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Fraca · 2023-11-23T11:52:19+00:00

Just received an email from a colleague - the email was entitled "Shits Today". She's sent it to approximately 100 people and I wish, more than I've wished for anything in a long time, that I could see a) her face when she realises what she's sent, and b) read the replies she gets. Im in a cafe and am trying very very hard not to laugh out loud!

Circe32 · 25/11/2023 01:06

What a non-event.
Could have phrased it better for comedic value...

CesareBorgia · 25/11/2023 01:33

Circe32 · 25/11/2023 01:06

What a non-event.
Could have phrased it better for comedic value...

It's garnered 276 replies - even if some of those were to protest it wasn't funny, it was enough of an event to prompt discussion.

Dunnoburt · 25/11/2023 02:28

I used to be a PA to someone with the last name "Caunt"......I say no more.

WhatWouldJeevesDo · 25/11/2023 08:13

I’m just wondering when I should eat today. I’m doing a shit from 12 till 3.30.

ErrolTheDragon · 25/11/2023 09:26

I'll give you a tip, OP - don't try listening to 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue' in public.

greenbeansnspinach · 25/11/2023 09:40

Xmaswomble · 25/11/2023 00:07

At the start of COVID a sports club DH & I are members of sent out guidance and updated their website on how they were responding to CORVID-19. Such a simple thing that brought me so much joy, still makes me giggle

what on earth is funny about that? There’s no pun. No funny word? Just an accidental R

The corvids are crows. I actually did think it was Corvid when Covid was first mentioned, and was envisaging us all in a Hitchcock film. Someone kindly explained.

SerendipityJane · 25/11/2023 10:38

SaffronSpice · 25/11/2023 00:30

I’ve had people try this a few times and all that happens is I get another email telling me the first one was recalled. Nothing like getting an email like that to make you immediately go back and read the first email!

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I always kept Outlook open with it's preview window open. Which meant you immediately saw an email even if the sender in the same organisation tried to recall it ...

(Mind you that was nothing compared to the goldmine that was directors calendars.)

PearlClutzsche · 25/11/2023 10:54

Xmaswomble · 25/11/2023 00:42

That reminds me of a thread from a little while back (I forget the title or even the original subject), where somebody staying in a hotel abroad (in a non-English-speaking country) asked the waiter (in English) if he/the hotel had nibbles, and instead of bringing them the bar snack menu, he was about to take his shirt off to prove it to them

I’ll file this under things that didn’t happen 101

I've been very anti-fun sponge on this thread, but yes I agree that that anecdote was somewhat lacking on the truthfulness front.
If you think someone someone has asked you if you have nipples what would you do? Regard them as a nutter and excuse yourself, or start getting undressed in a restaurant?

WhatWouldJeevesDo · 25/11/2023 11:09

PearlClutzsche · 25/11/2023 10:54

I've been very anti-fun sponge on this thread, but yes I agree that that anecdote was somewhat lacking on the truthfulness front.
If you think someone someone has asked you if you have nipples what would you do? Regard them as a nutter and excuse yourself, or start getting undressed in a restaurant?

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Or he understood perfectly but likes showing his manly chest.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 25/11/2023 16:08

It quite probably didn't happen outside of somebody's imagination - or, I think more likely, he was shocked that he thought they'd said nipples and queried it; and they laughed and said, "No, niBBles - as in snacks, crisps, peanuts and the like!!!"

That said, there probably are a lot of poorer countries that find the British/other westerners very eccentric to their way of thinking - and the power imbalance may mean that they acquiesce to what they see as bonkers requests in the hope of a good tip, or just not wanting to lose their job.

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Fraca · 25/11/2023 17:21

eastegg · 24/11/2023 23:53

Just what I was thinking. And as for the ‘as a dyslexic’ nonsense, just no. Someone should not be accused of ableism, which is what this post is suggesting, just because they find a typo funny.

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Thank you for this response, very much appreciated.

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Ollifer · 26/11/2023 14:28

Mamanyt · 24/11/2023 23:21

Well, @Fraca, I am NOT one of those who will be derogatory towards you, although I am also not one who is embarrassed to laugh alone in public. In fact, I'm one of those who you NEVER want to sit beside during solemn events. Nor was my father.

Prime Example:

My father's mother's funeral. She lived in a town that originally had two funeral homes. One family had an only daughter, one family had an only son. They grew up together, fell in love, married, and in due time, combined the funeral homes, hyphenating the family names for the "new" business.

When Gran died, they, of course, handled everything. Dad and I were doing fine, holding it together, until the actual service. Dad was looking at the printed program, and suddenly his shoulders started shaking, I looked at him with alarm, thinking he was crying. Nope. He pointed to the bottom of the program, to the name of the company, and it hit me, too. We KNEW THIS, but somehow, in that moment, it took on highly comedic aspects...my beloved grandmother was sent to her eternal rest by the fine offices of Rideout-Underwood Funeral Home. Thankfully, my mother was able to pass this off as grief, to all but a few.

In retrospect, and after almost 6 decades, I realize it was stress and tension being released, but at the time it was just FUNNY to us.

So, yeah, I get laughing where you think you ought not to laugh.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who laughs when I'm actually upset/stressed too 🤣🤣😭 I remember when they were lowering my dad into the ground he was in a large cremation box the guy doing it slipped a bit with the strings (should have just done it by hand!!), the box slipped out of the strings and fell into the hole, thank fuck the lid stayed on but omg it really set me off in a fit of uncontrollable giggles, even though I was absolutely devastated about my dad. It was horrendous I was pinching myself and everything. 😭 Sorry dad if you were looking down on me 🤣

Mamanyt · 26/11/2023 23:24

Ollifer · 26/11/2023 14:28

I am so glad I'm not the only one who laughs when I'm actually upset/stressed too 🤣🤣😭 I remember when they were lowering my dad into the ground he was in a large cremation box the guy doing it slipped a bit with the strings (should have just done it by hand!!), the box slipped out of the strings and fell into the hole, thank fuck the lid stayed on but omg it really set me off in a fit of uncontrollable giggles, even though I was absolutely devastated about my dad. It was horrendous I was pinching myself and everything. 😭 Sorry dad if you were looking down on me 🤣

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I have a feeling that your dad, as well as my grandmother, were just fine with it...in fact, my grandmother probably laughed like a hyena.

asdfgasdfg · 02/01/2024 22:51

I am old enough to remember the first word processors they would not let you use Essex or Sussex for years

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 03/01/2024 08:08

Fuchsia and Scunthorpe used to be caught by a lot of automatic filters as well!

Itsamatteroftime · 03/01/2024 08:18

My friends dad did a sponsored jarachute pump 😆