unhappy meal
a few days after my 21st, i ran into one of my best friends, who'd been invited to the party but hadn't shown up.
"why couldn't you make it to the party?" i asked.
red-eyed, she explained to me that she'd gone to visit her father that day and found him in the kitchen, dead.
"oh my god, that's terrible! i'm so sorry! if you don't mind me asking, how did he die?"
"he got a meal from the chippy on the way home from the pub and choked to death on a sausage."
i sincerely hope that my bursting into laughter was purely a reflexive response.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 9:01, 12 replies)

After embarrassing myself so many times at others' bad but funny news, I've had to develop a coping strategy.
I put my hand over my face as if in horror and physically hold my mouth together to fend off the grin. The inevitable chuckle then sounds like a gasp of horror. Works, but you have to be quick.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 9:27, closed)

fortunately
i found out afterwards that pretty much everyone she told laughed. she got used to it and didn't get upset by it.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 9:32, closed)

I can't decide it it'd be a good or a bad thing
to have a loved one die in a humorous manner.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 9:51, closed)

it was horriffic, by all accounts
he'd tried to gouge his own throat open with the plastic chip-fork
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 10:03, closed)

Bloody hell.
That would have been a great story, had he survived.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 10:11, closed)

yep

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 10:17, closed)

that just added a whole new level of compelling to your tale.
Why the fuck would you leave a detail like that out?
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Fri 4 Nov 2011, 10:21, closed)

because it's really rather grim

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 10:23, closed)

yes. it is.
/nods
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Fri 4 Nov 2011, 11:02, closed)

Still
It would have made a more engaging film than that merkin bloke hacking off his own arm.
( bane, Sat 5 Nov 2011, 23:52, closed)

Gruesome but genius

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 11:22, closed)

Hahahaha
Oh dear
Clicks
( DumbMonkey The penis mightier than the sword, Wed 9 Nov 2011, 11:32, closed)