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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:
VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 23:07

SSN, PMSL! That's funnier by a long way than slugs and beads!

Posted by Hunker

AbRoller · 22/07/2007 23:08

AFAIK the op asked for it to be scrapped.

JoolsToo · 22/07/2007 23:08

stop messing around hunker

rejoin and get it over with!

filchthemildmanneredjanitor · 22/07/2007 23:21

i think woith most of these, you really had to be there.

the letter one is just cruel. feel really for the guy.

the beads thing is just weird.

TheDuchessOfFawkesBride · 22/07/2007 23:31

I'd hate to live with a person who did things like that - it would just be annoying, certainly not funny. Putting a slug in someones shoe just means they have to go and clear it up. I already have DCs to clear up after.

Although when living with students... we once filled the small hall between our solid wood front door and glass inner door with balloons and empty plastic bottles so the last home, and therefore the most drunk, had to fight their way in. We stole a lifesize cardboard Pocohontas and tucked her up in someones bed (bringing her home on the nightbus was probably funnier though) she then made surprise appearances all over the house and indeed, in other friends houses. We put a dustbin containing sugar on top of a slightly ajar door (we were very pissed when we did that, it weighed a ton, could have killed him). And so on. But we were young and stupid. And mostly drunk.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 22/07/2007 23:32

TMMJ, he was fine with it. SNORTED with laughter. Honestly, he is not scarred. His face though - classic!

Posted by Hunker

Desiderata · 22/07/2007 23:48

If I'm not mistaken, the OP changes name quite frequently and always comes out with these rather strange posts.

There's no harm in them, but they're all a bit too weird for my blood.

Enid · 23/07/2007 00:08

how utterly bonkers

harrypotterdies · 23/07/2007 00:09

fucking fruit

madamez · 23/07/2007 00:54

Well I like reading Viz, and am not doing very well at dealing with DS who has just hit the poo-bum-willy-hysterical laughter stage of development, because I think it;s quite funny too.
But then again if anyone over toilet-training age shat in my shoes I wouldn't think it was that funny.

harrypotterdies · 23/07/2007 01:01

fucking fruit

Enid · 23/07/2007 09:22

starrynight I laughed about your post when I woke up thsi morning

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 09:58

I don't get why starry nights is funny

and who shat in the shoes? I don't get any of this thread

Desiderata · 23/07/2007 10:00

Hmm, I don't get starry's joke either. Not at all.

harrypotterdies · 23/07/2007 10:02

i don't think anyone shat in shoes. i don't think ssn's is a prank but perhaps showing what a somewhat normal sense of humour is like.

Desiderata · 23/07/2007 10:03

... unless the slug shat in the shoe.

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 10:03

well it doesn't sound funny to me

just someone trying to be sarcastic and witty and ending up sounding bitchy

but maybe I just don't get it

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 10:03

Sluggate

Enid · 23/07/2007 10:05

its funny because the sister wsa saying a list of the places she has BEEN to

not the places she has HEARD of

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 10:08

I think I am more aligned to the slug type of humour

I can at least see why that could be funny

Enid · 23/07/2007 10:10

ah now you see I found the place nams thing funny as it is the kind of thing my dsis would do to me

StarryStarryNight · 23/07/2007 10:12

Enid, great minds think alike! LOL!

FrannyandZooey, I am sorry you found it bitchy, but my sister is an acclaimed research scientist, has written numerous articles on obscure topics related to chemistry and fish, spent more than half her life in academic circles, the very thought that she would sit and ponder the names of countries she knows is so absurd it is hysterical. So not bitchy at all!

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 10:14

I just don't get it, starry. I am sure it was hilarious, but I think perhaps you had to be there, or be Enid.

edam · 23/07/2007 10:16

I really don't like practical jokes or anything that is designed to humiliate people. And I don't like people who play those kind of jokes on people who don't appreciate it. Save the jolly japes for people who are happy to join in.

StarryStarryNight · 23/07/2007 10:17

I guess humour is different thing to different people, and we cant all laugh at the same, then comedy would be too stylized.

I laughed my head off this morning when our house guest, a sikh wearing a turban, caught a small yellow heart shaped box my son threw in the air, and proceeded to stick it on his turban. Now, you see. I could not stick a box on my friends turban. But he could. And that was funny.