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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:
pointydog · 23/07/2007 10:27

I've no idea who cherrycc is, haven't read a post by her before but her post wasn't that bad. She didn't do anything mean, a bit odd maybe, so don't understand why all the anger and seriousness.

And yes, I did get viz. FAntastic.

ktmoomoo · 23/07/2007 10:37

its called having a sence of humour lifes too short to be miserable

OrmIrian · 23/07/2007 10:46

I don't find it particularly funny but I'm not into fart jokes either unlike the rest of my family . But I think the OPs' DH sounds like a humourless git to be frank. It was a silly somewhat childish joke, but not malicious. "he doesn't go around doing things to my stuff " - FFS! Get a grip. I'd be worried if my DH had such a response to something so trivial. If she had set fire to his shoes or put them out for the bin men I could understand how that would count as 'doing things to his stuff' but not putting a slug in his shoe and then telling him about it before he put them on.

And what's wrong with being childish sometimes?

OrmIrian · 23/07/2007 10:47

Anyway that will teach him to leave his 'stuff' lying around the bathroom

heifer · 23/07/2007 11:00

Well I know for sure that my DH would be packing my suitcase if I played jokes like that on him!

Not my kind of humour to be honest, but then I am probably a boring miserable old b*stard anyway...

StarryStarryNight · 23/07/2007 11:20

My husband sometimes plays tricks on me.

I had bought a book called "The small Garden", and it had naturally a garden on the cover.
Chance would have it that the same day he had bought a book for me called "Small gardens", same size and also with a garden on the cover.
I showed him the book I bought, and he said "hm, very nice" and put it down on the table. I did not know he replaced my book with the book HE bought. And when I wanted to look at my book did not quite recognise its looks and the contents, so felt rather perplexed. I put the book down, left the room, and he exchanged books again! I was still non-plussed, this was going on for a little untill he laughingly produced BOTH books at the same time.... Prankster!

That was in return for me serving him the water the potato had boilt in calling it "soup".

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 11:28

I can't deny having a puerile sense of humour

I do think farting can be funny

and I think harmless practical jokes are funny if the other person also enjoys them

but slugs are NEVER funny

pointydog · 23/07/2007 11:29

ah, I forgot about your slug thing, franny

FrannyandZooey · 23/07/2007 11:30

yes it has made me less inclined to find ANYTHING else funny

ever

snowleopard · 23/07/2007 11:45

Sense of humour is such a subtle thing with so many shades of variation.

I don't find the slug funny but I did laugh at the Bushell Wars. And the penis in the sweets bag was kind of genius, though you'd have to be quite sure of someone to pull it off! (so to speak)

I'm forever grateful that DP and I laugh at the same things. Early on in our relationship we heard a joke which we both found hilarious but no one else did at all. It was this one:

2 beekeepers are in a pub. One says to the other "So how many bees have you got"

"50,000"

"And how many hives?"

"2"

"What," says the first beekeeper, "you have 50,000 bees in just two hives?"

"Yeah," says the second beekeper, "what about you?"

"100,000 bees" says the first.

"How many hives?"

"One"

"So you've got 100,000 bees - and just one hive!!??"

The first beekeper says "Yeah. Fuck 'em".

Now I can't explain why it's funny but me and DP both ROFL completely independently (ie not to impress each other) and knew we were soulmates. Having the same sense of humour is really important. I always think it's daft when lonely hearts ads say "GSOH" - that hardly pins it down.

Pan · 23/07/2007 11:50

SL - it's great you and dp reacted similarly to what was said.

Just think to call it 'joke' or 'sense of humour' is pushing it a bit.

snowleopard · 23/07/2007 12:15

Pan you are right But someone in the pub thought they would tell it so maybe it is a joke...?

Pan · 23/07/2007 12:33

they are a bunch of sickos round here. Bet someone will!

pointydog · 23/07/2007 12:42

Yep, that's the sort of joke I like, snow.

TheDuchessOfFawkesBride · 23/07/2007 16:01

SL - I think that's funny.

EricGallagher · 23/07/2007 17:35

I'm laughing out loud at the bee joke.

Enid · 23/07/2007 18:41

yes love the bee joke

am saving it to tell dh on holiday [saddoe emoticon]

Filchymindedvixen · 23/07/2007 18:58

I love that bee joke!

I love the Garry Bushall wars - I love the surreality and randomness of that...It reminds me of a campaign my stepfather and I waged against my mother. She would never let us have chis. So we posted pictures of chips all over the house for months. Weeks would go by and she would relax and then we'd start again. Pictures of chips rolled up in the coffee jar. Pictures of chips in the salad bit of the fridge. In her shoes, Hiden in her purse etc. We all used to laugh about it.

I LOl at Starry's sister too (I think that's quick-witted)

scattercushion · 23/07/2007 19:13

I once hid under the rug.

charliecat · 23/07/2007 19:16

Now enid, that bee joke just made me raise my eyebrows and think Whats funny about that, im have farter humour, obviously. No dragging me out the gutter

paulaplumpbottom · 23/07/2007 19:17

bee joke very funny

UCM · 23/07/2007 19:19

Another good one is to run a bit of paper under someones nose and yell 'paper cut' really fast. Now that is funny..............

PrettyCandles · 23/07/2007 19:25

Nope, I don't get the bee joke.

Recently dh farted in the bedroom just after I'd gone to bed. He knows how I feel about that! Looked at me with a woebegone face and said "Oh dear, I deserve a kick up the bum with an open-toed sandal" (a line from Victoria Wood) as I crossly sent him to the bathroom.

However, I am a Birkenstock-wearer, so there are plenty of open-toed sandals in our bedroom. And most of them ended up under the quilt on his side of the bed.

I just wish I could have kept a straight face!

I was still crying with laughter long after he'd fallen asleep.

wildwoman · 23/07/2007 19:33

I'm so depressed, don't get the bee joke but laughed out loud at the slug

pointydog · 23/07/2007 20:01

just told dh teh bee joke. He laughed