Has anybody ever laughed at you??
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One incident I recall occurred shortly after I broke my femur as a kid. I was lying on the grass with various folk - teachers, parents, a couple students - standing around me to shelter me from the wind and rain, and I remarked that my leg felt like it was going to explode. Someone laughed at that, which made me laugh in sympathy, which caused pain, which made me angry. I recall responding 'fuck you' through gritted teeth amidst this curious mixture of laughter, anger and pain; which made more folks laugh.
Ah, good times.
These days, ditto. If you can't laugh at yourself and the absurdity of life on occasion, well, that's unfortunate.
Ah, good times.
The person who laughs at me the most often is me.
These days, ditto. If you can't laugh at yourself and the absurdity of life on occasion, well, that's unfortunate.
One time I videotaped myself doing some Darth Maul moves with a broomstick.
Man, did I catch hell for that.
Man, did I catch hell for that.
I had a cellphone once that had the TOS communicator noise as a ringtone.
So I'm in New York City, and emerging from a subway station on Lexington Avenue when my phone rings. People around me start laughing when they hear that ringtone.
I would've been laughing, too -- a laugh of recognition. Laughing w/ you, not at you.
My ringtone for work-related calls is Johnny Cash singing "Folsom Prison Blues." That gets laughs from people who make the connection: I work in corrections.
The single worst thing that has ever happened to me: Someone broke into my house, threatened me w/ a knife and sexually assaulted me. Hell, no, nobody laughed.
However, there are certain details of the incident that are so totally bizarre that when I told (a very few) people, they laughed. As did I. I couldn't survive life w/o a sense of humor.
I can't help but feel sorry for that poor kid though.People have laughed at me. Mostly for falling over and stuff that I find pretty funny too.
Yeah, I can relate to that. I fell off a treadmill a few weeks ago.
It was pretty hard to explain the bruises and sprain w/o everyone, myself included, laughing.
Yes people laugh at me for some of the stories I've told. Like this date I went on with a woman who claimed to have been abducted by aliens.
The most injust thing to happen to me? Well that's on a need to know basis, and I don't think anyone here needs to know.
The most injust thing to happen to me? Well that's on a need to know basis, and I don't think anyone here needs to know.
As a child people laughed/teased me when I was still sucking at my thump at an age over the norm of doing that. Which was the reason why I trained that habit off of me (I bound my hands together and slept on them).
Then I remember a stranger who, while sitting next to me in the bus, suddenly grabbed me between the legs, stroking me, while smiling and laughing into my face. I was SO shocked and stunned, that I did nothing. No shouting, no kicking, I just froze. When he got out of the bus he laughed at me again and gave a smug- superiour look.
It´s about a decade and half ago, but I am still annoyed about myself today, that I didn´t do anything...and don´t understand why I not at least snarled at him, to stop. But oh well..guess in our nature it´s either running, fighting or playing dead... I could not run, and between the latter two I choosed playing dead. Today I would choose fighting, I hope.
TerokNor
Then I remember a stranger who, while sitting next to me in the bus, suddenly grabbed me between the legs, stroking me, while smiling and laughing into my face. I was SO shocked and stunned, that I did nothing. No shouting, no kicking, I just froze. When he got out of the bus he laughed at me again and gave a smug- superiour look.
It´s about a decade and half ago, but I am still annoyed about myself today, that I didn´t do anything...and don´t understand why I not at least snarled at him, to stop. But oh well..guess in our nature it´s either running, fighting or playing dead... I could not run, and between the latter two I choosed playing dead. Today I would choose fighting, I hope.
TerokNor
Yep. That's what it was about. You can get some bizarre things happen in this world. the policeman who dealt with it saw me a year later and asked if I was still reading.
The thing about some low achieving areas is that they give low acheivers high status and put them up as role models to the rest. They get housing and social services priority and some of them have Caligula-like power. The ones that make a go of it are kept to the back and nobody ever sees them. People should make a big fuss of them, too.
People outside these areas can see it, but the ones inside can't.
I've had most of my natural aggression beaten out of me by men with lower aggression and less control and focus. I've been held down while they do it and everyone seems to think it's perfectly right and fair and proper as I am seen to have an unfair advantage.
You have to get people to focus their desires.
Yikes! I'm so sorry that happened to you.
all the time at school. Since then I have always lived in fear of being laughed at. 
Yesterday, I played the TOS chirp non-stop for 5 minutes walking out of the Columbus Circle subway station and not one person laughed at me. Hell, no one even paid attention to it.
When I was in 5th grade or so, I was in a fight with a kid after school. After watching too much Trek, I attempted the Captain Kirk flying drop kick. I can only imagine that it really looked like I just picked up my legs and fell on my ass... that got a few laughs.
Yesterday, I played the TOS chirp non-stop for 5 minutes walking out of the Columbus Circle subway station and not one person laughed at me. Hell, no one even paid attention to it.
^ See, I might be insulted at that, if I wasn't under such heavy caffeine.
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