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26-02-2015 12:55PM

This is my new favourite. Listen to the audio. "Very low impact"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBKEbim2wM

Hans Bricks · 26-02-2015 12:55PM

During the snow a few years ago, someone 'aul wan about 60 went on her snot right across the road from me, landing on her elbow. She had that kind of reaction a child does when they slip, fall and land on their stomach and hands.

"A ... a...a...ah aheuheuheuheuheuheu" lololololololoolololololol

Hans Bricks · 26-02-2015 12:56PM

During the snow a few years ago, someone 'aul wan about 60 went on her snot right across the road from me, landing on her elbow. She had that kind of reaction a child does when they slip, fall and land on their stomach and hands.

"A ... a...a...ah aheuheuheuheuheuheu"

Shenshen · 26-02-2015 01:00PM

I used to have a friend back in Germany who would fall over backwards if she got a fright.
Someone coming up behind her and just saying "Booh" would be enough, she'd scream, throw her hands in the air and fall on her behind.

Imagine the Katherine Tate character, only with falling over added to it.

Ab - so - lute - ly hillarious - she hated it, and was massively embarassed about it, but everytime it happened I was incapacitated with laughter.

mad muffin · 26-02-2015 01:01PM

glasso wrote: »

This is my new favourite. Listen to the audio. "Very low impact"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBKEbim2wM

Stupid hipsters...

Birneybau · 26-02-2015 01:01PM

Hans Bricks wrote: »

During the snow a few years ago, someone 'aul wan about 60 went on her snot right across the road from me, landing on her elbow. She had that kind of reaction a child does when they slip, fall and land on their stomach and hands.

"A ... a...a...ah aheuheuheuheuheuheu" lololololololoolololololol

Hilarious.

anncoates · 26-02-2015 01:02PM

RomanKnows wrote: »

Kids running around a supermarket like miniature hooligans. Running in between trollies and down aisles. Then one of them lands on their arse after taking a corner too quickly or smashing into a trolley.

Cracks me up every single time. Added lols when the Mother or Father eventually finds their child and then gives out to Ruairi for being so bold.

Years ago, I saw a little kid run straight into a full length mirror in a shop, presumably thinking it was a doorway.

Birneybau · 26-02-2015 01:04PM

A girl I was seeing for a while was walking down North Great George's Street, looking across at some filming take place. She, of course, walked into a lampost.

Only thing hurt was pride.

5rtytry56 · 26-02-2015 01:06PM

Anyone here 'goody goody' enough to stop someone going SPLAT? Well?
Getting off a Dublin Bus 3 years ago, I was propelled by the opening wheelchair platform at the door. Some good samaritan caught my wrist and in so doing, stopped my fall.

26-02-2015 01:11PM

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Anyone here 'goody goody' enough to stop someone going SPLAT? Well?
Getting off a Dublin Bus 3 years ago, I was propelled by the opening wheelchair platform at the door. Some good samaritan caught my wrist and in so doing, stopped my fall.

It's a natural reaction to try and stop someone falling, however in patient safety training, they will teach you that you should assist someone to the ground if they look like they will fall, but never catch someone who is already falling as you may hurt both yourself and the patient more by doing so!

Pumpkinseeds · 26-02-2015 01:15PM

I hate that mortifying feeling when you stumble/trip in public, desperately trying to look nonchalant even though you feel like a twat.

26-02-2015 01:16PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I hate that mortifying feeling when you stumble/trip in public, desperately trying to look nonchalant even though you feel like a twat.

It's never the actual fall that makes you feel bad, its the flailing attempt at keeping yourself upright that's the most embarrassing

:pac:

Karl Stein · 26-02-2015 01:38PM

It used to laugh at people falling over but then I became tolerant and moved on to laughing at car accidents. Unfortunately I had become somewhat dependent on laughing at others' misfortune and the car accidents just weren't eliciting the same buzz so I moved onto people being killed by various methods. It's got to the point now that it requires a small genocide for me to get a laugh. I'm doing my best not to move onto holocausts.

RosieJoe · 26-02-2015 01:44PM

Thread on people falling over started by whoopsadaisydoodles, brilliant

razorblunt · 26-02-2015 02:02PM

In fairness to the "ice" guy didn't he say himself he got cocky seeing the cameras and was trying to macho his way up the footpath?

Funniest thing I've seen was a kid getting stuck in the hall of mirrors in Funderland, he lost all sort of direction and would walk into each wall until he found the gap. At one stage getting frustrated and having seen his family outside watching he presumed it was clear and ran towards them. By this stage there were was a crowd gathering and they saw him whallop into the glass so hard his snotty nose left an imprint.

One of the lads working there went into get him and only succeeded in walking him into one final wall, they guy himself burst out laughing.

It was the closest I've gotten to getting sick from laughing, we saw him again 45 minutes late eating a 99 and rubbing his head, it set us off again, his Mam was giving us the stink eye, while his Dad was behind with a "what can I do look".

It now means I can never get angry at anyone laughing at my kid making an eejit of himself.

5rtytry56 · 26-02-2015 02:04PM

This thread is all Thrills 'n Spills alright.

osarusan · 26-02-2015 02:04PM

Once say a guy run to try and cross the street before the pedestrian lights changed. He must have been looking at the far side of the road, because he completely failed to notice that there was a thigh/waist high guardrail on his side of the road.

