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Title: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: bedlamite on November 15, 2018, 01:08:44 AM: http://caldronpool.com/several-australian-universities-ban-sarcasm-because-its-a-form-of-violence/

Yeah, that'll work great.
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 05:34:36 AM: I thought Sarcasm was the unofficial national language of Austrailia ???
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: griz on November 15, 2018, 07:37:20 AM: Wrapped up in all the banning of everything that could be construed as in disagreement with the correct group think, is the fact that in order for someone to even be able to recognize Sarcasm you have to know that there is the possibility that ones opinion is not a universally held truth. Doesn't that take enough of the sting out of the "violence"?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: Fly320s on November 15, 2018, 09:28:51 AM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 05:34:36 AM
I thought Sarcasm was the unofficial national language of Austrailia ???

Nah, yeah.
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: 230RN on November 15, 2018, 09:32:51 AM: Quote from: griz on November 15, 2018, 07:37:20 AM
Wrapped up in all the banning of everything that could be construed as in disagreement with the correct group think, is the fact that in order for someone to even be able to recognize Sarcasm you have to know that there is the possibility that ones opinion is not a universally held truth. Doesn't that take enough of the sting out of the "violence"?

griz for the Nobel Prize in philosophy.
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: Ben on November 15, 2018, 09:35:10 AM: Sure, this'll work out great.
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: Perd Hapley on November 15, 2018, 12:20:46 PM: This makes my head hurt, he said non-sarcastically. ???
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on November 15, 2018, 03:18:29 PM: I never knew I was such a violent person...
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 03:28:10 PM: If sarcasm is violence why don't I have a long stretch of bodies in my past?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: MechAg94 on November 15, 2018, 03:57:45 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 03:28:10 PM
If sarcasm is violence why don't I have a long stretch of bodies in my past?
You are good at hiding bodies maybe? How well do we really know you?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: dogmush on November 15, 2018, 04:19:49 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 03:28:10 PM
If sarcasm is violence why don't I have a long stretch of bodies in my past?

Once they go through the screw, it's all chum?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: Hawkmoon on November 15, 2018, 05:28:16 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 03:28:10 PM
If sarcasm is violence why don't I have a long stretch of bodies in my past?

Sarcasm, shovel, and shut up?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: cordex on November 15, 2018, 07:47:07 PM: Quote from: MechAg94 on November 15, 2018, 03:57:45 PM
You are good at hiding bodies maybe? How well do we really know you?
He’s always got meat on the grill ... maybe more longpig than pork?
Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: 230RN on November 16, 2018, 12:27:22 AM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 15, 2018, 03:28:10 PM
If sarcasm is violence why don't I have a long stretch of bodies in my past?

Quote from: MechAg94 on November 15, 2018, 03:57:45 PM
You are good at hiding bodies maybe? How well do we really know you?

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Title: Re: Just ban sarcasm
Post by: RoadKingLarry on November 16, 2018, 07:53:54 AM: Having friends that own heavy equipment can be a good thing =D