Witticism wrote:50% of all people reading this thread have below average intelligence.
...if we define "average" as in the "median" of the intelligence of the people reading this thread.
IOW, you have to reformulate the whole of your sentence...
Americans don't get irony
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Re: Americans don't get irony
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by Luis Dias » Apr 28, 2010 2:08 pm
...if we define "average" as in the "median" of the intelligence of the people reading this thread.
IOW, you have to reformulate the whole of your sentence...
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#82 by rainbow » Apr 28, 2010 2:11 pm
We have heard of Big Water in Legends from Ancestors, but not of Metal Fish.
Is this how you understand Irony?
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#83 by Gawdzilla » Apr 28, 2010 2:13 pm
Witticism wrote:50% of all people reading this thread have below average intelligence.
98% of all statistics quoted on the Net are made up.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#84 by Witticism » Apr 28, 2010 2:30 pm
27% of all statistics are lies. 43.2% Are Damned Lies. 118% of Statistics don't add up and ...
50% of all people reading this thread have above average intelligence.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#85 by Gawdzilla » Apr 28, 2010 2:33 pm
Witticism wrote:
27% of all statistics are lies. 43.2% Are Damned Lies. 118% of Statistics don't add up and ...
50% of all people reading this thread have above average intelligence.
And 50% of the people reading this thread have average intelligence.
50% + 50% + 50% = . . . erm, . . . many.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#86 by Luis Dias » Apr 28, 2010 2:33 pm
So despite my correction above you still cling to this woeful misconstruction of bad propaganda, hmm? Go learn some maths, you!
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#87 by The_Piper » Apr 28, 2010 10:55 pm
Nice.
It wasn't supposed to be ironic. I'm American, I don't get irony.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#88 by rainbow » Apr 29, 2010 6:42 am
The_Piper wrote:
We have heard of Big Water in Legends from Ancestors, but not of Metal Fish.
Is this how you understand Irony?
Nice.
It wasn't supposed to be ironic. I'm American, I don't get irony.
Metal Fish not made of Iron?
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#89 by Gawdzilla » Apr 29, 2010 11:18 am
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#90 by The_Piper » Apr 29, 2010 11:43 am
It's actually the flightless sea-faring duck, Flipperus Monstrousus.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#91 by z8000783 » May 01, 2010 12:02 pm
So, I was telling my wife about this thread and how the Americans didn't 't understand the irony of a wind turbine catching fire and she looks at me blank and says -"I don't get it either".
So I check we have the same understanding of the word and then explain it but, unlike the previous 50 occasions whereby she just shrugs and walks away she says- "Yes but you are on those forums all the time talking about irony."
Me: No I'm not, this is just one thread.
Her: Yes, but you are on the internet all the time and I'm sure various situations crop up frequently where your discuss these things with others. I can't remember the last time I would have even thought about the word let alone considered examples of irony or talked about it with anyone.
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So I check we have the same understanding of the word and then explain it but, unlike the previous 50 occasions whereby she just shrugs and walks away she says- "Yes but you are on those forums all the time talking about irony."
Me: No I'm not, this is just one thread.
Her: Yes, but you are on the internet all the time and I'm sure various situations crop up frequently where your discuss these things with others. I can't remember the last time I would have even thought about the word let alone considered examples of irony or talked about it with anyone.
Me: Maybe you need to get out more and talk to different people?
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Re: Americans don't get irony
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#93 by archibald » May 14, 2010 9:59 am
Maybe it's fair to say that 'getting irony' is much more prevalent here in Britain, and that though there is some 'getting irony' in the ex-colony, it's less common. Perhaps irony is a meme which spreads during and after the decline of national power, status and influence (even the title 'Great Britain' is inherently ironic, surely) in which case americans will possibly be 'getting' a lot more of it at some point. :]
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#94 by chairman bill » May 14, 2010 11:26 am
A friend of mine has just got a job at an Australian university. Her boyfriend was going to accompany her, but was refused entry because of his criminal record.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#95 by The_Piper » May 14, 2010 2:02 pm
Perhaps there are people that get irony on every continent and island.
