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Is my sense of humour really "off"?

157 replies

CherryCupcake · 21/07/2007 22:22

Just looking for some opinions.

I have a stupid sense of humour and what seems hilarious to me often seems pointless and ridiculous to others.

Anyway on Friday night my partner had had a bath and left his clothes and shoes in the bathroom.

Before we went to bed (around 1.30am) I went into the bathroom to wash etc and noticed a slug had slithered over his trousers that he had left on the floor, I found this quite funny but then decided to pick the slug up in some tissue and put it inside his shoe (just the slug itself, not the tissue). Once done I went into the living room with a straight face and said "hey, there's a slug in your shoe...I would've taken it out but I darnt touch it...".

DP said "a slug IN my shoe? don't lie" so I insisted it was true, tried so hard not to start laughing and in the end he went in to look...I heard him say "eww...and he picked the shoe up, dropped the slug into the toilet and said "goodbye" to it and I couldn't help but crease up, partly at my own joke but also at his calm reaction, I just thought it was hilarious and then when he started saying he couldn't understand how it had got into the shoe my stomach was actually hurting from laughing so much .

Anyway this morning we were talking about it and he half joked and said "I bet you put it there" and after laughing uncontrollably again I admitted I had.

Anyway, to my point...he didnt find it funny at all, he wen't really quiet and said he doesn't go around doing things to my stuff and doesnt expect me to do it to his etc...

Tonight I tried to joke about it again with him and he's adament that he doesn't find it funny and is still slightly annoyed by it and in his words "it's the other stuff you do too, it's just not funny".

I've been thinking it over and I just wanted some opinions really, was it a stupid thing to do? I only meant it as a joke but I don't want to be the irritating person that thinks she's funny but just gets on everyones nerves...

If your partner didn't "get on" with your sense of humour would you tone it down?

OP posts:
charliecat · 22/07/2007 22:13

Ok so what tickles you? It obviously tickles some of us.

FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:15

Does anyone remember previous threads about "my dp doesn't think my sense of humour is funny" with really bizarre unfunny examples?

I am getting a strong sense of deja vu

Original poster
CherryCupcake · 22/07/2007 22:17

I tried joking about it again to lighten the mood, I don't like arguing with him, especially over something stupid.

As regards my thread a few weeks ago, I just want to point out that he is NOT a violent person, most of the time he's lovely and he would not kick off because he didn't like someones joke, he kicks off when he's suffering and tbh I would know better than to wind him up when he's in one of his moods...it would be like banging a drum next to someone with a migraine, you just don't.

I do stupid things to him all the time, I once tied all his shoe laces in huge knots but forgot he was due to catch a train, untying all the knots almost made him miss it, he was not impressed

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FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:18

Why would you continue to do these things to someone who was not finding it funny? If you both found it hilarious to torment each other like this then I could see the point of it.

Enid · 22/07/2007 22:19

god poor bloke no wonder he's stressed out

Enid · 22/07/2007 22:19

attention seeking, childish behaviour IMO

MrsBadger · 22/07/2007 22:20

[boggles at thread]

greensleeves · 22/07/2007 22:20

Fucking hell, I would drop you like a hot brick if you treated me like this

Tying his shoes together? Grow up!!!

FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:20

this is one of the ones I was thinking of

was that you also cherry or does she just share your type of humour?

Enid · 22/07/2007 22:32

oh thank god it might be a troll

I was really worried that there were RL people that found that genuinely funny

AbRoller · 22/07/2007 22:32

Bree - "And as for WWB's post, it was not in the slightest an unreasonable comment. We are either a community who look out for each other, or a series of one dimensional posts"

IMO it was, however I did apologise for the way I said it and as for being a community, yes I feel it is but I also think it is up to the individual poster to decide what aspects of her life are being discussed at any particular time not anyone else. Would it be appropriate for me to trawl through old posts of yours or some others on this thread and start commenting on the darker periods in your lives? - No, so I wouldn't do it and everyone should have the same respect for eachother.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 22:38

I used to live with people who stuck photos of Garry Bushell on each other's possessions as a nice surprise (fondly referred to now as "the Bushell wars").

Once, when pics of GB were in short supply, one of them stuck a picture of Noel Edmonds on a tin of beans figuring that "any twat with a beard would do".

One of them was once sent a letter (after waiting for post in vain a whole term) by his friends that said, "Dear bastard, piss off."

And the same friends saved up their toenail clippings for a month and gave them to him for his birthday.

Each of those is funnier than any of the slug and fart anecdotes on this thread.

The thing about the beads makes me worry for your sanity, frankly.

Hunker

Enid · 22/07/2007 22:39

lolol

the letter one is very very funny

Enid · 22/07/2007 22:40

the beads

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 22:40

He'd been waiting for a term for post. It was a standing joke - every day, he'd trot hopefully to the front desk and say "any post for me?" and Rita would say "not today, sorry".

His FACE when he got a letter...

Only for it to say what it did. Poor sod

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 22:40

THANK GOD!!! Some normality.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 22:44

I'm not sure I've been called "normal" before

Posted by Hunker

FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:45

Hunker is there a reason why you don't just come back? Then you wouldn't have to keep writing "posted by hunker"?

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 22:46

Because I've banned myself and if I don't keep the ban in place I will be on here All The Time instead of occasionally while I drink a late night cup of tea and eat crumpets

Posted by Hunker (I C&P this, don't fret )

FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:48

Ah.

FirenzeandZooey · 22/07/2007 22:48
Magicmayhem · 22/07/2007 22:49

BocoBeak the marshmellow really made me laugh.. ktmoomoo and the teeth made me laugh.. but the rest ... condoms in shoes... throwing beads... farting on pillows... so not funny!

StarryStarryNight · 22/07/2007 22:59

Cherry Cupcake If he does not like this sense of humour, turn it down, not everybody likes to be in the fireing line for juvenile pranks.

I like some jokes and banter. This is an example on the kind of joke I would play on somebody, and it has me in fits of laughter.

For example, for Christmas, for some reason my big sister decided to list all the countries she has been to, which is a lot. In the middle of this long list my husband walks into the room and sits down with us. My face is straight, my attention on my sister.
When she has finnished he asked me, what was up. So I say:

"It is just my sister who is telling me all the countries she knows the name of"

The look on her face! Then they both burst out laughing.

Magicmayhem · 22/07/2007 23:04

years ago when I was an apprentice I put salt in the managers tea.. I can still see him now spitting it across the room.. (still makes me laugh 25 years later)

StarryStarryNight · 22/07/2007 23:06