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Inappropriate times to laugh

Started by JamesTC, August 10, 2022, 02:07:16 PM

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JamesTC

Anybody got any stories of times you have had to hold in laughter because it was an inappropriate time?

I was just at a funeral and the vicar said the next song would be Do Not Be Afraid. I remembered a time I saw somebody online refer to it as "an absolute banger" and had to cough to stifle laughter.


shoulders

A local brewer, first name Jesus, went missing recently, still not sure if he has been located. Luckily my partner is also a disgrace of a human being as we stifled giggles slowly noticing the Jesus count piling up as we were discussing the story. It's not even funny, or it is funny and about half a billion people alive with the name Jesus is funny. The going missing isn't funny right up until you catch yourself, while fretting, muttering 'Jesus...'

touchingcloth



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I think I might have some kind of condition whereby hearing somebody relay unfortunate news often triggers some kind of smiling impulse that only gets worse and worse the more I attempt to stifle it.

I used to get into trouble all the time as a child because it would also be triggered whenever a teacher said something like "somebody in this class has blocked up all the toilets with hand towels" or "somebody has broken into the storage room and eaten all the defrosted ice pops" or "the whole corridor stinks of milk now because somebody has burst all the cartons"; I'd give off vibes of being guilty by seemingly smirking about the situation.

Elderly Sumo Prophecy


kalowski

I was having a fumble with my wife on the sofa. We were slowing "getting it on" as Marvin Gaye might say. The TV was on and The Simpsons was playing.
I just couldn't help laughing at one of the jokes (sadly, I can't remember which one) and the passion was killed. In fact, my wife nearly killed me.

flotemysost

During a Teams meeting a while ago, my colleague's (who is a also a good friend) laptop battery was on the fritz and it died mid-meeting, just as she was reaching out to tweak the screen brightness. Her little window on the video call stayed frozen on a still of the last thing it captured, which was her close-up outstretched palm reaching towards the webcam with her face peeking behind it.

Like something from one of those "Photos you have to look at twice - number 7 is OUTRAGEOUS" clickbait articles, this snapshot looked an awful lot like it was a blurry pornographic close-up of spread-eagled legs, especially as the crease in her palm between her thumb and forefinger appeared unfortunately... yonic.

So basically there was this still of what looked like my friend with her legs wide open and her fanny out on the screen, and obviously, OBVIOUSLY it wouldn't fucking disappear for the remainder of the call. Those of us who were working from the office that day were sitting in the same meeting room, which unfortunately included my friend and I, so there was nowhere to hide - we both spent the remainder of the meeting gulping for air with tears rolling down our faces like we'd been doused with mustard gas, while everyone else sedately trotted through the minutes from the previous week. We almost had to be separated, utterly pathetic for a pair of adults in their thirties.

Quote from: Pink Gregory on August 10, 2022, 05:23:38 PMthank you for giving us @non capisco 's 'mmm...log' story again.

Yep. worth resurrecting the topic for that corker alone.

Elderly Sumo Prophecy

Quote from: kalowski on August 10, 2022, 07:20:54 PMI was having a fumble with my wife on the sofa. We were slowing "getting it on" as Marvin Gaye might say. The TV was on and The Simpsons was playing.
I just couldn't help laughing at one of the jokes (sadly, I can't remember which one) and the passion was killed. In fact, my wife nearly killed me.


Luornu

I had something like this happen, because my mum pulled me out of school at 15 (on account of the bullying I had it's a long story but that's not what this story is about) so I got put in with this tutor person who worked in a hut by the doctors' surgery and she dealt with 'troubled children' and I suppose I was a troubled child too,

Well one time I'd been given this humorous book to read, I can't remember what it was called but it was a humorous memoir of I think an American woman's experience being in a tb hospital in the first half of the 20th century anyway I can't remember much about it now, one of the chapter titles was 'don't spit on the floora salvatora' Well I suppose you had to be there

well I came upon a funny passage of this book can't remember what it was about now, think it might have been a hilarious anecdote about cleaning sick off the floor or something well anyway I got the giggles at this and couldn't stop laughing and then I was aware of this other girl glaring at me, turned out she had been sharing stuff about her traumatic past to the tutor, really serious stuff and stuff and I don't even know what the serious stuff was because I was so engrossed in the book about humorous tb vomit bucketing.

Well I felt pretty bad, it seemed as though she may have thought I was laughing at her misfortune whatever that was, but the tutor understood and told her I wasn't laughing at her. Well anyway that was uncomfortable.

She didn't like me because I said I didn't like the Sun and she was a Sun reader. So she never liked me after that. It was kinda awkward because I was there because I'd been bullied and she was there cos she'd been expelled for being a bully.

