When did you realize you’re a horrible person?

Fuck. I only just realized it as I read your headline, OP.

OP when did you realize you were boring?

-1000/100

I think most of the people on this site who are horrible don’t see themselves that way.

So are you just cutting and pasting post titles from Reddit?

I'm not a horrible person -- but I've had my moments.

OP, I knew you were a horrible person a long time ago! Die, Yankee trash!

Your surname is Trump.

You are not a horrible person OP. There is a reason "America's Funniest Home Videos" was so popular.

People (and especially children) getting slapped upside the head is just hysterical sometimes.

OP, people laugh at the unexpected. If a situation is absurd, even if society sees it as verboten, we have an impulse to laugh. Your problem is you see to have little self control, to stop after perhaps just a snicker.

I came away from 2024 certain that I’ve been horrible. I expect 2025 to hold fewer awful revelations because I’ve been “trying,” but I’m not sure that trying to be a better person is the same thing as being better.

I can only live in hope.

You’re in the right place OP.

Kids say the darndest things.

I work in a public transit industry. During a specific travel period, I was told some child kept running up and down the aisle, and neither of its parents did anything to… parent the little shit.

When we were about to come to a stop at the station, when everyone else knew to stay seated and not get up until the all-clear was given, I could hear the little shit still running up and down the aisle, stamping its shitty pork-pie legs.

So I slammed on the brakes a full five feet before I should have. The stamping sound turned into a long slide-y sound even I could hear over the strong inhalations of 50+ people. Then there was the crying.

We moved forward the remaining five feet shortly after that and let everybody off.

I got a few accolades. I know im still an awful person, regardless. But I’m fine with that.

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying.

R14, I applaud your decision to stop that little fucker.

One question: what do pork-pie legs look like?

When I made a paralyzed and elderly Cole Porter crawl on the ground for a chance at my ginormous schlong.

Since I discovered DL. Every mean, sarcastic, apathic (is that a word?), shredding of sentiment, and dark thought has found a voice here. I can only hope that my near lifetime of doing the right thing will save me at the Gates.

I would’ve laughed, too, OP.

But I do laugh in stupid situations when I’m scared or startled.

The scene in “Death on the Nile” when (spoiler alert) Angela Landsbury gets shot made me crack up laughing.

I felt kinda horrible about it, but it was so unexpected and sudden, it made me laugh.

I’d be horrible in a really bad situation.

When my niece by marriage had a Bachelorette party and the stripper she hired opened a champagne bottle for her. The stopper in it hit her in the head and knocked her off of the barstool. I laughed my ass off. I never could stand to be around her, even though she always wanted to be around me. She died of an overdose some years later which I did feel bad about.

Another thing I couldn't help but laugh at was an episode of The Jerry Springer Show where he had the siamese twins on and one tried to be a singer. Her twin was hanging off of her head. My older SIL lectured me about how I shouldn't be laughing which made me laugh harder. She told me I was awful.

The incredible two headed girl?

When I devoured my first toddler.

[quote]I can only hope that my near lifetime of doing the right thing will save me at the Gates.

You stating that reveals you as a terrible person.

When every man i ever loved left me.....and when my big fat mama fell off a chair and I had to go outside and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Yes, R22! One of them wanted to be like Reba M.

R 20 and 21.⬆️

OP same. Last year I accidentally closed my mother’s hand in the car door and I never heard her scream so loud. I quickly opened the door and she was fine (was wearing gloves), but, to my horror, I couldn’t stop laughing. Other family members were in the car and I tried to contort my expression to one of concern, but I don’t know if it convinced anyone.

I assume this was some kind of nervous reaction, because I really do love my mother!

r28, Your mother had you circumcised, get over it.

I’m only horrible to horrible people.

I commented that this certain female Presidential Candidate who told a sad young boy after the election that "We are not Defeated" was pathetic when in fact it was a consoling, yet completely false, gesture. I realized I was a horrible person when I was berated on DL for such a thought.

We were defeated because they’re fucking idiots who don’t know how to distill a message or stand down from people who refuse to retire and recruit losers to the candidacies.

I've always wondered about adults who laugh at people's accidents and falls.

It seems so immature and child-like reaction, it makes me wary of the person in general. Nah, scratch that - a lot of kids don't even laugh at that.

They just come off as mean-spirited and hateful - like bullies. But there's a lot of people who do immediately laugh at people's misfortunes.

In utero.

Community theater production of Fiddler. One of the cast members playing Golde or Fruma-Sarah (I forget which) was the size of Chrissy Metz, only much shorter. Like a human bowling ball.

Midway through the show she was coming down some stairs at the back on the set and they gave way. She just went straight down like someone falling through an elevator shaft.

Believe me, I wasn't the only horrible person in attendance. Just as the stifled giggling would simmer down, someone else would catch it and set off the whole audience.

Best production of Fiddler EVER.

[quote] But there's a lot of people who do immediately laugh at people's misfortunes.

Me, since childhood. One incident was at my friend Christine's birthday party. We were 12. Christine had just finished reading a card and tossed it towards the others on the sideboard. Instead it went straight into her mother's eye. I could not stop laughing.

Poor Mrs _____. Apparently the corner of the folded end caused an injury that persisted for months. She even wore an eyepatch to church. She was a nice lady, a family friend I'd known almost my whole life, but she never looked at me the same again.

I still feel terrible - that must count for something.

R33, I hate that “jackass” stuff and a lot of the Home Video things upset me. I can’t even watch some of it.

