If you’re ever in the mood to just let go after an intense work period and you just feel like goofing around the safest thing to do is have fun with a close friend. Since it would be a contradiction to put some real energy into this you might as well just make fun of him in a considerate way of course. Here’s a list of funny questions you can ask your friends and you’re guaranteed to have a laugh.

A first one could sound like this: “If you dug a hole to the other side of the Earth would you stop and hang at the center because of gravity?”. This is obviously a rhetorical question but who cares. Just seeing your friend bemused and puzzled by your question will be reason enough to laugh your heart out. Not to mention if he tries to explain the error of your thoughts. It will get even better once he gets the hang of it.

You also always run the risk of slightly irritating your friend but what are friends for if not to tolerate and accept you in your worse condition.

So don’t be afraid to ask away.

Another stupid question would be to ask if it’s rude for a deaf person to talk sign language with their mouth full of food? This is a perfectly legitimate question. And if pro and con are opposites would the opposite of progress be congress? Since bread is square why is salami round? These are just some more examples of harmless funny questions.

If you don’t want your friend to feel neglected ask him something about himself. Ask him what gets him scared and then ask him to detail on it until you see his face change and then just laugh away. This might sound a little cruel but if you don’t lose complete control you can get him back on the right track. Even so, you’d better just stick to the impersonal questions. There’s no reason to turn a voluntary momentary lapse of reason into a mistake you’ll regret.

Ask your friends if cannibals can get arrested if they have eaten a person who was drunk. Ask if women were to be running the Pentagon the missiles and submarines would be shaped different. Soon enough you won’t be the only one laughing. All sorts of questions that pop into your mind are proof of your curiosity and unwillingness to go through this world without genuinely making a sense of it. There’s nothing more lovable than this type of immature questions. Ask your lover what you have done if you try to fail and succeed at it and if it is just a coincidence that there are 24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case.

Such silly questions won’t take long until they wear out and go belly-up but by then you’ll be relaxed and ready to get back to work.