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Taking the mickey (p^^s)

SpockSpock
edited February 2011 in General Banter
The culture I was brought up in was rather macho, you know men were real men....taking the kids out meant going to the pub and leaving them outside with a coke n a bag of crisps (chips). I was the bright sensitive kid with the posh parents (well I got a slap if I didn't speak properly).

Although I've moved on....I read The Guardian (slightly left wing broadsheet arty fart paper) rather than The Sun (Rupert Murdoch owned...nuff said) I'm still a bit of a comedian. It was better to make the hard men laugh rather than to fight them :) The way I show affection is to "take the p**s", I like naughty jokes and I'm not very politically correct.

One of the Ordained members of my Sangha once commented "you're quite different to the typical Buddhist Mr Spock and it is impossible to dislike you... your intentions are good but you'll never become enlightened with a humour like yours".

I like being me though. People are warm to me and I make people laugh. I think far too many Buddhists take life too seriously and don't laugh enough.

Would anyone care to comment



Comments

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Sounds like survival. Me too hehe.
  • SpockSpock
    Ha yes! I still can't help laughing when someone farts in yoga practice too!
    Does that make me a bad person? hee hee
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    @Spock, Laughing helps us cope with the world. So that's one way. Enlightenment is another, more complete way IMHO. :) I think that we keep all that we know about interacting with the world, even though we give up harmful speech and actions. Our memories/knowledge and habits can largely be unaffected by the paradigm shift in worldview.
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    edited February 2011
    We all have different 'me's' don't we spock? We change our behaviour to suit each situation out of respect for others. (Then there's the mountain me.. you know the one where you're freezing to death, starving and find out who you really are :hair:

    I know there are 'tough' people out there too but that doesn't mean they're spontaneously going to go nuts on a random person. A lot of that is just a front though.

    Perhaps your humour makes other people feel at ease? ok so we have general banter for this. (The -pub- banter I can think of does not always make people feel at ease however). If people want a serious discussion let em at it.

    Me, I'll put a joke in anywhere sometimes in order to make a point but a lot of the time it just sounded too sarcastic and made me look a pompous ass. I like to think of myself of a comedian, but you know it's really hard to be pro and please an audience (I would imagine).
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    edited February 2011
    woo :clap:
  • ZaylZayl Veteran
    edited February 2011
    I think that a healthy sense of Humor is very important to living like a normal human being. I bet you if Gautama Buddha had seen He would of laughed heartily.
  • beingbeing Veteran
    I believe humor to be a very essential part of a 'healthy middle way'.
    Not sure what he meant by 'you'll never become enlightened with a humour like yours', when he sees, that your intentions are good. o_O
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