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Well, to be honest I would have expected that you wrote an excuse at least for being rude regarding your laughing comment you gave. That would have been a logical conclusion for a tactless reaction!
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Sorry, but in almost all your postings you ask for names and videos. It can happen to have a favourite or two or threee- but dozens? How about a nice posting in between to entertain others so as all posters do entertain you? That would be appreciated very much. And it would demonstrate a good balance between giving and taking. What do you think? And a bit kindness when you ask for an info would be nice as well. "Name???" and "More videos?" sounds bit strange. Enjoy LPSG and above all: Stay healthy in these hard days. Cheers- Ted
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to Xlbber and teddybaerli1, Allow me to explain. If you read my post carefully,
You'd really have to get some serious therapy if this is the way he views life. And altho it's not exactly sympathetic, I couldn't help but laugh when I read that he'd had an accident with barbed wire. I mean, THAT's not funny, but in context, all I could picture was him jumping over a barbed wire fence to escape an angry sheep and catching his yoga-ball sized scrotum on it. Yeow.
you will see that I explicitly said "THAT's not funny." The laugh came from one of the most basic tenets of humor: incongruity (or surprise). Have you never laughed aloud when shocked, either at an action you observed or an action you read about that surprised you? Indeed, most humor is based in pain. (Ever watch "America's Funniest Home Videos"? I don't like them, but they illustrate my point. I would think my word "Yeow" would indicate some empathy, even if the scenario evoked a laugh of sorts.
When I said "I couldn't HELP but laugh" it means just that; it was an automatic reaction to a surprising situation. Even if my imagination instantly created a Monty Python-esque image of something painful, that doesn't mean I ACTUALLY think it's funny that he hurt his scrotum; it means that the incongruity of the whole scene as presented made me laugh. There's a big difference between the two. Obviously, if I'd been there, I wouldn't have laughed.
I have noted before that a lot of guys here at lpsg seem to miss the humor in my remarks. Teddyb has been kind enough to point out that "maybe it's not that funny." Funny or not, I think it's worth boning up (pun intended) on the nature of comic relief so you don't have such a serious response to what was not particularly serious or damaging.
You'd really have to get some serious therapy if this is the way he views life. And altho it's not exactly sympathetic, I couldn't help but laugh when I read that he'd had an accident with barbed wire. I mean, THAT's not funny, but in context, all I could picture was him jumping over a barbed wire fence to escape an angry sheep and catching his yoga-ball sized scrotum on it. Yeow.
you will see that I explicitly said "THAT's not funny." The laugh came from one of the most basic tenets of humor: incongruity (or surprise). Have you never laughed aloud when shocked, either at an action you observed or an action you read about that surprised you? Indeed, most humor is based in pain. (Ever watch "America's Funniest Home Videos"? I don't like them, but they illustrate my point. I would think my word "Yeow" would indicate some empathy, even if the scenario evoked a laugh of sorts.
When I said "I couldn't HELP but laugh" it means just that; it was an automatic reaction to a surprising situation. Even if my imagination instantly created a Monty Python-esque image of something painful, that doesn't mean I ACTUALLY think it's funny that he hurt his scrotum; it means that the incongruity of the whole scene as presented made me laugh. There's a big difference between the two. Obviously, if I'd been there, I wouldn't have laughed.
I have noted before that a lot of guys here at lpsg seem to miss the humor in my remarks. Teddyb has been kind enough to point out that "maybe it's not that funny." Funny or not, I think it's worth boning up (pun intended) on the nature of comic relief so you don't have such a serious response to what was not particularly serious or damaging.
I watch a lot of stand up comedy and they can be very rude yet funny. Your post however, did not contain any wit or pun that made it even slightly funny. It was just annoying and gratuitous mockery at the expense of someone else. That scene you described as explanation for your laughter? Not funny by far.
Of course the explanation wasn't funny. Explaining comedy is never funny.
Nor was the original post supposed to contain wit or a pun. I was trying to explain that I had an instantaneous reaction of laughter because of the key element of all laughter-evoking situation: incongruity or surprise. And in no was was that mockery.
Well, I can explain comic theory all day long and it won't do any good, so I guess I'd better just drop the subject.
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