Do YOU have a sure-fire way to bring some HUMOR to a SITUATION that seems on the verge of getting HOSTILE? :D?

Question

Explain your answer.....Use examples if you wish........
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I believe humorists are very undervalued...Anytime you can bring laughter to the world (preferably not at someone else's expense) .. that is a very good thing...
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Answer 1

I wouldn't know how to define it as "sure-fire" because I just do it. Perhaps my own silliness helps! The way I do it depends on the people involved, but I'm always somehow able to bring out the humour in just about anything, & people wind up laughing. Perhaps because there IS humour in everything, & people are too focused on hostility or dispair to see it unless the connection is made for them. It often takes only a smiling, off-hand comment, an association that brings out the comedy of a situation. It's not bizarre behaviour, jokes, or laughing "at" the person/s. I didn't even realize I did this until some friends commented on it, & how they could always count on me to make them laugh--even if I was laughing at my own castastrophe.

Answer 2

Usually my life experiences.
People always think my life is funny, maybe the way I tell it makes it funny.
I don't know what was going on, but once in choir practice someone was talking about underwear so I told them that back in the 70's a lot of people were going bra-less. In order to tell if you should go bra-less you put a pencil under your breast. If it stays there then you shouldn't go bra-less. They thought that was a hoot and got everyone laughing for quite a while.
Now you think I am crazy for saying that at choir practice, but you need to know these people. They are so much fun.

I really haven't been in very many "hostile" situations. Though my girls, when they were teens, did almost make it hostile.
I would make them sit down and talk to me and we would solve the problem. Sometimes this had to happen fast as they were usually steaming out the door and I wouldn't let them go until we got it straightened out and they were in a better mood after we got done talking.

Answer 3

Insert the unexpected into the conversation

ie Turtles can breathe thru their butt !
Crack off a wicked bit of gas

Start laughing

Within each human's psyche are many separate personalities...and that would be a healthy human...dig out the character needed to resolve the situation.

To quote Shakespeare: Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Answer 4

Dont use depreciating humor...show yourself as the tough guy you are. Like life is never hard enough for you. Like once i was in a train with guys i have p*ssed off and they said they wannat to hurt me in a very personal manner. I said you better be physically well mounted or i might get bored...they didn't dare touch me.....by that i mean lay a hand on me. I provoked them to start a fight, so that their instincts would act, not their mind. They didn't do much damage...

Answer 5

humor is a must,it can make a bad situation change to a humorist one.
Do you know how a gay takes of a condom? (by farting)
good luck.

Answer 6

Yes, definitely, i usually try to pitilessly calm down the person, of course I'm not the best at making jokes in such a situation

Answer 7

Make a joke about yourself, self-deprecating humor is disarming, even the the hostiles.

Answer 8

Egress from it, the darkness, and you will have accorded humor the freedom to provide the space and light to 'be' once again humor.

Answer 9

No. I can't do it on demand. What a talent that would be! It would be even better if the person who was turning hostile thought that they made the joke.

Answer 10

I try always to bring humor into almost any situation. its not always appropriate I realize. if I didn't have my humor who knows where I would be today.