NationStates Jolt Archive

I'm not going to source this, if you're really concerned you can paste it into Google and find the source, suffice to say it's not of an academic nature.

Anyway...abridged...

If someone lacks a sense of humour, we would expect that person to have difficulty abandoning their existing belief systems, even when presented with very strong evidence against them.

When a social group is defined by a belief system, the members of the group have to tread carefully when it comes to humour. On the one hand humour plays a role in making social interaction more pleasant, and part of the pleasure of shared beliefs is the social interaction with others in the group. But on the other hand, the wrong sort of humour could threaten the group's belief system. Certain jokes are off-limits, or will be considered to be "not funny".

If you have the time, this article (http://www.sexandphilosophy.co.uk/humour.htm) goes deeper into how humour is an integral part of social engagement.

All the above is really an excuse for the following link to be considered relevant rather than pure spam material.

http://www.slide.com/r/2oqGQ8XF6j8QDoZnBPJacMKGrT9JcCoc

Anyone not find that funny?

So, does a lack of humour indicate a close-minded person? Have you noticed this relation among family or friends?

I was going to be cynical, but that was before "This is not a game of 'Who the Fuck Are You?'"

I laughed.

I was going to be cynical, but that was before "This is not a game of 'Who the Fuck Are You?'"

I laughed.

Yes, I consider you open-minded but then similar senses of humour may be more indicative of similar points of view on life, hence a tool for social grouping, as opposed to open or closed minds.

I heartily encourage people to post links to something they find really funny, not 'meh, that's fairly amusing' but something that made you laugh out loud.

It may be thought that this is merely a thread looking for funny posts purely to alleviate a boring day but I'd rather disguise it as an experiment to see the range of humour and whether it correlates in anyway to individual perceptions on whether you agree or disagree with that person in general.

Actually, I can add a poll now that I've found a point.

Someone just send me that link the other day... a perfect marriage of Eddie Izzard and whatever genius/complete lunatic did the stop-motion.

I received on Facebook.

To add to the general point:

Salient points in the development are :-
1. That "incongruities" in an input sensory data flow can be used to identify parts in that data flow that are "relevant" to to the individual animal that is the receiver for that data flow.

2. The ability to detect relevance is a fitness enhancing skill and most animals have developed the ability to detect input data that is incongruous with their existing understanding. This ability is manifested by such phenomena as the visual movement detectors found in almost all species. The necessary features of an incongruity detector are discussed and summarized as the I/R (Interpretation/Representation) model of learning and humor.

3. That advanced animals, especially while young, have come to enjoy incongruities. This enjoyment of incongruity will cause the young animal to focus on aspects of its surroundings that it does not presently understand and so help it to learn about its environment. Hence, young mammals enjoy play.

4. In humans cognitive incongruity detection has become linked to laughter so that children laugh while playing.

There's no agreement on why we've evolved humour and I notice votes seem to indicate a variety of factors provide us advantage in having humour - the article linked states that it has a specific function.

Hence, if we are not particularly humorous, it's indicating that we are not open to 'incongruities' that jar with our present understanding of the world around us, hence close-mindedness.

I'm not sure there's really a debate here, more an interesting hypothesis for something we don't presently understand very well.

I was going to be cynical, but that was before "This is not a game of 'Who the Fuck Are You?'"

I laughed.

I laughed twice. :p

An interesting idea from this is that a real difference in terms of intelligence between humans and animals is that we enjoy learning, that there's a very strong evolutionary advantage to that enjoyment, which sets us apart from other animals - and more that we take that enjoyment, turn it around and project it disassociated from learning, in terms of telling jokes as a distraction or perhaps, as hypothesized in the quoted text, as a means of social interaction.

It could be said that humour is a vital, if not defining, part of being human.

I think the real question is:
How many trees have been killed due to unnecessary second u's in humor? And don't give me that "We invented the language" crap, because we improved it.

I think the real question is:
How many trees have been killed due to unnecessary second u's in humor? And don't give me that "We invented the language" crap, because we improved it.

Neither funny nor open to difference - interesting.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're being humorous though, in which case my reply is that this site is hosted in the UK, you're a guest so be respectful :)

does laughably inflexible count? (not that i would wish to be)

humor, is, or can be, cool.
but is it one of those things no one DARES point out that it even possibly COULD have a down side?

there IS the slight matter of the irresponsibility of playing into the hands, of a massively destructive status quo.

one for instance, that insists upon romantacizing and rewarding an all too adamant focus on conflict and competition, while repressing and even ostracizing genuinely creative imagination.

the missing poll option this time, is "mostly harmless"

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I like to think I have a sense of humour. There's not much I won't laugh at - except dead baby jokes. I just find them boring.

That said I think I'm rather inflexible with regards to certain views - even though I'll happily laugh at jokes about those things. Maybe it's just because I'm not easily offended.

A couple quotes that I find pretty funny -

If you're the chairman of a football club, and cocaine abuse is going on, you're going to have to take a line on it. - Graham Spiers

A lot of people have said that fibre is good... but if you look carefully at all the studies you'll find the evidence is not so solid. - Dr Robert Goodlad

One accusation that you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. - Alan Shearer

There were 150 drug-related deaths in Glasgow last year, an all-time high. - Emma Simpson.

Interviewer: What do you think will happen if sperm donors' identities are revealed to their offspring?
Fertility Expert: It would be disastrous! They would just stop coming.
- Radio 4

does laughably inflexible count? (not that i would wish to be)

:)

humor, is, or can be, cool.
but is it one of those things no one DARES point out that it even possibly COULD have a down side?

there IS the slight matter of the irresponsibility of playing into the hands, of a massively destructive status quo.

