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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.
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.
Not as bad as „I need to speak with you about something really important...TOMORROW“ !!
Load More Replies...Or when they say "I was going to talk to you about something, but nevermind, it's not important." B***H! Why tell me then! Now I want to know.
Load More Replies...Can be for sure,. When I say this I want to make sure there is enough time, privacy and a prepared state of mind for the person I'm talking with. Mostly when I say its important folks want to talk right away but not always a good time that moment.
Load More Replies...Yep. Then it's something like, "Don't let me forgot to sign the science fair permission slip".
At least specify good, bad, or neutral if you say something like that! I mean it's still gonna be stressful, but at least that's one variable taken care of...
I intentionally avoid opening work emails after hours to avoid this. I have had some emails from problem work associates after hours and I'm pretty sure the intent was to hope I would say something confrontational after a few beers. Definitely best to wait until the morning.
Stuff like this induces panic attacks with me. I always insist. No tell me NOW. not later. Most people who know me know I will drive myself batty unless they tell me.
I had an ahole of boss did something like this to me once, she wanted to talk to me but it was my home time so she said she would catch up with me on my next shift which was 2 wks later after my birthday holiday! Needless to say i worried a lot, think she did it on purpose. I'd love to run into her now that I'm older and bolder!
People who do this are genuine menaces to society and there is a special place in Hell for them
Oh WTF just tell me now and get it the Frick over with UGH.
say it now you clearly have the time SUSAN NOT LIKE YOU HAVE A LIFE TO LIVE OR PEOPLE TO SEE!
I did this to someone because I hate their guts but we were "friends"
Had a manager who used to do that to us. They would schedule a meeting for the following week. "What's this about?" "Oh, it's a surprise." The company wasn't terribly financially stable, so you can imagine the conclusions we were jumping to. We told them in no uncertain terms that we hated surprises. Needless to say, I did not stay employed there for much longer...
I ABSOLUTELY frickin hate this! I'd ALMOST rather be kicked in the balls.
My mom used to do this all the time. “When you come home next month we need to talk.” I worry for a month that she is dying, grandma is dying, dog is dying… I come home and she points at a pile of some rubbish she decluttered and asks me if I want it or if she should chuck it. It’s not even mine. Yes that was the important “talk”. Or some similar nonsense. Wasn’t until my brother and I both screamed at her she stopped doing it, but I don’t think she really understands why it upsets us.
"yeah. I've got something to tell You as well" Check-mate motafoka! :D
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.