Title: I had a friend send me a link to some jokes yesterday. I laughed for about an hour.<p>Then I realized that I hadn't laughed or smiled at web content in quite some time.<p>So today's topic: humorous nerdy phrases on T-shirts -- of interest to hackers or not?<p>I think humor and light-heartedness is very interesting and also good for you. I just posted "Nerdy Cute Girls. In T-Shirts" and it was deleted within minutes. There was no nudity, no profanity. It was just funny nerd jokes on shirts with cute girls under them.<p>Now I could give a shit whether HN wants to delete this post or not, and I really don't want to promote myself in those keyword areas, but the post wasn't controversial or off-topic. Lame and trivial, perhaps. But fuck dudes, there are a zillion lame and trivial posts every day. Just don't upvote them. Instead I got the immediate "what is this? Reddit?" (Which I thought was hilarious in itself actually. I could just picture some overly-serious internet curmudgeon banging away the required response)<p>So what do you guys say? Can we share jokes and light-heartedness every now and then as long as we identify in the title what it is? Or would the presence of jokes derail the community forever and lead us down a path of wanton banality?<p>I know the standard response. I'm just thinking that I've become much less happy over the last two years, and hanging out in a joke-free zone with a bunch of Mr. Spock wannabes might be part of that.<p>So while I understand the theory in "no jokes" I wonder what the long-timers think of the effect on them after a while. For those of you wanting to psychoanalyze me, probably a more useful response would be to post some links for receiving tech humor on a daily basis. This not only makes you look like less of a jerk, it helps other people with similar questions.<p>What do you guys think?
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