To laugh, or not to laugh

I think my sauerkraut video is hilarious.

But that's just me.




SPEAKING OF WHICH,

What is up with people laughing at things that just aren't funny? And what's up with people NOT laughing at things that are funny because they're silly? Silly is pretty fucking funny, too. Something absurd or poking fun at something. I noticed someone at work's autoreply email thingie was saying she'd be out of the office until "Feb 17nd." She's by no means a dummy, it was just a case of not paying attention to what she was typing over. (She was reusing the copy from her last out-of-office note where she was gone on the 2nd or 22nd, etc.) Still, when I read it, it made me chuckle, especially since she's usually on top of catching things like that. I thought it was cute. Guess I was the only one.

I hate when you're the only one who finds something funny and then people won't even let you enjoy it. I've had people give me those "whateverrrrr," eye rolling looks for no good reason just because I'm laughing. Because they don't understand it, they don't want me to either. Get over yourself.

Today someone posted this 3-minute video of Mario (from Super Mario Brothers) smoking weed then trying to blow up this castle. He went through so many minutes of throwing bombs and fireballs at it. All this blood from the video game creatures he was throwing at it started collecting on the sides of the castle. Then he finally gave up and walked up to the castle door and started pounding his fists on it. The castle crumbled into dust and Mario won the game. A green 1-up mushroom popped out and Mario missed it. It slid into the castle and the castle 1-upped, getting its life back, and was instantly rebuilt. I totally understand why it was supposed to be funny. The 1-up was for Mario and the castle ended up getting it, thereby defeating all of Mario's hard work to destroy the castle. But for three effing minutes?! It was so boring (and having the little pixelated Mario smoking weed was totally unnecessary, as was all the pixelated blood on the outer walls of the castle), but the person who posted it said he thought it was so funny he was crying at the end. Maybe it was stoner humor.

Humor's a funny (and sometimes not funny) thing.