I don’t like watching people get or be hurt. Most of that stuff, you KNOW someone is going to get hurt, so it’s just upsetting.

In my case (Angela Landsbury in a movie role) and OPs case, we laughed because it was totally unexpected and startling.

I had a friend in HS whose sister would fart uncontrollably when she got startled.

It must be some sort of reflex action.

I'm probably a "horrible" person. I don't get that upset about bad things happening to other people. I also never lose my appetite. I have a high tolerance for gruesome things.

[quote]Community theater production of Fiddler. One of the cast members playing Golde or Fruma-Sarah (I forget which) was the size of Chrissy Metz, only much shorter. Like a human bowling ball. Midway through the show she was coming down some stairs at the back on the set and they gave way. She just went straight down like someone falling through an elevator shaft.

Forgot to add that a year or two later the local paper did an article titled something like "What is Wicca?" and the huge lead photo illustrating it was the human bowling ball in a cloak jumping over a broom or a candle or something. It was almost as funny as the set collapse because you know the layout guy at the paper had his choice of photos and went with that one for the laffs.

Unclench, R33. There's nothing abnormal about it (unless you're talking about laughing when someone gets SEVERELY and obviously injured).

If you look online, you'll see that there's been literal psychological research done on the phenomenon, and it basically boils down to two things:

1) the unexpectedness/absurdity of the situation (as mentioned by R10)

2) mutual embarrassment (i.e., empathy for the other person).

The entire genre of physical comedy is built upon it.

I don’t think a person alive can refrain from laughing when a person in front of him starts slipping or falling on an ice patch. Likewise most people who have fallen in a similar situation will look around to make sure sure they weren’t observed before even checking to see if they have broken any bones

Loudmouthed harridan Ethel Merman slipping on the banana peel at the end of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" was maybe the biggest laugh of the whole movie.

Followed closely by Milton Berle and Terry-Thomas holding her upside down to get the car keys to fall out of her bra. No small feat. She was bigger than plump.

R40 - but you're prepped for slapstick and related comedy by its very nature - you're watching a performance.

A wobble is one thing - but I'm talking about people laughing at people falling down stairs or hitting their heads. These are potential serious injury.

I think you're taught to laugh at it from a young age - and I'll content that most good people do not laugh at things like that. I think it's fine to laugh after - once you see the person is OK. But not before you know.

I hate videos that people call funny that are of people crashing into something or falling down. That's sick to laugh at someone get physically hurt.

Obviously, though, there is an exception for videos of fat people falling. Those are hilarious.

I'm not horrible, I'm awful.

A propos to R36: A kid threw a Lego and it hit the reading teacher ( wonderful woman ) straight in the eye. Random . It blinded her in that eye . Not really related to this thread but whatever .. eye injuries suck

R44--First you say that it's "sick to laugh at someone get physically hurt"; but somehow, in your universe, if a fat person falls and gets injured, it's "obviously" ok to laugh.

How do you rationalize that?

That's terrible, r46.

In high school, a jock acting out randomly threw a rock that accidentally hit a friend in the head with great force. While I was trying to help them as they were in pain, at least half a dozen other friends couldn't stop laughing. Some of them are the nicest people I've ever known - before and since.

It's just a bizarre reaction, not always a sign of bad character. Of course, some of them were probably high at the time.

I know I'm terrible because this is the only place I can really cunt off. Other parts of the internet frustrate me a bit.

I went on a trip with a group of people. One of whom was a little bit of a pill through out the trip. We were walking on snow and ice. At some point, she (the pill) lost her footing on the ice (flat area). I turned around to see her lying on the ice, face up (eyes open). I had to stifle a laugh. Of course, others in the group were gathered around her, concerned. Afterwards, a few of us did chuckle about it.

I think physical mishaps are funnier if it's perceived that the person "deserved" it. So you can't really be considered a horrible person.

Remember the old grape-stomping vid? The bitch gets her comeuppance and falls, and her screams and howls are classic.

Paradoxical laughter; pseudobulbar affect.

Whenever I walk around NYC and start to think thoughts that would fit in well in the comments section of NY Post stories.

[quote]in your universe, if a fat person falls and gets injured, it's "obviously" ok to laugh. How do you rationalize that?

r50 has an explanation for why certain physical mishaps can be funny.

Well that’s the topic of this thread R24

Even people who are committing evil believe they are doing something good.

Doing something good for themselves.

I believe Solzhenitsyn, the capability of evil runs through every human heart.

Actually, R56, they believe they are doing something good for their universe, a greater good. I was horrified when I read this but then had to admit it was true.

I had a larger coworker working at the desk next to mine. She got up to grab something and the whole desk collapsed and she went ass over teakettle on the floor. I kept a straight face and helped her up.

About three minutes later, another coworker who witnessed the whole thing asked if I wanted to take a walk and get a coffee. We got about halfway across the street and burst into hysterical laughter.

I love that story^

I love that story^

These two women would always leave their coffee cups in the small unit sink "to soak." I threw the cups out one evening. It was then that I knew.

Maybe I will realize it later but until then

I shake my head when I see items in the sink (office kitchen) left to "soak." Do that at home. But there's too many people in the office to be "soaking" your shit in the sink.

When I soak my plastic food container, it's always left on the side of the sink and toward the backsplash.. I leave it in hot soapy water for about an hour, then I come back rinse and clean it and take it home. Some assholes leave their shit in the sink for a day or two like it's their home.

Right after I decided to have a second helping.