that's what people in the web would ask if they are loosing out on an argument. and then they would end their sentence with LOL.
laughter means a lot of things, not just feeling happy or after hearing a joke, or feeling funny. you notice some people always laugh when they speak. why? laughter is like smiling, probably originates from some kind of fear, or submission. fear of what?
smile, we know, is out of fear from someone superior to you, ie when you see somebody that you think is dominating over you, you show humility/submission out of fear of being construed as his enemy.
is it the same for laughter? we laugh at our speech because we think it's funny? yap. but why do we think so? it's like a 'silly-me' kind of thingie. perhaps, we think we are childish(doesn't make sense) when we say such and such things..... and we fear that the listener would laugh at what we say.....so before the listener could have the chance to laugh at us in his heart, we preempt his action, and now he's allowed to do so openly or secretly, but he wouldn't because, there's nothing to laugh about if the speaker already say - don't take what he says seriously.
now, seriously, you think that's it? no other further implication?
how'bout this?
ah hua sms ah kow, "u noe, i gt a scolding fm my boss 2day. she said i stupid. i angry. i said, u pig. she angry n tell me to pack my bag. i angry, pack my bag, went 2 c hr. hr said, cannot say stupid, so she must apologize. she said, i scold her pig.... i must also apologise. like idiot apologise to a pig.... wat can i say, i can only say - sorry lor, i called you a pig. i thot you wldn't mind that fm an idiot wat.....!"
and ah kow.... sms back "LOL....ROTF..."
people laugh when they think they have the upper hand or triumphed over a situation.
when people in very tough situations, they laugh also.
like ah meng, after losing out to competitor on an important sale, laughed out loud, the other day. ah lian, his sales-lady asked ,"boss, why so happy we lost out an important sale?"
"hoh... my commission will suffer, but i'm happy because i can sleep soundly now, that everything is over..... war is always cruel... i'm a looser, but it's been kind enough to let me pick up from where i left off and continue what i do.... so no harm done, after all.... hahahahaahaaaa."
you see people laugh over failures, disasters, misfortunes....
now, we should laugh all the way to the bank.... you mean you strike 4d?
no lah, just so that we could save our laughters for gloomy days when we feel we cannot afford them.
how do you bank your laughters?
here's how:
you laugh all the way to the bank, then say to the teller, "i want to bank my laughter, hahahahaah."
"how much?"
"hahahaha - 3000 ha's, hahahaha"
"ok, let me see your haha-meter."
"here. it says 2900, hahahahahaha, now 2906, by the time we finsih the transaction it will reach 3000, hahahahaha..."
"fixed depo, or savings?"
"how much interest, fd, savings? hahahahah"
"5 ha per 1000 ha per yr for fd, 1 ha per 1000 ha per yr for savings...."
"why it costs me more ha's to put in fd? hahahahahahahahahah"
"because everybody wants to have the last laugh, so we charge more interest for fd which is meant to be kept as the last laugh..... HA HA!"
Apr 1, 2010
Laughter is no joke: scientist
WASHINGTON - SO A SCIENTIST walks into a shopping mall to watch people laugh. There's no punchline. Laughter is a serious scientific subject, one that researchers are still trying to figure out.
Laughing is primal, our first way of communicating. Apes laugh. So do dogs and rats. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches you how to laugh. You just do. And often you laugh involuntarily, in a specific rhythm and in certain spots in conversation.
You may laugh at a prank on April Fools' Day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 per cent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke, said Baltimore neuroscientist Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for decades. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather than reaction to a joke.
'Laughter above all else is a social thing,' Mr Provine said. 'The requirement for laughter is another person.' Over the years, Mr Provine, a professor with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, has boiled laughter down to its basics.
'All language groups laugh 'ha-ha-ha' basically the same way,' he said. 'Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. ... There's a pattern generator in our brain that produces this sound.' Each 'ha' is about one-15th of a second, repeated every fifth of a second, he said. Laugh faster or slower than that and it sounds more like panting or something else.
Deaf people laugh without hearing, and people on cell phones laugh without seeing, illustrating that laughter isn't dependent on a single sense but on social interactions, said Mr Provine, author of the book 'Laughter: A Scientific Investigation. -- AP
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