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| Re: Also, do you remember when you asked if you had ever BEEN funny? by oaches!" Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/24/2013, 3:39am PDT | ||||
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pinback wrote: And it's entirely possible it's a coping mechanism since I've never had friends in person and maybe I'm an acquired taste. There are people who love that canned fish stuff they make in the Norse Countries that stinks so bad they have to wash it in ammonia to bring the smell down and I can't remember what it was. Something like haggis only worse than sheep intestine. (I'm NOT being funny here.) My sister says I'm the only one who finds my jokes funny. I've asked for your help; if you can give me pointers on what I'm doing wrong maybe I can learn. This isn't JC so I can use quotes, so like Jules in Pulp Fiction, "I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard." Realize, if I have years of being unfunny, as you claim, it's going to take time to change. And if people can give serious, constructive criticism I can change. I remember now. NO. You have never been funny. All of your "jokes", such as this one, revolve around you responding as if you are taking something someone else said as literally as possible. I can't win; if I take something as not being literal, then people complain because I didn't take the speaker as literal. It's like no matter what I do, it's always wrong. Somehow you will never understand this, though. I am going to try. I've not had the level of social interaction other people have. An introverted morbidly obese guy tends to get fewer close friends and less social interaction and less opportunities to meet people in person and learn their reactions. I lack the data to do it right, and most people throw their hands up and walk away because they do not have the time or inclination to try and tell me anything that might help point me in ways to do better. You will continue to think that when someone refers to something as "fucking (somethings)" that questioning how those (somethings) manage to have sex is the height of comedy, when in fact it is so painfully unfunny that it the needle points to "slightly unfunny" only because it's spun its way around the dial four times in the wrong direction. TV Tropes refers to this as "Crosses the line twice." But I don't want that; I'd like to be funny the first time, or at least neutral. God. But you'll keep doing it for the rest of your life, and you will always think you are funny, and you will keep making these "jokes", and we are all poorer for it. #72 of 100 Greatest Movie Insults "said it far above my poor power to add or detract": 72. Principal (Josh Mostel): What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard... Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it... May God have mercy on your soul. [Billy Madison (1995)] |
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