He hit it at full speed, and it was at just the perfect height that it basically stopped the lower half of his body completely, and his body just went like a hinge at the waist - he ended up leaning (briefly but gloriously) against the other side of the guardrail with his head and left shoulder on the ground, and his feet straight up in the air.

I laughed til I cried, and nobody else had seen it. I couldn't even describe it without going into that high-pitched laughing voice.

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-02-2015 02:14PM

26-02-2015 02:47PM

razorblunt wrote: »

In fairness to the "ice" guy didn't he say himself he got cocky seeing the cameras and was trying to macho his way up the footpath?
.

was the real guy ever found? Link?

Neyite · 26-02-2015 03:02PM

LynnGrace wrote: »

I laugh every time I see that clip. I think as well because he is striding along, like the weather can't affect HIM, of all people, and then takes such a fall.

I think I found Ice Guy funny because you could see him thinking "oh there's a news camera, better act all nonchalant" and he then goes flying.

Steve_Carella · 26-02-2015 03:33PM

Cats making fools of themselves. They try so hard to be all cool and then snot themselves and I piss myself laughing. Every. Single. Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_teB4ujKzdE

razorblunt · 26-02-2015 03:53PM

glasso wrote: »

was the real guy ever found? Link?

I thought the Ray D'Arcy show had him on soon afterwards?

Mr. CooL ICE · 26-02-2015 03:55PM

RosieJoe wrote: »

Thread on people falling over started by whoopsadaisydoodles, brilliant

And your post thanked by Timberrrrrrrr :pac:

Boom_Bap · 26-02-2015 04:04PM

I have this strange habit of trying to slow down the fall of something by catching on my foot and helping ease the object to the ground/floor.

Drop a spoon, myfoot immediately goes out to try stop it or slow down the rate of fallage.

One day my son and I were playing football. He fell in front of me, I ended up kicking him on his way to the ground.

I've found it hard to write this with all the supressed laughter.

People at the beach being hit by waves and knocking them over is also hilarious.

gidget · 26-02-2015 04:25PM

I'd also be the type to start laughing if i was to spot someone falling moreso because of peoples reactions to it. when you see a how the people around you react to something it you can't help but giggle to yourself. I do feel bad for laughing especially if the person is hurt, but you never get that image out of your head.

TheBeardedLady · 26-02-2015 05:03PM

anncoates wrote: »

Never enjoyed the ice guy one much from pity because it looked bloody painful, he whacked his head by the look of it and could have badly hurt himself.

The more comical/slapstick looking ones sometimes elicit a chuckle though.

I don't think the fall itself was that funny, it was more the context. A normal news bulletin on a humdrum topic then they cut to a montage of various boring ice/snow-related happenings around the country and someone had edited in some fella falling on his snot for the laugh. It was the unexpectedness of it. I'll be laughing forever at it.

libelula · 26-02-2015 05:12PM

I fell during a marathon last year. Still laugh every time I think about it .

2k in, chatting and messing away. Went round a corner, tripped on someone's foot, nearly cleaned a cyclist out of it and walloped my arm on a postbox on the way down. Grazed my knee and laughed so hard for so long that I'm blaming all that for my crap time

Earthhorse · 26-02-2015 05:25PM

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

I didn't use to do this but I often laugh when my Spanish students make a mistake in English now.

Deleted User wrote: »

I have laugh uncontrollably when people fall.

Is whoopsa one of your students?

There's nothing I universally enjoy laughing at. People falling, farting or f*cking up language can be funny but not always. So I never found the RTÉ ice guy funny but I did chuckle a bit at Madonna's spill last night. It's all context. I've a slight bias towards laughing at language mistakes as usually you can riff on them and hold somebody to something they clearly didn't mean which can be playful and fun.

hardCopy wrote: »

I fell on ice a few weeks ago. 1 am walking home from the local with a tray of garlic chips. I came down hard on my shoulder but managed to save the chips. The streets were pretty much deserted. Once I stood up my girlfriend says "at least nobody saw", some random chap pipes up from 100 metres behind us "I saw it!"

:mad:

Like this is funny because of the almost Python-esque reaction from your man but if it weren't for that it'd just be a fairly everyday anecdote.

Ruu · 26-02-2015 05:34PM

My wife fell on the ice yesterday when I wasn't around and she told me she wished she had a video of it. Spent more time on the ground laughing at herself. Classic cartoon fall, she said it was.

I fell last last on the ice while running and it was a Home Alone style slip and fall. Sadly, have very little padding on my body anywhere.

OH DEAR GOD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcC6Qkxh-_E

TheBeardedLady · 26-02-2015 05:41PM

I posted about this a while ago but I recycle about 3 stories from my life on here anyway, so I'll post about it again.

Got off the train in Malahide to get the Dart and stepped onto the platform and onto a big ice patch. Fell on my arse immediately and spent what felt like 5 minutes slipping and sliding around trying to get up. Everytime I managed to get almost up, I fell down again. I remember everyone in the train staring out at me laugh and even getting off their seats to have a look.

It was like one of those horrible nightmarish 1960s psychedelic scenes where someone is going through a tunnel and there's all these laughing, taunting faces staring down at them.

Two CIE fella eventually had to come along and pull me off the ice but had to get their own **** together before they could because they were in convulsions laughing.

I can't imagine how funny it must've been.

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