Okay now I'm nearly back to thinking people just need to laugh stuff off.

[redqueen]

I can't make up my fucking mind on this joking stuff.

Somebody kick my ass!

[progmom]

1. struggling with the same thing myself

:hi:

[redqueen]

6. Really?!

Wow that makes me feel better... knowing I'm not the only one on the fence about it...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. Why is everyone so damn serious?

Humorlessness. Leaves me cold, but I'm not above making faces behind the backs of the scowling, self-absorbed, witless dicks.

If you can't eat it, fuck it, or laugh at/with it, I don't want it.

[redqueen]

7. I dunno...

hehe... witless dicks... that's SEXIST! :P

[OldLeftieLawyer]

21. Oh, so it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Well, witless dicks are sexist, too.

Or something like that..............

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Here I am!!!

:loveya:

[redqueen]

8. Yeah, baby!

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I'm no good at ass-kickin...you gotta call in the professionals!

WHERE IN HELL IS SKITTLES? You need her...

:hide:

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Here's Skittles...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Hi, Bertha,

Your kitten is adorable! I especially love the one of her(?) in your Christmas tree..stalking the cardinal. How cute is that? VERY!

:hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

29. She is a little beauty.

And unique: the coat of a mutt (albeit a beautiful one) and the body of a Siamese. She's semi-feral, so no petting her or cuddling, but we adore her.

One of her cousins is another of our pets: he has the body of a big, stocky ol' tomcat and the coat, eyes, and mannerisms of a Siamese -- and the tiniest, sweetest little voice.

:bounce:

[kick-ass-bob]

19. Why do we always need skittles?

I mean my god, it's in my frickin NAME!! :grr:



:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Oh, I'm sorry...please don't be mad at me...I mean no harm...

I was just making a *um* joke...really...Skittles has the rep for ass-kicking, you know!

:scared:

[Lavender Brown]

5. It depends on what kind of joking stuff you are talking about

doesn't it?

[redqueen]

12. Very much so...

maybe it's all a matter of degrees... hehe... that's a good way for me to stay on the fence! :)

[bertha katzenengel]

9. uh-oh...

are you mad at me, redqueen?

(see, I can accept my body but I'm still insecure)

[redqueen]

13. Hell no!

I mean, I was a little... over the American Idol thing. :blush: But I'm over that now.

But no... I'm not mad at you! What gave ya that idea?

[bertha katzenengel]

18. yeah

I've done a lot of thinking over that. Shame makes me think.

Because you're saying here about not being able to tell what's a joke... and I hooked you, too... and that thing wasn't even about hooking any DUers at all!

Sigh.

[redqueen]

23. Oh wait...

are you talking about your thread from this morning?

I'm sooooo confused!

[bertha katzenengel]

26. yeah . . . about

my "big news" thread. What are you talking about? Because if it's not about ME I don't know about it. :eyes: <-- at self

[redqueen]

30. hehehehe

It's about my inability to decide if things like jokingly saying so and so "throws like a girl" are really bad or if they're just kinda bad... should I endeavor not to say or laugh at certain things? Or should I accept that I find them funny since I don't believe the underlying sentiments...

Reading about Dave and missing his show kinda got me thinking about this again.

[bertha katzenengel]

35. Oh, that!

Whenever anyone says "throws like a girl" I just cock my arm back & break their nose... I can do it with a baseball or a ping pong ball, makes no difference to me :shrug:

I have a hard time with this, too. You're not alone.

(sheesh. kim catches up -- film at eleven)

[sui generis]

10. hokay here goes

What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?
A redhead!

What's safer: a redhead or a piranha?
The piranha. They only attack in schools.

How do you get a redhead's mood to change?
Wait 10 seconds

What do you call a Redhead with an attitude?
Normal

Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy.
One is to let her think she is having her own way,
and the other is to let her have it.

A young man marrying a redhead asked his father for some marital advice. The father said, "Just remind her who wears the pants in your family." The evening arrived, the new husband tossed his pants to his bride and said, "Here put these on." She did and said "I don't fit into these." "That's right!" he said, "and don't you forget who wears the pants in this family!"

With that she flipped him her panties and said, "Try these on." He looked at them and said, "I can't get into your panties!" She said, "That's right - and you won't until your attitude changes!"


