The British / Anglo-Saxon / Celtic Obsession With Sarcasm
Sarcasm is one of those "weird" methods of interaction with others, that is typically only used by peoples or a culture who live in a perpetual mindset of "defeatism" and "inner discord" by which they do not openly display honest emotions.
In addition, Sarcasm serves as simultaneously both a Coping Mechanism, and a Defense Mechanism, of a defeated person who is a loser.
In hindsight, it is actually a very grave symptom of a society that has deep-seated insecurities and even an inner hatred for their own people, along with unaddressed issues, including social repression.
Could there truly be any better case for a people like this other than those from the British Isles and their descendants wherever they have emigrated to and colonized?
As the saying goes, "Sarcasm is hostility disguised as Humor".
As a German, I can say that only very rarely can Sarcasm ever be truly useful or productive in a conversation, except for rare and exceptional circumstances, which would only happen now and then.
But with the British people, they pretty much LIVE for Sarcasm, and to a point where we Germans view it as inappropriate, inefficient, cringey, and just taken way too far.
The British think using "Sarcasm" makes them clever, witty, funny, intelligent and even edgy.
But the truth is that only the most hollow, superficial, useless and boring people obsessively use Sarcasm.
It used to be believed by some "everyday people" that Sarcastic people were correlated with Intelligence, but the truth is that the majority of those who engage in Sarcasm can only be over slightly below average Intelligence at best, and in most cases, they are just a bottom-feeder who snorts their own belly button lint.
The types of guys who always used sarcasm, from my experience, have always been the "dregs" of society, which make even Gangsters look more useful, loyal or valuable, and that's a pretty sad statement in fact, because thugs and gangsters are total trash.
But those who use Sarcasm are usually lazy, smelly pieces of trash, live off of junk food, playing video games, playing Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, or other type of Roleplaying nonsense with their friends, are into the Star Wars or Star Trek cults, sip soda and drink pizza all day, and they will talk for hours about stupid scenarios of "what if" in a movie scene, and waste time entertaining the most boring, silly nonsense, as an excuse to try to make their lives seem "more eventful" and "interesting" than they really are.
They are the type of guys who when you go to their house, their walls are plastered with Action Figures that are still inside of the packaging for collection, and where you will maybe find one of those "prop-up" Grey Alien figures.
Sarcasm is mostly a waste of time and energy, it rarely has a productive use.
Sarcastic people are generally jerks and assholes, and you will find that such Men, if you ever need to command attention or orders, that these types of Men are always the "loose links" that never have their shit together and are stragglers at everything in life.
Nothing but putrid, self-loathing excrement.
They live so much in their own world, that they can't understand why pretty much nobody but themselves and other losers / failures at life like them finds them amusing, and why the rest of the world finds them annoying.
On the other hand, the rare times that Germans use sarcasm, it's usually for an intended purpose, especially one to "throw" a person off-guard, especially a true enemy or loser and to make them wonder if we were serious or not.
The British just always do it to be a jerk. Because they are jerks, by and large.
Sarcasm is nothing more than hidden aggression; used by insecure, cowardly people like the British scum. Instead of outright attacking someone, they will use sarcasm to disrespect that person; that way they have plausible deniability if the person calls them out for their shitty behavior.
ReplyDelete@Alex, It sure is! A symptom of a people who are afraid to express emotion or anger at something even among their own countrymen, and for the fear of being thought of as "Naugghty".
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ReplyDeleteOne thing I have heard about sarcasm is that women don't understand it. So, I am not so sure that sarcasm is only reserved for low IQ people only.
Clearly, autistic people don't understand it either.
But, your post makes some good points to consider. There is a passive-aggressive way about it that is dishonest.
From watching British "comedy" shows like The Office and The Thick of It, nothing is more unfunny than a bunch of pasty, doughy British mutants showing snark in every single sentence.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason why only the British find it funny, well everyone else simply "doesn't get it".
Indeed, the British are just weird; both their appearance and behavior is bizarre. Their faces don't look right, many of them look deformed...The only British TV series that I like is called 'Believe Nothing', it came out in 2002 and is about secret societies and conspiracies.
DeleteI noticed myself that I even find myself showing a bit of sarcasm at times likely from being partially Irish and also just living in Ireland and being around Irish people. I must add, Prussian I am finding it increasingly difficult to be around my dad because I really think he just never grew up. The Irish’ constant obsession with trying to make everything into a joke is really starting to become intolerable to me as I am now starting to grow up and mature somewhat. I can’t even have a normal conversation with my dad without him trying to make some joke and I really think he just never grew up sometimes
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DeleteThe only time sarcasm or humor can be done right is where the situation really calls for it. In general though, sarcasm can be annoying, especially when obsessive, and English and Irish always resort to it constantly out of a prevailing sense of doom and defeatism that exists within them, that's what is most annoying about them.
It would be another thing, say, if they had most of things going on properly in their life or countries, but made an occasional joke or humor about something, I do it as a German with our own Germanic traits, because it's fun, but only when it's really called for.
But yes, in the situation with your Dad, or people in general from the British Isles, a lot of their humor comes down to a really true root cause in the fact that they are mostly failures at things in life, bored to tears, and just immature in the sense that they refuse to take anything seriously, and it's why there is no rich culture on those Islands.
It’s just FUCKING constant. Every 10 seconds he is trying to be funny or make some joke. Same with the rest of my dads side and just the people here in general
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DeleteHaha, believe me I know it!!! The thing too is that if they are ever being serious for a change, you can't know when they are to really be taken seriously on any level. But yeah it just is really immature, I refer to it as a character flaw. Most of us Germans find sarcasm and constant joking, particularly when it's out of place to be very annoying and of bad character. German sense of humor is also very different than the type of humor in the British Isles, typically.
Atleast Goatis has made British TV a bazillon times better for me because whenever I see a British show on TV when, for example I’m at someone’s house, I just instinctively think of Goatis when I hear those accents and I hear his impressions and it actually does make me laugh!
DeleteIt’s honestly getting a bit difficult to be around my dad. He just can’t be serious and I can’t take him seriously even when he actually is being serious for once. He’s just constantly insulting me and trying to put me down and it’s really hard to tolerate sometimes
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