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July 12, 2014 at 11:54 AM #776489July 14, 2014 at 12:36 AM #776560CA renterParticipant
[quote=scaredyclassic]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/snow-white-doesnt-live-here-anymore/201304/laughing-the-scary-stuff-humor-and-fear
why do my kids think it’s hilarious to scare me?
fear and its safe resoltuion must be encoded deep in our DNA under HAHA![/quote]
Yes! We anxiety-filled, nervous types just have better imaginations! π
Personally, I’ve never found someone else’s fear to be funny in any way. It scares me when people laugh at others who are clearly distressed. Likewise, I’ve never understood how people could laugh at “funny” videos of people getting hurt. Pretty sick if you ask me.
July 14, 2014 at 7:06 AM #776567scaredyclassicParticipant[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/snow-white-doesnt-live-here-anymore/201304/laughing-the-scary-stuff-humor-and-fear
why do my kids think it’s hilarious to scare me?
fear and its safe resoltuion must be encoded deep in our DNA under HAHA![/quote]
Yes! We anxiety-filled, nervous types just have better imaginations! π
Personally, I’ve never found someone else’s fear to be funny in any way. It scares me when people laugh at others who are clearly distressed. Likewise, I’ve never understood how people could laugh at “funny” videos of people getting hurt. Pretty sick if you ask me.[/quote]
America’s most depressing home videos … should follow up with videos of medical repercussions.
candid camera was softer but still it was about watching people in various states of distress and confusion.
i guess we like to see others in pain so long as we dont see any of the reality.
July 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM #776660no_such_realityParticipant[quote=CDMA ENG]Well then… I’ll admit to being a jerk…
I have laughed at guys jumping out of the water when a fin pops of of the water and everybody pulls their feet and hands in.
[/quote]I’ve laughed and I’ve laughed at myself after cleaning the figurative cr*p out of my wetsuit a several years ago.
The funniest and briefly scariest was a weekday mid-fall morning, the marine layer was thick, a light foggy drizzle, I’m out off of Bolsa Chica pretty much by myself on my surf board and it’s getting late maybe 9AM so the crowds are gone and the morning traffic is light on PCH.
I’m just enjoying a decent swell, watching the porpoises way out. sea bird, a oouple pelicans fishing. A really enjoyable way to spend the pre-job hunt post layoff stress.
Then it happened. That cutting water sound. I snap my head around to see the wedge dorsal fin and a very large torpodo shaped ‘fish’, right on me, right under me, brushing my foot as I jerk.
It came up on the other side for a breath that familiar blow sound. I think it was laughing at me.
I was laughing at me and feeling really out of my element.
July 15, 2014 at 5:17 PM #776694paramountParticipant–
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