Does sarcasm, irony, and sardonic wit simply not exist online?
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sometimes the message just doesn't get across because you can't tell body language or hear inflection.  \n\notherwise, i'd say a large part of the online community simply has too large a stick up their behinds to laugh at themselves or to ever consider that so much of their very existence is laughable to others.
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observations of everyday life and the irony of situations
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It is really hard to tell the tone of people when they are asking questions.. As you see more and more of their postings you can tell when they are joking.. but at first sometimes people take sarcasm or irony for seriousness.
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Most people don't mind an occasional sarcastic jest or ironic comment in the course of a conversation. It becomes unbearable if it is heavy-handed, malicious or offensive. Sarcasm is best used with people who you know will not take what you say too seriously. It is risky to use with people you do not know well. Sarcasm is generally wasted on small children, who tend towards literalism, although if they have a parent who is inclined towards sarcasm, they can learn to recognize when mom is just being facetious again. \n\nBy the way, puns are the lowest form of wit. By far.
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No.\nTo be ironic, there has to be some deeper level of unexpectedness.\nHere's an example...\nA very good tournament Scrabble player has a rack of DEEINTV.  After studying the board for a while, he plays "DEVEIN" for 30 points, a pretty respectable score for a turn.\nBut the word he missed seeing, worth 70 points or so (that's counting the 50 pt bonus for using up all 7 tiles), was "EVIDENT".  But obviously it wasn't evident to him, or else he'd have played it.\nIt's unexpected that he missed it... because he's a good player and doesn't normally miss seeing the right play... and it's ironic that the word he missed seeing describes something that is too obvious to be missed.\nIf his rack had been KUMQUAT or something, and he missed playing KUMQUAT, there'd be nothing ironic about it.  What does a kumquat have to do with failing to see a Scrabble play?  But it would still be unusual, because a good player would normally find "KUMQUAT".\nYes, I know, silly example, but first one that came to mind.
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I don't think such a thing exists in The Web.
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IT SEEMS THAT ANYONE WHO SPENDS ALL DAY ON LINE NEEDS TO GET A LIFE.ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, ARE SAVED FROM A LONELY LIFE BY GOING ON LINE. I 'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ONES WHO PREY ON YOUNG CHILDREN. I HOPE THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM SOON.\nI GUESS YOU AND I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO DURING THE COURSE OF A DAY AND,USE OUR TIME WISELY. MAYBE SOMEDAY WE WILL BE SPENDING MORE TIME ON THE FASCINATING WORLD OF THE INTERNET.
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Everything points to one thing: dripping sarcasm
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I definitely don't think I laugh enough. I would love to laugh more! Silly people make me laugh. People who are willing to find a joke everywhere! I love sarcasm! It's the best!
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I can agree with you about people in the real world, but on-line I can't but agree with you.\n\nAnonymity gives some emotionally immature and weak people bravado.
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Yes. that might be true. Some people are too serious to answer those funny questions and they must be those that either get offended or something else they dont like or it could be because as you said because theyre not humourous.
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it depends on the cleverness and wit of the snarky comment, i enjoy the banter with someone with intelligence who doesn't take it or themselves so seriously. most people that take it to it's most base level i just ignore, but not all.
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Tell me about it! They haven't even heard of sarcasm and take everyhting so seriously!!\n\nWasn't canned laughter invented so they know what was supposed to be a joke?
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Every Q&A site has people with a sense of humour.\nYou have got to know that there will baddies and goodies all the time no matter what site it is so get used to it. If you aksed a more sensible question this site would  be even better. \nBy the looks of it you seem to be saying that Yahoo Answers is not Top Notch.I do not think so that's a fair judgement.
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some people might be sensitive? Then get off the internet and stuff your face in a bible. Something called free speech... and these are blonde jokes. I hope that was a joke.
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Hardly. On the Internet, I've really only seen a handful of Internet trolls who are actually as clever as they suppose themselves to be. \n\nFactoring out the Internet for a moment, I think atheists (not all, but some) tend to think Christians are less intelligent than a lot of them are. And I suspect many atheists also look at their reasons for disbelief, which they consider to be rooted in reason, and suppose that because their belief can be sourced to a rational outlook, that those of their would-be opponents cannot be. \n\nAs a result, atheists tend to play a pretty weak hand with Christians in debate - they really do tend to underestimate them. They ply them with pesudo-logical paradoxes (that in fact have serious logical flaws to them) such as "can God make a rock too big for him to lift it?" And they'll toss out such red herrings as the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", one of the most poorly devised apologetic devices ever constructed in the history of theological debate.\n\nI think the more convincing arguments made by atheists tend to be the ones that take religion seriously - Paul Chamberlain's "Can We be Good without God?" I thought was a superlative and well argued work, though I didn't agree with some of its conclusions about the nature of religious belief. \n\nBut I can imagine a person being convinced by an argument made like that, because you are being taken seriously. Mockery has been taken out of it. I doubt too many people ever change because they are made fun of - there's no quicker way to shutter someone's ears.