What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee

What happens if an insect falls in a cup of coffee?!

The British: will throw the cup into the street and leave the coffee shop for good.

The American: will get the insect out and drink the coffee.

The Chinese: will eat the insect and drink the coffee.

The Israeli will:
(1) Sell the coffee to the American and the insect to the Chinese.
(2) Cry on all media channels that he feels insecure.
(3) Accuse the Palestinians, Hizb Allah, Syria and Iran of using germ-weapons.
(4) Keep on crying about anti-semitism and violations of human rights.
(5) Ask the Palestinian President to stop planting insects in the cups of coffee.
(6) Re-occupy the West Bank, Gaza Strip.
(7) Demolish houses, confiscate lands, cut water and electricity from Palestinian houses and randomly shoot Palestinians.
(8) Ask the United States for urgent military support and a loan of one million dollars in order to buy a new cup of coffee.
(9) Ask the United Nations to punish the coffee-shop owner by making him offer free coffee to him till the end of the century.
(10) Last but not least, accuse the whole world to be standing still, not even sympathizing with the Israeli Nation.

From Le Monde

Quite simply - not funny.

I thought it was fine - but yes, old.

Not funny at all... too close to reality. :-)

Very poor taste.

More biting satire than side splitting humor I guess, but makes a pretty clear, valid, and very relevant point. Of course, its the fact that its so unfortunately close to truth, that definitely detracts from the humor aspect.

The coffee or the insect?

Totally and utterly unbelievable. The Chinese would buy the coffee and the American's would make the insect Governor of California.

No comment...

Comedy got boundaries all of a sudden, eh?

Funny and painfully close to the truth which makes it all the more funny.

Boundaries? Comedy is only comedy if it addresses the intellect. This one is only dumb and as koorosh stated it's an "anti-xyz joke" and nothing else, which disqualifies it being a joke. It's not close to reality or something and therefore not funny at all. The only comedy about it is, that some people actually think it's funny.

I additionally find it quite amusing how seriously you take the matter

then why do people laugh when something dumb happens to somebody? or if a man gets a baseball in the family jewels when playing with his kids.
These examples don't address the intellect.

I don't think the man getting hit in the jewels is funny though.

Well I wouldnt restrict comedy to only things which appeal to the intellect, sure a lot of comedy does, but its also possible to appeal to peoples consciences, values and senses of justice, as this one does.

depends on the man... seeing Bush getting hit in the jewels would make me laugh.

The "joke" if you could call it that, is not to me "anti-Israeli", but just a play on stereotypes, which to some make it humorous. Sterotypes can be funny, Lord knows we Americans get enough sterotyping on here, and most are taken with good humor.

Unfortunately, I suspect that the spirit in which this particular thread and "joke" was posted was however meant to be, as the title clearly states overtly "anti-Israeli", and not really posted for any true humor factor.

Not only is it old, versions of it exist all over the place. In Lebanon I heard what I think is a more amusing version:

An american, a lebanese and a syrian.
American asks for a new cup of coffee
Lebanese removes bug and keeps drinking same coffee
Syrian removes bug from cup, swats it on the back and says "hey, spit it out, you!"

I don't either,
but, the germans do, as those funny home video shows are full of those kind of videos, and they seem to laugh in the audiences.

Funniest home video shows are the same all around the world - I'll bet they even share the video's to make up the segment.

I'm also pretty sure you'd have these in Canada..

Le Monde, being the source, is a slightly left-wing French paper. I think it needs to be seen it that context.
I think yes, it's funny (cynical, but Le Monde is cynical) and yes, it makes a point too. That is exactly what Le Monde has its longstanding reputation for.
@Nadia: don't quite see your point in the parallel joke: what makes it old? The point is not about jokes with an insect in a cup of coffee having been tod before??? or correct me if I'm wrong

The reason it is not funny is that it is too laboured. It is too long and drawn out, turning it from being potentially amusing to tediously political.

Those kinda edgy stereotype jokes need to be punchier like the old classics:

How many jews can you fit in a Volkswagen?

100. 2 in the front, 2 in the back and 96 in the ashtray.

Now see, that one isn't funny.

Are all these race jokes not a form of racism/bigotry? Do people not understand that or do they just not care?

There was a backlash against that sort of thing for a while there, but I think most people apart from a minority of particularly humorless "everything is offensive" types have realised that relaxing the old sphincter a bit and having a laugh at ourselves and each other is actually a pretty healthy endevour. These days more than ever.

I agree, humour is important. I personally prefer humour that doesn't stereotype races. I just find it silly, not funny.

So, at least I managed to divert the original thread topic onto what is or isn't humour. Didn't 'e do well?

You are kidding right?

A huge - huge - percentage of jokes centre on racism, bigotry, oppression of women, homosexuals etc etc. If you removed all jokes that offended I think comedy would be struggling!

Q: How many forum members does it take to start an argument?
A: All of them. One to make a post, another to disagree with it and the rest to pile in 30 seconds later with their opinion.

The scotsman would grab the insect and say "spit it out ya wee bastard!"

Yep, Bernard Manning would have had no career if it weren't for finding some group to poke fun at.