| From: | Andy Wanless |
| Date: | 20 Oct 99 at 15:54:51 |
| Subject: | RE: Digitiser (CH4 Teletext, Page 481, 1/5) |
From: Andy Wanless <yd@flump.tele2.co.uk>
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Sealey, M. wrote:
> > I'm sure he's got better things to do than waste his time
> > complaining to them about that. Childish, not at all funny
> > crap on Teletext is hardly worth bothering about.
>
> It's not childish, what you read on Digitiser is called
> SARCASM. If you think it's childish, you should get your
> humour centre checked, and visit http://www.bubblegun.com
> for more of the same :)
It may well be a childish attempt at sarcasm, but that doesn't alter the
fact that it's just not funny. :P
And as I can be almost dangerously sarcastic (dangerous for me anyway,
when people start throwing things), I don't think you need to spell it out
in capitals for me.
[snip ntk]
>
> And make your eyes sweat in a bath of black-on-white monospaced
> and emboldened (just to push it deeper into your retina) unfunny
> tripe! Ouch!
So the painfully unfunny digitiser is SARCASM, but the wonderfully funny
ntk is tripe? And I need to get my "humour centre" checked? ;)
I agree that ntk is slightly tricky to read comfortably though.
> > If teletext was a newsgroup
>
> news://alt.digitiser
Is it full of people who find digitiser funny? If so, I think I'll give it
a miss. More entertainment to be had in csam with you-know-who and his
rantings. ;)
> > people would quite rightly dismiss them as
> > unamusing trolls. So what's different in this case?
>
> That most of the time, they're funny about it, in a sort of
> surrealistic abstract moc-moc-a-moc kind of way. Just this
> time, it's actually bordering on the offensive. And it's
> something they could have opted NOT to publish, as it's
> freelance work (not one of their own team).
Now, assuming for second (and I know it's unlikely), that they could ever
be funny, what makes this particular incident more offensive and less
funny than anything else they write? The fact that it's about us rather
than anyone else?
Remember, if you want to be funny and get away with taking the piss out of
everyone and everything, you have to have a go at yourself just that
little bit extra.
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