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To ask for you tell me when you laughed so hard you cried?

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GetMeOffThisCycleOfMysery · 22/06/2019 09:39

Tell me when you laughed so hard you cried!

The more random the better. Following this old tweet: twitter.com/GraceSpelman/status/635983048622931968?s=19

The replies had me belly laughing.

One of my stories. My brother and I went to the pictures, no idea what the film was, but it was an MGM film.

I know this, because as the lights dimmed, the opening credits came up and the MGM lion roared. Without missing a beat, I whispered to my brother, "That lion's dead now."

He turned at me, looking confused then started silently shaking with laughter. Realising what I said, I whispered, "Oh god. I mean the big man with the gong!"

My brother - looking even more confused as to what I was on about - at this point, was nearly convulsing from trying to hold his laughter in, inside the quiet cinema. Then tears started rolling down his cheeks.

I was already in silent hysterics too, laughing at him and the fact that I couldn't laugh loudly as a film was playing. I was clutching my stomach, tears were streaming and I was breathless from trying to hold it in. I had to get up and run out of the auditorium. Got outside into the corridor, collapsed in a heap on the floor, cry-laughing, while people stared at me.

Took me ten minutes to compose myself, missed the start of the film, but I went back in. But every now and then one of us would start silently giggling again and would set the other off. Just both sat there shoulders shaking quietly.

Incidentally. When I said "That Lion's dead now!" what I meant was, the week before, the man who bangs the gong at the start of the Rank films had died in real life. Somehow in my head, I got muddled up when the lion came onto the screen. Hence my seemingly random comment.

Would love to hear yours.

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Ohnotanothernamechange · 22/06/2019 23:12

When I walked into my parents living room one day to find my DF wearing one of my nighties. It had got muddled up in the laundry and ended by in my DFs clothes pile mistake. He'd put it on without looking. I don't know how he hasn't noticed as it was like a baggy t shirt dress and was practically down to his knees. DM and I almost passed out we laughed so much.

alltoomuchrightnow · 22/06/2019 23:15

I just left MN for a minute to check my emails and there was a Quora update. Skimmed through and one of the subjects was about masturbation... with the typos, only one thing came to mind....

''I grew up Catholic, and nit talkibg about sex and desire, and pretending it doesn't exist was tge “solution”. Removing the Shane, not making a big deal of pleasuring ones self…. Excellent parenting if you ask me. It feels good. Abd that's ok. Good work. Enlightened parenting.''

To ask for you tell me when you laughed so hard you cried?
ncdforthistoday · 22/06/2019 23:15

Went to join my DF on the patio and plonked myself down on the deckchair next to him and fell straight through it.

Was in Ann summers the other day with my friend and she knocked over a display of dildos, I started laughing and stepped backwards into a rack of bras and ended up with some of them attached to my jacket

BlackeyedGruesome · 22/06/2019 23:18

the poster who wrote about starfishing into the chain link fence while rollerskating. this week. embarressing moments thread. excellent turn of phrase and great at telling a story.

ChihuahuaMummy1 · 22/06/2019 23:23

I was in town with a friend when we were both 15,chatting away when I realised she wasnt walking alongside me anymore.Turned around and she was layed full length alongside a building! She had gone arse over tit and landed like that.Funniest thing ever,we dont see each other anymore but it still tickles me now.

Dontbugmemalone · 22/06/2019 23:24

www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/claudiakoerner/helicopter-rescue-spinning-hiker

I know it's bad but the woman was fine in the end. I had tears streaming down my face.

ChihuahuaMummy1 · 22/06/2019 23:25

@alltoomuchrightnow 😂

Tillygetsit · 22/06/2019 23:27

My db is currently in a secure hospital. As you can imagine, he gets really bored. Sometimes we text each other random things that make us laugh. Last week he had a random phone check and was asked by a baffled member of staff why his sis had texted "Smell my cheese, you nobber" (Alan Partridge) He couldnt for laughing and on my next visit he couldnt tell me properly for ages as he was in hysterics. We laughed for the whole hour visit!

