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This Instagram Account Celebrates Hilariously Sarcastic Memes, Here Are 50 Of The Best
Oscar Wilde once said, "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence." Regardless, PR experts and marriage counselors often advise their clients to stay away from it. The reason is simple: this form of expression can sting others, hurting people and harming relationships. As a communication tool, it dances on the edge of conflict.
But sometimes, throwing sparks and seeing if they catch fire is precisely what you want. Especially when everyone and everything around you tickles your nerves. Which is something we all sometimes feel. (I hope.)
So let's take a look at the Instagram account 'Sarcasm Only.' Sharing memes, tweets, and all kinds of content, it manages to pinpoint universal human emotion despite firing shots in every direction. If there's one place you need to get through a lousy, it's this little corner of the internet. I mean, why else would 16 million people follow it?
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In fact, scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, linguists, psychologists, neurologists, and other researchers have been analyzing our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Their studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance.
You could say sarcasm detection is an essential skill if one is going to function in a modern society dripping with irony. "Our culture, in particular, is permeated with sarcasm,” Katherine Rankin, a neuropsychologist at the University of California at San Francisco, told Smithsonian Magazine. "People who don't understand sarcasm are immediately noticed. They're not getting it. They're not socially adept."
Sarcasm is so popular in 21st-century America that according to one study of a database of telephone conversations, 23 percent of the time that the phrase "Yeah, right" was used, it was uttered sarcastically.
Entire phrases have almost lost their literal meanings because they are so frequently said with a sneer. Take "Big deal," for example. When was the last time someone said that to you and actually meant it? "My heart bleeds for you" almost always equals "Tell it to someone who cares," and "Aren’t you special" means you aren’t.
"It's practically the primary language in modern society," John Haiman, a linguist at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of Talk is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation and the Evolution of Language, said.
Let's start normalizing the fact that clothes are really expensive and deserve to be worn more than once!
Did you all hear about what Buren did yesterday? Scandalous! /s
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I never confirm or deny rumors about me. It's much more entertaining to just keep the mystery alive.
Best one I heard was my husband was cheating on me. I cut my hair and dyed underneath. That mysterious woman he was seen with..... was me. 🤣
"I haven't had the physical dexterity to do that since 1997"
Oh, I had a fun one once. A former classmate told me "Hey you remember X? She was in spanish with us? she's married to a woman!!!!". I told her she was wrong, that she wasn't married, but she kept insisting, so i gave up and let her with her beliefs. We were living together and I'm 100% sure I never married my then girlfriend but if a former classmate heard something, she must know better than us ;p
I just consider anyone who talks about me is a member of my fan club!
I had a rumor about me which was passed on by someone who did it for their own benefit. I ended up losing 90% of my friends and i never got to see them anymore
I feel really bad for you but they were never your friends. A real friend would speak up for you and believe what you say
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I got bullied quite a bit but I can't think of any actual rumours that spread around about me. Except for like an hour. A constant bully told the teacher I had nits and she saw them crawling over my neck. In front of the whole class. There were quite a few giggles. Anyway teacher took me to the wet room and checked my hair, lo and behold, no sign of headlice or eggs. Teacher made the class aware I was all clear and that was the end.
Ah jeez :( I’ve experienced something similar, I’m sorry.
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Not really, and nobody’s really gossiped about me like that since high school.
