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Something that made you properly laugh?

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dreeeamingbutawake · 13/04/2023 23:03

Me… Dh’s dad arriving at the holiday rental when it was dark, which had its own swimming pool. Us switching the lights on and coming out to him only to hear a splash and he’d fallen into the pool, suitcase and all! I still laugh a lot thinking about it years later.

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Tarkan · 13/04/2023 23:10

The other day DH said something to me from another room and I responded with "uh-huh".

The next thing I know our Alexa says "shuffling songs by A-Ha".

Both DC came see why I was laughing so much and it took a while for me to catch my breath long enough to explain it so until then all they saw was their mum sitting on the sofa laughing her head off to the Alexa playing Take On Me.

determinedtomakethiswork · 13/04/2023 23:21

Both of those are so funny.

I burst out laughing just a few minutes ago when I was eating a thread about crumpets and the OP said that her husband had put jam on a crumpet and not to worry she had called the police.

girlfriend44 · 14/04/2023 00:47

Great Topic.

Passthewinebottle · 14/04/2023 01:03

My daughter sorted out the laundry on the airer earlier & came into the room horrified that someone had shrunk her soft grey ribbed blanket into a small square. I nearly died as it was actually a pillowcase I'd spilled a drink on the night before 🤣🤣🤣 we'd never noticed before that how similar they were 🤣

SpreadableCheeseOnEverything · 14/04/2023 01:18

Haha OP that's brilliant about your FIL falling into the pool with his case! I'd be laughing about it years later too!

When I was a teenager I was on a night out and left the club with a friend to get a taxi home. We decided to get food to take home with us, and ordered an extra large chips and then doused them in ketchup. We went to walk out the door of the takeaway and someone opened it from outside and my mates chips went splat on his chest covering his white tshirt with ketchup and chips.

I was crying with laughter the whole taxi ride home and even now, 30 years later, I laugh and laugh when I think about it!

JackiePlace · 14/04/2023 01:22

My Dad demonstrating to me and my three siblings (and Mum) that the canoe he had just purchased for us was "impossible to tip over"....
Seconds later there was a loud splash.

TrashPanda20 · 14/04/2023 01:29

Our older cat doing one of her many Houdini acts. She had a skin condition. Vet gave us lotion and suggested a surgical suit.

We put cat in suit making sure the little gap was in the appropriate anatomical location so she could do her business.

Next thing we know she's managed to wriggle her entire body out through the gap. Took her all of about three seconds if that.

To this day I wish I'd had my camera to hand. It was the combination of her cattitude, speed, and facial expression as she determinedly wriggled her entire not inconsiderably rotund body out of the hole...

You had to be there really.

SquigglyGum · 14/04/2023 01:42

Walking around NYC when my dh announced "that's the flat-eer-on building". The flat iron. Oh how we laughed.

Mammyloveswine · 14/04/2023 01:58

Going into town one Christmas when ds was only a baby in his pram... went to get the bus and it was slightly early so I told DH to run for the bus... he did but slipped in the mud and went FLYING through the air, legs up and everything!

Omg I was CRYING laughing! Poor DH but funniest thing I've ever seen! It was like a comedy fall in a film!

We made the bus though Grin

AnyFucker · 14/04/2023 02:00

Just rewatched the IT crowd before it disappears from Netflix. That was pretty funny.

LighterNights · 14/04/2023 02:42

Dh once set fire to a menu in a posh restaurant holding it up over the candle in the middle of the table. Later that same meal he picked up the little butter dish, it slipped in his hand, he then did a juggle with it before it landed on his new shirt leaving a perfect greasy circle. Oh how I laughed.

addictedtotheflats · 14/04/2023 06:16

My mum speeding past the living area on a mobility scooter on the patio area on holiday and crashing it off the side of the decking. Luckily no injuries but it was hilarious.

