HAHAHAHA. Get the name right if your gunna take the piss. Uri ********ing Geller soft lad. Taxi. Lovejoy. Back of the net. 1 - 0.
You know, that sign-off really is a worrying sign of mental illness. I mean ... quoting Tim Lovejoy ... whatever next? Fantasy football caree ... oh. OK. (backs away slowly)
Of course he is, chuckles. Tell me - does white bread feature a lot in your daily intake of sustenance?
We Yanks come from everywhere. He could be of Greek heritage, and Sophocles invented irony. Aristotle said so. Aristotle Mitropoulos, that is. Runs the diner on Broadway and 12th, just below the Strand bookstore. He oughta know.
Whos working class. Never worked a day in my life. Have a 250,00 grand house, cash in the bank. Eh. How does that work.
you really are reaching there. her three american co-conspiritors were all musicians (of the non-singing variety, including mr. ballard)... so one would assume that the words were all her's (canuck that is).
it is not at all ironic, nor British, really, that this thread is no longer about irony but about diets and some butch canuck chick who got all popular by pretending to be authentic. oh, wait. i could be wrong about the lack of irony here...
This whole thread reminds me of the film, Reality Bites Interviewer: Define Irony Interviewee: I know it when I see it.
Surely the point is not whether the British understand irony better than their transatlantic cousins, but more the fact that all commentators (British, American or Martian) speak unmitigated toss.
So it is like George Bush funding a program promoting English fluency. Oh Georgey you are so ironic. I hate you.
--- your proximity to Oak Ridge has begun to have a toxic impact on your ability to make discrete judgments. flee Knoxville in haste. Guyana might be a safe haven...
Only if, as later suggested, that rain was particularly unusual. If you get rained on in a place where it hasn't rained for 43 years - that may be ironic. If you get rained on in Manchester, that's normal. An American questioning British understanding of irony is ironic though, on a generic sociological basis.
--- but a Brit would have a far greater understanding of what it means to be a complete wanker than would a Yank, on a generic sociological basis, don't you think?
More generally, though, I think the culture is a bit different here. British comedy, for instance, is full of satire, redicule, irony, sarcasm, nastiness and general "p1ss take" so we say it here. We laugh at it, and it's a bread and butter of humour. In many countries it wouldn't pass. I've had many outsiders say to me that it's nasty, but the nuance is different (say, try tell a girl that she's skinny. Depending on whether she was obese or anorexic, she will perceive it differently). There's a profound difference in perception between different cultures, so a lot of the time it comes across politically incorrect to some. Anyway, I think we use those terms very loosely, much more casually than many other cultures, and we're used to doing so, so it's worth keeping that in mind (although I'm perfectly happy that you lot are getting bogged down with the accademic side of it all). My 2 pennies.