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[pez]

Remember that email I talked about yesterday? Just now, I got a reply from a different coworker (I used REPLY ALL at first)

Me: Why was I sent this? Is there a funny joke I'm missing?

Him: You didn’t find that funny?

Me: Not at all.

Him: Does your pc not play gif’s?

[At this point, I SMASH MY HEAD ON THE KEYBOARD.]


Me: It does. What's so funny about seeing someone tripping himself?

Him: I don’t know… maybe it is because he has spent so much time working out how to do that, gone on TV to make a fool of him self, and still managed to cock it up on the day.

Me: Then I feel sorry for him, for exactly that reason. And for the fact that people think it's actually funny.

Him: The guy does not get any sympathy because he is the kind of guy that would go on x-factor

Me: *GAWD, that is so not the point. Why did I just waste my time talking to you*

Although, I do remember something said in this book about body languages which I once read. If you look at traditional comedies (mostly the English kind (sorry). HK people tend to prefer the stand-up kind)... I mean the stuff you see on TV, it almost always involve some kind of physical injury in every joke. It makes people laugh because laughter is actually a natural defensive mechanism, and the audience laugh because they imagine the pain and use laughter to diffuse it away. That's all there is to it. But because laughter causes production of certain chemicals in the body which makes the person feel good afterwards, they think they are actually enjoying themselves watching this physical injury happen. Which is why those comedies are not long-lasting (as in, you can't watch them again and again and still laugh), because there is no real humour in them.

Anyway, that's the theory presented by that book. Whether it's true or not... how would I know?

I hate people. I hate people who are so damn unfeeling. I just hate people in general. I hate the fact that I'm too sensitive which means I overreact to things and cry easily.

Blah blah, talking too much and it's still the morning.


In other news, I have a massive spot on my nose.

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I hate watching those shows, too, if it's any consolation. This is why I subscribe to Asian boyband crack because they're funny by being WITTY, not sad.