An observation about joy!

Shouldn’t this be in the To See Again section?

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

It wasn’t me. Frankly I’m a little offended at the suggestion that I might work in Paternoster Square.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

Yesterday on the bus a young rapscallion got up for his stop in a hurry and whacked his head on the grab-rail, pretty damn hard at that. He tried to style his way out of it, but a girl sat opposite him caught my eye and that was it, we both had a fit of the giggles as this fella eyeballed us with increasing moodiness. I tried to straighten my features and return the eyeball, just to see him off, but the lip trembled and I was off again. He got off, red-faced and fuming, and I felt guilty and joyous simultaneously, like an incestuous climax.

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

I generally get unsullied moments of joy when I get a big fat kiss on my helmet.

But, yes, it is always nice to see someone enjoying a little private joke – or sharing a sneaky little schaddenfreudisch wink with you about someone else’s unfortunate experience…

Posted about 1 year ago by pottytime

I like it when you’re nice Juvey. Although I like it when you’re nasty as well.

I was walking down a corridor in my office earlier smiling a really big wide smile to myself about something I had just read on this website. My boss came round the corner and said “John Major must be really doing it for you!”. I’ve no idea what the fuck he’s on about but it certainly made me laugh.

Posted about 1 year ago by Heftmaid_

On an extremely crowded Victoria line tube at Pimlico station yesterday morning, the tube driver very politely said ‘DO try to avoid the closing doors, I KNOW it’s not easy, thank you for trying’, and I and another girl, both squashed up against the doors, caught each other’s eye and laughed. The rest of the carriage were moody humourless gits though.

Posted about 1 year ago by Tayto

If I see people laughing to them selves I always assume that they are mentally ill.

Posted about 1 year ago by Babb

Oooh. I can post in this thread! And it’s relevant! And just happened! I was in Topshop and as I was paying for my stuff a little boy ran over and and said to his mum behind me “ergh, ‘orrible shoes” and wiped a bogey on one. This made me laugh a LOT. The assistant did not look impressed. Her face was funniest. I couldn’t stop laughing all the way back to work.

Also, I laugh to myself all the time. Then I realise I look mentally ill and stop. Which just makes me laugh more. Then I punch myself in the face.

Posted about 1 year ago by Carla

My girlfriend walked down Streatham high street the other day with our baby Oscar. A kid walked past with his mum and a younger brother in a pram. He had a peek into the pram then turned to his mum and said “Can we swap him for that one?”.

Kids say the darndest things…

admittedly I wasn’t there but it put a smaile on my face for the rest of the day when she told me

Posted about 1 year ago by unknown

I like seeing people fall over. Or hurting themselves in other ways.

Posted about 1 year ago by eviltwin

It makes me laugh when people try not to look like they are watching me knit on the train/tube.

I suspect it also makes people laugh that I am knitting on the tube/train.

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

I’ve never seen anyone knit on the tube, but if I do, I’ll stride right up to them and say “alright fucktrumpet?” And then you can bail me out of prison.

I also like like walking down Whitehall and watching people try not to get into the Horse Guards’ line of vision. C’mon people, these guys are highly trained to ignore you

Sheeeesh.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

I never understand their function, do tourists steal a lot of horses around there?

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

Juvey, I wouldn’t try it. I am not the only tube knitter and you may get a needle jabbed in your eye.

Mockernee, yes they do.

Posted about 1 year ago by Beagleskin

No, I suppose it could end up all going a bit pear-shaped. Then again, I’d at least be able to post something a bit more interesting than my observation about post boxes. punches self in head

Mockernee, I now know where you work.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

Really? Would that be because you read one of several posts where I say where I work? How hard are you punching yourself?

Posted about 1 year ago by Mockernee

I was just trying not to burst out laughing in the park just then after seeing two men lying down, after one had performed some sort of dance he then continued to sing ’ love aint here any more’ to the other. brightened up my day that did

Posted about 1 year ago by kristine

Actually, no. I pieced it together from the content of your posts, and spent hours decoding them using a complex algorithm that I’d developed for my germ warfare programme. Upshot is that you work at the House of Lords, and don’t try to deny it. It’s foolproof...

Ha!

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

This has only ever happened twice to me, but: infectious tube laughter. You’re on your own. You see someone giggling. You smirk. Someone else smirks. You laugh. Someone else laughs. I was once travelling from Earls Court to Wimbledon, and 6 people at one end of the carriage ended up being reduced to helpless, eye-watering hysterics. “What are we laughing at?” I managed to splutter. “I’ve no idea,” squealed a girl opposite me. It was brilliant.

Posted about 1 year ago by rhodri

Actually, that’s another of my favourite joy moments. Total, uncontrollable giggling. It seemed to happen much more at school, and remains more infectious than the clap. Anyone seen that video that was doing the e-mail rounds a little while ago with the TV interviewer and the bloke who’d accidently had his testicles removed? Yes, well you’ll know what I mean.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey