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Silly and amusing banter

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This evening I feel that I have been reminded of the good old days, for which I am feeling incredibly thankful for.

I am aware that humour is subjective, and what might cause one person to find utterly amusing, can have the opposite effect on someone else. However, there was a time when exchanges of silly and amusing banter between community members on a similar wavelength happened regularly in this online community. Sometimes, there would be discussions that consisted of nothing but silly exchanges.

For some members of this community (including myself), these exchanges offered some much-needed escapism and light relief from some of the heavier topics often discussed in this community, and/or things happening in our own lives.

Some time ago, I had started to feel that the overall atmosphere of this community had changed, and not for the better. To me, it seemed like there was a lot of angst and barely anything discussion-wise to balance it out. I would frequently browse the forum discussions hoping to find something that would lift my spirits and cause me to giggle, or even laugh until I ached. Instead, I would rapidly find myself feeling disillusioned.

I don't want to end this post on a gloomy and sour note. Therefore, I would like to quote some of the lyrics from the Spitting Image 'Chicken Song':

Hold a chicken in the air
Stick a deckchair up your nose
Buy a jumbo jet
And then bury all your clothes
Paint your left knee green
Then extract your wisdom teeth
Form a string quartet
And pretend your name is Keith

Spitting Image - The Chicken Song (1984)

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  • I personally often find it difficult to work out when someone is joking, even when I have their tone of voice, facial expressions and body language to try and work it out. Online where there is only words it is even more difficult. 

    On the reverse side I've had people reply jokingly to things I have said in seriousness, and it gives me a sickening pang each time I read it, and think that what I originally wrote was wrong because someone is joking about it.

    I'm not a joyless person though, I just tend to take things quite seriously. I often don't understand the joking around or why other people find certain things funny. If I try to join in, it just feels unnatural and they ignore me or shun me.

    I can laugh for ages with my friends over something stupid, and we will stop and look at each other and convulse in fits of giggles again.

    In the spirit of this thread however, I will share a joke. "Why was six scared of seven? Because seven ate nine."

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  • I personally often find it difficult to work out when someone is joking, even when I have their tone of voice, facial expressions and body language to try and work it out. Online where there is only words it is even more difficult. 

    On the reverse side I've had people reply jokingly to things I have said in seriousness, and it gives me a sickening pang each time I read it, and think that what I originally wrote was wrong because someone is joking about it.

    I'm not a joyless person though, I just tend to take things quite seriously. I often don't understand the joking around or why other people find certain things funny. If I try to join in, it just feels unnatural and they ignore me or shun me.

    I can laugh for ages with my friends over something stupid, and we will stop and look at each other and convulse in fits of giggles again.

    In the spirit of this thread however, I will share a joke. "Why was six scared of seven? Because seven ate nine."

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  • in reply to BeccaLovesBreakfast
    BeccaLovesBreakfast said:
    I can laugh for ages with my friends over something stupid, and we will stop and look at each other and convulse in fits of giggles again.

    It's great when that happens.

    Laughter can be so infectious. I love it when one person ends up in a fit of giggles, and it then sets others off into fits of giggles.

    Like you, I have been in situations when I've written something intended to be taken seriously, which people have laughed at. It tends to happen if I have written about something that has annoyed me, and I've been told that it's because of how I have phrased things. I try not to take offence though, as I too can be prone to laughing at things that other people had intended to be taken seriously.