... what is wrong with me

[kaberett]

... I was Sad at That One Gent about cancer survival stats (I was looking them up for vaginapagina), so he made really unsubtle dick jokes mostly consisting of "hurr hurr" until I cheered up and it worked.

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[quirkytizzy]

Dick jokes are funny. Dick and fart jokes. David was always "too sophisticated" for those kind jokes. Fuck that. Dick jokes are FUNNY!

[kaberett]

dicks are funny

>>;

[quirkytizzy]

I don't know if that's a wicked happy emoticon or an angry emoticon.

Did I make an insensitive joke? :/

[kaberett]

mostly a combination of feeling slightly sheepish and GRATUITOUS ICON COMMENT. You're fine :-)

[kaberett]

(it is pretty much the embarrassed shifty-eyes of well I just HAPPENED to have this icon of a rock that looks a bit like an erection, you know, lying around...)

[quirkytizzy]

OH! Okay, good, lol. Sometimes I'm still the asshole who says shit that's really not appropriate, so I thought to ask. Thank you for explaining that to me!

Also I love random nature stuff that just happen to resemble genetalia. For some reason that always makes me giggle. I guess some part of me is perpetually 7 years old or something, ha!

[simont]

and it worked

A friend of mine who AFAIK you don't know (and WINODWOLJ) told me recently that her sister's boyfriend had a habit, when she (the sister) was mopey, of giving a huge irritating thumbs-up and saying "BIG SMILE!", and precisely because that was just so over the top and obviously unhelpful and annoying, she found she had to laugh, so against all sensibleness it actually did cheer her up.

(Whether he knew it'd have that effect or whether he just got lucky, I have no idea. But. Things that look as if they shouldn't work sometimes do work!)

[kaberett]

HAH. Yes.

[cosmolinguist]

The list of things that cheers me up is almost all weird/counterintuitive stuff these days. :)

[kaberett]

:-)

[birke]

Oh man, having read VaginaPagina after your post, now I see why you were sad. Dick jokes FTW!

[kaberett]

So the additional context is that at the end of my first term at university, my mum was diagnosed with stage II ovarian cancer.

As it turns out she is fine (got her five-year all-clear a while back) and will continue to be fine (Grossmutti didn't get diagnosed until it had spread to her womb and survived 25 years; we NOW know the hereditary link and the stats for cancers associated with that particular gene are WAY better than for most ovarian cancers), but I... still have a whole lot of "for a couple of years the best stats we had said my mum wasn't going to be alive for my graduation", and... yeah.