Happens to me a lot
2006-07-12 02:19:47 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I've heard that that is the way some people learn to cope with stress. They don't laugh to be rude, it's simply their mechanism that helps them to deal with it.
2006-07-12 17:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by jermaine 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Yes, and if it's really an uncontrollable laugh,I sound like Nathan Lane in the movie 'The Bird Cage"! It ends up embarrassing me more than ever.
The worst time it ever happened was at a funeral viewing the deceased. Damn! In line with a lot of mourners. I had just thought of a joke the deceased and I had laughed about so often.
Anyway, my 'Nathan Lane' giggle went over like a tootsie roll in a punchbowl. I felt every eye on me and hoped I would fall off the earth. My escort didn't crack up until we got to the car.
2006-07-12 03:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it happens.
Sometimes it's because the situation has gotten so intense and serious that it's either either cry or laugh -- and depending on who you are, you might just start laughing.
On occassion, someone has been SO solemn and intense about something that really is so insignificant [to me, at least] that it just comes across as extremely absurd, and I would have to bite my tongue so as to not hurt their feelings.
(What really stinks is that the harder you try not to laugh, the harder it becomes not to. Every little thing just adds to the absurdity.)
I guess that would do it for me: Juxtaposing intensity and seriousness with a completely inappropriate, non-serious situation. The irony usually just kills me.
But, like I said, laughing at someone who is very serious about what they're saying is something I really avoid (unless I know the person can take it and we are close)... I will excuse myself to the bathroom or some other private place, if I can't get a grip.
2006-07-12 05:53:39 · answer #3 · answered by Jennywocky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No someone hasn't started laughing at me uncontrollably, but I've had to tell people stuff and then had a laughter fit ... so embarrassing
2006-07-12 09:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lately convinced, i imagine this is my being pregnant, i'm playing it, and so are my childrens. All 5 human beings get giggling so difficult it hurts, my little deaf son faux laughs attempting to mock me, then my oldest daughter receives mad at us because we are able to not supply up. I had the giggles at my sisters funeral, yet i became in basic terms 8, I in simple terms did not understand then. I also had a giggling fit even as my husband and that i have been signing for a house refinance loan. the adult men there have been stiff and so specialist, and that i became sitting there giggling like a loopy female.
2016-10-14 09:36:24 · answer #5 · answered by hudrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh yeah - oh yeah this happens toi me sometimes. Sometimes as another answerer said, its because you dont find the subject at all serious and you just laugh at the peron for being so upset by it. But other times it has happened when really it is something quite sad or distressing to someone but you just cant help it. i dont know if its something to do with your mood at the time but its sooo weird. anyway, it hasnt happened to me for a while so touch wood.
2006-07-12 07:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, though I'm really known to laugh at just about anything but when people act all serious and I'll even see it being serious sometimes it is really hard not to laugh, I agree it happens to everyone a lot! don't feel to bad about it even if its embarsing
2006-07-12 05:42:36 · answer #7 · answered by R.R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm I have to confess to one occasion when a friend told me how her ex-husband, a long time junkie and father to three of her children, had been founf that morning hanging from a rope at his house.
I looked at her and simply said.... "Well this is one time he didnt leave you swinging in the wind."
Then I realised what Id said and for some reason just burst into laughter...
2006-07-12 21:45:39 · answer #8 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I think that sometimes if you're nervous and don't know what the say in response to something than this tends to happen. Or if your mind wanders and you think of something funny at the time, than it could be that you're laughing at too. At least now i know i'm not the only one that does this! lol
2006-07-12 14:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by Mel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sometimes the expression on the persons face and imagining the situation in your head can be comical. I laughed at someone and then played it off by saying, Stop! you are joking? Then apologized.
2006-07-12 02:25:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