Some people and their humor!

We really cannot blame the guy who did the joke. He does not know that your friend got offended. People have different personality and character. Some people who tell jokes sometimes do not know that they have already offended someone, because for them is just normal. Yes. He is insensitive so it is better to tell him in a nice way that he must not tell a joke, which might harm your friend’s feelings, so that he would know everything. Maybe that guy really does not know the true character of your friend and to your friend, he must learn to hold his patience. He must learn to control his ‘feelings’ and for me, he must also learn not to be extreme ‘sensitive’. He must also ‘understand’ the feelings of other people and he also must learn to adjust himself to other people, or he must talk to that guy so that both of them understand each other.

That's what we call a tactless person. Talking and butting in conversations, without even trying to know what is really being talked about, is really being insensitive. The best way is to just keep silent and just join in the laughter.

If that guy appologized to your friend immediately at the moment when your friend showed angry, could your friend be calm again? what could be worse than making a bad joke is that we can realize that was a bad joke

I think that your friend is a bit touchy. This person was playing with words ; the joke was not good, but was not made nastily. We have indeed different cultures, but humor is universal, though not appreciated equally by everyone. This guy should have better kept this one for him, but, you know how it is difficult to stop a humor addict.

I must have no sense of humour, but I get offended by these kind of jokes too. Even if I know someone has this kind of humour, it still bothers me sometimes. I can't help thinking that it's jerkish, maybe I'm just too sensitive, though I appreciate it if somebody has a good sense of humour.

People need to learn that if they don't know a person, they should not joke around with more serious things, because they don't know if that person is sensitive for that issue. Well, I myself wouldn't have gotten mad at that joke, but that's my personal sense of humour. But for example, I hate it when people joke around with any disability/impairedness, like blindness or deafness. Now for me, that's it which makes me really mad.

Oh yeah, we have that kind of person in the office as well. Sometimes she can be too much that we just wanna kick her behind. lol. Its true, its not always good to joke around...specially if your not in a good timing and if your not close to the person as well.