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How cute, you think sarcasm = funny and awesome
Sarcasm. We all use it, and to varying degrees. As for using it well, I'm not sure how well that can be gauged. But one thing is certain. It can get fucking annoying.
Take for example sarcastic T-Shirts. We all thought they were funny in middle school. Most of us anyway. By the time high school came around, I would see people 15 feet from each other wearing the same shirt. 9 times out of 10, I'd look at the person wearing the shirt and think "Yeah, I'd like to see you come up with something you didn't read or buy."
And then, there's someecards.com. Oooooh boy how I loathe this site. I know this is user contributed and all, but some of the attitudes people have when they like and share these things come off as if they're congratulating themselves, you know?
And of course, I don't think I need to tell you about TvTropes' manic devotion to the world of "deadpan snarker"s, do I?
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Sarcasm isn't funny, really. It's clever sarcasm that's funny.
Yeah, I totally agree.
(Not being sarcastic, I actually do. I need to stop being sarcastic all the time
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Sarcasm is a writer's tool, much like a hammer or a chainsaw. if used properly it's wonderful. if used poorly it can be a nuisance and best and devastating to the project at worst.
I am terrible at sarcasm, both giving and taking it. I do indeed find it highly overrated.
I have a friend who wears sarcastic t-shirts. This is the same guy who sometimes passes along things on Facebook from the "nice guy" viewpoint. And many of you would probably loathe his taste in music. Ok, never mind, I'll stop now. But I do have a complicated relationship with those shirts, I can say that much.
Congratulations, you stumbled upon a regular Schitzo post!
"When all you know how to use is a hammer..."
^^ <3
So who was the unfunny jerk in your life was that set this all off Schitzo? I mean normally you seem like the sort of guy who would have the word Sarcasm tattooed on a heart that is being held aloft by little bullshit baby angle cherubs. And then circled by an ouraboros of old testemant "dear god cherubs are fucking terrifying" cherubs.
Well, that's almost spelled correctly.
Dodging the question! Minus 10 points to Gryfindor!
Always thought this was Juan's thing, really.
Like I said, we all do it. Some of us know to gauge our use of it and moderate it, and some of us don't.
As for the disclaimer I gave in the opening post, I was well aware the entire thread would come off as, in the words of Myrmidon, "People I don't like using humor I love". That's only half true. It's a silly thing to get buttmad over, but the bitterness is still there, you know?
No, Juan uses hyperbole more than sarcasm.
I use a lot of both, but I think Ninjaclown's point is simply that I overuse it, to which I say, "Meh, I do what I want and I don't think that there are many people actually aggravated by it. At least, many who I care about, anyway"
you don't care about me then?
i don't think that you of all people are aggravated by my jokes.
not the jokes themselves, but the tone of a lot of them
disclaimer: i also get aggravated by the tone of my own posts, i just don't do anything about it because that's even more aggravating
on second thought, meh.
no, post it
see also: re: lowercaps
and remember what lowercaps indicates
yes but then i realized that i didn't like that post so whatever
what did it do to make you hate it so
e.e. cummings?
it came alive upon us the living and mortals, the foolish child
however, this forum was not ready to be defiled
so it was decided that the post was to be exiled
yes
how dare it
wrong thread lol
Bumping this because there's been a wave of it on my facebook feed.
A friend of mine said something funny about it too a few minutes ago.
"Everyone thinks they're Daria when they're really just Quinn".
Can things like humor fall into the status of fad? i sure hope not.
That reference means nothing to me.
Nothing.
And I maintain that any possible wave of sarcasm cannot possibly be worse than "If you remember [x] your childhood was awesome!!!" self-congratulating "90s kids" posts.
^ Well fuck, that IS annoying.
Oh and "[some sob story] 98% of the people who see this won't care enough to reblog it." guilt-trip posts.
Or "Ignore for satan, reblog for Jebus", Deny me before my father and you'll get gangbanged in hell or some shit. Man that's annoying.
You know what, this warrants another thread.