Do you ever smile or laugh?

dogtanian wrote:but the things that make me laugh are often classic humour - i love things like blackadder, fawlty towers and stuff.

Yeah, BBC were always the best for comedies. Stuff like Monty Python, Blackadder, The Young Ones (I even have "Neil's Heavy Concept Album" on CD-R somewhere ), Not The Nine O' Clock News, The Comic Strip Presents etc.

Yes I do.

But I dunno... What I smile and laugh to are things that are funny (or evil, evil things can be funny) and it's all natural. I would go as far as to say that my laughter (in 99% of the cases) is the most natural expression I'll ever "have" in public.

Smiling at "good things in life" though is a another thing. I feel no sympathy about good and happy things - not even if it's something "good" that has happend within my family. Like sister getting married or something, or someone having a baby (I feel nothing, zip, zero, nada). I lack positive sympathy (I can feel a lot of negative sympathy though, especially when it's my family. I don't like it at all when bad things happen to them and it always makes me sorry). So, smiling at the positive things in life... no I don't. I laugh and smile at humour though (maybe because humour is more carnal instinct in man... unlike the forced "I pretend to care"-smiles)

I know what you mean. I can't feel sympathy for somone. I don't think I'd even care if somone in my family would die.

I laugh when I watch cartoons. I make myself laugh, when I think of funny stuff, which I usually end up using for my cartoons. I laugh when I'm on drugs. Some comedians make me laugh. Evil and Ironic things make me laugh sometimes.

Poeple don't make me laugh. Real life dosn't make me laugh. I'm usually deadpan.

I smile and laugh daily. It always involves my pets and their crazy antics.

Actually, I didn't really smile when I was with that girl. I remember the most wonderful evening we had in a restaurant, I made her laugh and roll her eyes and all the stuff--I think that's when she stole my heart--then I looked at a mirror on her back during the conversation and I was not smiling. And I was ecstatic. Funny thing, innit? Then I broke down in tears when dinner was over and she walked home.

TheSchizoidTrain wrote:I know what you mean. I can't feel sympathy for somone. I don't think I'd even care if somone in my family would die.

My grandad died last year, perhaps September or October and I wasn't moved at all, although one of my cousins was crying during the funeral and on the way back (maybe because my cousins and grandparents all live in Cardiff and my family and me live about 1 1/2 hours away, maybe more, so they probably saw more of my grandparents). I was slightly surprised when I heard he was going to die, though. I was curious to see how the rest of the family would react to it (although they didn't, much - they seemed as good at coping as me, although I felt no actual concern really)

I laugh especially at the classic British comedies (I hate the U.S. ones mostly). What I hate though is one someone sometimes comes over to tell you a long joke and I usually fail to convince them that I got the joke or found it funny. Often I'm emotionless all day but if someone says something funny obviously my mood can change temporarily.

Gareth Williams wrote:

dogtanian wrote:but the things that make me laugh are often classic humour - i love things like blackadder, fawlty towers and stuff.

Yeah, BBC were always the best for comedies. Stuff like Monty Python, Blackadder, The Young Ones (I even have "Neil's Heavy Concept Album" on CD-R somewhere ), Not The Nine O' Clock News, The Comic Strip Presents etc.

i often stick either Help! (beatles film) or life of brian on the dvd player just because they're proper nonsense funny and they make me smile. never fail to cheer me up.

they're the two films i can quote endlessly and even the quoting makes me giggle. what have the romans ever done for us?!

Dogtanian, we have similar tastes. I was just watching Black Books the other night and cracking up.

In regular life, I don't naturally smile at other people--I have to remind myself to do so. But I do smile at things in my head, same with laughter. I just don't seem to find things other people find funny to be humourous.

I do love Black Adder, Dylan Moran (his Monster CD is a riot), League of Gentleman, Little Britain and a list of others.

I'm more likely to laugh about something in a book than something a person says in regular conversation.

i'm the same - in real life stuff that makes other people giggle makes me just sort of half smile and go "hmm".

but silly comedy on tv is much different.