Using humour as a weapon, the bully in the playground for example making fun of the 'dork' or 'wierdo'.

one for instance, that insists upon romantacizing and rewarding an all too adamant focus on conflict and competition, while repressing and even ostracizing genuinely creative imagination.

the missing poll option this time, is "mostly harmless"

By this do you mean that we can sometimes use humour to avoid our fears, that we therefore run the risk of dismissing that which is different through making fun of it, thereby provoking conflict rather than being open-minded?

An example would be that racists tend to stereotype and find humour in denigrating other races as a means dealing with their natural fear of difference.

I think you're right, we can use humour to deflect difference and this may tie in with a look to bond with those who are the same.

So, does a lack of humour indicate a close-minded person? Have you noticed this relation among family or friends?

Humour has many different functions, though I'm not sure if they correspond to different "types" of humour.

It can be a defense mechanism (black humour or cynicism ?)
It can be a an expression of power (either way, the more powerful putting the other down and they just have to take it, or as a safety-valve for the less powerful to make a pretend challenge when they just can't keep quiet.)
It can be a pretty much empty ritual (how funny is a joke, the tenth time verbatim?)

But to be really funny, humour must challenge the hearer's preconceptions, or at least create some sense of "surprise." So I kind of agree, a "closed-minded" person, one very defensive of their own preconceptions, is less likely to be genuinely amused.

They might still participate in humour of some kind, but you know when you've gone "too far." They're suddenly quite angry ...

lulz are their own reward.

It could be said that humour is a vital, if not defining, part of being human.

I wouldn't agree with that at all.

Never mind primates other than us, even cats seem to me to have a sense of humour. Or birds, even. It's much more noticable in the young of the species, making me think it is indeed a way of testing the limits. The joke explores what might be tried in all earnestness.

Dogs don't seem to me to have much sense of humour. Pack animals, you don't mess with the heirarchy, it's everything. Pack leader is happy, you happy. Leader sad, you sad. Dumbass servitude. I really don't get what people see in dogs ... moral support? "At least my dog loves me"?

This isn't entirely a tangent, because I believe people who prefer dogs to cats (I don't like either, but I guess meoww) are more likely to be the closed-minded and humourless kind.

lulz are their own reward.

Well, lulz are good for health, even if you totally have to cheat to get them, like by watching old Python skits.

Deep breaths, the bellowing of the diaphragm massages the organs (liver), and I guess you get to make a primal sound without having to think about it much. Not quite sure really.

I usually like to make a joke (too often, I'm sure some would find) but today I'm all sick and can't hit a right note, funny or serious. Do us a favour? Either bump my "Roast for Grave_n_Idle" thread or tell me what the hell I did wrong there?

I wouldn't agree with that at all.

Never mind primates other than us, even cats seem to me to have a sense of humour. Or birds, even. It's much more noticable in the young of the species, making me think it is indeed a way of testing the limits. The joke explores what might be tried in all earnestness.

Fair enough and you might be interested in this:

1) Research suggests that the capacity for human laughter preceded the capacity for speech during evolution of the brain. Indeed, neural circuits for laughter exist in very ancient regions of the brain and ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals eons before we humans came along. Recent studies in rats, dogs, and chimps are providing evidence that laughter and joy may not be uniquely human traits.

2) The capacity to laugh emerges early in child development, and perhaps in mammalian brain-mind evolution as well. Indeed, young children, whose semantic sense of humor is marginal, laugh and shriek abundantly in the midst of their other rough-and-tumble activities. If one looks carefully, laughter is especially evident during chasing, with the chasee typically laughing more than the chaser. As every aspiring comedian knows, success is only achieved if receivers exhibit more laughter than transmitters. The same behavior patterns are evident in the "play panting" of young chimps as they mischievously chase, mouth, and tickle each other.

3) Laughter seems to hark back to the ancestral emotional recesses of our animalian past. We know that many other mammals exhibit play sounds, including tickle-induced panting, which resembles human laughter, even though these utterances are not as loud and persistent as our sonographically complex human chuckles. However, it is the discovery of "laughing rats" that could offer a workable model with which to systemically analyze the neurobiological antecedents of human joy. When rats play, their rambunctious shenanigans are accompanied by a cacophony of 50-kHz chirps that reflect positive emotional feelings. Sonographic analysis suggests that some chirps, like human laughs, are more joyous than others.

4) Could sounds emitted by animals during play be an ancestral form of human laughter? If rats are tickled in a playful way, they readily emit these 50-kHz chirps. The tickled rats became socially bonded to the experimenters and were rapidly conditioned to seek tickles. They preferred spending time with other animals that chirped a lot rather than with those that did not. Indeed, chirping in rats could be provoked by neurochemically "tickling" dopamine reward circuits in the brain, which also light up during human mirth. Perhaps laughter will provide a new measure for analyzing natural reward/desire circuits in the brain, which are also activated during drug craving.

...however, being funny for the purpose of amusing another, or the ability to see incongruity (for want of a better word) and find it amusing, is, I would say, limited to humans.

There's very little research on this so it's very hard to source information on it, suffice to say that a chemical reaction to happiness, which is laughter, is different to purposefully being funny as such and that's the difference I'd say marks humans out.

I wonder if chimpanzees would find magic tricks, where you hide something and make it reappear elsewhere, as amusing or annoying, I'd imagine they'd certainly be curious but the objective may not be entertainment.

I've played the game with dogs, switching the ball from hand to hand around my back, or bouncing it off a wall and back to me - but the dogs don't seem to be amused by the game itself beyond their desire for the ball itself and, if they don't get the ball, they'll lose interest in the game.

I possibly need to think about how to express this better.

I'm not going to source this, if you're really concerned you can paste it into Google and find the source, suffice to say it's not of an academic nature.

Anyway...abridged...



If you have the time, this article (http://www.sexandphilosophy.co.uk/humour.htm) goes deeper into how humour is an integral part of social engagement.

