When Humor Backfires

I also often use deadpan humor and people don't get it, even if I say something that I find is impossible for whatever to happen. No regrets, though. That's half the fun of deadpan humor.

There's a motorcycle gang in the FF7 forum.

Aren't jokes always half-truths? This makes most of us in here half-dickish.

Everyone here is mostly dickish.

I wish Cancer on people to their faces.

I think in my case you can drop the mostly.

I've had complaints that people think I'm being serious when I'm joking. It's apparently hard to tell with me. It's caused a few misunderstandings. I've also had situations where they get frustrated and when I find out they thought I was serious and I tell them I was joking they say "no you weren't" :|

I am incredibly good with deadpan humour.

oh yeah.

:|

I'm more a sarcastic wit or cheeky comments that are funny.

Sometimes I do dead-pan but I'm way too cheeky and wind up grinning and giving myself away.

I feel your pain Pike. I've been raised on deadpan humor so the results are very mixed. Friends that know me really well get off on it, and the occasional stranger will enjoy it as well.

Otherwise, I end up using it in social situations, and the results are almost never good. In one instance, my friend introduced me to a group of guys he knew from high school. The conversation went pretty well until I said "you guys are a very, very attractive bunch" with a straight face. I'm honestly not sure what I was going for, and they honestly were very attractive, but I was met with (understandably) very strange faces and an "..Okay, so anyways we gotta go...".

The worst part is that I think I function pretty well socially. Everything goes fine until that inevitable horrible joke or comment that never works out. I end up monitoring my thoughts around people I don't know, but that in itself just makes things strange enough. Lose/lose situation until you find people that enjoy it, I suppose. :p

Deadpan! Even the word is brilliant! :p

Always backfires on me.. People just don't find me funny at all.

My humor could not be flatter I've been told, it's funny because I've been told I'm really charming and funny in person.