Why is this so funny?

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Several months ago, in biology class, we were talking about vegetarians and vegans and what they eat etc.
I asked my teacher if she were a vegan, but she didn't answer (not sure if she heard me) but the whole class burst out laughing. Can someone tell me why that's so funny?

Odds are they all thought you said virgin instead of vegan.

That made my day.

I dunno, it sounds like there's something missing from the story. Nothing about it seems inherently funny to me.

Teachers eat children, they can't be vegans

Eating dead animals is funny

Maybe they've never heard the word before.

No, eating dead plants is funny. Because they were once alive, too. People think fruits and vegetables don't have feelings, and maybe they don't, but how can we know for sure? Maybe apples scream in pain when we bite into one but we just can't hear it.You know what else is funny? When they destroy forests where wild animals live so they have the space to plant crops. Of course that last part wasn't "ha ha" funny.

Do you tend to "miss" things people say?

If so, it is possible she began the conversation by telling the whole class she was vegan. They may have found it amusing that you had yet again missed the obvious.

It's kind of hard for us to figure this out. We weren't there.

Why don't you just ask either the teacher or one of your classmates. Stuff like that happened to me in school all the time. That was the only way I learned why it happened.

I figured if it was laughter because they thought I was stupid, they already thought I was stupid so asking wouldn't really change their attitudes. If it were because they thought I was joking, they would then know I was not joking, and might think I was stupid, but so what? The only really stupid question is the one you never ask.

Ask.

It's the only really good way to start understanding "the rules" of the NT world.

Nope, beats me. I don't get it either.

I don't enough about your situation, but I've been in numerous situations that involved me wondering why people were laughing at me, but I'll mention the first two that enter my thoughts:


I remember looking at an EastBay magazine for a basketball jersey during my Biology class in my 9th Grade year. While my classmates were talking about a certain pair of shoes, I happened to see those same exact shoes they were talking about, I said at random, "Those shoes are ugly!" And everyone started laughing. I wonder if it's because I usually said nothing in class, because I was always sleeping, but I'll never know.

Another moment was while I was in the 11th Grade, I believe. I was walking down onto the bus ramp from the school hallway, when some random female, never seen her before in my life, said, "Aye! You got stripes on yo shirt!" I replied, "I know," and walked along, minding my business as if nothing ever happened. I heard laughters and "OOOOOs", but I didn't know who it was geared towards or why. I figured later that the female was trying to trick me into ridicule, I suppose because they thought something was wrong with me, and I didn't "go for the bait", per se. Although, I didn't show it, I smiled inside

Anyways, the point I was trying to get at is, you never really know what it was. And it may bug the (expletive) out of you, and you may spend hours on end (at the least for some) wondering what you did wrong. I know it still does to me when I can't figure it out, just try your best to learn from it is the best I can say. Much easier said than done, but what can you really say about these things?

Maybe it was a inappropriate question to ask because you asked it at the wrong time?

Or the class may have been laughing about something else. Maybe another person did something funny and they laughed and it was just a coincidence because they did it right after you asked the question.

When I'm in class, there's always some sort of chatter in the background - is it possible that something else happened as you asked the vegan question, that everyone laughed at?

There isn't anything funny about your question as far as i can tell. Perhaps they were laughing at something else?