All the above is really an excuse for the following link to be considered relevant rather than pure spam material.

http://www.slide.com/r/2oqGQ8XF6j8QDoZnBPJacMKGrT9JcCoc

Anyone not find that funny?

So, does a lack of humour indicate a close-minded person? Have you noticed this relation among family or friends?

A lack of a sense of humour could indicate a closed mind, but I think in the case of whole groups lacking a sense of humour it indicates a warped one. For something to be funny it has to be based on something true.

In the above clip, silly as it was, it is based on the need for mundane needs to be met when drama demands that they be ignored. The comedian is right, the death star needs a canteen, and the existence of one makes the existence of the Death Star seem a bit silly and it's monstrous short tempered leader hopelessly out of place.

With political humor people often find jokes about their favored side to be unfunny because they don't accept the truth upon which the joke is based. If you think George W. Bush is a gentle thoughtful Christian then jokes about him being a coarse foolish perma-fratboy aren't going to seem funny for the same reason that jokes about the overly-prompt service of the DMV won't seem funny. It won't make any sense to you.

A lack of a sense of humour could indicate a closed mind, but I think in the case of whole groups lacking a sense of humour it indicates a warped one. For something to be funny it has to be based on something true.

In the above clip, silly as it was, it is based on the need for mundane needs to be met when drama demands that they be ignored. The comedian is right, the death star needs a canteen, and the existence of one makes the existence of the Death Star seem a bit silly and it's monstrous short tempered leader hopelessly out of place.

With political humor people often find jokes about their favored side to be unfunny because they don't accept the truth upon which the joke is based. If you think George W. Bush is a gentle thoughtful Christian then jokes about him being a coarse foolish perma-fratboy aren't going to seem funny for the same reason that jokes about the overly-prompt service of the DMV won't seem funny. It won't make any sense to you.

Yes, I think that's contained here:

When a social group is defined by a belief system, the members of the group have to tread carefully when it comes to humour. On the one hand humour plays a role in making social interaction more pleasant, and part of the pleasure of shared beliefs is the social interaction with others in the group. But on the other hand, the wrong sort of humour could threaten the group's belief system. Certain jokes are off-limits, or will be considered to be "not funny".

By adhering to a belief - George Bush is a good president - you close yourself to certain aspects of humour. The more unshakable beliefs you have, the more humour that is closed off to you.

The question is: is that lack of humour an inherent facet linked to being judgmental or is it an effect of being judgmental or, I suppose, is their any link at all?

Does wittiness tend to correlate with an open-mind?

...however, being funny for the purpose of amusing another, or the ability to see incongruity (for want of a better word) and find it amusing, is, I would say, limited to humans.

My parrot begs to differ: "E-cog-rooty! Piekes of AAAAYT! Boeoeze!" :p

Seriously, you have a huge page of snips ready for this thread, haven't you? Good preparation, congrats. Of course, attribution would be good but you admit that from the start.

If rats are tickled in a playful way, they readily emit these 50-kHz chirps. The tickled rats became socially bonded to the experimenters and were rapidly conditioned to seek tickles.

Giggling rats are one of the banes of my life. It's hard to hate them when they are having so much fun, but dammit they're nocturnal!

For something to be funny it has to be based on something true.

You're quite right!

So jokes can be funny, but cruel at the same time. Sometimes it's just cruel to reference the truth (eg, jokes about the recently deceased.)

With political humor people often find jokes about their favored side to be unfunny because they don't accept the truth upon which the joke is based. If you think George W. Bush is a gentle thoughtful Christian then jokes about him being a coarse foolish perma-fratboy aren't going to seem funny for the same reason that jokes about the overly-prompt service of the DMV won't seem funny. It won't make any sense to you.

Yes. It's probably significant how often people joke about religion, sex and politics. They all matter a lot to people and can be quite divisive.

On occasion, it really seems to be more about stating something as fact, but under the cover of a joke so one doesn't have to defend the implied "fact."

Some things are just TOO funny:

Funniest Joke In the World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjbYNgIi5ss)

Haha that has been added to my bookmarks as that is hilarious.

"I can kill you with a tray!"

I'm not going to source this, if you're really concerned you can paste it into Google and find the source, suffice to say it's not of an academic nature.

Anyway...abridged...



If you have the time, this article (http://www.sexandphilosophy.co.uk/humour.htm) goes deeper into how humour is an integral part of social engagement.

All the above is really an excuse for the following link to be considered relevant rather than pure spam material.

http://www.slide.com/r/2oqGQ8XF6j8QDoZnBPJacMKGrT9JcCoc

Anyone not find that funny?

So, does a lack of humour indicate a close-minded person? Have you noticed this relation among family or friends?

Apparently you have to have a slide account to sign in...so I'll just sort of, you know, not understand what is actually so funny...

People who lack a sense of humour frighten me a very little bit. Although I suspect I frighten them a lot more.

I chose all of the above, because, humor is sign of sentience and there's no limit of what it uses can be,... then again we are responsible for Jackass.

(Note here: "we" as in humans)

People who lack a sense of humour frighten me a very little bit. Although I suspect I frighten them a lot more.

Well, you gotta ask yourself:
If you had to be tortured to death by someone, would it be the humourless sadist, or the evil genius who cackles at his own jokes the whole time?

I'd take the humourless one. At least he'd do it properly. And with a bit of dignity.

*snip

I am extremely cynical and logical. I am repulsed by food, and I eat as little as possible. I don't watch T.V.

But if there is one piece of enjoyment I have in this world, it is humor. Life is really too rediculous to take seriously. That is why I enjoy the humor of people like Tome Lehrer, or Ambrose Bierce.

As for being open minded, I am one of the few people here who has changed opinions on things due to debates, ergo I am quite open-minded. What opinions have I changed my mind on since NS?

Gay marriage.

Abortion.

