PSA: If you're going to WRITE sarcastically

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
I think we shoud use our elbows to type sarcastic responses.

Gnote are you really that fvcking stupid that you can't see the sarcasm jumping out at you in the post.

Hey pretty good with the whole elbow thing.

I guess i'm blind. Sorry i'm more of an auditory person anyway.

 

[dethman]

haha, you = owned.

 

[Subzero]

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
I think we shoud use our elbows to type sarcastic responses.

Gnote are you really that fvcking stupid that you can't see the sarcasm jumping out at you in the post.

Hey pretty good with the whole elbow thing.

I guess i'm blind. Sorry i'm more of an auditory person anyway.

Somehow I doubt that also.....

 

[Whisper]

Sometimes sarcasm is hard to distinguish from a genuine comment...but in general, it's pretty easy to see. Even in that thread, when I know nothing about penny stocks, I would have guessed the comment to be sarcasm based on the content of the post.

Just take EVERYTHING you read online with a grain of salt and you'll be alright. Magazine and newspaper columnists have used sarcasm in print for years with little trouble. Albeit not everyone in this forum is as literally gifted as a professional writer, but it's still possible to discern when they're making a joke or sarcastic remark.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Wow that's such a good idea, I am so going to start doing that!

 

[Mill]

You are the coolest guy ever, and I appreciate this PSA because it didn't waste my time at all.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

dp

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

OMGLIEKWTFMATEBBQ !!

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

"Dude, are you being sarcastic?"
"I don't even know anymore."

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

The problem with that thread is that it didn't seem sarcastic - just a question by an investing n00b. I've learned well that what i think comes off as thick sarcasm to me may not to others. That's my fault; my bad joke, not theirs. So, I try again.

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Gnote
Don't you have a spider to catch syrigner

Don't you mean

DONT YOU HAVE A SPIDER TO CATCH SYRINGER????

Because, you know, otherwise, Syringer might take it as a real warning, like he had a spider running amok in his room. OH WAIT HE DOESNT AND HE KNOWS IT BECAUSE HE DOESN'T USE HIS COLON AS A HAIRNET.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

The problem with that thread is that it didn't seem sarcastic - just a question by an investing n00b. I've learned well that what i think comes off as thick sarcasm to me may not to others. That's my fault; my bad joke, not theirs. So, I try again.

I'm sorry, but if you don't know that penny stocks are one of the riskiest investments, you're not an investing noob, you're an investing retard.

 

[Sid59]

sarcasm is hard weed out from the rest of the extremely idiotic posts.

 

[SoylentGreen]

If you're not smart enough to pick up on it, just stop reading.

 

[GasX]

My sarcasm pet peeve is when people say incredibly stupid sh!t, get called on it and respond, "... but I was being sarcastic."

No you weren't you fvcking tool!

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

That's more ironical than sarcastic, but to think it was anything other than a witty reply is just dumb.

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

That's more ironical than sarcastic, but to think it was anything other than a witty reply is just dumb.

Who says ironical? Wouldn't ironic suffice? I mean, you use sarcastic right after it to describe the same thing? Why not write sarcastical?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

That's more ironical than sarcastic, but to think it was anything other than a witty reply is just dumb.

Who says ironical? Wouldn't ironic suffice? I mean, you use sarcastic right after it to describe the same thing? Why not write sarcastical?

because ironical is a word and sarcastical is not

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: Gnote

Originally posted by: jagec
sure, it's hard to tell when someone's being sarcastic on the internet...but considering the type of people who post on internet forums, you can probably assume they're being sarcastic more often than not.

Besides, it's funny to see people get all flustered when they don't pick up on the sarcasm.

Take a look at the first response to this thread and you'll see why i'm PSAin'

That's more ironical than sarcastic, but to think it was anything other than a witty reply is just dumb.

Who says ironical? Wouldn't ironic suffice? I mean, you use sarcastic right after it to describe the same thing? Why not write sarcastical?

because ironical is a word and sarcastical is not

I know ironical is a word, I have just never seen anyone use it. The same is true with sarcastical.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: amcdonald
The same is true with sarcastical.

Cool!

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
My sarcasm pet peeve is when people say incredibly stupid sh!t, get called on it and respond, "... but I was being sarcastic."

No you weren't you fvcking tool!

This is more off what I was trying to get at...

 

[FrogDog]

Indicating sarcasm by a smiley or something else takes the comedy out of it.

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: pyonir
:thumbsdown:

HAHAHAHA. *sniff* Heh.