432Kviews
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?
More info: Instagram
This post may include affiliate links.
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.
EXACTLY. this is why I refuse, despite being a good cook. Time is money. I just buy pre-made. Apologies to underpaid pre-made sandwich workers.
Don't view everything through the lens of "money". Cooking can be enjoyable, therapeutic and an escape from other life stresses to many people. You're denying yourself that because that precious time could be spent earning cash?
Load More Replies...
But I love cooking. Plus I clean as I go. By the time I sit down to eat everything is clean. Plus I don't gobble my food so it lasts longer than 10 minutes.
I hate cooking. Can I employ you? Or at least have some of your motivation :-D
Load More Replies...
Enjoy your food, talk to the person you're eating with, have some wine, eat slowly. If you have a dishwasher, it's heaven.
If one person cooks, the other washes and puts away. Those are the rules
I love cooking except when I have to 😂 but then do you ever find that you’re starving and you take forever to make a meal and by the time you’re done you’re not hungry anymore? Weirdest thing
Me too! Might have something to do with the open bag of chips sitting on the counter though.
Load More Replies... 
Cooking for one is difficult and lonely. Cooking for a family might create a huge mess and take ages, but it's about more than the food. It's about conversation, sharing food, togetherness, etc. It's about making time to stop, sit down, eat and chat with your loved ones.
It's certainly challenging to cook for one, but it's not lonely. I love cooking for myself. I just have a really big freezer so I don't have to eat the same thing for a week! But you're right, I love cooking for family too, for all the reasons you mentioned.
Load More Replies...
I find mundane tasks very relaxing. I enjoy the ironing and dishes. The more repetitive the better for me
I love cleaning, but not so much cooking. To me, cleaning is therapeutic and rewarding --cooking not so much.
Load More Replies...
Perfect description of Thanksgiving Day, except that it takes a lot longer to cook it.
That`s why I refuse to celebrate my birthday at home. Because all the cleaning and washing.
Or kids birthdays especially kids birthdays Chuck E. Cheese anyone?
Load More Replies...
Someone give this person bigger casserole and a fridge with a freezer.
Being single and trying to cook for one is awful! At least with a partner/roommate you can make a recipe (which is usually for a min of 4 people) and have something for lunch, rather than eating it for a whole week
That was my life for years. Now I buy frozen dinners & throw the plastic dish in the garbage!!
Learn how to make 20 minute meals from fresh ingredients and clean as you go. It makes it so much more enjoyable, I rarely spend longer than 20-30 minutes on dinner and I love cooking!
Slow cooker 4 days of food at a time and throw it in plastic boxes. On the 5th day order pizza.
Hours of prep,10 mins. to eat, hours of clean up. The joys of being a wife and mom.
Yep... just finished eating dinner.... now to watch TV and look at the laptop while the dishes glare at me from the kitchen.....
Make whoever you cooked for do the dishes!!!! My partner doesn’t eat if he don’t do dishes. I’m like you ain’t do dishes so I can’t cook🤷♀️
Oh my I have do dishes 365 times a year (everyday) for the last 40 years with my husband having done them maybe two times… that’s 2:14,6000 times 🥺
He would starve at my house the husband that is
Load More Replies... Lets take Christmas food…. Cook for days & hours…. & Wupti… Blink with the eyes,it’s gone!!! 😭🙈
I cook in the mid afternoon. I cook enough for 6 meals. One I eat that night by reheating, one put aside for two nights time, the other 4 are labeled and put in the deep freezer for following weeks.
Za, are we talking about those ridiculous, crustless, white bread sandwiches in the U.K.?
I wish whatever food would just follow me home, cook itself and clean up after I eat it over the sink.
This is why my husband cooks and I do the cleaning up. Well worth it for the amazing food!
I hate cooking and hate washing dishes even more!!I have to do both!!!!!
I had a rule with my ex: the one who cooks doesn't wash a thing. Due to her having more free time she cooked maybe 80% of our meals, and I gladly washed all without hesittation cause she cooked few but very good dishes. I just stuck to pasta, rice and fries and a steak, or takeout.
I don't think I have ever cooked for 2 hours - the food may have to cook for that time but I'm not physically doing it. Clean as you go enjoy your meal and it will take less than 10 min. to clean up!
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.
Note: this post originally had 95 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
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.
