Do you think at times the world is losing the ability to laugh?

[185248]

Or more to the point I spose, it's inhabitants ability to laugh at themselves?

Personally speaking, I don't think we laugh enough at the stupid things we do ourselves, it seems everyone expects to be practically perfect in every way . I think sometimes we forget we all do some pretty stupid things.

 

[BillM]

 

[chicagosam]

Having achieved a high level of oerfection, I'm no longer required to laugh.

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[185248]

Keeping a stiff upper lip and having the ability to smile is an art. I don't know what it quite would look like...but I think Patrick Macnee would be my closest interpretation.....

 

[185248]

Oh common Bill, you know why she was laffin

 

[twoton]

"Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else." Will Rogers, maybe?

 

[N68]

Or more to the point I spose, it's inhabitants ability to laugh at themselves?

Personally speaking, I don't think we laugh enough at the stupid things we do ourselves, it seems everyone expects to be practically perfect in every way . I think sometimes we forget we all do some pretty stupid things.

"Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else." Will Rogers, maybe?

Maybe not forget to laugh, in contrast to being criticized for laughing. On a serious note and politics aside, Some may not like it, but, so be it ...

"Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else." Will Rogers, maybe?

I can laugh at my foibles . Especially around people I know. We can laugh at each other constructively while lifting each other up.

But with the social media climate, {IMHO} it's become the turd in the punch bowl at a party.

And kind of censoring some truly laughable moments because people don't want to appear to be insensitive.

A moment, which by the way, requires a pie in the face for old Iron Drawers/The stick in the muds.....

 

[N68]

Oh common Bill, you know why she was laffin



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LOL.. See, this is funny..... And nobody should be banned from a board or fired from their job for even political humor.. like some are these days..

 

[twoton]

Maybe not forget to laugh, in contrast to being criticized for laughing. On a serious note and politics aside, Some may not like it, but, so be it ...




I can laugh at my foibles . Especially around people I know. We can laugh at each other constructively while lifting each other up.

But with the social media climate, {IMHO} it's become the turd in the punch bowl at a party.

And kind of censoring some truly laughable moments because people don't want to appear to be insensitive.

A moment, which by the way, requires a pie in the face for old Iron Drawers/The stick in the muds.....

I agree.

 

[twoton]

I don't get why Hillary laughing is funny, though. What's the joke?

 

[Geoffrey2_0]

They haven't lost the abilitiy to laugh--they've lost the ability to discriminate what's actually funny--farts, crap, piss, and sex isn't funny--just shocking--now cumquat, titicaca and Albuquerque are all funny . . .

 

[950483]

I like this thread. By now I had expected someone to post about a stupid thing they have done. I just didn't want to go first (and second and third).

Age 38, and quite proud of my waist length hair, I decided I could do with a bit of a change, and for the last year or so had been toying with the idea of having a fringe. I do not trust hairdressers, and have often had misgivings after letting them cut my hair. One night, after trimming my own split ends as I occasionally do, and with too much time on my hands, I watched a couple of youtube videos and decided to cut my own fringe. Seemed perfectly straightforward, and why the hell not?, that's the bit of my hair that I can see properly when I look in the mirror.
It was straightforward. It all went according to plan!
The next morning when I saw my partner he SHOUTED at me:
"WHAT THE FUCK!!? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!?" and the look of shock and horror on his face was something to behold.
Honestly, it isn't that bad, it balances out a high bun or an updo very nicely, but I have since decided that I didn't like having a fringe 30 years ago, and I don't like it now either. I've ruined, ruined, RUINED the next couple of years of my life.

 

[chicagosam]

I was outside today watering the front lawn, took a breath in, and my shorts fell to my ankles. Fortunately, no one saw.

 

[TurkeyWithaSunburn]

I was outside today watering the front lawn, took a breath in, and my shorts fell to my ankles. Fortunately, no one saw.

You need a bigger knob to keep the trousers hung up!

 

[sizehungry]

Or more to the point I spose, it's inhabitants ability to laugh at themselves?

Personally speaking, I don't think we laugh enough at the stupid things we do ourselves, it seems everyone expects to be practically perfect in every way . I think sometimes we forget we all do some pretty stupid things.

Right with you on this subject . My late Father once said to me , " show me a person who claims never to have done something stupid , or made a mistake , and i'll show you an unmitigated liar , not to be trusted " . Time and time again , it has come true . I love laughter , and there isn't enough of it .

 

[halcyondays]

In general, no, but in my experience few people laugh at themselves in front of enemies, superiors or rivals.

 

[185248]

In general, no, but in my experience few people laugh at themselves in front of enemies, superiors or rivals.

I find at times dangerous people laugh in the face of enemies, superiors and or rivals. This is what is dangerous and unpredictable on occasion.

It's like being in the ring with Muhammad Ali. He taunted, laughed at and cajoled his opponents. Then left them wondering when they hit the tarp...WTF. He worked on their head first, then dealt the body blows. He was an entertainer outside the ring as well as in it.

 

[halcyondays]

I find at times dangerous people laugh in the face of enemies, superiors and or rivals. This is what is dangerous and unpredictable on occasion.

It's like being in the ring with Muhammad Ali. He taunted, laughed at and cajoled his opponents. Then wondering when they hit the tarp...WTF. He worked on their head first, then dealt the body blows.

Ali wasn't laughing at himself. He was laughing to taunt and unnerve his rivals.

 

[185248]

Ali wasn't laughing at himself. He was laughing to taunt and unnerve his rivals.

I think if you looked at some of his interviews, he laughed at himself. He was in a tough sport. He had to put up with government intervention during Viet-Nam. He had to fight his way back, change his name from Cassius (slave name).

You don't accomplish all that without laughing at yourself. There is pain associated, pain causes one to look into themselves for humour first. To face a world full of opposers, you take the piss out of yourself first before others can.

 

[halcyondays]

I think if you looked at some of his interviews, he laughed at himself. He was in a tough sport. He had to put up with government intervention during Viet-Nam. He had to fight his way back, change his name from Cassius (slave name).

You don't accomplish all that without laughing at yourself. There is pain associated, pain causes one to look into themselves for humour first. To face a world full of opposers, you take the piss out of yourself first before others can.

Can't say I remember any humility or self-deprecating humor from Ali in front the cameras. It wasn't his public persona nor is it of any professional pugilist.