Saturday, June 04, 2005
Taking the mickey out of someone or extracting the Michael as my husband likes to say is funny. Funny to them and funny to you. But how do you know how far is to far? I mean with your family and close friends you know your boundaries but what about people you don’t know? Some people don’t get my humour (or lack of) sometimes, it means to come out funny but it doesn’t. I had three people last week ask me if I was being sarcastic when I actually was being serious. And another person take something serial that I had said that actually wasn’t. Their comment back left to me wondering if I had overstepped the mark with a person I thought was a bit of a kidder.

How do you know when to laugh at yourself or when to start taking the hint? Lots of people use humour to make jabs at people. And then when you say ‘hey that isn’t funny’ they go ‘jokes bro don’t be so serious’. I wonder sometimes if you could get away with saying any nasty comment you wanted but just 'be kidding' Some people can handle the mocks and some people can’t. Some people just use humour to break the ice.

Should the mocker adjust the humour to suit the mockee or should the mockee just learn to lighten up?
Anita posted at 2:53 pm