Anyone can joke at others, but laughing at oneself is a more subtle science, and not everyone can do it. They say that self-irony is a skill available only to people with high intelligence. We have found for you 20 people who have everything in order with wit and a sense of humor.
1. “My best friend stole his wife. Need money for a thank you card"
2. Punch in the gut
3. “The breasts are real, but the smile is fake”
4. Dedicated to all owls
5. The tattoo says: “Made in China” - “Made in China”
6. “A girl in a restaurant asked me: “Are you alone?” I happily answered: “Yes.” Then she took the second chair opposite me and left.”
7. At 6 years old: “I want to be a doctor”
At 16: “I want to be a nurse”
At 19: “I’ll try my hand at accounting”
At 24 years old: “Hey guys, welcome to my video channel”
8. When you are also a little star
9. “329th day without sex: I went to Starbucks only to hear someone screaming my name.”
10. “I will never be as successful as that gosling.”
The inscriptions on the signs: “Best Young Goose”, “Vice Champion”, “Best Waterfowl”, “Best Newcomer”.
11. Moose. Just Moose
12. “On my birthday, I went to my favorite team’s game to rejoice at their victory. It was such a good idea"
13. All girls are witches
14. “This is me taking a cool selfie underwater.”
15. “My drunken boyfriend just asked me: “Who is the most handsome man in the world?” I said: “You.” And he said to me: “It’s a lie, it’s fucking Ryan Reynolds.”
16. “When I feel sad, I just look at this photo of me from the past.”
17. Dumplings - foreva
18. What do you generally know about luxury life?
19. “I no longer open the front camera on my phone. What I look like is none of my business now.”
20. Expectation and reality
History of provocation
In 1969, a monthly satirical magazine was published in France "L"hebdo Hara-kiri", whose motto was “the magazine is stupid and evil.” But a year later it was closed by a special order of the French Minister of Internal Affairs for insulting the memory of the just deceased President Charles de Gaulle. The editor of “Harakiri” was not at a loss and began to publish a new publication, but already under the name "Charlie Hebdo". Despite the different name, the main principle “Nothing is sacred!” strictly observed.
“Not your mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even the people dying of hunger.”, Mr. Cavanna wrote in 1982, as quoted by the Parisian researcher Jane Weston. “Laugh at everyone, cruelly, caustically, to drive out the old monsters”. Charlie Hebdo lists the universal human values of previous generations as such “old monsters”: faith in God, moral ideals, compassion. The magazine published caricatures of politicians, Christian shrines, and later Islamic ones.
Francois Cavanna. Photo source: kp.md
Charlie Hebdo reprints 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, making its contribution. The cover of a French magazine read, “Muhammad is shocked by the fundamentalists,” and the Prophet is depicted covering his face and lamenting, “It’s hard when idiots love you.” The editors explained their cartoons on the topic of Islam as a rejection of fundamentalism and the fight for freedom of speech.
The name of the magazine is temporarily changed to Sharia Hedbo. During this period of the “Arab Spring” in Tunisia and Libya, they “invited the Prophet Muhammad as editor-in-chief; on the cover there was a caricature of him, where he says: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter.”
This time there was no simple indignation and litigation. The editorial office was bombarded with incendiary bombs and it was completely burned down.
This is the time when a scandal breaks out in the world due to the film “The Innocence of Muslims”. The magazine's cartoonists again did not stand aside. Charlie Hebdo published an issue in which the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was depicted naked. On the cover, an Orthodox Jew is carrying a Muslim sitting in a wheelchair.
Charlie Hebdo magazine published a comic about the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
On the cover of the issue is a caricature by the French writer Michel Houellebecq. His novel Submission depicts France in 2022, ruled by a Muslim president under Sharia law. The weekly's cover features Mr. Houellebecq as a sorcerer, predicting that he will lose his teeth in 2015 and fast during the holy month of Ramadan in 2022. The inside pages feature a cartoon by the magazine's editor, Stephane Charbonnier, with the caption: "Still no attacks in France," and below him a jihadist with a machine gun saying: "Wait, we have until the end of January to congratulate." Note that in France there is a tradition of wishing Happy New Year throughout the month.
From dirt to Kings
Charlie Hebdo seeks to provoke society. But it was hard to offend those in whom, during the second half of the twentieth century, all the moral principles of the people and all mankind were gradually being extinguished. The most hellish and inhumane forms of “funny” bullying did not evoke any sympathy, compassion, or indignation among people.
The Charlie Hebdo editorial team found a second life when stumbled upon Muslims who value and honor the traditional values that the French caricaturists of Charlie love to mock so much. By touching a nerve, first provoking them into legal proceedings, and then into open conflict with an attack, Charlie Hebdo gained fame. Maybe not the best, maybe not everyone understands them, but everyone knows and has heard about Charlie Hebdo. This is such a black PR move. Perhaps accidental, but very successful for cultivating popularity and gaining fame.
The magazine remained unknown for a long time and was on the verge of closure. The marginal publication might have remained so if on January 7, 2015, there had not been an armed attack on the editorial office in Paris, which resulted in the death of 12 people. It must be said that attacks on media publishers in France have happened before, but they were all related to political issues. Here we saw the boiling pain of Muslims, whose feelings were insulted since 2006.
Out of compassion for the victims, on the same day a mass action “I am Charlie!” was launched everywhere. Moreover, the authorities of one of the French cities renamed the square in honor of the weekly Charlie Hebdo, and a year after the attack - on January 5, 2016 - President Francois Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo unveiled a memorial plaque in memory of dead workers of the weekly satirical publication.
“Nobody read Charlie Hebdo, everyone was disgusted by these perverts, who have now become almost saints,” journalist Emmanuel Ratier is indignant. “They almost want to put them in the Pantheon.”
After the attack on the editorial office, Charlie Hebdo magazine became known throughout the world. The next issue had a circulation of 3 million copies and was sold out in a matter of minutes.
Such a joke it's creepy
Without any moral boundaries, Charlie Hebdo cartoonists continued to ridicule everything that has any human value. In September 2015, in the wake of its popularity, the magazine published cartoons of a dead Syrian boy whose body washed up on the Turkish shore. The cartoon, titled “Proof that Europe is Christian,” depicts Jesus walking on water with a dead boy floating upside down next to him. The drawing is signed: "Christians walk on water, but Muslim children drown".
And so, the publication caused a storm of public criticism not only among Muslims. Here we have already touched on a topic that is close to everyone - innocent children. The public began to recognize that the authors of these drawings had “lost their moral compass.” The discussions raised not so much the topic of Islam and migrants as the topic of an innocent child. And it doesn’t matter what nationality and religion he is, if he is a victim of political conflicts, a coincidence of circumstances, and now the subject of cruel ridicule.
The second sobering slap in the face of secular society was the caricature of a new tragedy. On September 2, 2016, Charlie Hebdo released a cartoon about devastating earthquake in Italy, which occurred on August 24 this year.
Earthquake in Italy. Photo source: RIA Novosti
In this issue of the French publication, with the headline “Earthquake in Italian,” two bloodied people were depicted. Above one of them is the caption “penne with tomato sauce”, and above the other is “baked pasta”. Next to them is the third “dish” of Italian cuisine - lasagna, in which the legs of crushed people are visible in the form of a sauce between layers of concrete slabs. And again there was a jab at Islam. The journal contains a comment: “About 300 people died in the earthquake in Italy. It is still unknown whether the earth shouted “Allahu Akbar” before making the push.”.
When the values of Islam were previously ridiculed, this misfortune did not touch the hearts of Europeans who followed freedom of speech and expression. Only when the people themselves, who once said “I am Charlie,” came under the merciless machine of immoral principles, when ordinary people in the neighborhood and themselves were under attack, did people change their slogans: “I am not Charlie!” The public no longer found anything funny in these cartoons.
But behind this cruel picture lies another provocation. The phrase about whether the land said “Allahu Akbar” directly hints that the land is Muslim, which is destroying the society that lives there. If in the case of the Syrian boy there was an image of a Christian land where there is no place for Muslims, then here the opposite situation is observed. Cartoonists seem to ring bells, announcing that Muslims are killing the local population. Perhaps the earthquake embodied the image of the migrants who overpopulated Europe.
When one information hides a second, it acts directly on the subconscious. And the caricature of the dead Italians not only hurts people’s feelings, but also presses on a sore point - the issue of the clash between Europeans and Islamic society.
Two-faced society
On the one hand, we see how the European community continues to disintegrate. After all, the magazine, no matter how much it is criticized now, essentially publishes what the population demands. Focusing on the consumer, the publication, like a mirror, shows us the true face of people. Maybe not their most beautiful side, but still reflects reality. In an era when pornography has become the norm and cynicism has become the main trend, society has lost all sense of proportion. The magazine is not in opposition to, but following social trends, where national roots are destroyed, moral norms are despised, stands against the family, for homosexuality and abortion, and without a twinge of conscience engages in denigrating the religious and even sacred feelings of people.
On the other hand, the presence of at least some criticism confirms that the hearts of these people have not completely become callous, that the public has not yet completely slipped into the abyss of immorality and permissiveness.
Can we talk about European double standards here? Probably not, if they don't even have these standards of what is permitted and prohibited. Once they crossed the line of what was permitted, people slowly became mired in sin, without realizing it.
The hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) says:
“Truly, what is permitted is obvious and what is forbidden is obvious, and between them there is doubtful, which many people do not know about. He who avoids the doubtful is purified (from it) for the sake of his religion and his honor, and the one who engages in the doubtful, (will come to commit) the forbidden, like the shepherd who grazes (his flock) near a sacred place and is about to find himself there... "(Bukhari, Muslim).
This decline in social life fell into the so-called Overton window. All these cartoons are not only the personification of a decaying society, but also the very tool that contributes to this. And the topic of Islam, even in the latest issue of the scandalous magazine, is additional confirmation that if the values of Muslims were not so strong, they would not be mocked and used for insults. This is also proof that the authors of these images are unlikely to be mentally healthy people, since they mock not only death, dressing it in the image of an enemy, but any person. For these people, there really is nothing sacred, as Francois Cavanna bequeathed, and such people have neither heart, nor soul, nor mind. They cannot even be considered human, since they reject universal human ideals.
The mocking illustration of those killed in the earthquake shook and shook the public consciousness. We can only hope that this indignation will develop into action against lawlessness and will help Europe find and finally define the line that separates what is permitted from what is forbidden, and begin to revive lost values in the West, and at the same time move away from the negative image of Muslims.
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