It’s always an exaggeration to say someone is worse than Hitler unless you’re talking about Cyborg Hitler.
If I hear one more liberal use a violent figure of speech, I will break in his home and murder his pets… rhetorically.
So how old do children have to be before they understand sarcasm?
As someone who closely follows politics, I feel disqualified from commenting on the effectiveness of a campaign ad.
I really hate trees; it’s like they think they own the planet.
It does seem like Arrested Development and Running Wilde are related.
Man is bureaucrat hard to spell; takes me a couple tries to even get the spellcheck to realize what I’m going for. Probably all a scheme by bureaucrats to keep us from complaining about them.
Trees don’t rule the planet; Ents do. Don’t go hatin’ on the trees or the Ents might mistake you for an Orc (you don’t want them to think you’re an Orc, even if you ARE one.)
Frank, use common sense. It’s much easier to spell Democrats than bureaucrats.
I got sarcasm at a very early age. Probably around 1st grade. But I’m super smart so I’m probably the exception!
Objectively, Stalin was way the hell worse that Hitler. But really, at that point it’s arguing about which circle of hell is worst.
I think it doesn’t really matter. I say all kinds of stuff when I’m telling my dog what to do. I amuse only myself. For example, I can pretty well get her to stop barking immediately if I tell her in a calm, bored voice, “Lucy, one more bark and I’ll beat you until next Tuesday (on a Wednesday).” Alternately, I might say, “Lucy, if you don’t stop barking, I’ll have to tell you no.” My favorite is, “Lucy, remember that conversation we had about barking? I don’t remember telling you to bark. I think I would have remembered that.” They all work well. Her drinking out of the terlit is a different story altogether.
My point is that the point of sarcasm is to amuse yourself.
The timeline for child’s ability to understand sarcasm is directly proportionate to the amount of sarcasm he/she is subjected to. It’s quite an emotional experience when one witnesses a Kindergarten student’s glimmer of comprehension to an off-handed remark that would leave the average liberal with that deer-in-the-headlight look.
“If I hear one more liberal use a violent figure of speech, I will break in his home and murder his pets… rhetorically.”
Democrats are delusional, and think that if they say they did something that it really happened, no matter how far-fetched…like inventing the Internet or creating jobs. So, even though the last fight most of them were in was lost miserably on a playground and ended with tears, when they say that they kick ass they believe they really are tough. Sad, really. And the only cure is to punch them in their monkey faces.
Wait, you have spellcheck? Don’t you mean Spellchick?
I would suggest your Spellchick isn’t working very well because she’s busy making your baby.
So how old do children have to be before they understand sarcasm?
My nieces and nephews understood it by the time they were 6.
But then, I’m kind of a sarcastic icehole who thinks that the only reason to have children or pets is to torture* them.
There are few things funnier than watching a 6 year old run away when I ask, “Do you want to see something funny?”
*Torture them rhetorically of course. And by that, I mean “conservative” rhetorically, which means, not literally and not leftist rhetorically, which means “what I really want to do to you you teabagging SOB”.
You’re right about bureaucrat, it’s a real basturd, bestard, bostard….it’s a sonofabitch to spell!
While I have the etymology dictionary handy, the word bureau comes from an Old French word for “wool, shaggy garmet.” Enough said, no?
Man is bureaucrat hard to spell; takes me a couple tries to even get the spellcheck to realize what I’m going for. Probably all a scheme by bureaucrats to keep us from complaining about them.
I have memories of the Chicago Tribune, pursuing former owner Robert McCormick’s crusade to simplify spelling, spelling it “burocrat”. They were still doing it in the 1970s, I think.
When someone says “you are worse than Hitler”… Are they so ignorant as to not understand what Hitler did? He started WWII where 50million people died and he exterminated 6 million jooooooos. Of course to people like Rick Sanchez, there is probably an argument to be had about what’s the big deal with that, but if one studies WWII as I have Hitler was evil incarnate! Stalin was worse but we can’t say that in America because he was a leftist communist and we might offend all college professors with that. Pol Pot wasn’t any better, but again that would get tenured professors pink undies in a bunch!
Just a wild guess, but I think that Princess Buttercup will catch on to sarcasm at about 3 months. It all depends on the esposure.
So how old do children have to be before they understand sarcasm?
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If you rhetorically punch a hippie, does he still bawl like a girl?
Bathing and bureaucrat both start with b. Guess which one the hippies prefer.
then you should vote democrat! They are the only ones with the plan to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere!
I hate trees too. They fall over and smash stuff, they catch fire and incinerate stuff, they obscure signs while I’m driving, and so forth.
I guess trees are OK in forests where they don’t bother anyone I care about, though.
I believe you’ll know when your child ‘gets’ sarcasm. Like when she is like so totally respectful to you all the time.