Re:Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)
by astrange on Saturday June 25, 2022 @09:59AM
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If this was British humor it’d know how to show restraint. You can tell it’s American because they can’t control themselves with the metaphors.
Re:Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)
by dougmwne on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:19AM
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Oh, I disagree. I think this is in the vein of David Foster Wallace. There is that dry sarcasm, which you are right may or may not be funny. But behind it is this gothic horror of our strange existence. Medieval torture made mundane surrounded by the routine, punctuated with the insane.
I spent a decade overseas and ran into this lazy kind of humor a lot from British drunkards in Irish pubs that never learned the language of the country they were in. Oh, you don't understand irony because you're American! No, I get it, but it's not funny. Acting like you're being funny while you're saying something absurd isn't irony. This kind of humor is embarrassingly lazy and could only come from people who are so focused on themselves that they think humor means when they're trying to get a laugh. Fucking stupid.