A priest, a rabbi and a mule walk into a bar...It's a German study about alcohol and humor. Germans are known for drinking a lot, and they are not known for their sense of humor.
BERLIN: Problem drinkers often don't know how to take a joke or understand a punchline, according to German researchers.
In their study of 29 recovering alcoholic patients in a clinic in the western German city of Bochum, participants were tested to measure their mood, intellectual ability, memory, psychomotor skills and capacity to appreciate jokes.
Maybe people lose their sense of humor because they drink too much?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe people turn to alcohol as a coping tool for the fact that they had no sense of humor to begin with.
Hard to know. Maybe we should ask a drunk with no sense of humor. Any idea where we can find someone like that?