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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!
Frankly, these days people should be grateful if I bothered to put on trousers at all.
The queen of Sweden is famous for reusing fancy outfits, as in the clothes she wear in official things like the Nobel Prize gathering. She has done this for a very long time, and the Crown Princess has taken after her mother. They alter the dresses, and maybe let them hang inmthe wardrobe for a couple of years. But they do not have them as 1-time-never-again items.
Heh, make your own "uniform", it's the best. I buy all my tops (black) in multiples. Makes everything so much easier.
Yep, me too. I buy the same shirt in every color but it's still obviously the same shirt. I have never been a fashion plate, and now that I am old, I find I care even less.
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Right now I'm wearing a band shirt and cut off jeans that are at least 10 years old and a pair of allstars maybe 3 years old, I don't like new clothes.
I've rotated through a small set of shirts and pants since the pandemic began and I started working from home full time. My wife and I were looking at a photo we took near the start of the pandemic, then looked down and realized we were wearing the exact same clothes as in the photo.
My family has the tradition that we all are expected to wear new clothes (like freshly-bought, never-before-used ones) when gather together for the New Year occasion. In the past, it's caused my mom and I headaches over what clothes to buy to attend the gathering. But now I just don't care anymore and wear whatever old clothes I have as long as it's appropriate and not too shabby.
I bought it because I like it so I am going to wear it multiple times.
And…. It’s normal to wear the same close over & over,also to Parties!!!! And Mother Earth really loves it!!!! 👏👏👏😍🙏🏻
I'm like "why are you gullible enough to think you need a new wardrobe every season?
I buy used clothes and wear them until they're literally unwearable. Because I'm not an idiot.
I wear clothes over again in a week cause they make me comfortable in my own body :) Specially my Billy Lenz inspired outfit
My admiration for Tiffany Haddish quadrupled when I heard her say she had every intention of wearing her expensive white gown repeatedly to get her money's worth.
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.
