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Things that you just should NOT laugh at.
Mental Magpie:
--- Quote from: oogyda on December 29, 2012, 07:26:44 PM ---Oogydad and I were visiting another couple. The guys were working on their boat and friend and I were working on a newsletter for a group we belonged to. The guys came in talking about "Stan", another guy they worked with. They were talking about what a chatterbox Stan is and someone said "You'd have to be deaf to live with him."
Friend and just couldn't help laughing so hard we almost hurt ourselves. Once we calmed down a teeny bit, we finally got the words out....
"She IS."
"What?"
"Stan's wife IS deaf."
They thought we were horrible people for laughing at her handicap.
--- End quote ---
You're not, though, you're laughing at the irony in them saying that flippantly and it being true! I would have busted a seam!
parrot_girl:
I have one!
My DS is 16 months and has really hit the trantruming phase. If he is cross, unhappy, frustrated, or his will slighted in any way, he will crouch down and bang his head on the floor. (if he doesn't know how hard the floor surface is, he'll do it very very gently at first, giving the impression that this screeching banshee lunatic toddler is just interrupting this tantrum to pray to Mecca.)
The other day we went to the pool. There is a 50 metre lap pool, 2 metres deep at one end; a children's pool where all the lessons are, about 1 metre deep; and a toddler pool that's 30cm deep at one end and just covers your toes at the other end. DS, of course, toddled straight for the lap pool, the deep end no less, and was OUTRAGED when I scooped him up and took him to the toddler pool. Straight into tantrum mode, yelling, shrieking and going for the "whack my head on the floor" routine.
He got a mouthful of water and sat up coughing and spluttering and sneezing. And then he did it again!
I am a terrible mother, because watching my son half drown himself in the name of completing his tantie was the funniest thing I've seen in months. :D
Shea:
--- Quote from: parrot_girl on January 02, 2013, 06:17:20 AM ---I have one!
My DS is 16 months and has really hit the trantruming phase. If he is cross, unhappy, frustrated, or his will slighted in any way, he will crouch down and bang his head on the floor. (if he doesn't know how hard the floor surface is, he'll do it very very gently at first, giving the impression that this screeching banshee lunatic toddler is just interrupting this tantrum to pray to Mecca.)
The other day we went to the pool. There is a 50 metre lap pool, 2 metres deep at one end; a children's pool where all the lessons are, about 1 metre deep; and a toddler pool that's 30cm deep at one end and just covers your toes at the other end. DS, of course, toddled straight for the lap pool, the deep end no less, and was OUTRAGED when I scooped him up and took him to the toddler pool. Straight into tantrum mode, yelling, shrieking and going for the "whack my head on the floor" routine.
He got a mouthful of water and sat up coughing and spluttering and sneezing. And then he did it again!
I am a terrible mother, because watching my son half drown himself in the name of completing his tantie was the funniest thing I've seen in months. :D
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I don't blame you for laughing! Just reading about it made me laugh so loudly I woke BF. It's okay, he had to get up soon anyway >:D.
Elisabunny:
A filler article for my newspaper (yes, I still have one) had the headline "Four People Exposed to Rabid Llama." I know rabies is very serious, but somehow, to me, rabies+llama=incredibly funny. Especially since the exposure consisted of the llama spitting on them. ;D
Thipu1:
Warning. This is long.
Mr. Thipu and his father belonged to a Chinese engineering club. Every year, they had a long weekend meeting at a hotel. One year, they met at the Nevele in the Catskills.
For those who don't know it, the Catskills were called the Borscht Belt because it was an area with many resort hotels that had a primarily Jewish clientele. A common entertainment feature were stand-up comics who would tell jokes in English with the punch line in Yiddish. This is important.
The engineering club meeting was held in the off season and they had the hotel almost to themselves. After dinner, everyone retreated to the show lounge for the entertainment. Mr. Thipu and some of the other younger members took a table near the stage. The dance band plays for a
while, the crooner sings and then the comic comes out.
He sees nothing but Asian faces. At that point, he must have thought, 'I'm doomed' but carried on anyway. Mr. Thipu and his friends didn't get the Yiddish but they did get the absurdity of the situation and started laughing in sympathy so the performance wasn't a complete fiasco.
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