American sarcasm?

[tumblingdown]

As we all know, the majority of yanks have no clue. The unfortunate thing is those that come close, feel the need to explain it, in so lose the point.


Oh well...


td.

[HarryW]

Yeah, it tends to be the same with irony, only worse. Just to prove it, I had an American communications lecturer last year who tried to explain what irony was, and I swear she got it totally wrong ;) I guess it's just different humour. I sometimes meet people who take everything I say literally, and I just stand/sit there and think 'how the hell does this person live with this level of humorous awareness'?

I keep forgetting that Brits actually learn to think in
English. Erudition is dead in this country and three words
of sarcasm gets you blank looks.

DerFarm

[barrk]

We haven't had nearly as long to become as perfect as you Brits are. Our apologies if we are an offense to your superior sensibilities.

[HarryW]

Oh, that's okay, you'll get better in time Grasshopper ;)

[barrk]

You VB-World guys give me plenty of practice!

yeah... americans are horrible at sarcasm..... I am German and Irish and proud of it :D

everytime I try to be sarcastic(in real life, with idiots) people look at me like they just lost 99.99% of their brains... and most of the time the sarcasm isn't very "clean" so they also look at me like "Umm maybe if I back up slowly, he won't notice I am leaving"


:mad:

My sarcasm is always clean, but the referents are sometimes
so obscure (relativly speaking) that people act like I told
an existentialist joke.

DerFarm

[barrk]

I won the Florida lottery! I'm now a multi-millionaire!
Can you believe it?!? I'm bouncing off the walls here! You see, my ticket
doesn't have the exact winning numbers on it, but I meant to pick those
winning numbers. The ticket is very confusing when I was filling it out and
so I ended up with the wrong numbers on my card. But since I really meant to
pick those other numbers, they're going to give me the money anyway!!!! They
really shouldn't make those darn cards so hard to fill out!!! And even
though I was confused, I didn't ask for help because no one would have
helped me anyway. If the FL State Lottery won't give me the money, I'll just
sue them!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
good one...


I can't beleive the dumb <ahem> is suing the county(or state?) for having the cards too confusing.. it's her own damn fault.
idiots shouldn't be allowed to vote...


:mad:

[barrk]

I suggest that instead of doing a recount or revote we just eliminate the state of Florida from the Union and don't count any of their votes!

[Edwin_Drood_1870]

Or maybe just stop having elections. How about the guy who makes the best inventions is the president till someone else makes a better one. Wait a sec... that means Gore's internet would make him president. Question. Why aren't we all paying royalties to Gore if he invented the internet?

I think we should give florida to bush...

[barrk]

If a democrat speaks in a forest and there is no Republican around to hear him is he still wrong?

Yes..... 100% wrong... unless he says he is converting to replicanism.... ;)

[barrk]

Just when I think you said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talking.

you stole my quote.

[barrk]

No ****....since the shoe fit so well I had no choice!

wow, you said ****... you're learning well barrk.. hehe

:rolleyes:

three surgeons were talking one day,
and one said "My favorite kind of people to operate on are librarians, when you open them up, everything is alphebeticalized"

the 2nd said "I like operating on plumbers, they know how it is if you close it up and there are a few tubes left over"

the 3rd said "I like working on Al Gore"
the others said "why?"

and he said "he is brainless, spineless, gutless, and his ass and head are interchangeable"

[HarryW]

I think anybody who says "I am a democrat" or "I am a republican" and is just a normal person, not someone involved in politics, has something wrong with them. The politicians represent their own agendas, not yours. They just pretend to represent yours when they have to, like at election time.

[paulw]

Such cynicism in one so young. <Sigh>

No wonder the country is going to the dogs.

Paul

P.S. I quite like going to the dogs, it's a pretty good night out at Walthamstow.:D

[barrk]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
Yes..... 100% wrong... unless he says he is converting to replicanism.... ;)

Once there was a little girl named Susie. Susie came from a very poor family. She was uneducated as was the rest of her family. One fine spring day Susie was raped. She became pregnant. She felt dirty and alone. She didn’t understand that it was not her fault that this happened to her. She wanted to have an abortion but the republicans all cried “You evil person! Abortion is murder!!” So Susie gave birth to little Johnny.

Since the birth of little Johnny the republican cut the welfare programs (only scum are on welfare anyway, let ‘em starve). Susie was unable to feed and care for little Johnny properly. She felt that she had nowhere to turn and killed herself.

Little Johnny went to public schools with all the other poor children. (Due to the wonderful republican sponsored school voucher program, the rich children’s family had been given vouchers of $4,000 to send their children to private schools. Private schools actually cost $7,000 per year but it was no problem for the rich families. They could easily make up the difference.) With the wonderful surroundings and examples for Johnny to follow, he grew up to be an outstanding citizen.

One day when my son, Ian was waiting for the bus to take him home from work he said something that pissed Johnny off. Thank god those dirty democrats weren’t allowed to take his right to bear arms away so the next day Johnny was able to wait for Ian and shoot him down like a dog while he waited for the bus.

Johnny is sent to prison in Texas due to overcrowded jails and is executed.

Meanwhile, my daughter, Erin, had been training to be a ballerina for eleven years. She was a member of a very respected ballet company. The republicans cut the funding for the arts (after all, all artists a gay anyway aren’t they?) and her ballet company had to disband. At night I find Erin in the studio dancing with tears running down her face. Her dreams have been completely shattered.

