Top 7 Tips to Bring More Humor Into your Life
Posted by admin in Humor Lists on November 7, 2009
Why don’t we laugh more often? Mainly because we have learned not to. Parents and teachers spend a good deal of time telling children, “ Wipe that smile off your face”; “Get serious”; “Settle down”; and “Stop acting silly.” In addition, laughter requires both spontaneity and surrender of control. As people become adults, they place a good deal of value on self-control and often feel ambivalent about spontaneity. But a mature adult should also understand the need for levity now and then. When Steven Spielberg was filming the holocaust movie Schindler’s list, he became so saddened by his subject that a few times a week while on location in Poland, he called comedian Robin Williams and asked him to run through some stand-up routines. If you have a particularly funny friend, you might do the same, but if not, tickle your funny bone with the help of these tips and suggestions.
1. Encourage Laughter
Encourage others to laugh. Mirth is contagious.
2. Look Out For Absurdities
Keep an eye out for the absurdities of everyday of your life. Amusing quips and situations happen all the time. If you look for them, you will find them.
3. Give Gifts
Instead of flowers or food, give sick friends humorous gifts. Try a joke book, a comedy video or a few gag items.
4. Know Your Audience
Humor is individual. Psychology Today magazine once published 30 jokes and asked readers if they found them funny. More than 140,000 readers from all over the map replied. Every joke was rated “very funny” by some readers and “not all funny” by others. In the words of comedian Henny Youngman, “ Humor is a form of communication understood by some and misunderstood by most.”
5. Develop A Humor First-Aid Kit
Keep a funny book or tape close at hand and dip into it several times a day. Wear humorous buttons and post cartoons, amusing bumper stickers and other witty items where you live, work and play.
6. Laugh At Yourself
Those without a sense of humor, once quipped, can be very funny. Of course, they do not mean to be, and when people begin laughing, those who are unintentionally funny may become embarrassed, self-conscious or insulted. If this happens to you, try to step outside yourself and see your gaffe the way your audience sees it. Laugh at yourself and people laugh with you, not at you.
7. Keep It Tasteful
Do not poke fun at anyone’s race, ethnic group, gender, weight, occupation or anything else that might be offensive. Also avoid sarcasm and ridicule. If there has to be a butt of the joke, target yourself or some inanimate object.
Military Self-Defense and Hand-to-Hand Combat Training: the Knuckles of Nations
Posted by admin in Military Humor on November 3, 2009
Before guns, there were only hands and other pain-inducing body parts: there was little else to work with beyond what nature provided, so the best was made of it. Invading armies had to be fought off, so hand to hand combat training was essential for any inferior nation to stand a fighting chance against more advanced ones.
These early forms of military self defense form the foundation of today’s most popular, as well as lethal, forms of martial arts. Such techniques can be learned by civilians and used in less dire circumstances that war creates but with the same amount of effectiveness. Leave your opponent bloody and battered, whether he asked for it or simply signed up for it, with hand-to-hand combat training techniques provided by Close Combat Training and a respective DVD for one flat price.
Being equipped with military self-defense skills may not seem utilitarian for a civilian not required to engage in mortal combat as part of a job requirement, but it is very much so as an effective measure against any surprise run-ins with violent-minded individuals. Those equipped with no more than guns, knives, or anything that doesn’t require instructions to use are no match against someone who possesses skills that require no weapons and even involve the disarmament of such as part of the training. Military self-defense is perfect for ensuring victory against any ruthless individuals that seek pleasures in low places and do whatever it takes to get it.
A fight is humorous when only one person has proper hand-to-hand combat training, but is true entertainment when two people are adequately and expertly trained: this is the essential distinction between martial arts and practical self-defense. The separation lies in the intent of desire, whether it be to defend to contend. That isn’t to say the two are mutually exclusive, however: a UFC fighter or anyone with professional-level hand-to-hand combat training is certainly more than equipped for basic self-defense and then some, but then those individuals as a result create fear in others who in turn feel compelled to learn self-defense to feel safe in close proximity.
The best defense is certainly a very strong offense. So, the most consummate way to protect one’s self is to learn military self-defense that’s designed with drastic measures in mind. With the kind of skills that can be learned from a martial arts video from Close Combat Training, the inside skills that helped various militaries survive and outlast can be brought to the level of a private citizen. It might be surprising to think that a criminal’s greatest weakness is not having watched the same video you have, but surprise is the biggest part of the self-defense game.
Without the element of surprise, countless armies would have been able to anticipate the fighting tactics and military self-defense moves of their foes and laid waste to their masses. So acquire the same hand to hand combat training skills that served so many resilient nations, and ensure you are never caught off guard.