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To want to know the small things you do to make yourself laugh

143 replies

MaMaD1990 · 23/02/2021 11:19

Just that, nice and lighthearted. I sometimes beep and at random people I don't know as I'm driving and wave enthusiastically as if I know them. Their reactions are so funny sometimes, especially the ones who wave and look totally confused 😂

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DK123 · 23/02/2021 23:05

I also commentate on the Guinea pig olympics when they're running around!

BlowDryRat · 23/02/2021 23:06

@BloodyCovid

I sneak up behind my DP and pull his trousers and pants down! I laugh much more than he does.......
I hope he's happy with you doing that!
TheChip · 23/02/2021 23:13

For further entertainment going up the stairs. Here is something to try. I can only find a bull terrier doing it and not the man who I have seen. But its the same thing. Harder than it looks, I still haven't mastered it but will try again once my back is better.

Bouncing up the stairs on all fours:

Ladybird69 · 23/02/2021 23:18

When I give cards I empty a packet of confetti into them so that the receiver gets covered in it. One year I filled my eXh sleeping bag with confetti love hearts and glitter. Apparently he and all his friends were still finding it at the end of the holiday.

Clearthinking · 23/02/2021 23:20

I can shake my bottom rather hard, or you could say viciously, so it makes a clapping noise. Cracks husband up. And passing wind sounds like a quack. Cracks niece up. I also flash husband alot. We live on the back of a walk way leading to a bridge and I often shout to anyone walking past good morning/afternoon but they can't quite hear where it's coming from and makes me giggle listening to the confusion. Also live near a railway bridge and when they approach I wave like mad and make the honk your horn type expression to which they always honk! If I see someone trying to deliver junk take away menus I have been known to bark at the door or hold the flap down so they can't push it through. They don't like that though. I'm almost 40

Tigertigertigertiger · 23/02/2021 23:29

I was at an annual work related posh dinner and my friend shoved a bread roll down my bra.

I took it home and put it in the freezer and stuck it in my bra for the same dinner the following year.

And the next

And the next

Dinner cancelled last year due to coronavirus but it’s back in the freezer for next year

EggyPegg · 23/02/2021 23:42

@Tigertigertigertiger

I was at an annual work related posh dinner and my friend shoved a bread roll down my bra.

I took it home and put it in the freezer and stuck it in my bra for the same dinner the following year.

And the next

And the next

Dinner cancelled last year due to coronavirus but it’s back in the freezer for next year

That's dedication
Notenoughchocolateomg · 23/02/2021 23:45

I have full blown conversations with my cat. I did the voice for a cat yesterday when out on a walk and my 8yo eye rolled and said that's Alice's voice 🤣 pull weird faces to myself when alone to entertain any spies.

CalishataFolkart · 23/02/2021 23:51

@therocinante

I talk to myself as Malcom Tucker from the Thick of It a LOT. Accent and everything. I'm quite good.
So do I!
NotAgainNoMore · 24/02/2021 00:52

I'm well known for getting my words in a muddle. Tonight, instead of saying 'Fred, your hair is a mess I said 'Hair, your Fred's is a mess'. He cracks up and then continues the conversation swapping words round til we're crying with laughter.
A few months ago I went to an outdoor mini concert where East 17 sang It's Alright. Well, if you know the song, you'll know how many times they sing It's Alright. Well, it set me off - in a squeaky Northern Accent (don't ask why) I kept asking everyone if they were alright! Myself, DM and DS were in hysterics - not so the people around us but that made it funnier! Even now, one of us randomly asks if we're alright (in the sqeaky accent). Ah well, it amuses us, lol.

grassisjeweled · 24/02/2021 01:28

I occasionally use one of the kid's teddies and pretend it's driving. Also make Teddy wave at passerbys. And pretend it's honking the horn.

Alarmingly I do this when the kids are NOT in the car too.

grassisjeweled · 24/02/2021 01:30

I talk to the kids in accents too. At the moment I'm talking Scouse

Zebracowfish · 24/02/2021 01:39

I enthusiastically sing the jungle books “ i wanna be like you’ from start to finish at least once a week. Including all the whistling musical bit. Always feel better afterwards.

