Things that your not supposed to laff at..

[Jonnyfp]

Picture the scene..
A group of unpopular school kid rocker types (1987) are taking there first break outside leaning against the wall.
A girl chasing a lower form boy past our location cos he is taunting her for some reason. (we don't know why) suddenly without warning her leg falls off. she is left with a dangling appendedge desperatly grasping for traction then falls flat on her face.
Now we had no idea it was a prosphetic leg and where shocked beyond belief.
whats the human mind going to do to make you cope??

Laff.
we laffed so hard it hurt.
and it left me with enough guilt to start my own religion.
if that girl is reading this thread right now then i apologise prefusely for reacting the way we did.

Even tho she picked her leg up and threw it at us.

[Bosun]

nope nothing to laugh at there ...mmmm..mmmphff... :D

[Sir Ewok]

and she didn't have a leg to stand on.... What? Somebody was going to say it, so I got in first... Bugger it, wish I hadn't said it now!.... Yes! I have been at the Voddy, Why? .... Mmmble mmmmble mmmble!

[Rogue Monkey]

Its a harsh world! :p Did you return her leg bye the way? Does that count as getting a leg over? :o

[blackhack]

she must be popular with the "hop on - hop off" buses then ???

[Doro]

I know what you mean jonny

when we were ikkle my sister collapsed in a very busy Marks & spencer one xmas and she was screaming in pain, like a tortured animal, me n my older sister had never heard noise like it (we were all under 10). We were shocked and afraid and all we could do was laugh - crying or screaming ourselves didn't even cover it, it was the most scared and upset I've ever been and I think laughing then was our way of dealing with pain greater than pain which would cause tears

[turned out she'd had appendicitis all week and by the saturday it burst..!]

this is also

like people who laugh when they're given extremely bad news
like people who make a joke and laugh to hide their bad feelings (pain, despair, disappointment, fear etc) these folk paint on smiles 'like a clown'
and pretend everything is ok and happy when it's not - for whatever reason [I don't understand it cos I always show my true feelings] I guess it's a self defence mechanism, or they don't like folk to know what they're thinking

maybe one day someone will explain why :)

[Jonnyfp]

Well we all kept out of this girls way for a while coz she was'nt afraid of anything.
She had developed quite an accurate aim with that there plastic leg and never got caught by the teachers.
It amazed me how her shoe always stayed on it too. :confused:

[Sir Ewok]

I used to get bullied at school by 5 third year gits. They made4 a habit of bashing the younger kids (real heros) and making them cry. Every time the bastards beat me, I would laugh in their faces. I was in agony and bruised to ***** but I wouldn't let the mother-fuckers see me cry. Eventually they gave up 'cos they thought I was mad and beat **** out of the others. As it happened I have never been afraid to show my true feelings, but sometimes it is prudent not too.

[Jay]

Phew.....nearly put your foot in it there mate, still if the shoe was on the other foot I would have legged it.

[Dougie]

I remember a couple of years after I came out of the army bumping into one of the b*stards who'd made my life at school utter utter misery.I'd grown taller by a couple of inches,wider by a few and lost a good bit of the flab (got it back now tho').He came into the pub and stood at the bar,so I sloped over to him and said "Remember me?"
After a couple of seconds he did,near shat himself and fecked off out the pub leaving his pint which he'd already paid for.
Very satisfying!