Littleteacup1 · 22/06/2019 23:30

When my partner was hogging the remote control and being an ass I stole the spare remote and when coming home late from work his out side the window changing the tv every now and then howling with laughter

Other time I walked out the house and got my jacket caught in the door but couldn’t turn around in my jacket to un lock the door bag was on floor and couldn’t reach it to ring anybody had to stand there and try ring the door bell with my head hoping my partner would answer I got the Giggles so badly that when my partner answered he had no idea what had happened and why I wanted him

shpongle30 · 22/06/2019 23:31

As bad as it sounds
Last year we (dh 7 kids and I ) were walking down some steep steps, dh was showing off his walking boots, kids running ahead, dh and I talk, all of a sudden dh isn't there he had slipped and was bouncing down the stairs.
Dd1 (14) and I were in fits of laughter m, tears streaming down our faces. Couldn't help him up as every time we tried we just laughed more and more.
He broke his coccyx bone.
Felt awful for laughing ...... still had to go out the room when he tried to sit down..... he has forgiven me and can see the funny side, just about.
Told him it was karma for going on about he posh new walking boots

gabsdot · 22/06/2019 23:35

We travelled by ferry once with a friend of my mother's. We were all going to the same place and it made sense for her to travel with us.
She, I'll call her Ann, was a very talkative woman and she also had a very loud voice. She would just talk about any old thing and go from one subject to another unrelated subject in the same breathe.
So we were on the ferry, it was the middle of the night, we'd been delayed, the ferry was pretty crowded and we were all very tired. I was sitting in a chair with my feet in DHs lap and my head bowed trying to rest a bit.
Ann had struck up a conversation with an unsuspecting guy at the next table who had made eye contact with her. They were from the same place.
The conversation went
their home town,
Crime in their home town
Crime in general
Scams
A neighbour who was scammed
How you find out about scams in YouTube
How you can find out about anything on YouTube
How she learned to make an oven on YouTube
At the stage I couldn't hold it in. I started silently laughing. I kept my head down so she wouldn't see me. I was shaking, DH could feel my shaking, and he'd heard the conversation so he started silently laughing too. I glanced up and some guys at the next table we're laughing at me laughing. I couldn't stop, there were tears.
Thankfully I managed to stay quiet but I think she still noticed.
It was the most hilarious thing.

Shoppingwithmother · 22/06/2019 23:37

The one that springs to mind for me occurred at Christmas when DS was about 5.

We were having a buffet-type meal and my parents were staying with us. DS wanted to ask for a “block of cheese” but it came out slightly wrong and he asked for a “bollock of cheese.”

DH, my parents and I all couldn’t help laughing, but that made him say it again. The more he said it the more we laughed, the more he kept saying it.

In the end we were all crying and our faces were aching and he’s just sitting there all cute saying “bollock of cheese, bollock of cheese!”

Still now if I’m a bit fed up he occasionally comes and whispers it in my ear and it always starts me laughing instantly.

Hawkmoth · 22/06/2019 23:37

Last night I started thinking about Phil Pfister. Then I remembered Andreas Wank and cried about which sportsman has the funniest name.

user1492346620 · 22/06/2019 23:39

Many years ago when I was living in New Zealand, a few of us rented a house by a lake for the weekend
We had been drinking quite a bit when we decided to open a bottle of a fizzy fruity alcoholic drink
It was proving quite hard to pop the cork but my friend eventually managed it
She was standing in front of the rest of us and was so pleased that she had managed to pop the cork she did a little happy dance in front of us
Little did she realise that the fizzy drink was pouring out of the bottle onto the cream carpet
We were all laughing so hard we couldn't tell her and she thought we were laughing at her dance so she kept going, all the while this purple drink is pouring onto the carpet and the rest of us can't breathe we are laughing so hard

Every time we talk about it still cracks me up

ThiunderBalllchange · 22/06/2019 23:43

This is outing but what the hey, once helping out at a friend’s linedance class when they were having exams. My job was to bring in the next candidate as each one finished and to collect the reports from the examiner as he finished marking them.