My husband, Tom, is also gone from my life. One night he was caught having oral sex with me. Since this is termed “unnatural” sex by the republicans in power he is arrested and thrown into jail. (The republicans want to reduce government all right. They want to reduce to just the right size to fit in my bedroom)

I am completely devastated by these events. I cannot work anymore and need to retire. I have been putting money in social security since I was eighteen so I should be able to survive off the money. (Only George W’s social security laws have gone into effect and my money was gambled in the stock market. Everything was lost.)

I moved in with my son, Travis and his wife. Travis earns a fairly good living but is considered middle-class and most of his money goes to support his family. He pays a lot of taxes because the tax cuts promised by the administration only apply to the upper-class.

After moving in with Travis I become very ill. With Medicare gone due to the republican policies, (medicare is a socialist program, let the old people take care of themselves) I cannot afford medicine. Travis can’t afford to get it for me and I die.

Oh yes, please, I want to be come a republican…where do I sign up??????


I know why I support the party I do. Do you know why you support the Republicans?

Harry, it is axiomatic that you cannot disprove a
negative. That's why it's SO easy to say what you did.

However, as one who's been around the block more than once,
you've got the damn thing ass-backwards. I've lived
through the political history of the 60's on, and for all
your NewYork cynicism, I say the politicians are MORE
responsive now than they ever have been.

I remember "Whites Only" signs, I remember standing guard
with Union organizers against the Birchers, I remember the
Mississippi Loyalists, and more, and more, and more.

You are entitled to your opinion, but don't make the
mistake of believing your own press.

DerFarm

[HarryW]

Okay, well I'm sorry if that offended anybody, but that's just my feeling.

[jdavison]

Is a 401k gambling on the stock market?
Nothing personal but barrk you really can exagerate to extremes. Did you even check the issues or are you going strictly by the word according to Al Gore? I'm not saying you didn't but just a curiousity question.

[barrk]

Yep. I checked my facts....yes, a 401K is gambling on the stock market but I get to choose which market (unlike Bush's plan). Also.....

I don't agree with everything in the democratic platform anymore than I disagree with the entire republican platform. I don't vote based upon what ANY one candidate states (as you know they are trying to say what will get them elected...not necessarily how they feel). I would never base my opinion on what Al Gore says.

For one thing, until you have actually had a discussion (not just listened to a town hall meeting but actual give and take) you can never know whether that person's opinion is his own or just rhetoric. I see a lot of rhetoric from denniswrenn. Obviously his opinion is based upon what he hears his parents discuss not through discussions of his own. You have to go out and seek the facts.

[barrk]

Yes, I know the story was extremely exaggerated. I was trying to make a point. Note the title of this thread!!!!

barrk, No i haven't had a political discussion of my own, I don't much care for it.

But the right to bare arms has nothing to do with killing people, if johny wanted to bad enough, he would have used a knife.

just because some people are ****ing psycho, should not be a reason to try and take other peoples protection and fun(target practice) away..

[Edited by denniswrenn on 11-16-2000 at 06:25 PM]

[barrk]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
barrk, No i haven't had a political discussion of my own, I don't much care for it.


Then why do you spout off so loud about your republican agenda?

I dunno.... I wanna say something, but nothing to say... I guess.... :o

[barrk]

I'm sure there must be something that interests you besides being a smart-ass.

nahhhh, being a smart ass and programming is about it....

[barrk]

Sad indeed.

yeah, it really is.... but thats all I like.. I think people are idiots... which is why i don't have any "real-life" friends...
I hate being around people, they are just sooo dumb, there is a very small percentage that are actually smart... the others are just lucky to have an IQ that won't take up the whole 3 digits on the box on their job application for McDonalds...

[HarryW]

Perhaps your superiority complex is insulating you from society.

Originally posted by denniswrenn
I realize that I am not the smartest person in the world....
I know there are people smarter than me..

but seriously, maybe people are smarter in england,

You finally admit it young skywalker. Just proves that Australians are top of the smarts, we are a hell of a lot smarter then the Pomms.

[Edited by Jethro on 11-16-2000 at 09:20 PM]

if you're so smart, then why didn't you close your bold tag?


;)

[Edited by denniswrenn on 11-23-2000 at 04:28 PM]

[HarryW]

He's got a mouth like a sailor on him now he's found that little trick :rolleyes:

Jethro: No you're not *Sticks out tongue* UK |2o>< uR 4zZ 1a/\/\3R!!!

Couldn't paste any flowers.....actually forgot to do it. Does it look better now?

[HarryW]

And one more thing while I'm attacking you personally Jethro - you always spell "can't" as "caren't". You freak :rolleyes:

....no doubt you are just on your way down the pub to hit the sherries. Now l know it only takes two glasses for you to get totally pissed so will expect you back in the next half an hour.

[HarryW]

Well since it's 6:30 am (again *Sigh*) I think I'll have to pass on that mate :rolleyes: Actually I did go to the pub this evening/last night, it was a mate's birthday pub crawl. Turned out to be more sitting than crawling though. Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not a big drinker. Can't say I'm a sherry fan though, never really understood people who drink that. I'll stick with the JD thanks. Damn I should get some sleep. Time for a night cap *Grabs bottle*