I can catch myself sometimes these days and all I do is laugh

[venta]

I rarely, if ever, write LOL. When I do, it tends to be in emails to people who understand that when I write it, it's a shortcut for "I actually am actually laughing out loud". In other situations (most recently, in reply to a comment of sammason's, which quite caught me off guard), I feel the need to spell out that whatever they've written has actually made me laugh. Out loud. If I haven't caused at least three colleagues to turn round and look enquiringly at me, it just ain't LOL-worthy.

Because sometimes, I feel like I don't laugh much. In general, I'd say I'm very easily amused. Yet frequently I'll read a mildly diverting page on t'web, only to find comments along the lines of "crying with laughter, here". And I think: what, really? It didn't cause me to make any audible expression at all. Yes, I know humour is subjective. And yes, how funny you find something depends very much on what you're doing - if you're already laughing, a slight joke can make you laugh all the harder. Am I just hard to entertain in written form?

I do wonder that perhaps a lot of the things that make me LOL do so by being so unexpected. Things which have made me LOL on first reading rarely do so a second time, even though they remain funny. Of course, the downside of being caught on the hop by funny stuff is that it's just as likely to cause a
tea | nose > keyboard
scenario as a LOL.

Some people seem to exhale LOLs and lolols with every sentence. Either they are continually in a state of near hysteria, or they take the expression less seriously than I do.

Do you laugh out loud a lot reading the web? Do you LOL?

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Nah, I'm the same, very few things make me literally laugh out loud on the web,

(Last thing which did was the two hamsters video some months ago. Even then, rewatching it now doesn't have the same effect again.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

It was quite funny, though :)