What Made You Laugh Today ?

[Chloe]

I made the local paper today!

" Local woman tries to cash $5,000 in forged checks, money orders "

Er, lol mixed LINKS up somewhere - I'm the Republican *imagine that* with the white cap on (hiding a pony-tail)

[Constance]

I got a text message from my daughter saying she'd made it back to university safely, and in that text she put a reference to a silly meme. Well, it made me laugh.

[Pica Pica]

An absolutely brilliant, cover of 'heaven knows I'm miserable now' with a sort of oompa beat by the beautiful south, made me laugh a lot.

[caseyyy]

Nicki Minaj. d-d-d-don't let me die young, I just want you to father my young. What the hell kind of rhyme is that?? lmao

[King Malachite]

Reading some of the threads on here.

[Gretchen]

Connie made me laugh out loud.
Rodney Dangerfield
"Your so ugly your mamma breast fed you with a straw" Now that ->-bleeped-<-s funny.

[caseyyy]

"Your so ugly your mamma breast fed you with a straw" Now that ->-bleeped-<-s funny.

lol

[Felix]

bad setup but I'm underslept and throwing up everything I eat so I'm just light-headed and cracked out enough that everything makes me laugh. The world is such a silly place.

[Bird]

Was watching the big bang theory. I think it is hillarious and I love Sheldon!

[Felix]

also the surreality of everything lately makes me laugh. We have new fire alarms and they rattle the walls and make your ears ring and are just ohmigosh the loudest things ever. There's a deaf guy in the building, so the alarms also have strobe lights. They spent half of yesterday testing those things and even when they'd turn off the sound they'd leave on the strobe lights.

I took a shower in that context, and then I had trouble taking my T shot because I jumped when the alarms would start up. So I stuffed toilet paper in my ears and covered it with a hat and headphones. Sitting around in that getup and underwear all I could think was wow I bet nobody would ever ask for my honored citizen bus ID if they saw this.

Then later my kid rattled off a long technical description of some kind of dinosaur while talking to her eye doctor, lots of big words and jargon, and finished the statement with a proud "I have a toy alligator at home." She makes my head spin.

[King Malachite]

Thinking about that woman who tried to pee on that Clyfford Still painting and then rubbed her butt on it and punched it.

[Felix]

The fire alarms in my house are so loud they don't even sound like anything. It's just pain and vibration. And strobe lights, if you go in the hall or the bathrooms. I googled the local fire marshal to try to learn why exactly do they have to test these things so often, and the snippet on the search page under their FAQ link -

Portland Fire and Rescue (PF&R) does not fill swimming pools ...

Omg I was indignant and adrenalinized but it's hard to be angry and giggling at the same time. They not only got asked that, but they get asked that often enough they put it at the top of their FAQ.

[Pica Pica]

Being bundled by 12 kids who squashed me, made us all laugh.
Silly jokes about art and concreted intestines in the pub after.

[Felix]

I've been trying all day to fix a problem with my bank. I overdrafted when I shouldn't have, when I know I budgeted and tracked my spending carefully. Turned out there was an unauthorized charge, further complicated and obfuscated by the intermediary paypal and their lovely habit of attempting the bank transfer over and over. Each transaction was declined but also added to my negative account balance. I got the bank to remove the unauthorized part from my record, but not the authorized part that only bounced because of the funds being tied up illegitimately. I still have to tangle with paypal. And probably report the other company to the Better Business Bureau. Grr.

Anyway, what made me laugh. When I got off the phone a minute ago, I sighed real big and smiled, incredibly relieved to be making some progress. My daughter asked why I looked so happy. I said because I'm working on a problem, and people often feel good when they engage with obstacles even if they don't accomplish anything. My daughter said "You know what else makes people feel good? Puppies." Very matter of fact. She's so cool.

[V M]

So my grandpa was talking about how people should love their trans children...comparing it to disability, which is wrong and ableist, but let's look past that.

He said "you know, you could have one hand, be missing a leg, have Down's Syndrome, you could be Mongolian..." LMAO. I should have asked what Mongolian was actually supposed to be.

Sounds like he is attempting to be supportive in his own somewhat awkward non PC kinda way     Def. he loves you, and that's the important thing

[Felix]

Yeah when I was a kid my mom worked in a hospital, and I heard the word mongoloid used pretty casually when talking about certain messed-up babies. I'm going to assume that term is no longer in open use by hospital staff.

Casey I'm now enjoying imagining that your grandpa also occasionally speaks of "the google." Please don't correct me if I'm wrong. I love old people.

(ageism disclaimer: if you have a problem with my othering "old people" then you need to get off my lawn already)

[King Malachite]

I was around my sister and cousin Sunday and I just felt like screaming out "tentacles" "yaoi" "yuri" "hentai" "lemon" and other anime terms that otakus and people who are into anime would know and I just kept saying them over and over and I shouted them out loud in my neighboorhood that night.  My sister then realized what I was saying was probably objectable to her so she told me to stop but I kept going until my 4 year old nephew started saying these terms >.> It was funny while it lasted and I'm still laughing about it metally today.

[Felix]

I was around my sister and cousin Sunday and I just felt like screaming out "tentacles" "yaoi" "yuri" "hentai" "lemon" and other anime terms that otakus and people who are into anime would know and I just kept saying them over and over and I shouted them out loud in my neighboorhood that night.  My sister then realized what I was saying was probably objectable to her so she told me to stop but I kept going until my 4 year old nephew started saying these terms >.> It was funny while it lasted and I'm still laughing about it metally today.

I'm not into anime but I am a creature of my environment so I know those terms.

Which reminds me, The Simpsons made a lemon party reference on a recent episode, and I thought that was not cool. But I spent enough years not following the show that I probably missed plenty of fair warning that they were getting edgier. And maybe I'm just uptight because my kid is so fragile and weird.

A couple days ago she woke up at least an hour before me, and she quietly spent that time online, without asking. I got suspicious because when I awoke I saw that she had propped up a notebook to hide the screen, but lol she doesn't know about history files. Her very first unsupervised foray into the internet left a really funny trail.

I know a 12 year old deserves some privacy, but I think she'll be mature enough to handle it when she's savvy enough to be more believable in her sneakiness. Among other things of course, but that basic level of proficiency and self-control needs to be there.

[Felix]

The house kitties are engaged in fearsome combat.

This made me laugh. Cats are great.

[V M]

The house kitties are engaged in fearsome combat.

Yup, I got a kick out of that too