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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!
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.
I sometimes wonder what happened to the people who asked me for directions
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I am terrible with directions so I get nervous going to places I don't go to on a regular basis. Even with using Google maps.
I have a horrible sense of direction. Navigation apps are a Godsend.
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I have lived in this town for 70 years and I don't know the names of half the streets or how to get there. They tell me its called progress!
Plus everything changes so much! Where'd the Kmart go? Was there a street there before? Where's all the trees? Were there apartments there before? And why's everyone in such a damned hurry???! 😵
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Sure. Turn right at the corner where the stop sign is missing and then left where there used to be a huge oak tree but there's only a stump left. If an old man is in the yard, tell him Mac says "Hey" and he'll mow your lawn this Saturday"...
Or you use "landmarks" from the town and they have no clue what they're talking about
Haha! 😂 I bet you and me live in the same part of the town then 😂
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keep going straight forward until you can't see me anymore and ask from there
And OMG, this should have been in my other post, but when I got my license, and wanted to go to a mall a little tiny bit further away from my usual, I asked my mom for directions, and my 12 YO sister laughed her butt off. She said you've been going to that mall for 12 years! How do you NOT know how to get there!? Sad truth. If someone else is driving, I have no idea where I am.
I know how to get there, don't know a single street name. My directions are. "Keep going that-a-way, turn there, keep going until you turn and continue until you are there. Or you could go the other way."
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Me when I was asked yesterday where opera square was and I Googled it because I didn't know the name and I was like "oh, right... it is the square in front of the opera..."
I like giving directions, I get into it and will tell you a real good and thorough route, doesn't happen as often these days but I still love to give a good set of directions.
Moved from my hometown 14 years ago. Recently moved back with my husband and he knows his way around better than I do. It's kind of embarrassing.
Just tell take that tree then trun left at that Rock and follow that house tell you hit dead end. Sorry can't remember names. But you will get there
Tell them to go to the end of the road, take the next right, then straight ahead. Go passed the next set of traffic lights and turn left again. Go all the way for one mile and you are there. They will get lost, but they will never find their way back to you and ask where they took a wrong turn.
this is how to avoid any future acusations *ahem* S1* give them the basic directions, S2* say "I'm pretty sure anyways" wit a shrug S3* say- but if ya get lost anywhere just use waze or some app like it
So... you go straight on till you see a pond with two ducks, turn left at the giant applepie-sign and than the first right after the rainbowslide in the gardengnomes-garden...
Hey man, I live here because it's close to work. Not because I care about local attractions.
I'd lived in a city for a couple months and worked at Walmart. Never been in a Shopko and was chewed out for not knowing what they sell there.
Travelled for work throughout the US and the only time I've been asked for directions was when visiting another city, "uh, I know where my hotel is."
So should I turn North? Uh...turn left when you get to the gas station.
I good at the giving of directions, but the receiver is often dumbfounded as I tend to use North, South, East and West. I should know better by now, and just start with, go that way till you reach the McDonalds, then make a left, then go up three stop lights, and make a right.
So me! I'm directionally challenged. And I'm okay with it :)
I don't know ANY street names. My BF is like, DEANNA, it's on East Maiden Street, And I'm like "is that the street you turn left onto after you pass the public library and the street dead ends?" He's like "Yes!!!".
To this day I still think about the lady I send right instead of left at the end of the street because I misspoke. I wonder if she got where she was going ok.
Oh, hell. I should have told them to turn at the 2nd stoplight not the 3rd. I wonder where they ended up?
I'm the same way! Though I can get around town, I am completely useless when it comes to giving directions. I go from being a scientist in knowing my way around, to being dumb as a box of rocks when I am asked for directions lol
In my city: "You see that house 100 meters down the street? That's it. But since you're in a car you can't get there without a 30 KM detour. And you can't park your car in a 5 KM radius from here."
This is me when someone asks me if I know a person from the same area and I'm like..."No" so their first instinct is to ask "Oh, did you move here recently?"...."Nah, I've been here 29 years".
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.