Prostitution.

The Iraq War.

Drugs.

Suicide.

Nudism.

Religion.

Racism.

ect.

Anyone who reviews my past posts will know what I mean.

I chose all of the above, because, humor is sign of sentience and there's no limit of what it uses can be,... then again we are responsible for Jackass.

Hey! Jackass is renowned throughout the universe as visual poetry.

That it is least appreciated on it's home planet* is a sad comment on our culture.


*Erf, or as more commonly known Planet of the Jackasses.

I am extremely cynical and logical. I am repulsed by food, and I eat as little as possible.

Please be careful you're getting everything you need. Processed food diets are terribly deficient unless taken in excess. At least, tell me you eat salad.

I don't watch T.V.

Good on you. It's chewing-gum for the eyes.

But if there is one piece of enjoyment I have in this world, it is humor. Life is really too rediculous to take seriously. That is why I enjoy the humor of people like Tome Lehrer, or Ambrose Bierce.

Ah, the Devil's Dictionary was good. Got any other recommendations?

As for being open minded, I am one of the few people here who has changed opinions on things due to debates, ergo I am quite open-minded. What opinions have I changed my mind on since NS?

Gay marriage.

Abortion.

Prostitution.

The Iraq War.

Drugs.

Suicide.

Nudism.

Religion.

Racism.

ect.

Anyone who reviews my past posts will know what I mean.

Pah. You are not open minded, until you have flip-flopped at least twice on at least six of those. And hosted a family of bereaved cockroaches in your headpiece.

I'm inflexibly funny ...

or amusingly inflexible.

LG, help, it's not working.

I'm inflexibly funny ...

or amusingly inflexible.

LG, help, it's not working.

The first thing that sprung into my mind was "inflatable" ... if that's any help.

Please be careful you're getting everything you need. Processed food diets are terribly deficient unless taken in excess. At least, tell me you eat salad.

Salad is good. I am a vegetarian.

Good on you. It's chewing-gum for the eyes.
That does not even taste good.
Ah, the Devil's Dictionary was good. Got any other recommendations?

Well some of my favorite humor is The Dying Earth series, by Jack Vance (the first of the series isn't comedy, though.)

Asm of eight-fangs: “Flee if you wish! I need the exercise."

Captain Baunt: “This is unreasonable! If he felt dejection, why not simply jump into the sea? Why suborn our valuable worm to his personal and private uses?”

Cugel: "I am not one to crouch passively with my hind-quarters raised, awaiting either the kick or the caress of destiny! I am Cugel! Fearless and indomitable, I confront every adversity!"

Bubach Angh: “A man I will kill for my eye! Do I toil thirty-one years for the benefit of a vagabond!”

Bunderwal: "I am a dignified citizen of the area, not a fox-faced vagabond in an over-fancy hat."

Chief Elder: “Though formerly a vagabond and a cut-throat, you are now a prince, a man of responsibility.”

Deodand: “I desire the one who has entered. I hunger for her flesh.”

Doulka: “Must your disgust be so blatant? True: we are anthropophages. True: we put strangers to succulent use. Is this truly good cause for hostility? The world is as it is and each of must hope to in some fashion to be of service to his fellows, even if only in the form of soup.”

Drofo: “After a hundred worms and ten-thousand leagues, then with justice you may say, 'I am wise!' or, to precisely the same effect: 'I am a worminger!'

Funambule: “Inconsequential claptrap!”

Fuscule: "I am a worminger, not a student of weird physiological mysteries.”

Guyal of Sfere: “My eye went to you like the nectar moth flits to jacynth.”

Iolo: “Surely you agree that this hole is half my property!”

Kindive the Golden: “Out of the room quickly! Mischief lurks somewhere and I must blast it with magic!”

Krasnark: " I suggest that Master Chernitz retract the term 'moral leaper' and Cugel his 'tree-weasel', and there let the matter rest."

Liane the Wayfarer: “I can suffocate you in pearls, blind you with diamonds.”

Lodermulch: “What have we here? I thought to detect knavery, and here is justification! Return my money on the instant!”

Morreion: ”To inflict but a pin prick upon a single one of my enemies I would have died by torture a hundred times!”

Mermalant: “Do you carry beer? We are beer-drinkers of nobles repute and show our bellies to all.”

Nisbet: “Two hours of lose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.”

Duk Orbal: “…your exhibit seems somewhat makeshift and impromptu. Contrast, if you will, the precision of Zaraflam’s cockroaches!”

Pharesm: “Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature [the living incarnation of TOTALITY], despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when it finally appears, you fall upon it for no other reason then to sate your repulsive gluttony...! I can define the gravity of your act in this manner: should I explode you on this instant into the most minute of your parts the atonement would measure one ten-millionth of your offense. A more stringent retribution becomes necessary.”

Peasant: “Notice: I drink wine, though I may not live to become drunk. Does this deter me? No! I reject the future; I drink now, I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”

Rhialto: “Pryffwyd, your vision is dim; you do not recognize me for Rhialto. I am working to place your eyes at the end of foot-long stalks. You will soon be able to see in all directions at one.”

Shierl: “You are not uncomely.”

Shilko: “What do you perceive? Goblins disguised as pick rats? Or centipedes dancing the kazatska?”

Slaye: “I will make you a grandee of the realm! You shall have a barge of carved ivory, and two hundred maidens shall serve your wants; your enemies shall be clamped into a rotating cauldron—only give me the amulet!”

T’Sain: “I know not know how to explain beauty. You seem to find joy in nothing. Does nothing give you satisfaction?”

T’Sais: “Only killing and destruction. So these must be beautiful.”

Varmous: "I am not apt for magic; weirdness makes me ery."

Voynod [with his sword, just before he is killed]: “Take care, you dunghill-cocks!”


