We all know that laughter is the best medicine, but there are times when it may actually be bad for your health. This post was inspired by a recent conversation about this very topic. We were chatting about bad times to get the giggles... My friend said- at funerals and the movie The Passion of the Christ.
True dat.
To add to that list, you should never laugh, get the giggles (or even smirk sometimes) under the following circumstances:
When drinking any type of fluid (particularly at a formal dinner).
When robbing a bank (or making serious threats of any kind).
During an academic seminar when a French person pronounces the word "focus" - "fuckus".
While being reprimanded/interrogated by an authority figure (whether it be your parents as a kid, the police or especially while being questioned by border guards).
During a break up... or if you're firing someone (laughing during any type of rejection just adds insult to injury).
When you have to go pee really badly (or worse, if you have severe diarhea).
When you're hiding in a closet (i.e. during an intense game of hide and seek, ninja attack, alien invasion, while your rommate has sex, etc.)
If ever on trial for murder (particularly if you're on the stand being cross examined. However, it may be ok if it's a well-placed OMG-that's-completely-&-utterly-preposterous type of chortle).
After someone else rips a loud fart in public. (Try 'splaining yourself outta that one.)
When a very old or handicapped person falls. ('Nuff said.) And yeah, even if they aren't hurt.
At mentally retarded people, under any circumstance (even if they are trying to be funny.)
Alternatively, at people pretending to be retarded. (That's just not cool).
During sex. (Worse, is the first time you see him naked...) Don't do it, it could scar your sex life for years to come, if not for a lifetime (for him). (Comment by Jen- But if there's a weird noise or something, it's worse to get silent and awkward about it... and sex IS kinda funny!) True dat Jensies, true dat.
That's it. I'm tapped out. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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during a rememberance day ceremony in a giant auditorium.
and mich you laugh at my impressions of the special kind all the time. :P
Hahaha! Well, it's not cool to think that's funny but I didn't claim to be cool...
Or when you walk into a bathroom in China with squat toilets only to see there are no stall doors, the stall walls are 3' high, and you interrupt another white guy struggling in the squat position trying to take his socks because he forgot the TP, so you reach out to offer him some of yours, while accidentally seeing things you should not be seeing. Definitely not a time to laugh...or go through again.
ewww! dangly poo.
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