Rarar · 14/04/2023 07:05

My DH trying to fold down a pop up ball pit we'd bought for DGC. Every time he got one side under control the other side popped back out, it was like something out of a Mr Bean film. DH prides himself on being a capable person so was getting more and more confused as to why he couldn't do it, he looked almost offended each time it popped back up which just made it funnier somehow. I still wish I'd filmed it, makes me laugh every time I think about it. He gave up in the end and the damn thing lived (in its fully popped up glory) on top of the dogs crate for months til DGC lost interest and we could legitimately get rid Grin

Mightyouandiconfabulate · 14/04/2023 07:13

Screaming in the Sistine chapel thread.

Every time I think about or re read it, cannot breath.
Best thread ever. (Snapped and farted a close 2nd)

Seriously79 · 14/04/2023 07:23

Last winter I asked my son to go to my car and put the weather shield on my windscreen (to stop the frost, and save time the next morning).

When I got to the car the next morning, it was -5 and a heavy frost, the dopey kid had put the shield on the inside of the windscreen! I didn't know if I should laugh or cry! I laughed, all day and he's never lived it down!

RaininSummer · 14/04/2023 07:37

My ex doing his crusty old man of the sea impression looking out on the coast of Spain when the weather was a bit frisky.... A freak wave came in and drenched him. Water running out of his coat pockets and all dignity gone. Still laugh at at 30 years later.

ThisIsTrifficult · 14/04/2023 07:40

DH tried to break our Easter egg open by headbutting it!
The bonk noise, his reaction. Perfect! I was in tears!

MoggyMittens23 · 14/04/2023 07:49

In a Japanese restaurant where they have the hot plates in front of you to cook things on. The waiter put a plate on our table with 5 prawn gyoza on. I wasn’t watching but DH started eating them. Waiter comes back ready to put them on the hot plate and exclaims to DH “sir, those need to be cooked before you can eat them “ but he has already eaten 2 😂 sooooo funny. Luckily he didn’t get ill

iamnottoofatiamjusttooshort · 14/04/2023 07:53

My son ( then aged around 15 ) rang me at work to ask about doing some washing

He wanted to know what to do with the lid full of liquid detergent

I said " just throw it on top son "

His response " but it's going to spill everywhere "

I laughed all day

CoalCraft · 14/04/2023 07:56

"None pizza, left beef".

http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-test.php

You know the phrase "laughed so hard I spat out my drink"? I always assumed that was just a saying till I saw this with a mouthful tea and was so wracked by laughter that I had no choice but to spit it back into the mug (though it just sort of dribbled out rather than dramatically spraying everywhere).

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-test.php

Brewskipa · 14/04/2023 07:58

Back when I was a teen, I’d been out with my mum in the rain when she slipped on the pavement and fell comedically, legs up in the air, right on her bum. She was fine and it was hilarious. The next day I was telling a friend about it and when I went to demonstrate how she had fallen in such a funny way, I slipped and did the exact same thing myself. Just laid on the pavement laughing not being able to stand back up for what felt like forever!

SquigglyGum · 14/04/2023 08:03

addictedtotheflats · 14/04/2023 06:16

My mum speeding past the living area on a mobility scooter on the patio area on holiday and crashing it off the side of the decking. Luckily no injuries but it was hilarious.

This just made me howl 🤣🤣🤣

Matchingcollarandcuffs · 14/04/2023 08:08

My dad ordering at a drive through (I'll have a big Mac and fries, sorry sir this is McDonald's)

My dad again, deepest darkest Tuscany. Driving to a market and there's a v cool motorbike cop directing traffic, making smoking a day look cool.

Dad: 'Bonjour'
(Sniggers from us kids in back)

Dad, round 2: 'Guten tag'
(Proper laughter)

Dad, dejectedly: 'Shit'

Cop, v cool in perfect English:
'please park down there in the lefty'

Dad: ' . . .'

Matchingcollarandcuffs · 14/04/2023 08:09

^this is Burger King!

CLEO42 · 14/04/2023 08:15

Demonstrating to my then new boyfriend in a smug and show-offish way - 'No, I know a special technique ....THIS is how you break off a piece of toblerone.....' and squeezing the 2 peaks together. Only the whole bar exploded into the air, showering a train carriage and other passengers with tiny bits of chocolate

We still howl about this 18 years later 🤣