A highly pro-Microsoft professional (paid) blog is foaming at the mouth about a piece written in theregister.com. The register piece is humour, playing on the fact that the photos used by Microsoft in its attempt to keep up with Google are way, way, way out of date. If you hadn’t detected the sarcasm by the time theregister goes on about the World Trade Centre towers then shame on you.
I always thought that it was an urban myth that Amercans didn’t understand sarcasm, it seems some people follow those urban myths just a little too closely. Calm down dear, it’s all digital.
http://josheinstein.com/journal/archive/2005/07/26/958.aspx
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1 Josh // Jul 29, 2005 at 4:55 PM
Sadly it’s true that many (most?) Americans just don’t get sarcasm. Or irony. And no one over here seems capable of having a sense of humor about themselves or their lives. Everyone takes everything way too damned seriously.
It’s a sad, sad [humongous] country.
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