People having a bad day to laugh at

mfin

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/people-who-are-having-a-worse-day-than-you

Mikey41

Number 16... LMAO!! Thats brilliant!

verylonglegs

I couldn't stop laughing at the speedboat as you see the guy get slammed to the right face first and out of shot and suddenly his sunglasses tumble out the boat in the other direction, dunno why but it had me in stitches seeing those glasses pop up like that!

Cleat Eastwood

class - the landspeed guy is funny as.

islwyn

Every one of those made me laugh out loud.

GiantMike

Good to see there's humour behind other people's pain. Maybe that's why non-cyclist websites happily post pics of cyclists being hit by cars and find it funny while we would get offended.

CHRISNOIR

I love a good 'people hurting themselves' gif -

johnny25

The guy putting the cinnamon in his mouth was very funny!

desweller

GiantMike wrote:

Good to see there's humour behind other people's pain. Maybe that's why non-cyclist websites happily post pics of cyclists being hit by cars and find it funny while we would get offended.

Did you actually look at any of it?

MattC59

Day off work tomorrow. I suspect that I may be fashioning a toilet paper gun for Mrs C's return from work

GiantMike

DesWeller wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Good to see there's humour behind other people's pain. Maybe that's why non-cyclist websites happily post pics of cyclists being hit by cars and find it funny while we would get offended.

Did you actually look at any of it?

Yes, all very amusing and most were people filming themselves doing stupid things. The boat crash was horrible though and there were probably some serious injuries considering the toughness of a boat and the softness of a face.

verylonglegs wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at the speedboat as you see the guy get slammed to the right face...

random car driver on car forum (probably) wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at how the cyclists flew in the air when the car slammed into them...

ballysmate

GiantMike wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Good to see there's humour behind other people's pain. Maybe that's why non-cyclist websites happily post pics of cyclists being hit by cars and find it funny while we would get offended.

Did you actually look at any of it?

Yes, all very amusing and most were people filming themselves doing stupid things. The boat crash was horrible though and there were probably some serious injuries considering the toughness of a boat and the softness of a face.

verylonglegs wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at the speedboat as you see the guy get slammed to the right face...

random car driver on car forum (probably) wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at how the cyclists flew in the air when the car slammed into them...

I have never quite understood why films of people having accidents are considered to be so funny.
That 'Master of Mirth' Jeremy Beadle made a career out of it on 'You've been framed'. The people who found videos of kids falling off swings etc so funny, must wet themselves if they see an accident in the local park. But of course, they wouldn't. Most people would react with shock and or concern, depending on the seriousnesss.
I am not having a pop at anyone who does find such things funny, I just don't understand why.

Ben6899

Ballysmate wrote:

I have never quite understood why films of people having accidents are considered to be so funny.
That 'Master of Mirth' Jeremy Beadle made a career out of it on 'You've been framed'. The people who found videos of kids falling off swings etc so funny, must wet themselves if they see an accident in the local park. But of course, they wouldn't. Most people would react with shock and or concern, depending on the seriousnesss.
I am not having a pop at anyone who does find such things funny, I just don't understand why.

The Germans have a word for it.

The fella crunking too near to the treadmill is the best one.

GiantMike

Just to clarify, I'm not saying that people injuring themselves isn't funny, I'm just saying that we'd get high and mighty if somebody made a similar post involving cycling accidents.

mfin

GiantMike wrote:

Just to clarify, I'm not saying that people injuring themselves isn't funny, I'm just saying that we'd get high and mighty if somebody made a similar post involving cycling accidents.

That depends though, if it was a traffic accident yes, if it was someone riding no handed opening a can of coke and veering off into a park bench and going arse-over-tit that would be dead funny.

ballysmate

I am not trying to gain any moral high ground. I laugh at other people's misfortune as much as anyone else. I just wonder why people find films of accidents funny when they would not have found the accident funny at the time. Is it the detachment? I don't know.

mfin

Ballysmate wrote:

I am not trying to gain any moral high ground. I laugh at other people's misfortune as much as anyone else. I just wonder why people find films of accidents funny when they would not have found the accident funny at the time. Is it the detachment? I don't know.

The thing about 'funny' is noone can be blamed for their sense of humour, you see or hear something and you find it funny or you don't. I can't watch those clips, then sit for 15 seconds, decide if it warrants laughing, ...and then laugh. Its automatic.

With some of those clips its the very fact that they do get a bit hurt, after posing or doing something stupid that makes it funny. Its the combination. Not laughing at 'pure accidents'. I don't think anyone looks like they were killed.

verylonglegs

GiantMike wrote:

DesWeller wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Good to see there's humour behind other people's pain. Maybe that's why non-cyclist websites happily post pics of cyclists being hit by cars and find it funny while we would get offended.

Did you actually look at any of it?

Yes, all very amusing and most were people filming themselves doing stupid things. The boat crash was horrible though and there were probably some serious injuries considering the toughness of a boat and the softness of a face.

verylonglegs wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at the speedboat as you see the guy get slammed to the right face...

random car driver on car forum (probably) wrote:

I couldn't stop laughing at how the cyclists flew in the air when the car slammed into them...

I'm sorry but that is selective quoting that a tabloid editor would be proud of. What I found funny was the sunglasses flying out of the boat in the opposite direction to which the driver had gone, I don't know why but it just tickled me. I wasn't watching any of the clips looking to someone get maimed and I doubt anyone else was either. Like mfin says, humour is fairly instinctive and sometimes hard to fit into defined conditions.

Kieran_Burns

http://fox2now.com/2012/09/05/police-ho ... ral-video/

For the story behind the boating video.

johnny25

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.” – Woody Allen

Cleat Eastwood

Didnt aristotle say comedy was like a buckled wheel - or maybe he was talking about a buckled wheel.

goonz

the boat one isnt funny really, looks like the guy got seriously hurt probably and the lady falling down the cellar. not funny.