Zebracowfish · 24/02/2021 01:41

I’m also working from home and send my partner updates and photos throughout the day of my “my lazy colleague” - my dog! He loves it!

ifitpleasesandsparkles · 24/02/2021 02:34

I do a little dance for different occasions. I have a Going To The Shop Dance, a Let's Have Some Ice Cream Dance, an I Don't Really Feel Very Well Dance, and an It's Bedtime Dance. The list of dances is endless. One for all occasions. All dances are identical but I tell my partner there are subtle differences and make him stop and watch them.

I also write difficult to read shopping lists that my partner has to decipher: Too pertayters, an cheez, sum melk etc.

Sapho47 · 24/02/2021 03:01

Its surprising how many people are stating esentialy cat calling.

Is this why blokes do it they're just making themselves laugh?

Nitflux · 24/02/2021 03:41

I sing “goodnight my lover” in a terrible James Blunt impression to my DH most nights. Never fails to make me laugh. Him, not so much.

SirenSays · 24/02/2021 04:22

I hide from my dog and watch him dash around the house all excited looking for me. I also bought a couple big nerf guns and will have wars with my DH over things like who does the washing up.

theThreeofWeevils · 24/02/2021 04:37

Lockdown suddenly seems so much better, somehow.

OldGreyBoots · 24/02/2021 04:59

@Emptybox I've never met another craft shop letter swearer before! I've spelled "Arse" from decopatch letters, rubber stamps, light box letters, mirrored letters in the homeware department of Next, monogrammed candles, the list goes on...
I may or may not have given DP a photo album of "arse pics" in this fashion, for Valentine's day Grin

OldGreyBoots · 24/02/2021 05:05

Me and DB also, on very rare occasions, give the other some very bad news, you have to sit down, I'm so sorry to tell you this etc... And proceed to break the news in a very sombre fashion that Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead. The goal is to keep up the sadness/disbelief for as long as possible Blush

CroutonsAvatar · 24/02/2021 06:18

Sing in Bowie style to the dog and child. Just asking them what they’re looking at, or telling them what I’m doing. But very much try to make it sound like a Bowie song as possible.

I also do the same thing but R&B diva Mariah-esque complete with flourished ad libs, but usually save this for my long suffering husband.

We also do the ‘top body/bottom body’ dance. Where one of you dances with only your top of your body and the other only their bottom part then one of you shouts SWITCH!

sashh · 24/02/2021 07:19

As a kid we would go out in the car, often to someone touristy and then beep and wave to a tourist family.

If someone lets me out at a junction I may blow them a kiss instead of waving.

I occasionally give presents to the bin men, they get the left over Halloween sweets or (non alcoholic) beer when its hot. Not exactly silly but they do a good job.

When my carer came in I once asked him to check the bathroom for a leak.

He came back out and threatened to beat me to death with the leek he found.

One Easter the local pub had loads of toy rabbits out as decorations, by the time we left a few were in compromising positions doing what rabbits do.

I looked after my friend's cat for a week, I sent my friend a text update, this developed into the cat being a secret agent and my friend sending instructions ot 'agent cat's name'.

The same friend we once went with her husband to their friends house. You could see the house phone in the hall through the glass door so we phoned the house number, as he was about to ick up we rang off and called his mobile, when he went to get his mobile we knocked on his door and ran off, when he opened the door we rang his landline I think this went of for 15 mins and we couldn't stand for laughing.

I turn the toilet roll round in people's houses.

My carer and I invented the 'Kitty Olympics' where we state what the event will be such as, 'doing the uppy downy walk on fences', best sleeping position etc.

My old cat charlie was very vocal and would 'talk' I used to have full on conversations where I'd say, "Dis you really, what happened then" and he would make a noise and then I'd ask another question.

Since my brother got married we have always lived hundreds of miles apart. Being the doting aunty I have bought my nieces and nephew lots of noisy toys.

sashh · 24/02/2021 07:25

I've just remembered, I have a light in the bathroom that is also a speaker and Bluetooth controlled.

I may have changed the lighting to a disco setting and played music on unsuspecting visitors.

Love2cycle · 24/02/2021 07:28

@AgnesNaismith

Ahh OP, my Ddad did this when I was little and I loved it!!!

Sometimes I decide I’m going to have a ‘buffy the musical’ day and sing most of my words very dramatically...usually only lasts an hour until the children get annoyed but it cheers me up.

Often act like David Brent, more when drunk.

My DH and I often sing our mundane conversations rather than talk, like shopping, taking bins out etc etc
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