Laughing in inappropriate situations

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 30-11-2016 04:28PM #1

I have just read an article online where the parent of a 5yr old has been called into school because the child laughs every time at her teachers name. (Ms. Butt incase you're wondering)

It reminds me of a time one of my dads neighbours called into our house, and was telling us about how when he was in school one of his teachers used to beat him. He always refers to himself in the third person, and was so mad telling the story his face was changing colour. I of course was trying to keep a straight face but he started reinacting one particular situation and I started howling laughing, he got so defensive and told me that it wasn't a bit funny, and not to be laughing.

Have you ever made a bad situation awkward by bursting out laughing?

mikhail · 30-11-2016 04:47PM

A school teacher once threw me out of class. He was wittering on about his life story and I started laughing at the line "I have three beautiful children". It was an oft-repeated line, but I was amused because I was thinking of the previous class when he'd been yelling that he didn't have time to finish the course and we were the worse class he'd ever had.

Wait, inappropriate.

jimgoose · 30-11-2016 04:47PM

It's common enough, laughing at funerals and so forth. These days some shrinks think it might be part of a very old sort of defence mechanism:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201101/why-we-laugh

Rubberlegs · 30-11-2016 04:59PM

Myself and my best friend used to laugh hysterically at Mass, we'd only have to look at each other and we'd be off. We would be trying to laugh quietly, and the whole bench would be shaking. I'm fairly sure I can remember the priest giving out about us once from the altar. Probably made us laugh all the more.

me_irl · 30-11-2016 04:59PM

Hahahahahahahahahahah!

Sh*t.

Sorry.

osarusan · 30-11-2016 05:08PM

Good times...

osarusan wrote: »

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 really long one, too long to remember, so everybody just murmured something that sounded 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.

JupiterKid · 30-11-2016 05:10PM

Yes, I have laughed/sniggered at inappropriate situations. Like one when my ex partners sister recounted a serious accident her daughter had whilst horse riding. I think it was out of nervousness.

kowloon · 30-11-2016 05:10PM

Once was out with someone and she walked into a lamp post, I laughed, she didn't appreciate it. Forever alone.

Mr. Incognito · 30-11-2016 05:13PM

I have a theory that Laughing is just when the brain is overwhelmed and is a kind of shock.

That's why punchlines that are unexpected deliver the best jokes.

cml387 · 30-11-2016 05:22PM

I remember an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show where Chuckles the clown died.

Chuckles was at a parade in fancy dress, dressed as a peanut and an "Elelphant tried to shell him".

The whole newsroom was in hysterics while Mary was appalled at their insensitivity.

At the funeral however the tables are turned.

It's worth finding on youtube if you can.

uch · 30-11-2016 05:24PM

It was always funny as a kid, when you'd be in a church and someone would Fart on the wooden benches, try stopping laughing then

Olishi4 · 30-11-2016 05:28PM

When I was about 12/13, three of my friends and I were going into town. When we got to the train station, there was a train coming so we ran and got on the train and didn't pay.

On the way home, we were on time for the train so myself and another friend went to pay and the other two decided to chance not paying home as well and they started slagging us for getting a ticket.

About two stops in and the ticket collector got on and my friend and I looked at the other two and their face was priceless. We couldn't stop laughing. The ticket collector came over and asked them for their tickets. They were like "eh". At that stage even the other passengers around us started laughing aswell. He made them pay and gave them a warning but he was even laughing himself.

liz lemoncello · 30-11-2016 05:29PM

cml387 wrote: »

I remember an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show where Chuckles the clown died.

Chuckles was at a parade in fancy dress, dressed as a peanut and an "Elelphant tried to shell him".

The whole newsroom was in hysterics while Mary was appalled at their insensitivity.

At the funeral however the tables are turned.

It's worth finding on youtube if you can.

Piggystardust · 30-11-2016 05:30PM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

I have a theory that Laughing is just when the brain is overwhelmed and is a kind of shock.

That's why punchlines that are unexpected deliver the best jokes.

I agree. I was sitting in a café recently waiting for a friend of mine to come back the hospital after a consultation.

He walked in looking shell-shocked and told me he'd been given 6 months at most to live. I literally burst out laughing. He just stared at me blankly but I couldn't stop, the more he talked about how serious it was and sick he was about to get the more I laughed. By the end of the conversation, if you could even call it that, I had tears streaming down my face from laughter.

That phase didn't last long though believe me and I've been devastated since.

I'm also the first person to laugh if I see someone fall over or walk into a door or something. If I'm in trouble, I tend to giggle too. Fights with past boyfriends have escalated badly cos the angrier they get, the more ridiculous things seem and it just becomes funny.

It's definitely a weird nervous defense mechanism... and it's no laughing matter! :pac:

The flying mouse · 30-11-2016 05:31PM

I have a close friend & she laughs at the most inappropriate situations, When I said it to her she just laughed at me...

its a nervous something or other she has ha ha ha

Grayson · 30-11-2016 05:32PM

I went out with a girl who used a whole bottle of that frizz-eze (Is that spelled correctly?) on her hair to try and straighten it. It looked like she'd dipped her hair in a frying pan. She was freaked out by it and I couldn't stop laughing.

Grayson · 30-11-2016 05:33PM

The first time I heard a fanny fart I burst out laughing. Kinda ruined the moment.

