Or just because it's funny. In my youth I was walking down the road with a mate of mine, we had just been to the chip shop for a portion of chips each and were busy walking and talking and eating chips, when I spied a couple of fit girls accross the road. "Simon" says I, "look at those two accross the road". So he looked, and walked, and walked and looked, and then they noticed us and started to look back.
Then just as I turned to face Simon and was about to say something along the lines "come on mate we're in here", he walked slap bang into a lampost, fell to the floor with chips raining down around him, and me, well I just pointed at him and laughed long and hard. Sadly by the time I had stopped and Simon had regained his feet if not his dignity, the girls had gone. On Dec 30, 2:15 pm, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 22, 1:04 pm, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > its just a passing thought . But i was wondering why we laugh at > > others..what would make us laugh or make fun of someone else,in the > > sense that it is humiliating for the person concerned..ridicule..what > > psychological reasons are behind it..in fact what makes us laugh at > > anything... > > Schadenfreude. We find something funny because we see irony. At > least that's what I've always felt. Someone walking carefully over > ice...slips. It's ironic, thus funny. They TRIED to be careful but > to no avail, thus the irony of their care. It didn't help them. > Things like that.
