Laughing inapporpriately at things

topper75 · 26-05-2017 04:56PM

Perfectly normal OP.

You know those days where the sun is shining through the leaves in the trees, you are licking an icecream, and you hear children playing in the distance, and you stop to think "**** it- we're all going to be dead some day!"

Yeah it's just the other side of that coin.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 26-05-2017 04:59PM

I can't help myself. The most awkward was during a presentation, the girl sitting next to me said something funny and the speaker was being so serious, I started howling in the middle of it. She was glaring at me, which made it worse.

LushiousLips · 26-05-2017 05:19PM

Thanks for the laugh guys. I nearly pis*ed myself reading alot of those.
Couple of years ago there was some church thing on for Easter I think. People walked up the middle of the aisle to kiss Jesus feet on the cross. I was with my brother and his kid who was about 8 at the time. Course me and the 8 year old got into hysterics laughing and I laughed the whole way up the aisle.

MyStubbleItches · 26-05-2017 05:26PM

A friend and I were putting up sheets of ply on a ceiling, I had the nail gun and ended up shooting a nail right through my thumb. He couldn't contain himself and I quickly followed suit. We were still breaking ourselves five minutes later trying to pull out the nail with a pliers and my fúcking thumb hopping with pain.

LincolnHawk · 26-05-2017 05:43PM

I laughed my head off at Mr Hands

Bambi985 · 26-05-2017 06:04PM

Being in a church is always a challenge for me for some reason. Can never stifle the giggles.

I think the worst case of it was when my mother dragged me along to some ceremony that some locally renowned "faith healer" was doing in the local parish. I was about 15 and at the time our brother was gravely ill and my mother was mad religious, took this notion that we should go and do a bit of spiritual healing on his behalf.

At the end of the mass he did some "laying of the hands" thing where people approached the alter and he placed his hands on their heads one by one (to "cure" them I guess). People started dropping like flies. Literally falling back without even bending their knees and collapsing to the floor. Maddest thing I've ever seen and I went from sniggering when I saw the first person drop to bursting into convulsions of laughter each time someone else went down. The more that dropped the less I could control myself. Ended up being escorted out by a very angry mammy who has still not forgiven me for it:o

wexandproud · 26-05-2017 06:31PM

on the day my father was buried we had all gone back to the home place after having the customary meal in the local . A neighbor who would have been very close to my father for 40 years called in to see how we were , after i poured him a drink he held it aloft and said ''here i am sitting in your house drinking your whiskey and there's nothing you can do '' well we all took a fit of laughing . It was just what we needed

Lorelli! · 27-05-2017 07:57AM

When I was about 13, my best friend and I were out hanging around. There was an elderly couple that lived near us and my friends mam use to help them out. Sometimes we would go to the shop to get them bread and milk and stuff too.

The husband of the couple was a bit mean to the wife sometimes though and he was a heavy drinker. My friend and I saw him out in the garden leaning awkwardly against the wall and calling the dog. We told him we'd find the dog but we said we'd help him inside first because he was clearly drunk.

When we were helping him, he stumbled a bit and with that, his wig fell off. I didn't know he wore a wig! And for a couple of seconds i was trying to register what happened, looking at the wig on the ground and then at the man. My friend got into a fit of laughter at the situation and the look of complete shock on my face!

For about 2 days after whenever she looked at me and thought about it, she'd laugh her head off again

md23040 · 27-05-2017 09:04AM

On a family holiday to Spain in the 1970's my aunt was swimming 20 metres out and laughing her head with large sets of waves smashing onto the shore. We were all grouped under 4 of those straw beach hats and saying how great it was Auntie Jean was having such a great time altogether and coming out of herself ,as she's normally very quiet and introverted. It was infectious watching her laugh more and more with about 15 of us eventually laughing too.

Anyway her Hubbie came back from his lunch at the beach bar and immediately dived in to rescue her since she's a poor swimmer and laughs when nervous.

Bless her when she came back onto terra firma, she was very shook up but saw the funny side of the whole thing. There was something about the 1970's, people were more care free and ambivalent and not so up tight generally about anything.

HONKEY TONK · 27-05-2017 09:14AM

I have this type of immediate shock laugh what I see something I wasnt expecting

Hammer89 · 27-05-2017 11:44AM

Friend of mine revealed to me that her dad had electrocompulsive therapy back in the day. Her father has since passed away, so talking about him, and the ECT, is a very sore subject. "Jesus. That's shocking," I go, after hearing about it, a completely accidental joke.

Well I howled.

