Can't take a joke?

debodun said:
Do you know someone that can't take a joke or seems to have no sense of humor? There was a post on my FB timeline today about wearing masks in public. I posted some humorous comment and the OP told me to stop trolling and apologized to other that responded for my comment. I just don't get it.
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sometimes, unless you know a person well it's hard to tell on a forum if someone is being genuinely funny , or sarcastic...
 
I have met many people over the years who just don't have the capacity to understand a joke.

Not long a go I was at an event with several dozen blokes, one, a really funny fella was half way through telling a gag, and all but one of us were splitting our sides and he hadn't even got to the punch line. The one that wasn't laughing had a face on him like a smacked arse, and had to have the joke explained again and again, needless to say, to him, the joke went down like a lead balloon. šŸ˜Š

I once saw a very snooty lady, dressed in expensive clothes step into a huge dollop of dog poo, and the antics she went through scraping her shoe against curb stones just gives me the giggles when I think about it. šŸ˜Š
 
Personally, Iā€™m always careful not to make jokes about sensitive topics to people I donā€™t know personally. Often people who ā€œcanā€™t take a jokeā€ often have some past hurt or pain related to the so called joke, and those hot buttons can be painful.
 
The OP asked if everyone was wearing a mask when they went out in public. I posted a picture of a Halloween mask. Doesn't seem that offensive, it's just people have been over and over this countless times. I am getting a little sarcastic about it. I don't underdtand how she thought this was trolling as I didn't actively seek it out. It was right there on my time line.
 
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debodun said:
The OP asked if everyone was wearing a mask when they went out in public. I posted a picture of a Halloween mask. Doesn't seem that offensive, it's just people have been over and over this countless times. I am getting a little sarcastic about it. I don't underdtand how she thought this was trolling as I didn't actively seek it out. It was right there on my time line.
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You did nothing offensive. Trouble with a lot of people today is no sense of humor. Never forget, it's your timeline. Just be yourself. (y) and let their heads explode. šŸ¤Æ

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jujube said:
I worked with a young woman who never seemed to get a joke. She also never got any references to anything. Her usual response to anything was "I don't know what you're talking about". After a while I had the suspicion that it was less a lack of humor and more an act on her part. Nobody could have been THAT dense....
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Then again, probably best not to rule out the possibility altogether! :unsure: .
 
Some subjects are touchier than others. If someone is a big fan & respects someone, especially their favorite politician, they won't find any joke about them funny.
Then, there are those who always act like they have a lemon in their mouth & rarely laugh or smile. And those sourpusses also don't like to see others laugh. Misery loves company.
 
debodun said:
I guess I don't know the difference.
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Donā€™t worry ! Neither do I at times. With no eye contact , no hearing a voice or seeing a smile , chuckle or possibly wink, itā€™s fairly easy to misinterpret someone. Plus there are actually people who have no sense of humour. Let ā€˜em stew. If itā€™s not you it will be someone else theyā€™ll bitch at. Can I say that word? Guess I just did. šŸ˜¬
 
Well, I've heard over and over agian about how some people say they can't wear a mask because they can't breathe. This is %$@#&* BS. Air has no trouble passing in and out of a mask. I think it is a mild form of claustrophobia. I wear a cup mask that has a metal strip on top that one can pinch to get a good fit around the bridge of the nose much like the one in the attached photo (except mine is light blue). I am completely comfortable wearing it, in fact I sometimes forget I am wearing it. I do get a lot of stink eye stares in the store - most people have those homemade cloth ones.

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debodun said:
Well, I've heard over and over agian about how some people say they can't wear a mask because they can't breathe. This is %$@#&* BS. Air has no trouble passing in and out of a mask. I think it is a mild form of claustrophobia. I wear a cup mask that has a metal strip on top that one can pinch to get a good fit around the bridge of the nose much like the one in the attached photo (except mine is light blue). I am completely comfortable wearing it, in fact I sometimes forget I am wearing it. I do get a lot of stink eye stares in the store - most people have those homemade cloth ones.

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I think your mask, being more "rounded", would be less constricting than the flat masks.
 
debodun said:
Well, I've heard over and over agian about how some people say they can't wear a mask because they can't breathe. This is %$@#&* BS. Air has no trouble passing in and out of a mask. I think it is a mild form of claustrophobia. I wear a cup mask that has a metal strip on top that one can pinch to get a good fit around the bridge of the nose much like the one in the attached photo (except mine is light blue). I am completely comfortable wearing it, in fact I sometimes forget I am wearing it. I do get a lot of stink eye stares in the store - most people have those homemade cloth ones.

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That's the one I use for leaf blowing.
 
Sometimes things don't come across online like you intended them to. I had (have) a good online friend that I became very close to. She's a fellow composer-musician who helped me when I was learning the digital music program; she even sent me some tracks to use free of charge. She called sometimes daily and we had fun on the phone. I'd help her edit her writing projects and I thought we had a trusting relationship. I jokingly "said" something in an email reply and she took it totally the opposite of how I meant it then she cut off all contact. We were estranged for about 2 years until I hit her up on Facebook. Now our relationship is back on track we we call each other (Li'l Sis..her and Big Sis..me) We were so happy to finally meet in person in Washington DC and spend an afternoon together last October.
 

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