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!

I would find myself laughing on and off all day over something like this. A few more:

An email where someone was describing how her dh got up and wanked out the back door ( walked)

Recently at an eye examination a heavily accented African optometrist asked me - how is your sight?
I responded - shite
And he said, oh I'm so sorry Mam, how is your shite?

And then he realised what he has said and said no, no your sight not your shite. He obviously thought I was correcting his English when he first asked the question. I kept getting fits of the giggles when he was doing the examination and was trying to turn the noises in to coughs.

@LowbrowVictoriana So true. I think about those people: Why be a dick about things other people find funny. It's not about you!

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.

Yes, exactly this.

We're all different and all like different things - which is one of the things that makes life interesting. It's about having the grace and the wisdom to say "Not for me, thanks" without feeling the need to put down those who DO enjoy something.

My daughter sent me a WhatsApp from the bus this morning saying 4 old ladies have just got on in mating t shirts( I clarified she had meant matching) I laughed for about 10 minutes so I am clearly on your wave length.

Well I'd be laughing too, OP, because what's not funny about a typo like that?

Exactly my reaction. Like they've the last word on what is funny.

Please enlighten me to where I said something insulting though? I just said that it isn't funny to me. If it is funny to others, that's also ok.

@Fraca from some of these comments it’s clear that some on here have absolutely no sense of humour! I totally get why you got the giggles

Shits! Love it, laughing with OP unlike others...
Reminds me of the time I posted a particularly disgusting joke on my work Socials & not my own - oh, how we laughed! 🤦‍♀️

I never ever ever ever thought I'd say this but, yeah, being a bit harsh on the OP folks.

Anyway, we had Purple Bricks as a client and someone "accidentally" replaced the B with a P on an email to one of their contacts.

He thought it was so funny he openly admitted on the floor to doing it deliberately.

We fired him.

We once got an email asking us to be more sparing with the clit spray as we were going through too much.
she meant the cillet bang (not sure of spelling) but was such a serious and grumpy person she refused to see the funny side 😂

It doesn't mean that some people on here have no sense of humour though. They just have a different sense of humour to you. How is this so difficult to comprehend?

@Scalottia, why do you think any of us are interested in learning that you and others who have posted in similar vein didn't find it funny? It adds nothing to the thread, quite the contrary. Personally I'd much rather you closed this thead and looked for another one more to your tastes.

Anyway, back to the theme. I had a part-time job where I sometimes varied my working days. I'd been there some weeks before my manager pointed out that there might be better ways to title my email confirming which days I'd be in that week than 'My movements this week'.

@Scalottia Ah, and by your snarky remark I take it you are one of those that felt need to comment on ops posting? Why do you feel it necessary to be rude?

I once sent a suggestive email to my boyfriend, only I managed to send it to the MD! a few meetings and a grovelling apology by me (early twenties, attractive) a very amused overweight middle aged MD.

I could have died! always check sender...I never did it again.

I think it’s really funny too. I love being amused. Luckily, I’m retired, so nobody has to put up with me laughing next to them at work any more.

A colleague once got a poster printed up for an academic conference about her work on somatic cell counts. Unfortunately did not notice until she arrived at the poster session that the title referred to "somatic cell c*nts". I'm still mortified on her behalf 15 years later!

It’s really disturbing how many people there are out there who will read a thread where someone has found something that amuses them and will not just move on to something else if they don’t agree but will actually fucking say that they don’t find it funny - like they are upset at the thought of humour happening and want to make a post that will, in some small way, piss on that humour.

How miserable does your life have to be for you to think that that is even a remotely appropriate response to someone having fun?

What is happening to people? It’s just…awful.

There are correct and incorrect senses of humour?

I didn't say you had, @Scalottia

I was continuing the conversation you started in your own post about those who had complained about the (in their opinion) lack of humour in the typos. The fun sponges.

But if you consider yourself to be a fun sponge, then yes... I guess I was talking about you, too 😉

What's wrong with laughing? I don't think it was that hilarious a mistake but if you did you may as well fully enjoy it. I laugh out loud to myself listening to podcasts or reading. Nothing wrong with that.

I sent an email listing who was on first shit.

You “wish your brain was that small”??? That’s almost as funny as the original post!

Had a crap week this week and a senior colleague pissed me off by sending me some documents which I had to configure and print and it made me stay late - after I’d printed them off I saw a really bad typo with sexual overtones and I left it in cos I was basically annoyed and cba to be nice!! She didn’t ask me to proofread so I just did what was asked.

I think the problem is that the OP didn't give all the details right at the beginning. It wasn't clear that the OP meant she was laughing in public, or that 'shits' should've been 'shifts'. If it had been clearer at first, it would've been easier to find it funny rather than wonder what was going on. I would've found it funny, OP.