Laughing inapporpriately at things

Not me, but my wife does. She's got humour, gets the giggles at a funeral.

Pseudobulbar Affect. = Emotional incontinence.

I remember being in Leaving Cert and me and a girl were walking down the stairs messing and she slipped and fell and broke her leg. She was lying screaming on the ground and I ran back to our base room to tell the teacher and she was in the middle of teaching a class. I had the biggest grin on my face saying "Miss, Gemma just fell down the stairs and broke her leg" and then I burst out laughing. She got up from her chair and ran me out of the room! The poor girl lying at the bottom of the stairs legs akimbo
I don't know what came over me I just got awkward and got the giggles.
I still do it now if I have to be the one to break bad news, I almost have to stretch my mouth out first to prevent me from smiling.

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Today I was watching Sky News they were doing thier whole Manchester is together in solidarity bit.

It was all very somber serious...

The presenter said 'And crowd sang a song that is synonymous with Manchester'

Close up of crowd.

Crowd: "Sooooo sallly can waaaait she know's its toooo late...."

To be honest I cracked up laughing and turned it off, I was not expecting that!

Felt bad for laughing, but come on?

Same happened to me, except I saw a live bit where around 30 people tried to recreate it ,they awkwardly mumbled the general tune and a concerned reporter looked on with tilted head and pained expression. My mum was watching them and then chimed in and said "God love them, it's terrible...but they shouldn't have let these poor fellas sing".
She didn't mean it quite as it sounded, but I couldn't help laughing but then also felt bad.

I had a bit of a giggle with my brothers walking behind my dad's coffin on the way to the graveyard. I do giggle inappropriately, but what I've been told is its another emotion and sometimes it's better to laugh than cry.
Sometimes we must find some humour in difficult situations in order to cope.
It does embarrass me sometimes, but most often people understand.
I'm going through a difficult patch atm, and my bladder is very close to my eyes, I find laughter is so much better than crying . . Crying doesn't make me feel better, I actually get more embarrassed (although sometimes the laughing ends up in a little cry)
Laughing gives me hope

greencap wrote: »

Thats terrible.

If anyone sang an Oasis song as my tribute I'd rise from the grave and kick them in the balls.

Anyway, here's wonderwall.

My father died a few months ago, and as that was happening, there was a priest that kept hanging round the hospital, always wanting to pop in for a quick pray over him. We couldn't get rid of him!

Eventually my father was moved to a hospice, and we had a meeting with the staff to discuss certain things. One of the things they asked us about was religion, and my mother, brother, and myself started to crack up, thinking that it was starting all over again. The staff were baffled, shocked even, until we explained it.

But at least we were the immediate family, so we could laugh inappropriately when we liked.

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Today I was watching Sky News they were doing thier whole Manchester is together in solidarity bit.

It was all very somber serious...

The presenter said 'And crowd sang a song that is synonymous with Manchester'

Close up of crowd.

Crowd: "Sooooo sallly can waaaait she know's its toooo late...."

To be honest I cracked up laughing and turned it off, I was not expecting that!

Felt bad for laughing, but come on?

I heard that the council was handing out free soup to the crowds. You got a roll with it.

Parchment wrote: »

My dad came in and nearly punched me, i was standing there laughing and my mom was in a heap on the ground.

Ahm laughing away at that.

Similar story, my ma slipped in the kitchen and I was watching telly. I could hear a faint Niamh...Niamh... I finally bothered to go investigate and was greeted wi my ma doing the splits having slipped on a tile. I laughed so much I had to go out to the garden to let it all out.

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Same happened to me, except I saw a live bit where around 30 people tried to recreate it ,they awkwardly mumbled the general tune and a concerned reporter looked on with tilted head and pained expression. My mum was watching them and then chimed in and said "God love them, it's terrible...but they shouldn't have let these poor fellas sing".
She didn't mean it quite as it sounded, but I couldn't help laughing but then also felt bad.

Utterly disrespectful to the families of victims also.

"Don't Look Back in Anger"

What bereaved parent isn't going to look back in anger at this atrocity.

valoren wrote: »

I remember watching The Piano.
A movie about The Holocaust so not exactly fertile soil for laughs obviously.

There is one scene, during the ghetto liquidation where one of the characters, in a wheelchair, is unceremoniously thrown out of an open window by an SS grunt and falls to his death.

There was just something comical about the casualness of it that I just burst out laughing.

Actually that reminds me, I was in a fairly packed cinema in Yokohama watching Gangs of New York, and when I suddenly heard a bit of Irish language, I burst out laughing.

Both the Japanese and other foreigners were turning round to look at me, wondering what was so funny.

Ninjini wrote: »

I'm awful for laughing in situations where I feel uncomfortable. Worst of all is during arguments. As the argument heats up I have to stifle a smile or giggle which infuriates my OH, which in turn just makes me giggle more.

this you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDXrP9HET2A