Pah. You are not open minded, until you have flip-flopped at least twice on at least six of those. And hosted a family of bereaved cockroaches in your headpiece.
It takes time.

Oh, yes. I also enjoy Gulliver's Travels, along with most of Jonathan Swift's works.

"My little friend Grildrig, you have made a
most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved that
ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying
a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by
those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and
eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which in
its original might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the
rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It doth not appear, from
all you have said, how any one perfection is required towards the
procurement of any one station among you; much less that men are
ennobled on account of their virtue, that priests are advanced for their
piety or learning, soldiers for their conduct or valor, judges for their
integrity, senators for the love of their country, or counsellors for
their wisdom.
"As for yourself," continued the king, "who have spent the
greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you
may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have
gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains
wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your
natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that
nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."

I'm inflexibly funny ...

or amusingly inflexible.

LG, help, it's not working.

I'm not even sure I can fix this. So here are some funny cats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9bu6SqWtBU

*snip*

Peasant: “Notice: I drink wine, though I may not live to become drunk. Does this deter me? No! I reject the future; I drink now, I become drunk as circumstances dictate.”



Oh ... kay.

I need either to drink more, or eat less. Or else this is bat humour, pitched too high for my old ears.

Let's see what BunnySaurus makes of it. He has bunny ears, after all.:)

Oh ... kay.

I need either to drink more, or eat less. Or else this is bat humour, pitched too high for my old ears.

Let's see what BunnySaurus makes of it. He has bunny ears, after all.:)

I don't drink and I find it funny.

You see, in the book the world was going to end and peasants were about to built a wall fence to separate their lands when one says basically says: "What's the point? The world could end any minute and our work would be for naught."

He then gets that reply.

For the person who started this thread your percentage system doesn't work.

Humour.
"First the gods created man, then woman, the gods thought the two should communicate so they created love, to cope with love the gods created laughter.:)"

PS
No i'm not arguing creationism i'm just making a passing comment, nor am i trying to piss off any gods (if there are any). happy Hannukah

An interesting idea from this is that a real difference in terms of intelligence between humans and animals is that we enjoy learning

It's been shown many times that many animals enjoy learning. And I'm not talking only about dogs, dolphins and chimps. Studies have shown that cows respond with joy and excitement to intellectual challenges (i.e., having to work things out, learning new things...). I would assume the same is true of horses, although I've never heard anything about them.

If you hate drinking, you should appreciate this:


Faucelme, a health conscious (but ruthless) sorcerer is telling a story to a wayfarer (Cugel):

"Our local villains are a clan of farmers: angels of mercy by comparison, nevertheless with certain nasty habits. They give their mermelants ["sentient" pack-animals] beer to drink, then send them out to intimidate travellers. They [the mermelants] cared to come up here one day, stamping up and down the porch and showing their [beer] bellies. 'Beer!' they shouted. 'Give us good beer!' Naturally I keep no such stuff on hand. I took pity on them and explained at length the vulgar qualities of inebriation, but they refused to listen, and used offensive language. Can you believe it? 'You double-tongued old wowser, we have listened long enough to your cackle and now we want beer in return!' These were their very words! So I said: 'Very well; you shall have beer.' I prepared a tea of bitter belch-wort and nuxium; I chilled it and caused it to fume, in the manner of beer. I called-out: 'Here is my only beer!' and served it in ewers. They slapped down their noses and sucked it up in a trice. Immediately they curled up like sow-bugs and lay as if dead for a day and a half. Finally they uncoiled, rose to their feet, befouled the yard in a most lavish manner, and skulked away. They have never returned, and perhaps my little homily has brought them to sobriety."

-Cugel's Saga, book three of the Dying Earth series.

I think you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on their sense of humour. I find this hilarious but there are a few people who just don't seem to get it. What does that say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN_VWZt35g

While I'm at it here is another of my favourite things on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

Also this is my first post here so greetings all.:D

I think you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on their sense of humour. I find this hilarious but there are a few people who just don't seem to get it. What does that say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN_VWZt35g

While I'm at it here is another of my favourite things on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

Also this is my first post here so greetings all.:D

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/KLN/SM143~Welcome-To-Hell-Posters.jpg

No i'm not arguing creationism i'm just making a passing comment, nor am i trying to piss off any gods (if there are any). happy Hannukah

Don't worry, I'm sure that no gods frequent these forums.

If you hate drinking, you should appreciate this:


Faucelme, a health conscious (but ruthless) sorcerer is telling a story to a wayfarer (Cugel):

"Our local villains are a clan of farmers: angels of mercy by comparison, nevertheless with certain nasty habits. They give their mermelants ["sentient" pack-animals] beer to drink, then send them out to intimidate travellers. They [the mermelants] cared to come up here one day, stamping up and down the porch and showing their [beer] bellies. 'Beer!' they shouted. 'Give us good beer!' Naturally I keep no such stuff on hand. I took pity on them and explained at length the vulgar qualities of inebriation, but they refused to listen, and used offensive language. Can you believe it? 'You double-tongued old wowser, we have listened long enough to your cackle and now we want beer in return!' These were their very words! So I said: 'Very well; you shall have beer.' I prepared a tea of bitter belch-wort and nuxium; I chilled it and caused it to fume, in the manner of beer. I called-out: 'Here is my only beer!' and served it in ewers. They slapped down their noses and sucked it up in a trice. Immediately they curled up like sow-bugs and lay as if dead for a day and a half. Finally they uncoiled, rose to their feet, befouled the yard in a most lavish manner, and skulked away. They have never returned, and perhaps my little homily has brought them to sobriety."

-Cugel's Saga, book three of the Dying Earth series.

Belch-wort eh? Sounds like good stuff! :p

I can see some delicate vein of humour runs through the book, those quotes show a good sense of caricature without being outright parody. :)

Not as quotable as the Hitch-Hikers Guide though. That you feel obliged to describe the context shows that plainly enough.

