It's a joke! Don't you get it?

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do you mean that I misunderstood them and they weren't being mean? I just took it the wrong way?

It's a possibility. We get accused of being rude too so I like to give others a benefit of a doubt unless it's really obvious. I read lot of stuff online and it seems like anything is rude these days, if someone doesn't like something, they call it rude, same as what you ask or say. So how is them being rude back going to help? The person would just think they are the rude ones and still be oblivious to their own behavior. Maybe it does help because if they think you are rude, then they might just back off and not have anything to do with you thinking you are a rude person but it won't teach them anything still. I have pretty much sheltered myself from people because of this because it feels like I am surrounded by unfriendly people and I want nothing to do with them. I have to trust them first before I open up. Maybe I am the bad one and all I learned was there are lot of mean people in the world and d they take anything the wrong way so anything can offend so I must not talk to anyone about anything. If it weren't for the internet I would not have gotten so paranoid because before I was ignorant and had no awareness of peoples responses and what they were implying. I was better off when I was ignorant. I didn't really learn a thing except that lot of people are not nice and now it seems like my social skills are even worse and now I have gotten social anxiety and more withdrawn. But at least I am not around hostile people and at least I get less meanness because I stay away from lot of people by not speaking to them. I say little as possible.

I do have a sense of humor. However, its often of the dry & wry variety. Which means offense is often taken because people don't always realize I'm pulling their legs! Sad & funny at the same time.
But, because of my thinking processes I fall for some obvious things like the newest one, when others are making jokes:

Orange is spelled like gullible..

I tied my brain in knots over this, until someone broke it down.
Gullible indeed! LOL (I'm not offended either, just the perfect victim..)

Sincerely,
Matthew

I tend to laugh at lots of things, whether most people think they're funny or not. It probably confuses people, because I'm usually very serious.

You can probably tell from reading my posts. Sometimes I might just make a dumb, pointless comment, while other times, I'll post a whole essay, with myself standing on a virtual soapbox.

I also have a sense of humor. Lot of people find me funny and I don't intend to be funny. When I am intentionally funny, people seem to not find it funny, but if I am not trying to be funny, people find me funny. But sometimes my humor is hurtful I have been told.

I've done that sometimes when I've been told cheap sexual or toilet jokes........I don't find such jokes intrinsically funny in their own right.....I just find it hilarious that so many people can be aroused by such simple smutty comments. So I'm not laughing with them, I'm laughing at the idea that dirty humour amuses dirty minds. They never notice it because I never tell them.

No.

Next question.

Oh, and here's a joke for you.

An Irishman went to get his mind read.
They gave him his money back.

I always find the worst comedians are the dinosaurs, who poke fun at a group (that might be a race, gender, nationality, age, disabled). I find it particularly disturbing to hear jokes being told about a group of people, who have suffered prejudice, especially when the joke further fuels the notion that the prejudice was/is somehow justified. Thankfully, these types of jokes are not generally welcome in intelligent circles.

The best comedians for me are the ones who mock themselves or talk about ridiculous situations that anyone could find themselves in.

Kind of like the man in a dress gag, it's just so old!

How many atheists have an open mind about Christianity?

We're not all fundamentalists you know...

So you can reverse the people in that comic and that's about 90% of the population right there.

I haven't seriously analyzed my sense of humor. I do know I have one, and I tend to deadpan jokes all the time (but people think I'm serious because I'm deadpan and start earnestly correcting me and telling me why I'm wrong). I don't laugh at a lot of things, including many things I find funny.

I think a lot of my humor is visual. I remember listening to a "Bill Cosby: Himself" cassette tape over and over again when I was a teenager, because he would take the time to provide these absurd descriptions of the events in his stories that I tended to visualize as he described them. Steven Wright's comedy strikes me as totally hilarious for very similar reasons ("I bought some dehydrated water. I don't know what to add." "I spilled spot remover on my dog; now he's gone.").

I have a fairly good sense of humour. I can take what people say, figure out other interpretations of it or link it back to other things they have said before to deliver killer one liners . Anxiety blocks that a bit, plus I am out of practice so my response time is a bit slow atm.

Thing is I learnt to do this and I know exactly when/where I learnt this. In school I definitely did not "get" jokes and is probably one of the reasons for the constant exclusion/mild bullying in school. I love jokes now though, I laugh too much which makes it hard to tell jokes. I make myself laugh all the time too.

Agreed wholly.