Probably should have called ACAS in for that one, had people standing around braziers in the car park like on World in Action, the whole bit. Awkward.

famethrowa

I was at a funeral for an old workmate last week, his rough-nut brothers were giving a teary speech about the love and togetherness always, and I suddenly remembered a day when my man came in to the office and declared "MATE, MY FAMILY IS FUCKED" after they all missed his 40th birthday. Gave me an inappropriate crease.

Also from my lady, back in our courting days we were "making out" on her couch, for some reason she'd put the Great Rock n Roll Swindle on the turntable. The orchestral start lulled us into intimacy, but then mid-kiss, Tenpole Tudor busts in with "ONE TWO SEVEN OCLOCK BLAH OCLOCK WHEEEP!" Moment ruined by silly sniggering.

Gethin Grave

Quote from: Luornu on August 11, 2022, 01:22:28 AMWell one time I'd been given this humorous book to read, I can't remember what it was called but it was a humorous memoir of I think an American woman's experience being in a tb hospital in the first half of the 20th century anyway I can't remember much about it now, one of the chapter titles was 'don't spit on the floora salvatora' Well I suppose you had to be there

Just in case you feel like reading it again, that's "The Plague and I" by Betty McDonald.

oggyraiding

When confronted with something unpleasant, sometimes my reaction is to laugh (think it's an autism thing). I'm not laughing at the unpleasant thing, I'm laughing at my own inability to mentally process how awful it is. I was walking through town and one of those charity muggers came up to me, I stopped and listened as I'm not assertive enough to walk away. It was something to do with young people in prisons, and he told me that young people in prisons often get sexually assaulted, which is obviously horrible. But I started laughing. I felt really bad, and signed up to support the charity, out of embarassment. This situation has occurred several times, with different charities, sometimes it's dying and/or disabled children, or animals going extinct, anything horrible really.

Joe Qunt

I went on a date a few weeks ago where this happened to me. We were being flirty, suggestive comments were made, having a grand time. The she says to me:

"Don't expect me to suck your dick, I was raped."

A horrific revelation to be sure. But the way she nestled it in between breezy flirtatious chat caught me off-guard. I strained to keep a hold of myself, turned bright red and started welling up. She was immediately concerned and asked if I was OK. I couldn't say anything without my voice faltering so she hugged and comforted me until I could compose myself again.

Rough going that.

mrClaypole

I used to work in a shop selling photographic stuff, you know cameras and that shit. One day an elderly gentleman came in looking for a cheap photo album in which he could store pictures of his recently deceased wife. Now being quite into the salesman shtick I was actually quite engaged in his sad story and had adjusted my face appropriately.
At one point he said something like "next month wouldve been our 60th anniversary".
My colleague just in eyesight did a really sarcastic sad boo hook face complete with a fake brushing away of tears.
That was it. I started choking on my own laughter. I had to pretend I was going into the stock room to grab a couple more samples of the really cheap album he wanted to buy.  I was literally feeling the piss coming out as I stifled what could only be described as a huge guffaw.
I went back to the stock room actively sounding like I had burst into tears. It was at this point my colleague who caused the merriment to takeover from me.
The old boy was abit oblivious at first but obviously heard me stifling my laugh and asked my colleague to apologise for upsetting me.

Poor git didn't know that I still laugh randomly on public transport at that memory 24 years later

flotemysost

Quote from: oggyraiding on August 11, 2022, 10:51:50 AMWhen confronted with something unpleasant, sometimes my reaction is to laugh

I do this too sometimes, it's like an uncomfortable/nervous knee-jerk reaction and I hate it. Someone I used to live with was telling me about when she'd worked on an oil rig, and as the only woman there she was on the receiving end of some very shitty harassment; she recalled one of the comments made to her (which was really nasty) and I just burst out laughing - out of shock I think, and I made it clear that I was sympathetic to what she'd gone through, but I still really cringe when I remember it.

On a lighter note, one of my friends (who speaks English as a second language) recently learned what the word "nonce" means and has since set a mutual challenge of subtly working it into conversations wherever possible. We went out for dinner and when the waiter gave us the bill I said "thank you, that was really nonce" and my friend just starting quaking and slowly turning a sort of violent mulberry colour.

elliszeroed

Funerals. Because everyone acts so unnatural, plus listening to someone talk about Jesus is boring so your mind starts to wander.

And then the Fart Song from Bobs Burgers starts playing, and you accidentally start humming it, and this causes your brother to look at you, and he's about to crack. And it's painful trying to hold it in, the laughter, not the gas from your ass and you just end up coughing instead.