People who say something unexpectedly snarky to you, followed by "Oh I was just kidding, come on" D/D

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Oh yeah, gotta get your jokes in there, eh?

Fuck 'em.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you a big crybaby today, you big sissy-saurus rex, you.

j/k

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

hey bastard, how about showing decency for once.

j/k

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

TS: Passive-Aggressive Cowards Unable to Stand Behind Their Digs vs. Self-Involved Jerks Who Can't Take a Joke

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

it's a very thin line, isn't it

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

It's never a joke, it's always "oh shit I've gone over the line, I'd better pretend I was joking"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

REMINDER FOR FUCKWITS: A joke is ONLY a joke when both parties recognise it as such

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

I've known both types and can't get along with either. I dated a girl who took everything I said at face value, and I kept having to explain myself, and it wasn't really worth it.

But someone who hides behind joking is doubly dud.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

I can take a joke and even if it's snarky I always handle it as one, but there's the sort of person who says, "Just kidding, jeez", no matter how you react.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

Right up there with people who go "OMG YOU SUCK I HOPE YOU DIE YOU WANKFACE ARSEJOB OMG", and you say "pardon?" and they say "JEEEEEZ, NO NEED TO OVERREACT"

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

a joke is a joke as long as it's meant as a joke, just because someone else doesn't have a sense of humour does not mean it's not meant in humour

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

True, but when you deliver it knowing it's going to be taken as offensive it doesn't count. Sorry, I should have clarified.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

I was at a bar tonight and Morrissey walked in. I was talking to some drunk British guy and he said, "Oh hey, Morrissey. (pause) It's shit, isn't it?" MOrrissey sort of shrugged and walked past, the British guy turns to me and says, "Not much of a sense of humor on that one."

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey and I both missed the joke.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I think you're confusing comedy and kindness.

xpost, several

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

It's not that he didn't get it, it's just that that joke isn't funnny anymore.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

(Actually, I don't get it either. Shit? Where see shit?)

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

I fuck up this line all the time.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the joke, if there is one, is that Morrissey takes himself seriously. The "it's shit" line could have just been, y'know, "here we are in a bar, hating ourselves, life is shit, etc" and mostly unrelated to the later humourlessness crack.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

the dude was clearly trying some impromptu weird al version of faith no more's "epic".

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

Where's the joy in it anyway? If you're gonna zing someone, you ravage them. You don't undermine your bon mot with a "jeez, lighten up."

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

If you are something of a bon vivant, you know that French has long been the language of haute cuisine. We go to the bistro for hors d'oeuvres and an entrée, à la carte, wish one another bon appetit, and wonder whether the plat du jour of chicken à la king would be more piquant with a soupçon of bouquet garni. But food is only the tip of the iceberg. The French have pulled off a tour de force of verbal imperialism, claiming carte blanche to rewrite the entire English language, and I don't see any chance of a rapprochement unless we isolate the whole French nation behind a linguistic cordon sanitaire.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Thurber?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

*shrugs*

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/68.html

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

That paragraph alone maybe could have been Thurberian, but the whole bit was pretty post-collegial or something. Thurber's just the only humourist I could think of who would dare to be that droll (and only because he was writing 100 yrs ago)(0r less).

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, that's why I cut it. It just went on too long.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

One paragraph makes the point, a whole screed like that gets a little too Tom Green for my taste.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

REMINDER FOR FUCKWITS: A joke is ONLY a joke when both parties recognise it as such

by that logic, when you say "kidding" afterwards it'd make it a joke!

― parakeet_esparanto (parakeetesparanto), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 08:23 (twenty years ago)

Thurber, the guy with the dogs yeah?

Fuck sake, I'm only kidding. Bloody hell.

― Rumpington Lane, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

The "Just Kidding!" line can also be used after having one's romantic offer of a date being rejected.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

OKAY I CAN TAKE A HINT

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

REMINDER FOR FUCKWITS: A joke is ONLY a joke when both parties recognise it as such

I don't think you really believe this or realise what it means.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

The level of purposeful obtuseness on display in this thread sickens me!

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Boo hoo.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

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