the pretensions of that woman. Therefore, humor is a destructive element—which is quite all right, but its value and its morality depend on what it is that you are laughing at. If what you are laughing at is the evil in the world (provided that you take it seriously, but occasionally you permit yourself to laugh at it), that's fine. [To] laugh at that which is good, at heroes, at values, and above all at yourself [is] monstrous . . . . The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Wow. Shes the epitome of not serious about having a good time.

One time at a show some dude charged me and slammed me into an arcade machine and another bands drumset. When i realized that some dude decided to play football with me and hurt me a couple of seconds ago i started laughing. My bandmates were also laughing. Then they realized it was me and got me a beer. If you can laugh at others  but not yourself youre incapable of learning because youre too selfcentered. But id expect nothing less from rand.

[Deepthroat Chopra]

So, I take it there's little comic relief in any Rand works?

[Salty]

So, I take it there's little comic relief in any Rand works?

No, there is no relief, comic or otherwise. Just rape fantasy until the sounds of your own screams become passé.

[Deepthroat Chopra]

So, I take it there's little comic relief in any Rand works?

No, there is no relief, comic or otherwise. Just rape fantasy until the sounds of your own screams become passé.

Ah. Like Australian current affairs shows on TV. Probably the same target markets.

[Placid Dingo]

So, I take it there's little comic relief in any Rand works?

Theres little Intentional comic releif in Rands work.

[EK WAFFLR]

So, I take it there's little comic relief in any Rand works?

Theres little Intentional comic releif in Rands work.

Not much of the unintentional comic relief either.

[Triple Zero]

I thouroughly enjoy rubbing their faces in their own feces.

It's for their own rational self-interest.