Perhaps one of the biggest surprises to come my way was the realization that 95% of the people on my Facebook friend list with Bachelors of English can't understand basic sarcasm when presented in written form. I once posted a status update along the lines of "Mass destruction and death in Haiti today. In more important news: Tiger Woods admits to shagging more blonde women." People went out of their flippin' minds! And the ones freaking out were the people I'd met doing all those university English courses. I thought I'd posted some rather blatant sarcasm and they missed it entirely. I got called some pretty nasty things that day ("pathetic excuse for a human being" was one of them). The whole thing was so horrifyingly stupid that it was hilarious.
Yeah, so not the same thing...but it's close...kind of...
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Perhaps one of the biggest surprises to come my way was the realization that 95% of the people on my Facebook friend list with Bachelors of English can't understand basic sarcasm when presented in written form. I once posted a status update along the lines of "Mass destruction and death in Haiti today. In more important news: Tiger Woods admits to shagging more blonde women." People went out of their flippin' minds! And the ones freaking out were the people I'd met doing all those university English courses. I thought I'd posted some rather blatant sarcasm and they missed it entirely. I got called some pretty nasty things that day ("pathetic excuse for a human being" was one of them). The whole thing was so horrifyingly stupid that it was hilarious.
Yeah, so not the same thing...but it's close...kind of...