I heard the examiner tell one man who’d been a bit robotic in his movements very kindly that he’d done very well but he needed to relax a bit more through the hips and bend his knees slightly so as to be less stiff..
The man spluttered indignantly ‘“but I’ve got an artificial leg!”

The poor examiner’s face! I barely got out of the room and had to hide in the bathroom until I could stop laughing, had to make several return dashes to the loo as the evening went on. Sniggering now about it.

RiftGibbon · 22/06/2019 23:49

Fairly recently - I was at Bill Bailey's show and he was chatting to the audience. He asked something about playing guitars and a lot of people said they played. He then asked what sort, and it went virtually silent. - as if people didn't understand the question. You probably had to be there but I could hardly breathe for laughing.
Same thing happened years ago at a Ross Noble gig when he was talking about money. Some random bloke shouted out the serial number on a fiver he had. It was just so bizarre.
I have a really wrong sense of humour which doesn't help, either

kazza446 · 22/06/2019 23:52

I was sat in a team meeting. A colleague was doing a session on mindfulness. I work in quite a stressful role where we have to deal with conflict. My colleague was talking about displacing the negativity to help with stress and was trying to get us in the zone. It just seemed a bit far out there to me. When I looked over another colleague had de stressed and fallen asleep. Someone else on the table through something at them to wake him up and to prevent him falling off the chair. It’s very stupid and schoolboy like now as I write this but the fact we were supposed to be “in the moment” and all zen made it funnier. I had to try to compose myself but obviously couldn’t as I was shaking with laughter. I then topped it off with the biggest snort I’ve ever made. I honestly thought I was going to get my p45 that day!!!

ItsAHardKn0ckLife1 · 22/06/2019 23:53

At my almost 40yr old cousin shouting “fellatio” across a busy Italian restaurant/bar as I told her that was the lovely Italian waiters name Grin

She had no idea why everyone turned to her looking horrified.

I. Couldn’t. Breathe.

LaLaLamp · 22/06/2019 23:54

That dog that ran away. Was viral. Can't remember it's name now, but that had me crying.

Fuckthepainaway · 22/06/2019 23:57

Yesterday was the last time I cried laughing. My dd has a talent for art and during yr10 painted an abstract self portrait of her and her cat. She left last summer to go to a different sixth form but my ds still attends the school. A few months ago ds came home from school saying that someone has copied dd’s painting; very slightly different technique but definitely of my dd and the cat. Ds was raging on behalf of dd who was furious herself. He resolved to sneakily take a picture of it and see if he could figure out who the copy cat was.

For months these two have raged and moaned over the bare faced cheek of the copy cat but ds wasn’t able to get a picture. So yesterday he decides just to ask the art teacher which bastard was copying his sisters work. Turns out dd was the bastard responsible and it was her exam piece that she had totally forgotten doing 😂

It really tickled me.

LaLaLamp · 22/06/2019 23:57

Fenton!!! Grin

WitheredfromtheLake · 23/06/2019 00:03

This joke:
What do you call cheese that isn't yours?
Nacho cheese.

I was on holiday with my family, and spent the whole fortnight randomly spluttering over this joke, often laughing so hard during the night that my husband woke up.
(Also during that holiday I read the joke about the 'shit zoo' - between them, those two jokes nearly finished me off).

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 23/06/2019 00:09

Some of these have had me in floods of tears, I think my DP has had enough of me having to explain what I'm laughing at again and again.

alltoomuchrightnow · 23/06/2019 00:14

This never gets any less funny

LaLaLamp · 23/06/2019 00:33

omg the giraffe!! I think their laughter made me laugh more than the big G Grin

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