Legionn_of_Dan · 30-11-2016 05:44PM

I find the pressure and tension in a minutes silence unbearable. I have to fight the urge to laugh or smile.

Dick phelan · 30-11-2016 05:47PM

I'm terrible for it, used to get in trouble for it at school a fair bit, when i was younger the local priest had a stammer, felt terrible but couldn't stop myself from laughing at times during mass.

Ash.J.Williams · 30-11-2016 05:51PM

jimgoose wrote: »

It's common enough, laughing at funerals and so forth. These days some shrinks think it might be part of a very old sort of defence mechanism:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201101/why-we-laugh

I disappeared for an hour at my fathers wake for some peace, when I returned I was asked where I was ...I did the usual avoid tactics to which my bro in law then responded "who is she?" I said "do I look like the type of chap that would look for a grief shag?" silence for a few seconds and then an eruption of laughter in the room....my nephew then added "make sure she signs the book on the way out..."

petrolcan · 30-11-2016 05:56PM

When my Grandad was being lowered into the ground, he got stuck halfway.

Some of us laughed.

Canis Lupus · 30-11-2016 06:00PM

I'm terrible for the giggles at funerals even did it at my fathers who'd have me killed were he alive at the time. My brother broke the handle off the coffin as we lifted it to carry it out to the hearse. I thought I'd wet myself given the look on his face in front of the parish. I've been asked to leave a church in the past for not being able to control my giggles.

Boom_Bap · 30-11-2016 06:14PM

I woke up with a fright and let out a mighty yelp on an airplane the other day.

After the stunned passengers around me (that I woke up with said yelp) returned to their sleep, I groggily remembered how I was just talking to someone about how I wake suddenly on airplanes and always think I've pee'd myself and start fumbling around at my crotch for a wet patch.

I started to laugh out loud at this for some reason, it was in my head that I yelped but didn't pee and nobody seen me rooting at the oul crotch.

I'm not sure why I laughed. This makes no sense.

ahlookit · 30-11-2016 06:15PM

We were all gathered round my mothers bed in hospital on the day she was dying. Family, close friends, etc when the muppet hospital chaplain came in....

He started saying this mournful mawkish waffle that was supposed to be a prayer, but he was just wittering on and on. I was just about holding it together. Then ma let out this kind of snort from the bed (doped up to the gills on morphine) at some particularly inane line from the priest. Exactly the noise she'd usually make when she was listening to someone spouting sh!te. I caught my sisters eye, and completely lost it. The harder I fought to suppress the laughter, the harder I shook. Eventually I couldn't handle it anymore and I had to bolt out of the room, still mid-prayer, with tears streaming down my face. I think my sister told the priest I was very upset or something when the old codger eventually shut up. Still, he gave me the best laugh I had that week.

Lady Chatterton · 30-11-2016 06:41PM

My sister and I burst out laughing at our grand-aunt's funeral.

The undertaker was about to close the coffin in the mortuary when an elderly gentleman made a dash towards the deceased. Most of our family and relations thought he was taking the death very bad but my sister and I howled with laughter because we copped on that he was trying to recover his lotto slip which had fallen into the coffin earlier.

30-11-2016 06:45PM

I woke up a cabin full of people by laughing my head off in my sleep on an overnight flight. The FA had to wake me up.
Morto.

Stigura · 30-11-2016 06:45PM

I used to drive my first wife to distraction, most mornings. Because, quite simply, I used to wake up in gales of laughter!

God knows why. As soon as I became conscious, I'd be aware that my mouth was wide open and I was laughing like a drain!

Used to genuinely make her angry! " How can you Be so happy, in the morning?! :mad: "

What the f**k did she want?!?

goat.sniffer · 30-11-2016 06:51PM

Not long after I started going out with my girlfriend her grandmother died. After the funeral the family went back to a restaurant for a dinner. All was very quiet as you'd imagine, and her brother got up to go to the bathroom.

I didnt know him too well then, but I thought it would be great craic as he was standing up at his chair to tap the glass on the table 3 times with my fork as if to make it look like he was about to make a speech - well I laughed and laughed, completely forgot where I was!! He saw the funny side of it too thankfully!

fryup · 30-11-2016 06:55PM

The movie - The Green Mile

the scene where yer man was executed and Percy didn't wet the sponge therefore pro-longing his death

couldn't stop laughing in the cinema at it thought it was hilarious esp at the bad smell bit with people putting their handkerchiefs to their noses

(am i sick ?)

Rubberlegs · 30-11-2016 06:57PM

Jesus I'm cringing remembering this. When my Dad was dying for about the last half hour his breathing became really slow. He would take a breath, and not breathe out for what seemed like ages, I'd say "he's gone now", and then he would breathe again. I'd say "sorry Dad" and myself and my sister would start laughing it was so comical. Pure nerves though was what it was. I know If he could have he'd have been laughing along with us, he'd have seen the funny side

lazybones32 · 30-11-2016 07:23PM

At my brothers burial the coffin was placed on a few timbers over the grave while the priest said the prayers. My bro was a big fella and the timbers were bending to nearly a boomerang shape and I got such a fit of laughing that I had to cover my eyes and block my nose to try and contain it. I was literally shaking but people thought I was crying and came and put their arm around me. I think I would have pi$$ed myself if the coffin broke the lats and fell into the grave.

Does anyone have a HD link of the Dutch presenter who loses it when talking to a squeaky-voiced guest? That was funny.

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