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109 comments on DrumBeat: September 3, 2007

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paal myrtvedt on September 3, 2007 - 11:10am

ohh, Sorry O'Tasman
That smiley was put there to underscore my attempt at irony.
TOD is a serious place I agree, but here should also be place for some skewed comments and a dash of sarcasm.

I don’t mind if the gif is removed, but as a suggestion for you when you are browsing the web – “whenever you see anything irritating, just scroll down/up as per your direction of reading … annoyance removed :-)

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Tasman on September 3, 2007 - 12:57pm

I'm all for humour. But if we have to put up a flag or a smiley face to indicate that we have made a joke. . . . Well, then, maybe we had better recognise (a) that we are not very good at humour; and (b) that we are being REALLY patronising to our audience.
All I ask is that you credit your readers with having a sense of humour. Why do you you feel the need to cram what you call "your attempts at irony" down our throats with redundant GIFs? Sounds like the old Nazi threat that, "Ve haff vays of makingk you laff."
Lighten up, old chap.

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GreyZone on September 3, 2007 - 2:09pm

I'll tell you why it needs marked - because history here has demonstrated that there are sufficient number of people in the world who either do not have a sense of humor or misunderstand the author. The use of "smilies" is common internet parlance. This is not a formal debating society. I would urge Paal to continue doing whatever he thinks works.

By the way, Tasman, you will find man other "markers" for humor in posts here at TOD. I suggest you get used to them or maybe you can tell Professor Goose that he should stop writing on his site as he sees fit?

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