This is why you shouldn't read your emails in public

[Fraca]

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!

Ah i remember the NHS one, I worked in commissioning at that time. Was an interesting day. And all the other people that were pressing reply all 😂😂😭 just stop 😭😭😭

Indeed. You also see it on threads about celebrities who have died where, in amongst the tributes and memories, somebody will come on to say "Never heard of him".

So, the thought process must be:

1. Scrolls through MN looking for a thread that interests you
2. Sees a thread about Bob Robinson, whom you've never heard of
3. Decides to click on it anyway, rather than on any other threads that DO have some relevance to your life
4. Takes the time to post, informing everybody that you (whoever you are) don't know who this celebrity was
5. often also tells others that, because you don't know of this person, they also shouldn't want a thread about him - and about how they are wasting their time in discussing somebody they did know and who meant something to them; whereas you are apparently not wasting your time by deciding to actively participate in and contribute to a thread about somebody you haven't the faintest clue about!!

Nowt so strange as folk.

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper how interesting but nothing like it. Looks like you have a lot of time on your hands.

It's not that your opinion is invalid, it's just a very strange way to behave (in my valid opinion )

@pastaisgod your opinion and you're entitled to it. I don't think its strange at all to not find a typo rib-crackingly funny. Quite normal actually.

I don't know if you've personally taken my comment to heart, but it's not all about you, you know - or are you able to confidently state how every single poster posts on every single thread and thus gainsay me in my observations?

Maybe I do have time on my hands, but at least I use it to engage in threads that interest me, rather than wasting it by telling other people off for how they choose to spend their time, as many like to do.

I love a good typo but I don't really find 'shits today' that amusing. Meh.

These ones I do find funny. Members of the public never proof read anything or use punctuation, haha, they're the best.

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper please point me to the part of my post that says I've taken your comment to heart personally? I've said that your post about celebrity is nothing to do with the many posters who have not found OPs revelation in the least bit amusing.

As for this
but at least I use it to engage in threads that interest me, rather than wasting it by telling other people off
Good for you!

No what's strange is taking the time to repeatedly comment on something you're allegedly not interested in telling the op (and everyone else) that it isn't funny. If something doesn't interest or amuse me I don't feel the need to stop and tell everyone. I just move on and don't engage.

My sneaking suspicion is that people do this to try and feel superior by putting others down. Which is a strange, sad way to behave.

Ah, it wasn't very clear how you phrased your response - it just sounded generally condescending.

I said "You also see it on threads about celebrities" - it's a common thing on MN for threads to widen and develop into other areas; it isn't the COBRA committee calling an urgent meeting to focus on one solitary point.

You seem to just want to be a negative person and looking to take offence and fall out with people, so I'm going to leave you to it. I'd understand if it were a highly controversial topic of conversation, but it's literally a thread about a silly typo that some of us found amusing and some people didn't.

As always, if you find any thread or post boring, irrelevant, annoying or otherwise not of interest, you are fully at liberty to ignore it and not respond.

I'm glad it's not just me who does this! Thanks for the giggle in a long week OP!

Yes! I'm remembering in particular the Ooh-Aah bird, who lays square eggs

@FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper is spot on actually, and you're still here so I guess you've got lots of time on your hands too

Once, on receiving a quick reply from customer service, I sent back a message saying "Thanks for your seedy response"

I also used to have a habit of finishing calls to colleagues, including my stuffy boss, with "Love you!"
They all politely pretended not to notice!

Why is it so difficult for some people to understand that we all find different things funny, and that that doesn't make any of us stupid or puerile, it makes us individuals?

And I wouldn't dream of commenting in a patronising, condescending, superior, belittling or other derogatory fashion on a thread I didn't personally find funny, but where it was obvious that others did. I don't find it even a little bit satisfying to put others down or try to appear "better than".

Your final paragraph is EXACTLY what you are doing, does that make you strange and sad?

That's just it, @Fraca ... they feel compelled to show that they're far more intelligent and sophisticated than those of us laughing at silly things. They couldn't possibly just pass by, they have to show their superiority. And if they manage to derail and stop the fun... result!

Meanwhile, the rest of were just having a laugh. Or trying to.

@PoppyOrange What are you gaining from being on this thread?

@PoppyOrange not really. @Fraca has nailed it and I'm just commenting on that really. I don't know what people who aren't interested or amused are gaining from being on this thread other than trying to bring others down. And people are allowed to call that out. If they didn't act like patronising, superior dicks in the first place then there would be nothing to comment on.

From Sainsburys a few years ago, it's saved in my inbox for when I need a smile

Ah, it's funny OP.

One of my old managers sent out an all staff email about a "purple shit" she'd found in the women's loos. The replies kept us entertained all afternoon.

I'm a remote shift worker and in frequent email contact with colleagues, so yes, we do have the occasional mistype along the lines 'thank you for your hard work during a particularly difficult shit' or 'Lucy has volunteered to take a late shit on Wednesday, so obviously she can't do an early start on Thursday'.

I'm clearly of very simple mind because I keep chuckling at all the 'shit' typos and 'seedy response' was very funny indeed.

That vag typo was never funny to begin with though. Then again a lot of the hilarious posts on MN aren't funny (to me). I stay well away from classics for this reason, because the ones that I have read just aren't funny.

Just because someone doesn't find something funny doesn't mean that they have a small, joyless life or that they are a fun sponge. It just means that their sense of humour is different. Which is ok.

You're right, it's absolutely OK @Scalottia .

What's less OK, though, is spoiling a thread that others are enjoying and insulting them for finding something funny.
It's been the fun sponges who don't seem to be able to accept that people have different senses of humour; not those calling them out for their unnecessary comments.