Will you be irritated when a friend laughs at you when you fell down the stairs?

Maybe it depends on how close this friend to me is, but normally, filipinos smiles on minor accidents such as getting trip, falling on a chair or stair, if that's the case showing a smile or laugh at that person means just like telling him/her "common, you can take it...", just to boost his/her morale, but then offering him your hand at the same time.

yes, i think this is something cultural. we have been used to that when u see a friend falling from a chair or falling down the stairs. that is our first reaction but we always come to the rescue, run after him down the stairs to help him. but when i fell down the stairs, people who were with me going down were terrified seeing me fast rolling down. my high heels got caught in the edge of the stairs and i came falling down. people who witnessed the incident were strangers; they didn't laugh but helped. when i got back to the office, i was telling them of the incident. we all laughed at what happened to me, narrating to them my embarrassment. i was purposely going to the doctor's clinic at that time and the fall from the stairs overtook my first agenda with the doctor. i made fun of myself as i narrated what happened. i told my office mates of the frightened look of the witnesses. i jokingly told my office mates that i could have told the witnesses who were frightened and asked what happened: this is how i go down the stairs. leave me alone! hahaha... honestly, filipinos can still laugh at their own misfortunes to lighten up things.

I think this is insealed in us from birth, kinda like the way we was made.. Kinda like the embarsing girl giggle when she farts... My little girl says I don't like when people laugh at me when I fall down because it hurts me, I only like to laugh at others when they fall.. WOW.. This one was hard to explain to her, that if you don't like it someone else may not either, I said just laugh with them, it is what I do.. I try to find all of life as Funny and Fun!!

If I see somebody falling from the stairs maybe I will be shocked and will run to help him/her but if it really looks very funny, I might not be able to hold back a giggle... but still I will run to help....

To be honest, for me, it would depend on how he fell. If there's an injury involved then, I wouldn't especially if I witness it first-hand. I mean, probably we would laugh about it later, but not at that moment. I would probably laugh a bit as long as nothing bad has happened, but not at the person. At his clumsiness maybe, or how he fell. Also, I think this is more of the person and not the culture. My mom takes everything seriously and would never laugh at a similar situation, however funny it would seem to me. In my case though, I am usually a humorous person, and I easily find humor in everyday things. I think I just have that tendency. I remember a classmate of mine telling me how he watched the Return of the King twice in a row. Six hours in the cinema, and he came out with a fever, and I just laughed out loud. He wasn't offended though, and he laughed right along with me.

Probably not as I would most likely be laughing even harder then said friend.

Personally, people are people, no matter what race or culture. I find laughing at someone that falls down the steps, immature, rude, and not compassionate. But, it could have been a nervous laugh, as some people do that with bad situations. I for one, would not laugh. I would be very concerned that the person did not get hurt.

I would laugh at myself afterward if I wasn't hurt, but I wouldn't laugh at somebody else. If somebody laughed at me, I'd be much less likely to take offense if they also offered me a hand.

Well it depends on the fall. If it is a bad fall then laughing at the person is not at all good. But if the fall is just slight and the person did not get a bad hurt then laughing is not at all offensive and maybe even the person who fell will even laugh with me. I think if I fell on the stair and it is a bad fall and somebody laughed at me I'd be really offended of course. How bad of that person who can afford to laugh at someone whose been badly hurt. I think Filipinos are basically happy people so they always find something funny in every situation. But I think we Filipinos also know which situation brings laughter and which is not.

hello manong, I consider that an insult, i wouldn't bother talking to that person even if he/she offers help to me. that's a sign that i wouldn't trust on that person because i know, he'll be just laughing at me in the end, when am down of course

It depends actually if he or she laughs in a sarcasm way definitely I would feel offended and get irritated but if he or she is trying to give a laugh out if his or her joke to make things easy on me then I would not be irritated at all because I know his or her intention.

It depends. I will fell embrassed if I fall down in a crowded place, if someone laugh, I think it's offence. Sometimes it's better to be calm as if nothing has happened, anyhow, it's just a small accdient, keep a happy mood! Of course I won't laugh at others when they are in a dillema. Still remember that I was unhappy when mum and grandmother bickered when I was a child. It's worse that at that moment our neighbor just smiled and had no action. How annoying! I really hoped he could persuade them to stop quarrels. When I grow up, I understand that he was kind and he didn't know how to mediate and how to express her feeling so he keep a smile. I think people with different characters have different response.

It think it depends on the relationship between the person that fell and the one laughing. If I'm with a friend and she falls, heck yeah I'm gonna laugh. But I'm also gonna help her up and make sure she's ok. I would fully expect my friend to laugh at me if I had fallen. If I see a stranger fall, I may snicker a little, but I try to hide it. Maybe it's a matter of not wanting to offend someone you don't know. Which is rather ironic to me. Shouldn't you be more concerned about offending the people you do know? Rather interesting.

It depends on whether I'm seriously injured or not. If I'm unhurt, or have just minor scrapes or bruises, then I'd have no problem with them laughing, I'd likely be laughing along with them. If any bones are broken or have other major injuries, then yes laughing would be inappropriate at the time -- however, afterwards when all is said and done, there's nothing wrong with having a laugh looking back on it.

nanong0 5 yes indeed I would be more than irritated, I would want to know the friend's block off. There is nothing in the least funny about falling down the stairs. One could get badly injured doing that. Only an idiot who had little common sense would think that funny. I would never laugh at someone else who fell down the stairs either. it is not funny it is dangerous.

For me it would probably depend on the situation. If I fell and wasn't hurt, I would probably laugh with my friend. I have done it before. You can't be offended, it happens to everyone. I fell in the parking garage at my work because of heels I had on, and all I could do was laugh about it. However, if I fell down the stairs and was hurt I probably would be offended if my friend was laughing.

Yes, you're right, it's certainly relevant to the different cultures. In China, if my friend tumbles down the stairs, I would laugh at him after I come up giving him a hand. However, if I saw other stranger falling down the stairs, I would be vocal in laugh. That sounds queer, but it's the fact. I also think other Chinese would do the same things like me. In western countries, I don't know what they will do in such case, because I never saw such things in a western country. If they act as you describe, I do believe it relate to different cultures.

It depends if they asked if you were alright first before they started to laugh...because then they show that they are concerned with your well being and the fact that you are alright they feel comfortable with you for you to understand that it was funny since you were alright if you were hurt and they laughed i was taught that that is rude.

I dislike it when someone laughs at me when I trip. However I can't blame them, as often times I do the same. I always offer a hand and ask if they're okay before I laugh though, because I don't want them to get offended.