Potential-Monke · 27-05-2017 11:57AM

The whole time. I nearly always see a funny side to things, but usually i'm the only one. When i explain why i'm laughing others do see it, but i have a morbidly dark sense of humour. Nothing is sacred with me. And 10 years of being a Garda didn't help. You have to have a "black" sense of humour in the Guards, and that coupled with my own fairly dark sense, i'll laugh at near anything...

neonsofa · 27-05-2017 12:25PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

The whole time. I nearly always see a funny side to things, but usually i'm the only one. When i explain why i'm laughing others do see it, but i have a morbidly dark sense of humour. Nothing is sacred with me. And 10 years of being a Garda didn't help. You have to have a "black" sense of humour in the Guards, and that coupled with my own fairly dark sense, i'll laugh at near anything...

I can never explain why I'm laughing, I'm the annoying person that starts talking and can't actually continue because I'm laughing so much. And then when the other person gets annoyed i know that I should stop laughing and just explain to them what was funny, so I'll pull myself together but then burst out laughing again because knowing that you shouldn't laugh just makes you laugh more. It's actually awful!

bodhrandude · 27-05-2017 02:41PM

md23040 wrote: »

On a family holiday to Spain in the 1970's my aunt was swimming 20 metres out and laughing her head with large sets of waves smashing onto the shore. We were all grouped under 4 of those straw beach hats and saying how great it was Auntie Jean was having such a great time altogether and coming out of herself ,as she's normally very quiet and introverted. It was infectious watching her laugh more and more with about 15 of us eventually laughing too.

Anyway her Hubbie came back from his lunch at the beach bar and immediately dived in to rescue her since she's a poor swimmer and laughs when nervous.

Bless her when she came back onto terra firma, she was very shook up but saw the funny side of the whole thing. There was something about the 1970's, people were more care free and ambivalent and not so up tight generally about anything.

I had a very similar experience in Bundoran in the early eighties with my sister, she was out ahead of me in the beach and she started to laugh about something, I misinterpreted and thought she was running into trouble in the waves and started panicking and shouting to her which just made her worse. She just thought it hilarious my concern.

Lady is a tramp · 27-05-2017 02:53PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Friend of mine revealed to me that her dad had electrocompulsive therapy back in the day. Her father has since passed away, so talking about him, and the ECT, is a very sore subject. "Jesus. That's shocking," I go, after hearing about it, a completely accidental joke.

Well I howled.

I always thought that ECT was a back-in-the-day kind of thing, but actually they still do it in the likes of St Pats. Seems insane to me!

md23040 · 27-05-2017 08:29PM

My five year old nephew at the time of the Ireland's World Cup victory to Italy was at mass soon after, proudly wearing his green jersey, and during the consecration bit with the priest loudly saying, with the altar bell chiming "Holy Holy Holy". The nephew takes this as a cue, and equally loudly starts up an "Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole, Oooole, Oooole".

Hard to keep a straight face and burst out laughing.

Mind you the priest in fairness seen the innocence and funny side to it after.

La_Gordy · 28-05-2017 02:03PM

Wardling wrote: »

I don't understand why but kids falling or getting hurt cracks me up. It's terrible. I'm a sucker for them compilation videos. Sore from the laughter afterwards.

For your enjoyment - https://www.reddit.com/r/ChildrenFallingOver/

Hector Bellend · 28-05-2017 04:37PM

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?

At least it wasnt a busker singing wonderwall

NickNickleby · 28-05-2017 05:05PM

Deleted User wrote: »

"Put yourself into a child"

had to 'like' this, as it looks like it went "whoooooosh"....

So, you never left , then?

Robsweezie · 28-05-2017 10:37PM

i remember doing a course and there was this polish/latvian man on it. we were all sat round doing some roleplay and had to read out our work, then got feedback. when it was his turn, he read out in this garbled, broken english that foreigners often do when learning the language.

there was an awkward silence in the room for a minute and you could tell the tutor was stifling a laugh as she hesitantly asked us what we thought of it.

Widdershins · 29-05-2017 09:15AM

I've just been reminded by someone's post in another thread. Once I was asked if I'm single, right in the middle of the city in the daytime, and I laughed out loud. I was miles away and it was the last thing I expected the man to say!

razorblunt · 29-05-2017 10:42AM

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.

The Pianist isn't it?

On a similar note, years ago we went to see some movie with Michael Keaton, some supernatural one. One of the scenes at the end was at a graveyard, a supporting character was injured in the final battle and subsequently was now in a wheelchair. As the scene ended the person in the wheelchair rolled into view looking at a car driving away. For some reason my friend found this to be the funniest thing he'd ever seen. Only one other person was laughing and that guy shouted out "come back you've forgotten your friend". That set my friend off even more. Just him and this stranger in convulsions. You could tell who they were too walking out with their big red eyes from crying and occasional little giggles.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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.

I found that whole scene very contrived, some girl was clearly pushed forward, felt incredibly awkward singing, took a few minutes for folk to even mumble along. Someone then shouted "come on sing up" and it got a little louder for a chorus.

Laughing inapporpriately at things

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