Why, as humans, do we laugh when we hurt ourselves?
In: Biology
concerning your ankle,
A joke is when the standard reality you are expecting is suddenly confronted with a strange event that forces acceptance of a new reality.
So you were repeatedly expecting your ankle/leg to function in the same old way, and your inability to make it move, and the funny (perhaps gross) way it was bending, forced you to abandon that old reality, again and again.
You are not too weird because it was you who had the strongest expectation that your foot would move in the same old way, so it was really only you who had the set-up for the joke! It was also you who had the punch line. Think about how only your friend finds it funny when his hand is asleep from sitting on it.
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