Re:Microsoft Coffee
by timr on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:44PM
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I honestly can't imagine that kind of humor being taken any other way by Japanese bureaucrats.
After years of direct, negative experience, I still routinely step in it with my "American humor", and then feel like an ass afterwards. Scarcasm goes over like a lead balloon.
Re:Microsoft Coffee
by aksss on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:22PM
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sarcasm and dark humor. I made a joke to a class of ESL students in Tokyo that was something about killing your friend (haha) and the humor did not transcend the language or cultural barriers at. all.
After years of direct, negative experience, I still routinely step in it with my "American humor", and then feel like an ass afterwards. Scarcasm goes over like a lead balloon.