Stupid, but aggravating nevertheless

[renaeden]

I admit it, I did not make it up myself. I heard it somewhere. Thank you both for your nice comments, though.

Hmm, I would be walking around the office with a nice big role of it, peeling the end up a bit, seeing if the hint is taken...

[goddessoflubbock]

You could tell her, "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver."

I wonder if she would get it?

ROFL That's a hoot!

[Blandit]

I, too, despise irritating laughs. My daughter had this friend, an older, bossy, controlling girl, and she took up this phony laugh at every little thing that her friend said, regardless of whether or not it was truly funny. She finally dropped the friend (thank God) but not the laugh.
My husband picked up this strange laugh about 5 years ago. It's not his natural laugh, I think he got it from someone at work. It's a Teee-heee-teee-heee laugh and I prefer a ha-ha laugh anyday! Because I dislike the eeee sound. (that's why I didn't name my kids Jimmy, Tommy, Nicky, Susie, Christy, Shelly, Terry, Amy, etc.) (I know it's stupid but cannot be helped!)
Anyway, I asked him why he was suddenly laughing that way and said because he felt like it and he has been doing so ever since!

On a cautionary note: I have a friend who has Asperger's (official) and she laughs alot. She says that she has always done this and cannot stop. She doesn't know why but suspects its a way to deal with overstimulation because she does it more when there is stress. She also admits to laughing at innapropriate situations, like funerals, weddings, sermons, prayer, when her husband is trying to have a serious talk with her........etc. (that would be funny!) not really, though.
I would not have guessed that this friend had AS. People with AS are so diverse. It is much easier to spot a person with ADHD.

[goddessoflubbock]

I doubt that AS is an issue here. While I know that it can present in very many ways, she is just so social, and nothing else about her gives me that impression at all.

My son has what I guess you'd call an "AS" kind of laugh. It sometimes borders on sounding inappropriate. But I guess because he's my son, it doesn't grate on my nerves the way this lady's does.

Word has it she may be getting transferred up one floor. That would be my nirvana.

[Belfast]

Sorry if I'm going off topic into a tangent:

It's a Teee-heee-teee-heee laugh and I prefer a ha-ha laugh anyday! Because I dislike the eeee sound. (that's why I didn't name my kids Jimmy, Tommy, Nicky, Susie, Christy, Shelly, Terry, Amy, etc.) (I know it's stupid but cannot be helped!)

It's not stupid-let's call it "arbitrary" instead, to indicate that we don't know why this preference exists in some people. I agree, and discussed with a friend how we dislike first names that end in that sound: Tiffany, Kimmi, Joey, and so on. No offense meant to anyone w/names that end in "eeeee" sounds, I hope !
I wonder if people who have names that end in the "long e sound" find other names (such as mine) that end in different elongated vowel sounds similarly irritating to hear. I'm no audiolinguistic sociologist, though...
I have multiple laughs in my repetoire, so at least I provide variety to whomever's within earshot. My boyfriend has a couple different laughs-which he uses sparingly.

On a cautionary note: I have a friend who has Asperger's (official) and she laughs alot. She says that she has always done this and cannot stop. She doesn't know why but suspects its a way to deal with overstimulation because she does it more when there is stress. She also admits to laughing at innapropriate situations, like funerals, weddings, sermons, prayer, when her husband is trying to have a serious talk with her........etc.

I laugh a frequently, including when I'm nervous/anxious-which is often. I laugh at serious things because I get depressed, angry, and sad-and all I can do with those feelings is to think of the absurdities in the situation. Other times I cry when I feel too much, my brain is too full, or my body too confused-just not in public, if I can help it.

[SomethingElse]

I laugh in the 'wrong' situations but I dislike my laugh anyway. I have a number of different laughs as well but try to repress them if I can help it.

My mum's the opposite. She loves 'ee' names, like Katie, Zoe, Molly, Daisy, Chloe, etc. For girls, anyway. Boys names she likes are Aaron and Joshua so that's a fair bit different.

I dislike many names, but not based on any particular sound.

[Aspen]

I sometimes laugh in inappropriate situations. Something absurd about the situation will stike me as funny and I have trouble controlling it. Sometimes it is a sad situation where you either have to laugh or cry and I prefer to laugh, if I can. I hate to cry.

Thank goodness my husband shares my unusual sense of humor, otherwise it would be tough.

[Sophist]

My hormones are so mucked up these days I end up crying in unwanted situations. So frustrating. I was never a cryer before this ruddy PCOS thing...

[odeon]

I sometimes laugh in inappropriate situations. Something absurd about the situation will stike me as funny and I have trouble controlling it. Sometimes it is a sad situation where you either have to laugh or cry and I prefer to laugh, if I can. I hate to cry.

I do that a lot, and have gotten into trouble more than once because of it. My wife tolerates it but I guess she's tired of it, too.

I do a lot of puns and word plays, too, often in inappropriate situations...

[goddessoflubbock]

I sometimes laugh in inappropriate situations. Something absurd about the situation will stike me as funny and I have trouble controlling it. Sometimes it is a sad situation where you either have to laugh or cry and I prefer to laugh, if I can. I hate to cry.

I do that a lot, and have gotten into trouble more than once because of it. My wife tolerates it but I guess she's tired of it, too.

I do a lot of puns and word plays, too, often in inappropriate situations...

My worst habit is the inability NOT to say something funny that comes to mind - no matter how inappropriate the situation. (stand up is nearly second nature to me) I think I posted on gestalt a bit ago about my coworkers brother who was hit by a car and killed. He was deaf and had schizophrenia. The first time I heard that all I could think was "hmm, does he hear voices then?". REALLY terrible, I know.

I think I got a lot of that from my dad. We'd be driving by a cemetary, and he'd say things like "wow, its really dead in there tonight", or he'd be reading the paper, and say "isn't it amazing how they all die in alphabetical order". So I guess I can blame him.

[Sophist]

"isn't it amazing how they all die in alphabetical order"

Hehehehe...

[odeon]

Thanks Goddess, those jokes really made my day.

And I SO recognise myself there. I do that all the time. I can't help it.

[Blandit]

back to Goddess.........

an annoying, laughing woman is only slightly worse than an annoying, laughing man. I tip my wine glass (slurp!) to your forbearance and pray that she is moved upstairs!

(I also think of terrible (but humorous) things that most people would not think was appropriate for the situation; except my aunts, they have it bad too! and one friend of mine. We can say anything that comes to mind and not be scolded; at least not too harshly!)

[Aspen]

My friend told me that she had accidentally wet her pants slightly because she had a bladder infection and she had to go back to her hotel to get new panties. She decided to get a spare pair, but she did not have room in her tiny purse for them, so she gave them to her mother-in-law to keep for her. She said that they were green with tiny white daisies. She saw though the rear-view mirror, her mother-in-law using them to clean her eyeglasses and that mental image was too much for me. I burst out laughing and I think I upset her.

[Sophist]

My friend told me that she had accidentally wet her pants slightly because she had a bladder infection and she had to go back to her hotel to get new panties. She decided to get a spare pair, but she did not have room in her tiny purse for them, so she gave them to her mother-in-law to keep for her. She said that they were green with tiny white daisies. She saw though the rear-view mirror, her mother-in-law using them to clean her eyeglasses and that mental image was too much for me. I burst out laughing and I think I upset her.

Yes, but did she still wear them later on?