When I was around 12-14, my very baptist mother started accusing me of being a witch. You know, like it was the 16th century, as you do. I have no idea what prompted this idea other than that she has the habit of assuming everyone and everything around her is evil. I mean, to give another example, around the same time, she acused me of being pregnant because I said I had a tummy ache. A few years after I moved away, I found out that my entire extended family also seems to share some of these same views. If only I were creative enough to know what to do with this situation
If you are not attached to you family at all: play your part to the max: put a spell on them: a nicer spell would be: you will like izzy from now on, (that puts them in a awkward position, lol, ) or a bit more evil, say you will mess with their home/car (is they misbehave)
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If my life was half as interesting as the rumors about me, I'd be having a wonderful time.
ohhh more than one time. like, i wanna have people gossip about me but at the same time i wanna be the shy but popular kid
My father was a good source for this. He would be 'gossiping' about my sisters and forget who he was talking to.... suddenly he would say 'Did you hear what Debbie did?' I just said 'No, what stupid thing did she do this time..' and let him chat hahahahaha
It’s fun to find out who takes the bait! Don’t tell co workers secrets you wouldn’t tell your boss!
Once someone at work told me they heard a rumor that I was getting married. I was like: "Really? To whom?"
The only one I've really heard was when someone said to someone else that I only listen to him when he's talking about me...and that was the only part of the conversation I heard...so maybe he's right
The only rumor I ever heard about myself was that I was a lesbian (Lizzie was what they actually said because stupid people are stupid). Joke's on them, I'm asexual!
Wow, same thing happened with me! I told my “friend” that I had never liked a boy and she told everyone I was lesbian… turns out 2 years later I realize I’m asexual and panromantic! I suppose she wasn’t wrong haha :D
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Looool. My mom worked with a woman who complained about her ex’s ex, who turned out to be me. Apparently I broke up a happy marriage (it was not - the wife had been cheating for a year and they separated 3 months before I got asked on a date), and a whole bunch of other weird crap. It was such a boring relationship, too. I’m not really sure how the new (ex) chick got all those ideas.
I knew I was really old when I quit generating gossip and speculation, and people began to just look at me and shake their heads. I think we all reach that point when we become invisible to young people.
Also when your past is new every year and there's so much drama and intrigue... "it's just dirty and plain stupid" - "but i want to know the end of the story!.."
Sarcastic statements are sort of a true lie. People are saying something they don’t literally mean, but the communication works as intended only if their listener gets that they're insincere.
Some language experts suggest sarcasm is used as a sort of gentler insult, a way to tone down criticism, but their opponents have found that the mocking, smug, superior nature of sarcasm is perceived as more hurtful than a plain-spoken criticism.
The Greek root for sarcasm, sarkazein, means to tear flesh like dogs. Haiman thinks dog-eat-dog sarcastic commentary is just part of our quest to be cool. "You're distancing yourself, you're making yourself superior. If you're sincere all the time, you seem naive."
I was going to comment something smart but I'm so tired. I'll do it tomorrow.
Research has also shown that sarcasm can be easily misinterpreted, especially when served electronically. In one study, 30 pairs of university students were given a list of statements to communicate, half of which were sarcastic and half of which were serious: some students communicated their messages via e-mail and others via voice recordings.
Participants who received the voice messages accurately gleaned the sarcasm (or lack thereof) 73 percent of the time, but those who received the statements via e-mail did so only 56 percent of the time, hardly better than chance. Additionally, the e-mailers had anticipated that 78 percent of participants would pick up on the sarcasm inherent in their sarcastic statements. That is, they badly overestimated their ability to communicate their tone.
At least sarcasm goes well with memes!
Those were the days. Spending all night reading...simpler times.
According to my dietician the worst thing you can do is eat or drink on an empty stomach, at least that's what I understood when I read her list of do's and don'ts.
POV: When your friend brings one of their other friends to lunch but you don't know the other friend so you just sit there awkwardly while they reminisce about something they did 4 years ago.
But if you were stranded somewhere in danger at 3am and needed them you know they’d come.
I hope it's not a chili pepper cake, because you don't need the extra burn.
Well yeah that's why its called "after work". I don't exist to the outside world after 8pm.
Yup, rich will do that to you. All the money in the world for surgery, injections, make-up and photoshop.
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I'm sat here trying to figure out if the person that put these together actually knows what sarcasm is.
I'm sat here trying to figure out if the person that put these together actually knows what sarcasm is.
