do you laugh at yourself?

All different questions, so...

Little Boy Lost wrote:I'm curious if posters can find humor in their failures?

No...

Little Boy Lost wrote:do you ever make yourself the butt of your own jokes?

Sure...

Little Boy Lost wrote:can you tolerate having someone else tell a joke about you (assuming it is not malicious)?

Sure...

Little Boy Lost wrote:can you play the clown in public and intentionally make a fool out of youself for others' amusement?

All the time, but only if others can tolerate it and it has some class associated with it. Being an obnoxious drunk is not really "amusing" to everyone.

Demon wrote:Am I the only one here who rarely laughs (either at myself or at others)?

I can sit down with my daughter and watch that stupid 'funniest home video show' on tv that's supposed to be funny and hardly laugh at all at it. My brother used to joke a lot and I'd rarely ever laugh at his jokes, which used to annoy him. While I can be witty at times (online more so than off), people more often tell me I'm too serious and need to chill out more. Well, that's just it. I am chilled out. If I chilled out anymore I'd be growing f*cking icicles.

Maybe you were just born without a working sense of humor.

You don't like "funniest home videos?" A half hour of idiots hurting themselves, what could be more entertaining? I just wish they'd mix in a couple of snuff entries.

Obsidian wrote:

Demon wrote:While I can be witty at times (online more so than off)

That might very well be the saddest thing you've said about yourself this far. :­P

Glad you feel that way.

Demon wrote:No. It seems a little self-sabotaging to make yourself the butt of your own joke.

no, demon. as i said, i do not disparage myself. rather, i tell an anecdote in which something funny happened to me. i probably made it happen because i was not paying attention, but i never make myself an object of contempt. i don't even have that type of humor in my repertoire and i think people who belittle themselves so people can laugh at how pathetic they are are are losers.

I'm more of a serious-minded person. I don't joke around much as it is and certainly not in public. With that said though, I remember hanging out with a group of people years ago who my boyfriend (back then) and I used to know. We'd party on the weekends, getting drunk and stoned. I was the wildest one in the group doing some of the craziest shlt when I was drunk. It was never for anybody else's amusement though other than my own and I don't recall anybody ever telling me I made a fool of myself. I know they thought I was a little crazy though. The only times I don't remember doing certain shlt was when I'd get so drunk I would black out.

you're thinking of this wrongly too. people don't think you're a fool. they think you are fun, utterly socially confident, outgoing, etc. an example of what i mean would be doing something unimportant that you suck at while half-pretending you think you're good in front of a crowd.

i'm not that serious most of the time. i am so used to it that i don't notice but i know how to make people laugh.

i have a plain nasty sense of humor. i laughed my ass off at a real video of a toddler getting smeared on the road my a couple of huge trucks. i laugh at human suffering that literally everyone around me would call appalling. i keep the most malicious and unacceptable facet of my sense of humor to myself. even so, i've been told my humor can be hateful and cruel. fortunately, i am able to joke about acceptable topics. in reality, the vicious stuff is wh at i personally find funniest.

Lemon-ade wrote:Maybe you were just born without a working sense of humor.

It's probably a schizoid thing. I rarely experience any real emotion beyond anger at times.

You don't like "funniest home videos?" A half hour of idiots hurting themselves, what could be more entertaining? I just wish they'd mix in a couple of snuff entries.

I just don't see the humor in it. Most of it's stupid, not funny.

Demon wrote:Glad you feel that way.

How come? :­P

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AFV has its moments, but overall it is incredibly boring. :­P

Hugs for your Narcissistic ego LBL.

Little Boy Lost wrote:you're thinking of this wrongly too. people don't think you're a fool. they think you are fun, utterly socially confident, outgoing, etc.

Well, that's the difference see, I'm not socially outgoing. I'm certainly not shy either by any means. I'm just more self-focused and introverted. Most things that don't involve me in some way (other than sharing my opinion with others on a forum of course) I don't give two shlts about.

Little Boy Lost wrote: i don't even have that type of humor in my repertoire and i think people who belittle themselves so people can laugh at how pathetic they are are are losers.

Haha, what just happened? :­D

Little Boy Lost wrote:Interesting, Tempest. you are unusual because women never do the 4th. i can try to persuade them however i like but women will not act silly to make a group laugh at them.

I've noticed... I'm often alone among my gender when it comes to that I've always gotten along better with men anyway.

Little Boy Lost wrote: i suspect i wouldn't care for it because if she's joking, i must be listening instead of talking.