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From: Stan Hoeppner on 6 Jul 2010 16:30 Ron Johnson put forth on 7/6/2010 1:33 PM: > On 07/06/2010 01:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: >> >>> I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about >>> youtube >>> and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. >> >> Dry humor doesn't include emoticons. >> > > "If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n" is only dryly humorous > among friends. Youtube and pr0n are the stereotypical/archetypal Flash applications. If I'd included a winky or tongue-out emoticon, no one would have said a word about my post, just grinned slightly as they read it, or thought to themselves "that wasn't really funny" and moved on. This is why most people hate dry humor, and hate comics such as Steven Wright, because they just can't "get it" without an external social queue telling them it's funny (in this case an emoticon). This is why most/all sitcoms have laugh tracks. I know you'll attempt to rebut this Ron, so should I go ahead and dig up all the sociology research that prove my point? ;) :P Obviously Mark isn't a Steven Wright fan. Apparently you aren't either. From now on I'll be damn sure to stick emoticons all over my comments intended to be humorous lest I cause another row with the dry humor. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C3390BA.8050806(a)hardwarefreak.com
From: Patrick Ouellette on 6 Jul 2010 16:50 On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:23:22PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Obviously Mark isn't a Steven Wright fan. Apparently you aren't either. From > now on I'll be damn sure to stick emoticons all over my comments intended to > be humorous lest I cause another row with the dry humor. > Well, I AM a Steven Wright fan and I though the p0rn remark was over the line, not funny and in poor taste. Maybe I'm just getting older, who knows. Ask anyone who knows me and you'll find I'm no stranger to dry humor, sarcasm, and other things that don't translate well to the ASCII text world. At least the presence of an emoticon lets people know you are not serious absent the body language and vocal inflections. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette pat(a)flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you been in the world today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100706203525.GB12061(a)flying-gecko.net
From: Lisi on 6 Jul 2010 17:50 On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:23:22 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 7/6/2010 1:33 PM: > > On 07/06/2010 01:40 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Mark put forth on 7/5/2010 11:51 PM: > >>> I admire the OP's class in his response. Thought that comment about > >>> youtube > >>> and pr0n was completely unnecessary and unsolicited when I read it. > >> > >> Dry humor doesn't include emoticons. > > > > "If you're that addicted to youtube and pr0n" is only dryly humorous > > among friends. > > Youtube and pr0n are the stereotypical/archetypal Flash applications. If > I'd included a winky or tongue-out emoticon, no one would have said a word > about my post, just grinned slightly as they read it, or thought to > themselves "that wasn't really funny" and moved on. No matter how many emoticons you had included, I should still have had to look up what you meant by pr0n, and wish I hadn't when I had. It's not funny on a list frequented by all ages and both genders, doubly so without the facial expressions (emoticons) which indicate that, even if the reader doesn't find it so, the writer intended it to be humourous. The inference that anyone who uses Flash must want it to watch pornography was unpleasant and distasteful. I cannot be the only person who has never looked at pornography, never will look at pornography and didn't know until now, when you told us, that it ran on Flash. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007062247.11909.lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com
From: Camaleón on 6 Jul 2010 18:30 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:47:11 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 21:23:22 Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Youtube and pr0n are the stereotypical/archetypal Flash applications. >> If I'd included a winky or tongue-out emoticon, no one would have said >> a word about my post, just grinned slightly as they read it, or thought >> to themselves "that wasn't really funny" and moved on. > > No matter how many emoticons you had included, I should still have had > to look up what you meant by pr0n, and wish I hadn't when I had. It's > not funny on a list frequented by all ages and both genders, doubly so > without the facial expressions (emoticons) which indicate that, even if > the reader doesn't find it so, the writer intended it to be humourous. Maybe we are being a bit strict with that comment. In fact, when I read the full paragraph it took me a "half-smile" because I caught the "irony" behind it. O.k, not everybody is able to catch the words in the right context and written text (without such "edulcorants" smilies ) can sometimes sound a bit "rude". I understood it was just a joke, and knowing the Adobe Flash trajectory (it is indeed the preferred container for delivering media streaming in almost 95% of Internet A/V content), I took Stan H. comment more than a statistical note than anything else. :-) ← yes, that is an smiley face. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.07.06.22.27.31(a)gmail.com
From: Andrei Popescu on 7 Jul 2010 02:50 On Ma, 06 iul 10, 15:23:22, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This is why most people hate dry humor, and hate comics such as Steven Wright, > because they just can't "get it" without an external social queue telling them > it's funny (in this case an emoticon). This is why most/all sitcoms have > laugh tracks. > > I know you'll attempt to rebut this Ron, so should I go ahead and dig up all > the sociology research that prove my point? ;) :P ,----[ RFC 1855: http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html ] | Remember that the recipient is a human being whose culture, language, | and humor have different points of reference from your own. Remember | that date formats, measurements, and idioms may not travel well. Be | especially careful with sarcasm. `---- Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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