Do people really cry/laugh out loud, over threads?

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I find some threads shocking, very sad, amusing and even really funny, but I don't do any of the above.

AIBU for not reacting as extremely as some people appear to do?
AIBU in thinking people exagerate when saying these things?

Yes I have been in stitches over threads. Have been in tears about poorly children and bereavement.

Have welled up a few times over happy stories as well. Maybe I am just very sensitive!

IRL, I have had people say to me "it's not that funny, because I'm laughing a lot.

I don't get it at all, that the people laughing less, think they can dictate how funny something really is!

I didn't believe people really laughed out loud when reading the Internet... Until I found some of the Netmums classics (notably Penis Beaker). Now I really know what laughing out loud is and I don't do it very often.

I don't have floods of tears, but have got choked up a bit reading things. Most recently about a posters recollection of a flooding incident at school and her lovely teacher.

PrivatePike
Never found the lemon drizzle thing remotely funny

Me neither.

It was before my time. I was directed to it and spent ages reading it going Did it actually happen? Bearing in mind how "famous" it is, did the person in question ever pop up and say "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"?

Have never cried and very rarely laugh out loud...but recently the Balonze thread in baby names made me laugh until I cried.

Laughed hard at loads over the years but never at the penis beaker one. It is usually just the way someone uses a phrase. If I'd laugh in rl I'm not sure why I wouldn't laugh here.

Quill!! Netmums??

I actually do laugh aloud.

No crying, I can't quite get that invested in a thread but I have laughed out loud and oh my goded at some threads. Notably Mexican House Thief and Marmalade and the LDC. Just

YABU. I otfen come across witty posts that make me laugh. Usually more of a than a lol, but lol is quite possible. Even on a serious thread, some poster manage to bring humour that is subtle and makes me smile.

Well if laughing is just a social thing I am clearly anti-social as I quite frequently have to stifle a laugh with a coughing fit as I'm on Mumsnet when I shouldn't be! Please can someone link the latest fart thread? Farting in the bath one was hilarious, never did get the pom bear one though!

I didn't laugh at many of the classic threads mentioned here. But I have a random sense of humour. And I am sensitive r.e. crying (but having a 6 week old justifies it!)

AIBU for not reacting as extremely as some people appear to do? No
AIBU in thinking people exagerate when saying these things? Yes, very

I have cried reading a lot of threads. There are many heartbreaking stories on MN. People posting through the illness of their child, the loss of a spouse or child (or anyone close to them), a well loved poster dying through illness, others coping with their own illness & life's trials...having empathy isn't a bad thing.

There have been threads that have make me really laugh out loud, but they're few and far between (definitely not Pom bears or oenis beaker) but I laugh more often at brilliant one liners. The most memorable being I AM CANADIAN.

A lot of threads have made me smile, and the odd posts have made me snort out loud. (Bob-b-q on TWD thread!)
Several threads have made me cry.

I've cried at a few really sad ones & a few 'I've been ttc for ages & here's my suprise bfp!' ones.

I only ever 'lol' at the kids doing/saying stupid things; getting trapped in a pillowcase or a young one saying 'oh nana you are a cunt' spring to mind.

I've shed real tears a few times on here when reading something sad but more often I have actually laughed out loud, sniggered and because of the thread I'm linking - I almost simultaneously pissed and choked myself.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1979571-Weird-accidents-that-are-strangely-hilarious

It's the OP's 3rd or 4th post about her Ds2 that got/gets me :) :)

Carbe! That's the pillowcase one, just lol-ed at it again...will try the rest of the thread now

I have laughed silly, cried and sobbed at certain threads. I don't usually come on and say so though and never really do the LOl and PMSL comments.

The current Stupid Facebook Selling thread on Chat has definitely made me laugh out loud several times.

I have laugheed aloud/snorted at many threads. One which had me in fits was the poster who sent her daughter to school with a 'thank you' gift for her teacher, in a gift bag which she prepared well in advance and had kept in the corner of the bedroom. When the young, male teacher opened it he found the gift, and a pair of used pants which had found their way into the bag too..

Have laughed out loud and choked on tea etc quite a few times. One ages ago about embarrassing incidents at work: it was the one where someone had food poisoning at a presentation she was doing on a stage and repeatedly vomited into a bucket in the wings, thinking no one was any the wiser but forgetting that she still had her radio mike on ...

Also – God, another food poisoning one. Is that my sense of humour?
Someone (was it LeGavrOrff?) was on holiday with what she called 'the wild shites'. Someone offered her a massage and she turned it down because 'I would have shat in their general direction.' Giggled for hours about that.

Threads where people show support for illness/bereavement/grief etc make me cry real tears.

I've laughed out loud loads! Recently a thread about the classics thread linked the pram thread. Where a poster responds to her own op about a pram recommendation-I'm crying with laughter at it now! I couldn't breathe and I was lying on the floor laughing so hard. My DCs thought something was seriously wrong!

And I've cried. But not as much. Without identifying the thread, recently an op in relationships had been having a hard time. I found out not long ago that she died, so fucking unjust, I cried for her and her DCs.

As a pp, I've lost a child, bereavement threads throw me back to the early days of bereavement, a pain like no other. I don't cry on those threads, but the pain can hit me when I least expect it.

Yes I have lold at threads some very funny folk about. I have had stingy eyes too I don't cry a lot but I have done sometimes reading sad things sometimes reading cute or sweet things