I heartily encourage people to post links to something they find really funny, not 'meh, that's fairly amusing' but something that made you laugh out loud.

It may be thought that this is merely a thread looking for funny posts purely to alleviate a boring day but I'd rather disguise it as an experiment to see the range of humour and whether it correlates in anyway to individual perceptions on whether you agree or disagree with that person in general.
Loooong day, brain is borked, so this is basically all I read of the thread.

Loved your Izzard link.

Funny (of what's easily retrievable atm):

(clickable thumbnails)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00005_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00005_edited.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00006_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00006_edited.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00007_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00007_edited.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00009_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00009_edited.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_billstickers.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/billstickers.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_dragon_peeg.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/dragon_peeg.jpg)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_vulch44.gif (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/vulch44.gif)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_gangsta.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/gangsta.jpg)

http://gigglesugar.com/854010?sidcheck=1&idcheck=1

Just about everything Jon Stewart ever said outside of the Oscars.

Ruffy.

I think you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on their sense of humour. I find this hilarious but there are a few people who just don't seem to get it. What does that say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN_VWZt35g

While I'm at it here is another of my favourite things on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM


For the first one, thirty seconds worth of lulz, seven minutes down the toilet. Brilliant example of why text is better than video.

The little kid was the only vox pop who was even remotely funny. Largely because he actually enjoyed getting a cream-pie in the face. The joke of hyped-up movie-style promotion for a product which doesn't fit (the infantalized Dr. Tran) is worth two minutes, tops.

See? I "get it" ... I just don't find it very funny.
Now, what does that say?

As for the second, yeah I laughed and the length was more appropriate. Lousy bit of editing though, kinda ruins the joke when the effect so closely resembles a choking video stream.

Also this is my first post here so greetings all.:D

Here, you forgot something: :sniper:

I think you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on their sense of humour. I find this hilarious but there are a few people who just don't seem to get it. What does that say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN_VWZt35g



That made no sense at all, and I didn't laugh once for the first 35 seconds. Then I couldn't stop. It still made no sense though. I think the laughter was a defense mechanism. Like how coroners crack sick jokes to keep from going nuts. Bizarre shit.

Don't worry, I'm sure that no gods frequent these forums.

Of the twelve Gods in the Forum, only Minerva has Flash working in her browser. And she's pretty cool.

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*snip*

Funny (of what's easily retrievable atm):

(clickable thumbnails)

Clickable thumbnails! A+ for presentation!

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00005_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00005_edited.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Yeah, that's funny. I bet you like Non Sequitur by Wiley, too.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00006_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00006_edited.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Meh.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00007_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00007_edited.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Nah.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_CCI00009_edited.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/CCI00009_edited.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Lol! "You want I should break your incisors?" I usually laugh at Larson.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_billstickers.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/billstickers.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . An oldie but a goodie.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_dragon_peeg.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/dragon_peeg.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Aww! Is that a hamster? Cute-o-rific!
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_vulch44.gif (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/vulch44.gif)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Yep, another lol.
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/th_gangsta.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Random/gangsta.jpg)
. . . . . . . . . . . . Meh. Nothing involving kittens is ever funny nowdays. Hamsters For The Lol!
http://gigglesugar.com/854010?sidcheck=1&idcheck=1
That was probably to die for the first time, but he's coaching her too much to get it on camera. Would have been funny if she'd peed on him at the end!

I'm not judging you here, just pursuing Barringtonia's idea that you can tell a lot about a person by what they find funny...

And Barr'ia, I won't post links. In my colossal arrogance, I find nothing funnier than myself.

Don't worry, I'm sure that no gods frequent these forums.

<.<

>.>

You're probably right. ;)

Oh, and the poll was meant to suck, wasn't it?

"Two men walk into a bar, the third one ducks" is funnier, IMHO.

And I may be tempting the wrath of Jupiter himself ... it's just possible that I heard this joke from one of the NSG Gods ...

A woman walks into a bar, and asks for a Double Entendre. So the bartender gives her one.

Eh, don't care how other people see humor. Humor is different for everyone.

Belch-wort eh? Sounds like good stuff! :p

I can see some delicate vein of humour runs through the book, those quotes show a good sense of caricature without being outright parody. :)

Not as quotable as the Hitch-Hikers Guide though. That you feel obliged to describe the context shows that plainly enough.

HHGG is quite quotable; I still enjoy the verbosity of this series, though.

The Asm context: Cugel is told that if he makes a salute with his hand to his right buttock and asks Wiulio (a deity) to bless a pebble it will protect him against harm much as a cross protects against a vampire. But an asm (a demon-insect hybrid, picture here (http://www.dyingearth.com/complayout.pdf)) was watching and comes to eat him:

Cugel held high the pebble and cried out: "Away with you! I carry a sacred object and do not wish to be molested!"
The asm spoke is a soft blurred voice: "Wrong!" You carry an ordinary pebble. I watched and you scamped the rite. Flee if you wish! I need the exercise."

- Cugel's Saga, book three of the Dying Earth series.

Apparently you have to have a slide account to sign in...so I'll just sort of, you know, not understand what is actually so funny...

Curious, I don't have a slide account and it works fine - try going to Youtube and typing in 'darth lego izzard' - it's worth it.

I'm not even sure I can fix this. So here are some funny cats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9bu6SqWtBU

Seriously, cats, too funny :)

For the person who started this thread your percentage system doesn't work.

My percentage system? MY percentage system? It's Jolt's percentage system and the reason it looks odd is that it allows multiple option votes.

I think you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on their sense of humour. I find this hilarious but there are a few people who just don't seem to get it. What does that say?