What's the Redhead Dating Motto?
The fastest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.

What's the true definition of a blonde?
Redhead with the fire of passion missing.

How do you get a redhead's mood to change?
Wait 10 seconds

One morning while making breakfast, a man walked up to his redheaded wife and pinched her on her butt and said, "You know if you firmed this up we could get rid of your girdle."
While this was on the edge of intolerable, she thought herself better and replied with silence.

The next morning the man woke his redhead with a pinch on the breast and said, "You know if you firmed these up we could get rid of your bra."

This was beyond a silence response, so she rolled over and grabbed him by the penis. With a death grip in place she said, "You know if you firmed this up we could get rid of the postman, the gardener, the poolman, and your brother."

How do you know when a redhead has been using a computer?
There's a hammer embedded in the monitor

Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy.
One is to let her think she is having her own way,
and the other is to let her have it.

What's the difference between a blonde and a redhead in bed
A blonde let's you leave the bed when you are satisfied - a redhead
let's you leave the bed when SHE is satisfied.

What do you get when you cross Raggedy Ann with the Pillsbury Doughboy?
ANGRY redhead with a yeast infection

[redqueen]

15. Ruh roh...

I've upset you, haven't I?

[sui generis]

20. nah! you're my pal

:pals:

anyway I really don't have the foggiest idea what everyone's talking about so just think of this as yet another off color obtuse sui post. That's how I get through it all some days.

[redqueen]

32. Cool beans.

*ducks*

[sui generis]

16. oh AND that was terribly sexist

:blush:

'scuse me. I need coffee. I have no idea what anyone is talking about so :blush: leaving the room now.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. Laughing stuff off is when you are surrounded by friends in an intimate

setting, and everyone is clear of intent.

In a setting with many people, it's not quite as easy.

Lots of people laughed off racism...heck..Amos and Andy were very entertaining, no?

[redqueen]

17. It's all so confusing...

I think Lavender's onto something... maybe it's something that you just have to decide based on the situation, context, etc.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

22. Gee............

In my world, laughter is spontaneous.

Maybe stopping to think things over is stepping on one's own witless dick?

[redqueen]

24. Yeah that's a good point...

usually we laugh before we think about what we're laughing at... but then sometimes we feel bad for laughing... like when my husband was carrying some heavy piece of electronics up the stairs, and he stepped on the cord, and smacked the edge of this thing with his face... and I laughed, but I felt bad for laughing...

I blame America's Funniest Home Videos. ;)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

28. Don't feel bad

I just laughed reading your description.

Once, I watched my youngest carry a big bag of fertilizer up a long driveway on a hot day. The kid was sweating, the fertilizer (sheep manure) was in a paper bag - you can guess the rest.

Poor kid was standing there crying and stinking up the garage, and her father and I were laughing so hard. She's still mad at us for that.

[cassandra uprising]

31. I say Redqueen

a) You're the shit so what ever you come up with at the moment even if it's a different stance than the day before, it's perfectly okay and you're still the shit.

Mind you, I have no idea what you're talking about.

b) I think laughter is a gift and should given and expressed as such. I also think that I need to laugh at myself more, for some obtuse yet profound psychological reason.

I second Lavender on the context thing. I also know for a fact that I take things too seriously when I shouldn't but also usually the only one who says 'that's not funny' when everyone else is laughing their sophomoric and/or ignorant butts off. These examples are not one in the same.

[redqueen]

34. heh that's me!

I'm all over the place on this issue... I'm sure there are more like it, well actually I know damn well there are others, but this is the one we're talking about now, so... anyway... glad to know my duplicity won't be a problem for you. :)

Are you sure those examples aren't the same?

[cassandra uprising]

38. Yes

no
maybe, usually and depends. :)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

33. For every thing

there is a season.
Time to laugh,
time not to laugh,
time to take things serious,
time to take not things serious,
time to go hmmm,
time to not go hmmm,
time to be sensitive,
time to be self-centered idgit,
time to post,
time to not post,
time to admire your own buttocks,
time to admire somebody else's buttocks,
time to make a list,
time to stop making a list,
turn, turn, turn.

[redqueen]

36. *snicker*

That made me laugh... thanks.

My dad loves that fookin song... nice to see it mocked so well. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. you're killing me

[A-Schwarzenegger]

39. snarkily, with my song