Or perhaps, they have a sense of humour. Sorry, not sure how to teach you to have one though. I think humour is a type of intelligence that requires recognizing the hidden meaning...like 'lols' implies for textual representation of laughter...since it doesn't translate.

or perhaps you realised that /s

I was just giving them a hard time for unprompted bragging about being perpetually inebriated on a technology forum.

No need to try and think too deeply about it.