Also this is my first post here so greetings all.:D

I've seen that Darth Vader one, the other one worth finding is the telephone call the Emperor takes after the Death Star's blown up. You get best link so far award for Dr. Tran though, LG's cat thing made me laugh more but using cats is cheating.

Loooong day, brain is borked, so this is basically all I read of the thread.

That's all you were meant to read, I think I overdid the humour question and therefore don't have as many funny links as I'd hoped.

Still Calvin & Hobbes never fails.

Nobel Hobos, I'm taking your general posts as humour to be honest

It's been shown many times that many animals enjoy learning. And I'm not talking only about dogs, dolphins and chimps. Studies have shown that cows respond with joy and excitement to intellectual challenges (i.e., having to work things out, learning new things...). I would assume the same is true of horses, although I've never heard anything about them.

Yeah, I'm turning full circle on this one, my statement was pure wrong in that regard - something's still niggling at my brain concerning humans and humour but it's not formulating into a solid thought - I'll come back to it.

Yes.

I'm not going to source this, if you're really concerned you can paste it into Google and find the source, suffice to say it's not of an academic nature.

Anyway...abridged...



If you have the time, this article (http://www.sexandphilosophy.co.uk/humour.htm) goes deeper into how humour is an integral part of social engagement.

All the above is really an excuse for the following link to be considered relevant rather than pure spam material.

http://www.slide.com/r/2oqGQ8XF6j8QDoZnBPJacMKGrT9JcCoc

Anyone not find that funny?

So, does a lack of humour indicate a close-minded person? Have you noticed this relation among family or friends?

I like humor, and I can appreciate a joke, but I get wound up very easily.

Yes.

No.

Nobel Hobos, I'm taking your general posts as humour to be honest

It's been shown many times that many animals enjoy learning. And I'm not talking only about dogs, dolphins and chimps. Studies have shown that cows respond with joy and excitement to intellectual challenges (i.e., having to work things out, learning new things...). I would assume the same is true of horses, although I've never heard anything about them.Yeah, I'm turning full circle on this one, my statement was pure wrong in that regard - something's still niggling at my brain concerning humans and humour but it's not formulating into a solid thought - I'll come back to it.

What, no credit for post #15 in your thread? This one:

I wouldn't agree with that at all.

Never mind primates other than us, even cats seem to me to have a sense of humour. Or birds, even. It's much more noticable in the young of the species, making me think it is indeed a way of testing the limits. The joke explores what might be tried in all earnestness.

Dogs don't seem to me to have much sense of humour. Pack animals, you don't mess with the heirarchy, it's everything. Pack leader is happy, you happy. Leader sad, you sad. Dumbass servitude. I really don't get what people see in dogs ... moral support? "At least my dog loves me"?

This isn't entirely a tangent, because I believe people who prefer dogs to cats (I don't like either, but I guess meoww) are more likely to be the closed-minded and humourless kind.

*sulks*

I guess it's not fair to expect people to read my admittedly obscure posts, if there's a 50% chance I'm drunk out of my mind. Sometimes NH's posts really do make no sense at all -- that's straight from the horse's mouth.

Please at least try to take my serious posts seriously when I post as BSB. Maybe I need a special icon to show when I am dead serious ... the "page of text" perhaps ....

What, no credit for post #15 in your thread? This one:



*sulks*

I guess it's not fair to expect people to read my admittedly obscure posts, if there's a 50% chance I'm drunk out of my mind. Sometimes NH's posts really do make no sense at all -- that's straight from the horse's mouth.

Please at least try to take my serious posts seriously when I post as BSB. Maybe I need a special icon to show when I am dead serious ... the "page of text" perhaps ....

I replied to your post, citing the fact (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13284923&postcount=17) that research shows that animals laugh :)

My last line was simply a nod to the fact that you haven't posted a link as such but you've been entertaining in your posts - it was a compliment not a slur.

The glass is half full.

I replied to your post, citing the fact (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13284923&postcount=17) that research shows that animals laugh :)

My last line was simply a nod to the fact that you haven't posted a link as such but you've been entertaining in your posts - it was a compliment not a slur.

The glass is half full.

Okay. Nobel Hobos wouldn't care ... in fact he probably wouldn't even have noticed that little note to him.

I think people can link TOO much, particularly in animated debate. (It's annoying to express yourself as clearly as you can, arguing a case, and have the other pick one, non-essential, phrase out of that and reply "Oh yeah? Prove it.")

In this kind of context, it's good ... I just haven't wred anything on the subject yet that expresses my beliefs soundly enough that I'd want to link to it.

Here's another clip then, not laugh out loud funny but good, real good.

The true origins of Hip-Hop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5OijQOPek)

Here's another clip then, not laugh out loud funny but good, real good.

The true origins of Hip-Hop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5OijQOPek)

Well, I was a bit awkward about it at first ("What's up, Pussy Willow?" anyone?) but yeah, either those herders have a wide range of odd hand gestures, or they were acting it.

They had fun, I'd say. Funny enough.

The brief credit at the end points to this:

Nokia promotional. (http://cool.nseries.com/) ... which looks broken to me.



Also, about this thing you quoted:

1) Research suggests that the capacity for human laughter preceded the capacity for speech during evolution of the brain. Indeed, neural circuits for laughter exist in very ancient regions of the brain and ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals eons before we humans came along. Recent studies in rats, dogs, and chimps are providing evidence that laughter and joy may not be uniquely human traits.

2) The capacity to laugh emerges early in child development, and perhaps in mammalian brain-mind evolution as well. Indeed, young children, whose semantic sense of humor is marginal, laugh and shriek abundantly in the midst of their other rough-and-tumble activities. If one looks carefully, laughter is especially evident during chasing, with the chasee typically laughing more than the chaser. As every aspiring comedian knows, success is only achieved if receivers exhibit more laughter than transmitters. The same behavior patterns are evident in the "play panting" of young chimps as they mischievously chase, mouth, and tickle each other.

