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I still don't get it. I'm not an English native speaker, so sometime reversed speaking sarcasm is a bit hard to graps (if any was involved). I hope I didn't of
by MrBra 12y ago
I still don't get it. I'm not an English native speaker, so sometime reversed speaking sarcasm is a bit hard to graps (if any was involved).
I hope I didn't offend anyone. I thought the article was about a newly discovered cure, the joke being that it was all fake. And I just thought, bad taste for a joke.
- colanderman 12y agoTo clarify -- the joke in Vraxx's post is the absurdity of the contrast between the tone of the speaker ("Hahahah!") and the seriousness of the subject matter ("life saving drugs"): no-one would actually make such a statement. The joke in nugget's post is the absurdity of his implication that a cancer patient would find it funnier if the article were a joke; when in fact a cancer patient would be the most offended.