to wonder if everyone has irrational 'giggle triggers'?

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Inspired by a certain thread I just read tonight, but I won't say which one so as not to make a TAAT (though I'm sure people will work it out anyway, lol) It got me wondering about something else, though.

I've always wondered if I am odd/weird in having a few 'irrational giggle triggers', so to speak. I've always assumed it's just me, but even at the grand old age of 50 I still cannot hear anyone burping without getting the giggles big style. It perplexes me... I was well brought up, my family isn't coarse or crude at all and I got told off if I burped myself (so did my dad), yet it always just used to completely crack me up. Fair enough as a child - I guess it probably gave the giggles then because it was forbidden - but still to be cracking up over burps as a (normally intelligent, sensible and adult) woman of 50?! embarrassed titter

Another one: I'm in an amateur theatre group and get the helpless giggles for some reason I can't fathom when I fluff lines in rehearsals, I can never get myself back on track which can get embarrassing! It gets worse if anyone takes the mickey out of me for fluffing the line... I think that must have a nervous origin of some kind, although I don't feel consciously nervous in rehearsals (and, thank goodness, it's never happened during a show...) The giggles over burping, on the other hand, I cannot figure out for the life of me...

Is it just me? (I'm fine with replies along the lines of 'Yes, it's just you'/'YABU and weird', in fact I'm half expecting them. )

Yes I do.
It’s really bad karaoke that starts me off. I find it hysterically funny and the more I try not to laugh the more I do .
I worked in a pub years ago and there was Karaoke every Sunday night, the couple who ran it, can’t remember his name but her name was April. Every time he said “ and here’s the lovely April” I used to crack up laughing, she was awful. She wasn’t keen on giving the mic up for anyone.
I’m sitting here 20 years later laughing 😂

I have real difficulty at school concerts listening to beginner-level musicians. Anyone singing or playing out of tune sets me off, and the same if someone plays a note that we (and they) weren't expecting. When my children were at primary school, there was an annual music concert featuring solo performances, where they started with children who had been playing for less than a year. I could cope with the pianists, but the brass players and violinists had me pinching my palms and biting the insides of my cheeks.

oh god yes...

As a child, I would sometimes get the giggles if a classmate was being told off, but it was from a feeling of awkwardness, not from finding their plight amusing.

Yes I am a giggler and it's really embarrassing I had training the other day and I was a bit tired and I could stop laughing at the stupidest things. I've always been like that my mum says when I used to start giggling it was really hard to get me to stop. My sister took great joy in making me laugh.

When people accidentally break wind - I try so hard not to laugh!

Yes, farts are my giggle trigger too.

Funerals.
I feel so uncomfortable and anxious that I develop a nervous laugh. Literally laughed all the way through my DF’s funeral, I tried yo stifle it which made it worse. The priest thought I was insane

I get the giggles when someone is being told off! Also if someone says poo!

Farting and burping set me off. So does children swearing, which is very unfortunate, as it tends to encourage them.

Happy clappy guitar music at wedding! I like to be prewarned so I can think of some really hard maths question to do mentally. Only way to stifle the giggles.

Nervous laughing is a terrible habit of mine. I've done it in some really inappropriate situations, and upset people who don't know me well enough to understand.

People falling over. I know it's mean and I wouldn't do it obviously, but god it makes me laugh.

I’m an emotional giggler. My brain is faulty in the sense where most normal people would cry or scream at a situation I will giggle. I have genuinely seen someone be hit by a car and giggled. (I also phoned an ambulance did CPR and stayed with them but I still giggled).

This sounds awful but I find it hilarious when I see folk fall or trip over and then get up and carry on as if nothing has happened. It has me in stitches and even afterwards whenever I think about it I laugh.

Obviously not if they're really hurt btw.

I don’t have set triggers, but the things that REALLY set me off probably aren’t that funny to other people. Which makes it very hard to explain when I’ve recovered! A few that spring to mind:
I was at a funeral. The priest looked very young and his gown (sorry, I don’t know the correct term) was a bit big on him. When he started talking he made lots of hand gestures, that were completely out of time and unrelated to his words. I honestly thought I’d given myself an internal injury trying to hold it together.
At a first aid course, the instructor was talking about bandaging around a wound that still had a foreign object in. He made a circle with his finger and thumb, then pushed another finger up into the middle of the circle whilst saying ‘...and then you make a little tent’. I was sobbing, he asked me to leave until I’d composed myself.
The time hubby and I were laying in bed, having a silly conversation about imaginary board games. I suggested we play imaginary Mousetrap, then dismissed my own suggestion because it took too long to set up. I was a barely breathing mess, and even now it makes me laugh.

I think I might be wired wrongly!

For the gigglers at people falling over... I'm presuming you've seen Michael Gove falling over on the ice?

Farts for me too. Even the memory of a particularly funny one from years ago will set me off while getting to sleep. DH will ask what I'm laughing at and I'm too embarrassed to admit that the source of hilarity is "remember that fart you did on holiday in France 5 years ago?"

Mine was a bit ahem sex related plus prayer time in church and fgs I should be banned at weddings prayer and "the question " I feel an impulse to stand and object then get a giggle fit

I'm mad as a box of frogs

When kids are naughty or fall over. I can’t help it, it’s a nervous reaction. Not great considering I’m a nanny. It really is awful, I can’t help it!

Oh god. If anyone tells me about someone falling over/getting hurt in a minor way I involuntarily laugh out loud. I'm going to hell.

There's a video on Instagram of a walker trying to free a sheep from a fence by a steep hill. He finally frees the sheep but accidentally flings the sheep down the hill. Omg I nearly died laughing.

I can't help it. I love sheep too

Really awkward farts are great. I find it very difficult to compose myself if someone farts in a yoga class, thing is it wouldn't be so funny if it was acknowledged, but everyone ignores it...

Friend at school told me a story of a poor girl farting loudly in class, turning bright red and running out of the room dramatically. I still laugh when I think about it.

Karaoke for me too.

But very specifically when my boss (big Scandinavian guy) sings, he sounds EXACTLY like that time when Arnie was in the Twins movie singing "take out the papers and the trash" ....

now anytime i hear Karaoke i think of my boss sounding like Arnie and can't stop laughing!

Times of high emotion; funerals and deaths in general tend to set me off. When my DGM was in the hospice dying last year I had to keep leaving her room to go outside and laugh. Nothing funny about it whatsoever but seeing how sad everyone was made me giggle uncontrollably. And the unwanted thoughts of her randomly waking up to us all gathered around her bedside basically staring at her. She used to get the giggles too though so I hope she understood

I'm sure she did baby makes3. Funerals for me aswell lm afraid. Have had to pass off many a guffaw as a loud sob over the years !!