Trump's war on the environment

[Galen]

(06-14-2017, 10:11 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(06-14-2017, 03:24 AM)Galen Wrote:

(06-09-2017, 10:37 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(06-09-2017, 07:00 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Yes, AFAIK "living the dream" is a positive statement that you are living out something you wanted in your dreams.

I first learned about FUBAR in a human potential seminar when a trainer applied the name to me. That was when I was 30 years old.

One might also say "good times" when in the midst of a complete clusterfuck. I was in a meeting today where that was uttered and it was not a celebration.

Eric the Obtuse finds Xer snark and sarcasm to be difficult concepts and so doesn't recognize it.  For one thing, they require at least a rudimentary sense of humor and irony which I see no evidence of him possessing.  Then again his understanding of science and technology seem to be at seventeenth century level so I really wouldn't expect much from him.

I was warned in a college composition class that satire looks easy, but is quite difficult to make work. Even at that, many competent people simply don't get it as intended. So it is with people with Asperger's  Syndrome even if they are brilliant; they may see the vileness but not the humor. In my case, it almost takes physical comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Monty Python, Chespirito) to make me laugh.

Americans in general do not make good satire.  Probably why Americans in general find British humor to be a difficult concept.  Boomers on the whole take themselves way too seriously to manage satire though there are exceptions to this rule.

Here is an example from Blackadder which I rather like.