If a person who doesn't understand something asks you for advice or information, so you tell them a lie - and then make fun of them for believing you: Is that funny? Or just mean?
It could be either, neither or both, it really depends on the circumstances. If you find something funny then it is funny regardless of political correctness, sensitivity etc etc.
If a person is a sanctimonious, hand wringing liberal, taking offence on behalf of others. Would it be funny to make fun of them, or just mean?
Totally agree, I meant if you find it funny then it is funny for you, not necessarily so for anyone else.
About 30 years ago my mother-in-law drove from Cheshire to Alton (near Winchester) and stopped at the local shop and asked for directions to Alton Towers. The shopkeeper laughed and told her to turn round go to the end of the road, take a left and drive 140 miles north!
I was on site friday and a chap asked me which position was drill and hammer on a 110volt drill,when it was very clear on the knob symbol
Rob,but the worst was he wanted to know if i had a spare T.stirt in the van for him as he took his off and could not find it
What about someone that goes on a motorcycle trip to France. Gets separated from the rest of the group on a ride out. Has no mobile. No sat nav. No map. Doesnt know the name of where his staying in France and speaks zero French? We spotted him by chance on a petrol forecourt close to tears after being missing for several hours! Bless.
I am sure you would not be surprised at the amount of blokes who turn up in seaside towns on a Stag weekends They chuck their bags on the bed dive straight out the door into the nearest pub. Then when all their mates are scattered to the four corners at 3am suddenly realise they have no idea where they are staying
I once worked with a guy who, if you’d done something interesting, he’d not only already done it already, but with bells on. At a works conference in Cannes once, I had the pleasure of hosting a meet & greet with William Shatner, genuinely funny guy & famous yet fictional Starship Captain. On recounting this tale later, my ‘colleague’ swore blind that he’d also met him once while he was talking about one of the Star Trek films & that he’d seen a working demonstration of the transporter teleportation thing. When questioned by me & others as to what the actual f... he was talking about, he chose not to back down & stuck to his story that he’d seen an orange disappear & reappear across the room. Words failed me after that but he just couldn’t help himself. He also claimed once to have been in the Gulf war, despite being a pasty faced 20 yr old when he joined us back in 2006 meaning he’d have been 15 or 16 at the time
