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PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]
Aphrodisiac, my mistake then. But yours also, I think you used the concept wrongly.
Let's see the definition:
In sarcasm, ridicule or mockery is used harshly, often crudely and contemptuously, for destructive purposes. It may be used in an indirect manner, and have the form of irony, as in “What a fine musician you turned out to be!” or it may be used in the form of a direct statement, “You couldn't play one piece correctly if you had two assistants.” The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflection .That would mean that you actually wanted to problematize my appearance, and sorry for that, but it is one objectively good looking body. For showing and sharing :)))) Objective in a meaning - according to very wide social consensus. That is why I missed it probably, the target of your sarcasm is simply the wrong one. This body is pure music ;)))
You could have used sarcastic comments accurately saying something about my face or personality, they could be legitimate targets of mocking and then sarcasm would be in its limits given by definition and used properly.
Behind sarcasm is hostility, and I'm afraid I don't feel hatred that often, I rarely feel anger, envy or any of those swinging low-high self esteem emotions that make people resort to devaluation of others in order to restore their feeling of self value that they find adequate.
Aphro, until this post, I didn't give you any material to feel animosity (only visual aspect could have had some impact?), so you have to think through what triggered this emotion that sadly materialized itself in failed attempt to be sarcastic about the last thing about me one could be sarcastic.
Culturally we differ, you are Canadian Pole, I am Serbian Serb, and I don't socialize with people who can't resist the urge to needlessly hurt people around them. They are present here too, but I tend to slip into working mode when I hear them, so hence avoidance of people in love with sarcasm.
Sarcasm that transcends the level of personal insults, used for some other purposes could be interesting even for me. A matter of level of performance.
A quote:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was "usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invadedSo, for all, this thread is actually a place to share your painful complexes and private locus minoris with others? Careless moves, utterly. In this hostile environment. I wouldn't do it ; )
Flagless is battling privately against serious things, and his intelligence, although quite satisfying, is neither successfully used to amuse others, it ends with persecuting other posters, offenses, and it is destructive in its (ab)use. So, like it is not there. His verbal skills are his stronger side, but his conceptualization of the world as a battleground, winners and losers (victim of zero sum fallacy), is a again only evoking sympathy and some kind of sorrow that has no place here, a professional deviation, so he is on my ignore list with espana and one more person. I don't want to feel sorrow, sadness and empathize with other people's pain if I am not working. And that is what I feel on the other side. Also, his behavior triggers hypothesis production without verification or desire to do that, a loss of time.
Your motives remain a total mystery ;) (example of non insulting use of irony)