Laughing when you shouldn't.

Caoimhgh1n

Have you ever started laughing for no reason and created the most awkward situation, or am I the only person who does that?

Timberrrrrrrr

The main reason I avoid funerals TBH

whatismyname

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Have you ever started laughing for no reason and created the most awkward situation, or am I the only person who does that?

Yep. You're literally the only person who does that...

The_Valeyard

Can be a nervous response in some people. Like when you were in school and the teacher gives out to you. To start to giggle, teachers gets even angrier, so you start to laugh even more. Etc.


Best thing to do is find a spot on the floor or wall and stare at it.

NachoBusiness

Over the Christmas some elderly folk were talking about how Joe Duffy had twins whose 21st birthay was during the Eater Rising and what a coincidence it was. Everyone agreed but I started laughing as I couldn't see what they meant. I had to leave the room as I was laughing so much. Maybe they were right but I couldn't see it and the more people that agreed that it was a coincidence, the more I had to fight to hold in the laughing. Was in tears.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

If one bad thing happens to someone, I'm full of sympathy. Two bad things happen to someone in a row, well that's odd. More than three bad things and I can't help but burst out laughing because it just gets bizarre and ridiculous.

So any of those stories middle-aged misery guts tell about their friend's cousin who was carrying her disabled father down the stairs and then she slipped and fell and broke both her legs and then it turned out he wasn't her real father and stuff like that, I'm not a good audience.

darkpagandeath

http://i29.tinypic.com/35d3jp3.gif

osarusan

In mass about 25 years ago, at that point where everybody has to say the response on cue to the prayer that was just said.

The priest had just announced what the response should be, and it was a real long one, too long to remember, so everybody just murmured something that soulded vaguely like it.

When it came time to say the response as prompted, my father said the first couple of words correctly, then just said 'and something else.' The first time I just shot him a surprised look, but he did it again 'and something else again' and I cracked up laughing, causing him to do the same.

It was one of those times where we'd stop, only to be set off again for any reason at all. It went on forever and my mother was furious but could do nothing.

Badly Drunk Boy

I rarely laugh, although I find stuff funny. I used to deconstruct jokes (in a polite way) or just smile, to pretend to be social.

Duff

My granny's sister tripped over the dog and landed on her arse covered in trifle on Christmas day. Everyone in the room "Oh Jesus" "Oh my God" "Are you okay" save for me and my uncle who were in absolute convulsions on the couch. Evils from everyone. She's an auld bag anyway and she was grand.

maudgonner

On our way to my uncle's funeral we were driving through Galway City and saw a man (presumably) dressed in a gorilla suit, pounding his fists on the door of a flat trying to get someone to let him in.

Luckily it was only myself and my brother in the car, both of us saw it and burst out laughing. We were still in hysterics, desperately trying to pull ourselves together when we reached the funeral home.

My uncle had a good sense of humour, he would have approved.

FalconGirl

When my cousin put a few bob in the jukebox and stuck on Pat Shortts Jumbo breakfast roll on full blast at the afters of my Grandads funeral. The granny threw a massive evil at him and I had to turn to the wall as I was laughing so hard.

Gatling

Funerals every time for me ,

While everyone else seems to be in tears I'm struggling with fits of giggles

suicide_circus

I accompanied a relation to mass over Christmas and there was a lady singing bits of the mass....really badly. Shrieking off key etc. I think I bust a blood vessel trying to suppress the teary eyed belly laughs that were trying to escape me.

This video of a good parallel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8InDxslak