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25 Oct 2012, 5:18 pm

...Dick Van Dyke and that ottoman ? Chevy Chase ? The real Gerald Ford , for that matter ?
Geez , I'm old . :(









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Where I used to work if someone so much as stumbled or momentarily lost their balance it would be greeted with roars of laughter and sarcastic comments. If it was a full blown trip to the ground onto the face, then that would make their day. You also wouldn't get any help if you was hurt.

Yet it doesn't amuse me in the slightest. I am usually just glad it wasn't me. I got fed up with people taking pleasure in others getting into a pickle.

EDIT: I do have a sense of humour which is mainly in the Monty Python genre.



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26 Oct 2012, 1:34 am

Yeah it can be pretty funny, unless the person get's really hurt. If they only suffer a very minor injury like they lightly banged their knee or their elbow and it only hurts a little, I'd still chuckle a bit......
Of course, my sense of humor has always been down south :P



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26 Oct 2012, 1:54 am

I don't laugh if people are hurt, of course, but yeah usually people falling over is hilarious. Only really people I know though.

My colleague sat on a chair the other day which snapped in half and he fell backwards. Still giggling now thinking about it.

I think it's because when I was a kid, anything to do with my Dad making a fool of himself, hurting himself (not badly), falling over, breaking things etc was hilarious for the whole family, mainly because all the males in our family have the same kind of Basil Fawlty [Fawlty Towers] esque mock anger when things go wrong.

I do have to try and make sure my first reaction isn't to burst out laughing, particularly if it's someone I don't know that well. Also, I sometimes get uncontrollable laughter, like when I was a teenager and my best friend was riding our other friend's bike. She had her really tiny handbag on the handlebars and it got caught in the spokes. She did a cartwheel off it and everything in her bag was mangled into the spokes and she couldn't get it out. For some reason me and the friend whose bike it was found it so hilarious we couldn't even help her.