Oftentimes #Laughter & #Comedy can have major mental healing properties. Our era is no exception. Even on a runaway train, if all else failed, enjoying the ride makes more sense than worrying. https://apnews.com/article/spacex-starship-elon-musk-0c260a324f597a172300315c6486b9df

a sense of humour will get you through many things…

recipe to restore your sense of humour:

diaphram release

1. lie on floor or horizonal, knees bent.
2. with an awareness of the diaphram, begin to cry or laugh, and let them alternate. fake it until you make it.
3. it may feel like a wave and emotional roller-coaster. remember you can be still whenever you choose by just returning to the breath.

A quotation from Horace [wist.info]

                                And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
 
[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/

A quotation from Steven Moffat [wist.info]

JEFF: You’re not ready for the Giggle Loop. […] Basically, it’s like a feedback loop. You’re somewhere quiet. There’s people. It’s a — it’s a solemn occasion. A wedding. No — it’s a minute’s silence for someone who’s died. […] Minute’s silence ticking away. Tick. Tick. Tick. The Giggle Loop begins. Suddenly, out of nowhere, this thought comes into your head: the worst thing I could possibly do during a minute’s silence is laugh. (Overturns an empty beer glass) And as soon as you think that, you almost do laugh, automatic reaction. But you don’t, you control yourself. You’re fine. Whoo — but then you think how terrible it would have been if you’d laughed out loud in the middle of a minute’s silence. And so you nearly do it again, only this time it’s a bigger laugh. (Stacks a beer glass on top of the first one) And then you think how awful this bigger laugh would have been. And so you nearly laugh again, only this time it’s a very big laugh. (Stacks another glass) It’s an enormous laugh! Let this bastard out, and you get whiplash! (Stacks another glass) Suddenly, you’re in the middle of this completely silent room (Stacks another glass) and your shoulders are going like you’re drilling the road! And what do you think of this situation? Oh, dear Christ, you think it’s funny!

Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Coupling, 01×03 “Sex, Death and Nudity” (2000-05-26)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moffat-steven/74360/

#Greatape sense of #humour

Especially #orangs

#anthropology #primates #laughter #cognition

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/great-apes-joke-around-suggesting-humor-is-older-than-humans/

About pointing and laughing at Hair Füror and the 4th Reich: I’ve gotten a fair amount of pushback and how serious the moment is, and so on. All true enough.

If you don’t point and laugh, then you are #NORMALIZING him, just as the media does. If you don’t point out how none of this is rational, then you are helping to #SANEWASH him.

This is what they want and expect. #Laughter is our weapon, remember MAGA doesn’t understand humor, they take themselves seriously.

Man, that line between very funny and mockingly funny is razor-thin!

#humor #humour #infographics #lol #laughter

Alt text:
ha - not funny at all
hah - sort of funny
haha - just humorous
hahah - funny but not "lol"
hahaha - genuinely funny
hahahah- "lol"
hahahaha - very funny
hahahahah - mockingly funny