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AIBU?

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to think that Dilbert cartoons are not funny.

48 replies

LornMowa · 07/04/2013 10:09

This is an example.

The men in my household find them v. amusing but I have never been even slightly amused.

Its not just me is it?

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AwkwardSquad · 07/04/2013 10:16

I've worked for a large bureaucratic organisation for too many years now. I find them very funny indeed :)

PatriciaHolm · 07/04/2013 10:18

Having done my time in cubicles, some of them are hilarious!

NynaevesSister · 07/04/2013 10:19

That cartoon cracked me up. Maybe you need to work in a big office?

MrsBW · 07/04/2013 10:19

I work in IT and think the one you've linked to is very funny!! Grin

LaminateFlaw · 07/04/2013 10:20

YABU. I also work for a large and very bureaucratic organisation, and most if it is far too close to reality. Some are funnier than others though.

oinkment · 07/04/2013 10:20

You are not being unreasonable for not finding the Dilbert cartoons funny.

I am not being unreasonable for finding them clever, funny and very entertaining.

You might be being unreasonable if you believe that because you don't find them funny they are therefore lacking in humour but I can't tell if that's what you mean in your OP.

thenightsky · 07/04/2013 10:20

YANBU I don't find them remotely funny either.

MardyBra · 07/04/2013 10:20

YANBU because humour is subjective.

It's a bit of an oddly specific AIBU though.

Like:
AIBU not to like blue cheese/One Direction/Mr Bean?

AwkwardSquad · 07/04/2013 10:21

Quite a few are based on anecdotes sent in to the cartoonist by cubicle dwellers. IME, pointy haired boss is very true to life! An I love Catbert. In fact I want to be Catbert.

Catbert4pm · 07/04/2013 10:22

I find a lot of them funny. But then, I worked in HR for 25 years (the clue's in the name Smile). But I am looking for a more interesting occupation at the moment, say... watching paint dry?!

Sparklingbrook · 07/04/2013 10:24

I prefer Calvin and Hobbes

MsVestibule · 07/04/2013 10:26

I love Dilbert cartoons! But then, I worked for an international bank for over 20 years, so a lot of it rang true...

But YANBU to dislike them. Just out of interest, have you ever worked in a large, bureaucratic organisation?

Sallyingforth · 07/04/2013 10:29

Dilbert is hilarious. YABU.

Bumply · 07/04/2013 10:30

The thing is they are so often true to life in an IT office that you have to laugh or you'll cry.

VodkaJelly · 07/04/2013 10:32

I work for a large IT company and I find them hilarious and scarily quite true.

kim147 · 07/04/2013 10:34

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Otherworld · 07/04/2013 10:36

Having worked for a large IT company they are scarily accurate sometimes.

Otherworld · 07/04/2013 10:36

And should add funny - but if you've not worked in that world I can understand why you'd not get the humour

TiggyD · 07/04/2013 10:42

I have a large selection of Dilbert books. And the DVD of the series. And 3 books by Scott Adams. Bit of a fan!

Any of us who are victims of management like Dilbert.

TheBigJessie · 07/04/2013 10:43

That one is funny in general!

I haven't worked in that environment, but my mother thinks I want to hear all her crazy ideas about the internet. She once called me up to explain that she wasn't going to have a firewall on her new computer, because a lady in a shop she was talking to told her all about a firewall wrecking her new computer...

LornMowa · 07/04/2013 10:44

To those who have asked, I have worked in large organisations and understand the points that they are trying to make. That doesn't help though. Each time I look at one I think they are going to be funny but then they seem to labour the point so much. They're probably 5 frames too long.

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MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 07/04/2013 10:49

I think they're very funny Grin

LunaticFringe · 07/04/2013 10:49

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RubberBullets · 07/04/2013 10:58

Dilbert is great

WhereYouLeftIt · 07/04/2013 11:01

YABU. Dilbert is very funny through being scarily accurate.