Post by TonyPost by Rich80105Post by GeorgeOn Sun, 3 May 2020 23:53:16 -0700 (PDT)
Post by John BowesA rhetorical question designed to highlight your stupidity Rich! You
suggest Curia do Labours polls while we all know it's UMR who tend to
give results that don't come within a bulls roar of reality. Much
like so many of your posts Rich :)
Instead it just highlighted your inability to engage in civilised
discussion - my response was designed to highlight the stupidity of
the question.
What nonsense, you were sarcastic which as we all know is a form of abuse when
overused.
"As we all know" is to speak for others, a presumptuousness too far.
Sarcasm may be interpreted as abuse by those who must needs go looking for abuse.
Otherwise it may be interpreted as provocation slyly aimed at the looking-for-hurt suggestible who must needs seek and find offence wherever and whenever he, listens, reads or looks.
One writer puts it this way:
"Doggedly literal-minded people just don't get it. So sarcasm either confuses them or makes them feel stupid. (And, really, that's part of its fiendishly clever design.)" A narrow, limited view, but OK for all that.
Intelligent, well-formed minds handle sarcasm with aplomb. Sufficiently quick-witted people know how to score off it, whereas the slow-witted and the intransigent feel aggrieved at their own lack of mental alacrity and agility and so act as one would expect.