3) Laughter seems to hark back to the ancestral emotional recesses of our animalian past. We know that many other mammals exhibit play sounds, including tickle-induced panting, which resembles human laughter, even though these utterances are not as loud and persistent as our sonographically complex human chuckles. However, it is the discovery of "laughing rats" that could offer a workable model with which to systemically analyze the neurobiological antecedents of human joy. When rats play, their rambunctious shenanigans are accompanied by a cacophony of 50-kHz chirps that reflect positive emotional feelings. Sonographic analysis suggests that some chirps, like human laughs, are more joyous than others.

4) Could sounds emitted by animals during play be an ancestral form of human laughter? If rats are tickled in a playful way, they readily emit these 50-kHz chirps. The tickled rats became socially bonded to the experimenters and were rapidly conditioned to seek tickles. They preferred spending time with other animals that chirped a lot rather than with those that did not. Indeed, chirping in rats could be provoked by neurochemically "tickling" dopamine reward circuits in the brain, which also light up during human mirth. Perhaps laughter will provide a new measure for analyzing natural reward/desire circuits in the brain, which are also activated during drug craving.

The first paragraph googled up as a 2005 article on the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4401695.stm). It's not a perfect match -- did you re-write it? There's also this1998 article from BBC. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/85711.stm)
The original research for the first was published in Science, which the BBC rather churlishly describes as "a magazine." Science comes only a rung or two below Nature as a scientific journal. It's rock solid.

Unfortunately, it's also subscriber-only. Major Internet-Token-Good-Thing for anyone who can link to the text!

EDIT: Oh, Science is sciencemag.org (www.sciencemag.org)

The brief credit at the end points to this:

Nokia promotional.

Yes, it's a Nokia viral for China, shouldn't detract from the fact that it's good in and of itself.

Also, about this thing you quoted:

The first paragraph googled up as a 2005 article on the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4401695.stm). It's not a perfect match -- did you re-write it?

I'll always put 'abridged' or note that I've changed it - you'll note the first post in this article has 'abridged' because it talks about religion as the example for group social beliefs but I didn't want to go down that road so I altered it slightly - partly the reason I didn't link it either.

The original link you're looking for in regards to the animals laughing is here (http://www.wireheading.com/intracran/humour.html).

See? I "get it" ... I just don't find it very funny.
Now, what does that say?

Woah, bold text. I get the feeling I somehow offended you with that. Perhaps "get it" was not the right term. I didn't mean that people who don't find it funny don't understand it. Its just that some people find it hillarious and others think it is silly and boring simply because of their sense of humour. What makes one persons sense of humour different from another's? In this case I dont think it has anything to do with their beliefs or the flexibility of their beliefs. I just thought that was interesting.

*snip*

You know, of course, that the most important poll option is the one including my Nation Motto. *nods emphatically*

Eddie Izzard is fucking hilarious. "Are you Jeff Vader?" :D

Woah, bold text. I get the feeling I somehow offended you with that. Perhaps "get it" was not the right term. I didn't mean that people who don't find it funny don't understand it. Its just that some people find it hillarious and others think it is silly and boring simply because of their sense of humour. What makes one persons sense of humour different from another's? In this case I dont think it has anything to do with their beliefs or the flexibility of their beliefs. I just thought that was interesting.

Since you had a post count of ONE at the time, BSB thought it a good idea to draw attention to how the post was a RESPONSE to yours.

Lots of people don't read too well, or they're too busy or something. A bit of bolding or big text doesn't mean shouting (AFAIK), it's more "if you're skimming the post, start from here."

I'm sorry if it's confusing to be talking to you from a different account, but I like to post whether I'm drunk or sober. Just now I'm drunk, and I won't let myself post drunk as BSB. I still feel quite sensible, but a contract is a contract ... to the point now.

I said quite plainly I think what I liked about the Dr Stan vid. I think I said quite plainly that I got bored with it. I described what I thought was meant to be funny about it ...

If I was a real tightass, sure it would have offended me. There's elements of racism, there's crappy production quite on top of the South Park crappiness of Dr. Stan himself ... but I watched it right through despite, as I said, only getting "30 seconds worth of lulz" out of it.

The thing I forgot to mention is that I despise film-trailers, including the advertising available on DVDs or tapes, but most particularly the overly-loud, badly-edited sound-bite trashification of movies that I'm obliged to watch after the lights go down in the cinema. In fact, I hat that so bad I wait in the foyer and bark my shins coming in when it's dark.

I hate advertising of all sorts, in fact. So parodies of advertising don't do much for me.

That takes most of the sting out of the clip. Honestly, the bit I liked the best was the young boy busting the script, by actually ENJOYING being hit in the face with a pie. Go watch it again. He loves it. Everything else was painfully inept and (this is an important word in the comedy context) laboured.

I liked your second clip better. One joke, work it until it's done. It had problems, but I didn't have this embarassing feeling that someone had worked on their Funny Clip for two and a half weeks, that I got with the first one. It's one person with a pirate clip, a video editor, a good idea and twenty minutes to kill. The sound was broken.

I waste a lot of words making a point. I liked the second one better than the first, neither really hurt my feelings, but the Parrot Sketch owns them so bad that (Parrot Sketch + Mein Kampf) > (your clips).

:)

*nods emphatically*

Dude! No need to headbutt me!

It was your joke. Damn good joke too.

*slight tilt of head*

Dude! No need to headbutt me!Oddly enough, people usually prefer that over the pronounced and semi-exaggerated hip thrusting :confused:

It was your joke. Damn good joke too. Thankies! Alas, i don't even remember where i picked that one up. It's best to act out. And to use when you feel like leaving a table. :)

*slight tilt of head*When it's forward, helps keep me from standing still and drifting off into thought strands.