And few who do not, on every continent and island.
Irony isn't genius.
Perhaps if you think that you're more clever than a whole country worth of people, you might want to consider whether you are prejudiced against the people in that country, or a narcissist.
And few who do not, on every continent and island.
Irony isn't genius.
Perhaps if you think that you're more clever than a whole country worth of people, you might want to consider whether you are prejudiced against the people in that country, or a narcissist.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#96 by Matt_B » May 14, 2010 2:05 pm
chairman bill wrote:A friend of mine has just got a job at an Australian university. Her boyfriend was going to accompany her, but was refused entry because of his criminal record.
Shame it wasn't 150 years ago; they'd have positively welcomed him for it.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#97 by Fallible » May 14, 2010 2:07 pm
chairman bill wrote:A friend of mine has just got a job at an Australian university. Her boyfriend was going to accompany her, but was refused entry because of his criminal record.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#98 by Fallible » May 14, 2010 2:27 pm
Couldn't find the Dodgeball clip where Vince Vaughan says 'well at least that wasn't weird'. Oh well.
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#99 by Tyrannical » May 14, 2010 3:48 pm
chairman bill wrote:A friend of mine has just got a job at an Australian university. Her boyfriend was going to accompany her, but was refused entry because of his criminal record.
Yeah, I hear they won't let you in without one
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Re: Americans don't get irony
#100 by chippy » May 17, 2010 1:00 pm
Being American, I just can't bring myself to read this entire thread, only to learn what I already know. It'd just piss me off more. So, please forgive me if any of these examples have already been brought to bear:
Protesters waving a "Don't Tread on Me" flag while at a rally in support of an Iraq invasion.
"We were here first." Meanwhile many native Americans live in poverty on reservations just a few miles from the speaker.
"I don't want socialized medicine. I want to keep my Medicare." For those of you who don't know, Medicare is a government funded Medical system for the elderly.
Or how about one of my recent favorites... The posters of Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache being bandied about by knuckle dragging, confederate flag waving, big business protecting, oil chugging, ultra right wing fascist fuck nuts. These are the same people who often haven't a pot to piss in, yet think regulations on oil companies and financial institutions is an outrage to capitalism.
Not all Americans fail to understand irony, as I'm confident many of you know. I've never heard this claim before, but I certainly can't argue against it. I suppose an "ignorance" defense could be proffered for those dimwits, that they simply don't know what fascism, or socialism mean. Nor may they understand the meaning of such patriotic symbols of Early Americana embody. But surely, in the end, if they understood irony, perhaps there eyes could see how ridiculous they look and their ears how childish, petty and (perhaps the ultimate irony of all) "un-Christian" they sound.
Sadly, the list of examples is exhaustive and ever-growing.
Protesters waving a "Don't Tread on Me" flag while at a rally in support of an Iraq invasion.
"We were here first." Meanwhile many native Americans live in poverty on reservations just a few miles from the speaker.
"I don't want socialized medicine. I want to keep my Medicare." For those of you who don't know, Medicare is a government funded Medical system for the elderly.
Or how about one of my recent favorites... The posters of Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache being bandied about by knuckle dragging, confederate flag waving, big business protecting, oil chugging, ultra right wing fascist fuck nuts. These are the same people who often haven't a pot to piss in, yet think regulations on oil companies and financial institutions is an outrage to capitalism.
Not all Americans fail to understand irony, as I'm confident many of you know. I've never heard this claim before, but I certainly can't argue against it. I suppose an "ignorance" defense could be proffered for those dimwits, that they simply don't know what fascism, or socialism mean. Nor may they understand the meaning of such patriotic symbols of Early Americana embody. But surely, in the end, if they understood irony, perhaps there eyes could see how ridiculous they look and their ears how childish, petty and (perhaps the ultimate irony of all) "un-Christian" they sound.
Sadly, the list of examples is exhaustive and ever-growing.
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