To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

this too.

this. And I would have gone a bit frosty faced over it because I would not have known how to respond.

Yes they do, and you are therefore just as bad.

I would have had the same blank stare, and then when I realised what you meant I would have been terribly embarrassed. I hate 'jokes' about bodily functions which so many so-called comedians see to rely on these days - not at all funny.

i avoid colleagues who make comments about my lunch, it is so intrusive and unnecessary.

YABU bad joke and not one to make to who is essentially a stranger to you.

I like a laugh too and we have a similar team at work where we have a bit of banter....but your "joke" wasn't funny? I think it says a lot about your social skills (or lack of) that you would happily make toilet jokes in front of people you've only just met.

She probably had to think for a minute as she didn’t get it, then, when she did, she just didn’t think it was funny, just a bit immature. She was probably feeling a bit awkward.

Considering you hardly know her, it was a rude and stupid comment from you.

I say that as someone who finds farts and the humour around them funny. You should have left her in peace to eat her food.

You came across as crude, and a bit of an arse to be honest.

I would probably have smiled weakly because I am a people pleaser, but not really found it remotely funny, sorry OP.

I have some friends who like fart jokes etc, but I find them a bit gross in honesty. Not offended exactly. Just very slightly repulsed.

Maybe save that humour for colleagues who you know love it, next time. No major harm done, you just failed to read the room very well.

I just find your "joke" cringy, even more cringy you think of yourself as funny.

Spot on!

YABU

The only one who reads to be offended is you because someone didn’t find your joke funny.

I wouldn’t laugh either because I don’t see how it is funny.

I would have given a mmhmm of acknowledgment and kept eating because my energy would be in trying to keep my face neutral instead of rolling my eyes and trying not to offend you by asking you to explain what you mean. I don’t associate eggs to farts.

I wouldn’t be offended because I would have missed it. I regularly have boiled eggs for breakfast but don’t spoil the office atmosphere 😳

Eh?

Urgh- people like you OP make me absolutely cringe.

You think toilet humour is so hilarious and it comes across as so juvenile and un-funny.

I am embarrassed for you.

O God. I hate work colleagues making inane comments about other people’s lunch. I would have found that intrusive. You tried to embarrass them and got stonewalled.

Its a bit schoolboy-ish and something you probably should have kept for someone you know shares the same sense of humour. I.
Ive been retired for 5 years now but over the last few years in employment I learned never to make a joke about ANYTHING, however innocuous, as it seems that someone will find a way to be offended.
Thank god Im out of all that now😬

I would have looked blank as well because I don’t associate eggs with farting. Even if I did it’s not a funny joke, just surprisingly crass to a new colleague. Would have been a good hint to avoid having lunch with the OP again though, so useful from that point of view.

It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

If that’s what you do that’s fine however it was poor form of you to aim it at a new starter that you don’t fully know yet. Just because everyone else jokes and ribs each other it’s doesn’t mean everyone has to be like that. You shouldn’t have made the joke until you know they can take it or like that sort of banter. If they don’t you just come across mean. They are not unreasonable don’t having the same sense of humour as you, you were unreasonable. Did you apologise when you realised you may of offended them?

I wouldn't mind working with you , it was just a joke . PPs don't have much of a SOH , prefer to be offended!

It's not funny but I'd be more offended somebody was criticising my lunch.

It's very fnaah fnaah outdated 'humour' tbh.

I wouldnt have been offended but it's not my sense of humour so I wouldnt have found it funny either.

Plus being a new member of staff I wouldnt have known what to say in response - is it ok to roll my eyes or am I expected to laugh along?

To me, eggs have a particular smell which turns my stomach, I’m fine with Tuna. But, if someone is eating eggs and I don’t like the smell, I move away. I wouldn’t ban them, that would be ridiculous.

Usually when people are eating they don’t want to be talking about or thinking about bodily functions or bad smells.