Inappropriate laughing

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Please come cheer me up. I've just had root canal and my vaccine and feeling lousy!

I remember a thread on here from a few years ago about occasions where people couldn't stop laughing in inappropriate circumstances but think it has been deleted in the 30 day way Chat used to be.

One stand out example I remember from the thread was a lady who was with her friend when the friend got a call to say her mum had been taken to hospital. They rushed down there to be greeted by the friend's dad, who advised he had been driving round ound a roundabout and her mum had somehow fallen OUT of the car. If that was not bad enough he had to drive around the roundabout again to get to her mum and pick her up to take her to hospital. The OP was pissing herself laughing when he was telling them this and her friend was furious at her 😄😄

My only example is the one minute silence during the remberance service, and someone farted loudly. About choked myself trying not to laugh out loud childish

Oh God I still cringe that over 20 years ago, when a friend told me our mutual friends father had died, I laughed. It’s a nervous thing and totally inappropriate

I laugh with nerves too! It's a strange thing isn't it?

Years ago when my auntie was getting divorced and you had to go to court in those days to have it granted, she giggled through the whole thing lol

DH laughs when he's nervous/awkward. He has laughed telling people that someone he knows has died.

He was telling me some very sombre news last week but his face kept twitching so I started laughing, which set him off. If anyone had seen us rolling around with laughter at such bad news, they'd have thought we were psychopaths!

I remember the news story that came on about a poor guy who had been killed by somebody throwing a cabbage at him from their car window. It's an awful thing to laugh at I know, but it's one of the most bizarre things you could imagine happening to someone simply walking along.

Inappropriate laughing is definitely a thing. My mum and I cannot stand anywhere near each other at a memorial or funeral because if we catch each other's eye and we end up giggling like Mutley with shaking shoulders. We really try not to be disrespectful but I think it's a nervous thing. On an actual amusing note, when my grandfathers ashes were buried, the registrar person managed to get his name wrong, twice, my gran's name wrong - the persons who's ashes he was being buried with, as well as his age and family status!As a family we had tears rolling down our cheeks but not in a sad way! We always tip our hat to whomever it is buried with my gran but I think we are all certain that it isn't my Grandad!

When I was in my first year at secondary school I sang at the school leavers' assembly in the school choir. The school secretary sang a solo and she had one of those operatic voices. I made the mistake of catching the eye of a friend of mine and we started giggling and really struggled to stop. My friend later said the secretary had seen us :( Oh dear. It was good no teachers saw us, we would have been in so much trouble. Kudos to the secretary for not telling on us if she did indeed see us. She could sing, it was just the style.

I remember carrying Dad's coffin into the church, stumbling, and almost pissing myself with laughter. Nervous laughter is a terrible thing!

We were once driving through Somerset and saw someone rolling backwards down a hill, they were in a wheelchair with a broken leg held out in front at a right angle. Their companion was chasing them, waving their arms about.

I think I laughed, choking sobs of laughter that ended up hurting, until we got to Cornwall.

I'm really sorry. It was a very dangerous situation. I should have been more empathetic. It was just so unusual.

Oh, and there was my uncle's funeral, a well known philanderer. At the point that we got told the next song would be 'the Happy wanderer', my mother completely lost the plot, and had to hide her face in her handkerchief and pretend she was sobbing, she was laughing so hard. . .

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Oh, and there was my uncle's funeral, a well known philanderer. At the point that we got told the next song would be 'the Happy wanderer', my mother completely lost the plot, and had to hide her face in her handkerchief and pretend she was sobbing, she was laughing so hard. . .

This has reminded me of my maternal grandad's funeral a couple of years ago. I was sitting beside my mum, and the minister (my granny's brother) kept making pointed comments about God, then glaring at my atheist mum. I could feel her shaking, which set me off. We were both laughing like Muttley and trying not to look at each other.

These are brilliant 🤣🤣

My dad always wanted the theme tune to the shipping forcast played when he was carried in to the crem, we don't know why as he got seasick just watching boats. When he died last year we fulfilled that wish thank God for masks as me and my sisters were trying so hard not to laugh out loud.

Grandads funeral

Going down Fulham Palace road , Mid afternoon and all the flowers decided to fly off the top of the hearse
In all different directions,
The drivers all got out the cars and chased after them and the look of horror on members of the public faces was hilarious
I laughed so much i must of looked terrible

Then there was when my nephew came in to tell his stepfather that he'd mildly dinged the (crappy) car, and unfortunately, he had a nervous fit of the giggles. Cue stepfather chasing nephew up and round the orchard, and I couldn't move for laughter, and neither could my sister! (We knew there wasn't a hope in Hades of stepfather catching nephew before he ran out of puff. . .)

We had a curtain pole that needed hanging and it was right on a steep set of stairs. DP reluctantly agreed to do it and had to balance really precariously on a stool and hang over the banister while he drilled the holes. At one point the stool cracked as if it were about to shatter and the look of horror on poor DPs face as he grabbed on for dear life was too much. I started laughing out of complete nervousness and he was so pissed off and told me to go. I promised faithfully I wouldn't laugh and the next half hour was an absolute masterclass in sobriety. It was awful!

@trappedsincesundaymorn I hope your dad brought as much joy to you whilst he was alive.

These are brilliant. Laughter is a coping mechanism I think, that old saying 'if you don't laugh you cry' is so true

Christingle service.. every year! The look on the kids faces when the vicar really gets into the singing

A camel bit my DM. For some reason, I couldn't stop laughing for about 30 minutes. Everyone I tried to speak I would just start laughing maniacally.

Slightly more serious, I was out walking with a friend and this guy was being really creepy. He ended up in front of us being really intimidating. I could not stop laughing. He fucked off fairly quickly

A school trip to the library and the older male librarian read burglar Bill to the children doing the most over the top expressions. I got the giggles, I caught the class teachers eye (I was the TA) and he got the giggles and we were sat like the naughty school children while the real school children were good as gold. He vowed never to take me on another trip after that.