The expression 'nearly spat my tea/juice/wine out'

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Very overused on here, I see it on nearly every thread. AIBU to believe that posters are just lying? No one actually does this! Let alone multiple people happening to read a thread at the exact moment of sipping a drink and finding it SOOOO hilarious. Oh please.

If I read something THAT funny on here I'm more likely to have a coughing fit due to my tea having gone down the wrong way.

I nearly spat my tea out at the insinuation that people might be lying!

I say it if it happened, it's not unusual if somebody says something funny mid swallow.
Why would someone lie about it? Pretty weird.

Can't stand that and "actually howling" but I'm a misery

It's just rhetoric. Nobody intends it to be taken literally.

I guess it's like ROTFL or whatever , no one is actually rolling on the floor laughing

In my life, I have genuinely spat wine out laughing.

I have even a couple of times on Internet forums over the last 15 years.

But I don't believe it it happens that often on here.

It's akin to "ROFL"
Mate. No you werent.

I've spat my brew out laughing more times than I care to mention irl. In public as well. My friends know I'm an easy target and will often purposely say something guaranteed to crack me up mid-sip.
Can totally relate to the tea spitters on here.

It's akin to "ROFL"
Mate. No you werent.

No, but nor was there any intention for people to think that they really were. It's just a phrase to mean "I found that very funny." On the internet we can't see each other, so we need slightly stronger mental images.

I had whooping cough (not fun I can tell you) and I coughed so much that I almost peed myself. That did happen (as I told the doctor).

It’s the same as ‘I’m absolutely fuming on your behalf!’ ‘I’m shaking with anger on your behalf!’ Really? I honestly can’t get that passionate about a complete stranger on the internet.

Laughed so hard I woke the baby up.

It's a turn of phrase. Meant to amuse not to deceive.

Very overused on here,

True

I see it on nearly every thread.

Untrue 😏

I actually have spluttered tea out when reading something hilarious on here. The worst occasion was a time when I spat out at mouthful of rice krispies I was finding them everywhere. The moral of the story is don't sit opposite me at dinner.

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I actually have spluttered tea out when reading something hilarious on here. The worst occasion was a time when I spat out at mouthful of rice krispies I was finding them everywhere. The moral of the story is don't sit opposite me at dinner.

And I did genuinely chuckle at this.

Laughed so hard I woke the baby up

The amount of babies & partners who (allegedly) get woken up due to the hilarity 🙄 of a MN thread is amazing

I've yet to find anything on here thats even half as funny as that

I don't think it's the same as ROFL as I do think it's intended to make people think you spat out tea. It's cliched and annoying.

I keep reading this a lot and it's blatantly bollocks. Particularly in reaction to things that are written down (so which don't massively take you by surprise the way a throwaway comment/mouthful of tea could do).

Its just a kind of phrase that says you found something funny.

Saying "That was so funny! I exhaled sharply out my nose" or "That's crazy! So hilarious, I've smiled and hmpf'd" or "WOW, so amusing, I actually sniggered slightly like Mutley" doesn't quite have the same ring. So I think it's just a sort phrase scale of how amusing you found it.

Obviously totally exaggerated but a kind of measurable way people can determine how funny they thought it was.

I've yet to find anything on here thats even half as funny as that

There was loads of really funny stuff when I first joined (2012). Not so much now.

I have never spat out a drink due to a thread on mn There are couple of threads in Classics that I let my coffee go cold when I was reading them as I was laughing so hard I could not drink it.