BadgeIsBack

Do you know, I could never work out why so many Brits complained about the Australian sense of humour then it clicked : whilst many Australians love a dry, sense of humour, and definitely get deadpan irony, (which is right up my alley as it happens!) and as such even love British sitcoms - some of them adore them - they don't generally actually do scarcasm - a great thing in my opinion.

Manys the time here an expat has lamented this, "I'm all scarcy and they don't get it", but in my opinion, some Australians would see it as downright negative, rude and hostile - and so do I. Scarcasm is the worst form of irony, but irony is cool.

And speedreading as I do, I missed your pun.

Gobbledegeek

Quite but I still can't work out whether you're misspelling 'sarcasm' intentionally or not

Sally Simpson

You can have some karma for that!

Gobbledegeek

Thanks a lot

saveme

[QUOTE=BadgeIsBack;6040828]Do you know, I could never work out why so many Brits complained about the Australian sense of humour then it clicked : whilst many Australians love a dry, sense of humour, and definitely get deadpan irony, (which is right up my alley as it happens!) and as such even love British sitcoms - some of them adore them - they don't generally actually do scarcasm - a great thing in my opinion.

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Aussies and Poms are similar in that they both enjoy laughing at other's misfortunes.

The Poms have the one redeeming feature that they like laughing at themselves even more.

The Aussies (see the Aussie cricket team) HATE laughing at themselves.

BadgeIsBack

One of the ones I can't spell like parrallel. (Is that it?) If it is, I can copy and paste it to my profile..

Gobbledegeek

It's one r but I'm not with the grammar police

Pollyana

Is your parallel world the same one that Moneypen is in, or is it another parallel?

Gobbledegeek

I reckon it's another parallel, totally separate from Monypen's parallel but parallel to it.

robclaridge

aaahhh!!! Thats it! I'm off again. Someone has just mentioned the grammer police and of course not forgetting the spelling police that correct other people on BE. (Especially when they are losing an argument). Well I've got a spelling error for them. They can all take a running hump the obnoxious little toads. Ps. I've a solution for the Australia vs the Japanese whalers. Give them free license to harpoon the fat chicks!

steve`o

well thats 25% of the aussie population sorted
what’s next
euthanasia for all drinkers ??
there be nobody left down here

232Bar

I've been trying euthanase myself with Guiness for years now but it doesn't seem to work, so I have to try again, and again, and again

saveme

Whilst I would never be so patronizing (and scared!) to criticize someone for their poor spelling, I think it is lazy not to use the 'spell check' and 'preview post' buttons. I know because I've already made a couple of major 'boo boo's' myself.

Once you start thinking 'it's only an email', it's a short step to making the same mistakes on 'proper' correspondence.

Bad spelling and punctuation offends the eye the same way that 'hitting a wrong note' in music offends the ear AND it reduces the impact of the message.

Bix

I've heard of them before.
Keep them in the same place as the forum rules don't they ?

Everyone knows they're there, but very few participate of the fruit

moneypenny20

That's the one. I've never met him in mine, nor has he met me in his. They must be running side by side They are definitely the place to be, I just don't go running in mine