To ask if my joke to new work colleague would have offended you?

[Abbeymum]

We are quite a small team and had a new staff member join this week. It’s a very friendly and jokey culture so we are always light heartedly ribbing each other.

Anyway - new colleague was eating a salad with two boiled eggs. We were chatting and she says that’s a usual weekday lunch for her. I replied that I bet she has stocked up on the air freshener for when she’s home.

Blank face…sense of humour failure on her part?

🙄😎😆

Jokes are meant to be funny. I don’t see anything funny about you said.

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It’s really not funny, just makes you seem a bit weird 😬

What does this mean?

It’s not funny, a bit over familiar, but not enough to be all wounded and offended.

I wouldn’t have got the joke. I see from here that it’s about farts but I’ve never had any issues with eggs.

It’s not even funny when you know the connection. Stop ribbing each other, it’s never as funny as people think.

Nah its just not funny in the slightest. I love banter at work but that one is lost on me

Laughed out loud at this. I just know she does 😂

I really hate it when people discuss the appearance / smell / nutrition of my lunch while I’m eating it, so I’d imagine your comment was quite embarrassing and really awkward for her to know how to react. You’re a colleague who doesn’t know her well, not a family member.

See that's actually 🤣

She probably didn’t laugh because in order for people to find a joke funny it actually has to be funny and what you said wasn’t at all it was just cringy.

sense of humour failure on her part?

No, sense of 'humour' failure on your part.

Is the colleague American ?
They are known to have a different sense of humour to us..
That saying..your joke was childish

Exactly what I was thinking!

I would have laughed. I had a stoma reversal a year ago and fart no matter what I eat.