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Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor
LibertarianWackJob writes "Researchers have found the section of the human brain that is responsible for understanding sarcasm.
" I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful.
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My brain is obviously not equipped to handle this story.
I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful.
Not really, this one will be modded as funny. Oh wait.. you were being sarcastic.
What a really useful discovery.
Report being unable to confirm the discovery of the region in American subjects.
Man, I'm on *fire* today!
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I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful.
He cannot be serious.
Sure they have...
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Of course a study with around 25 brain damaged people watching movies is a perfect reason to make phrenological claims.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Yeah, sure, like THAT will be useful.
There are two kinds of sysadmins: paranoids and losers. I'm both kinds.
"ooohh, a sarcasm detector. That's REALLY useful" - Comic Book Guy
And I'm sure that editorial comments on this article will be informative.
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For those WITHOUT damage to the prefrontal area , it really is! *grin*
To my respect level for CmdrTaco. Quite the funny comment.
...definately stuff that matters. :-|
-Tom
In fact, once all the sarcastically deficient have been identified, we will need to lobby to get the sarcastic brain chunk added to the list of donor organs so that everyone can have the opportunity to lead a normal sarcastic life. Be an organ donor, only you can give the gift of sarcasm.
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Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (with sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me? This baby is right off the charts, mm-hai.
Comic Book Guy: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Scientists also located the area of the brain responsibile for gullibility, and they now have a procedure to remove that section of your brain.
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CBG: Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off
the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
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And quickly following today's findings, it has now been verified that the Sarcasm Cortex has only been detected in male subjects so far. It is not yet clear if female subjects possess this neural hardware, though most researchers don't hold out a great deal of hope on the matter.
Being anatomically associated with what is loosely referred to in scientific circles as "The Grunt Lobe", the recently identified cortical area believed to allow males to translate short gutteral sounds into complex syntactical commentary, these are potential examples of male neurological development.
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But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm...
I keep telling the people who don't get my sarcasm that they're obviously brain damaged, but they don't get that, either.
Which, perhaps, explains all those posts that get modded "Off topic".
Dave: Oh no, you're not bothering me, Derek, far from it. There's nothing I would rather do than just stand here and chat with you. You know, really get to know you?
Kevin: Look, I don't think there's any need to be sarcastic.
Dave: Oh, I'm not being sarcastic! Nooo! This is just a little speech impediment. I can't help it.
My brain is obviously not equipped to handle this story.
You brain is obviously not equipped to be funny. You should take this stuff to the ametuer stand-up circuit; you'll have less time to post on Slashdot.
Wow. I feel like I just exercised my brain! Who knew being so vicious was so healthy? I'm not being a jerk; I'm exercising! Thanks, researchers!
But some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm...
We call them mods
The brain area in question should be called the medulla obnoxiosa. In honor of me.
When all you have is an axe, everything looks like a grindstone.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
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I went to China and they caught sarcasm just fine.
Probably just told you that just so you didn't commit a cultural faux-pas.
Oh, hmm, this topic is on sarcasm, so anything I write will automatically be interpreted backwards But wait, that means that your post meant that actually the Chinese got sarcasm just fine, which means I don't need to post this....
Oh hell, I'm submitting it anyway.
DEREK: Great party, huh? I actually don't know anyone at the party, actually, I'm kinda new to the neighborhood, actually, but my friend Chris said "come to the party, I'll introduce you around, you'll know everybody by the time you leave the party." Chris knows everybody, and soon I'll know everybody! 'Course, Chris didn't show up. So I guess I gotta mingle. So here I am mingling! 'Course, mingling really isn't my game, I'm not really a mingler, per se, I was actually in the corner alone mingling - that means I'm not talking to anyone, actually. I saw you over here, I said "there's a guy by himself, why not go over here, I'll mingle with this guy, this guy looks like a mingler," so hi, I'm Derek, pleased to meet you.
SARCASTIC GUY: Well it certainly is a pleasure to meet YOU, Derek.
DEREK: ...I'm sorry if I bothered you.
SARCASTIC GUY: Oh no, you're not bothering me, Derek, far from it. There's nothing I would rather do than just stand here and chat with you! Y'know - really get to know you?
DEREK: Look, I don't think there's any need to be sarcastic.
SARCASTIC GUY: Oh, I'm not being sarcastic! NOOOO! This is just a little speech impediment. I can't help it!
DEREK: Okay, I've obviously said or done something wrong to upset you, I'm just gonna apologize and be on my way.
SARCASTIC GUY: No, no, no, please stay. It's true. I've talked this way all my life. It's made things very difficult for me.
DEREK: Yeah! Right!
SARCASTIC GUY: Hey! Where ya goin'? Come back! I really wanna be your friend. I'm so lonely.
And my wife was always saying I was missing a part of my brain!!
In your FACE honey!!
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researchers have located a crucial difference between men and women. It has to do with the size of one particular area of the brain...
-Tim Louden
"By definition, those with AS have a normal IQ and many individuals (although not all), exhibit exceptional skill or talent in a specific area. Because of their high degree of functionality and their naiveté, those with AS are often viewed as eccentric or odd and can easily become victims of teasing and bullying. While language development seems, on the surface, normal, individuals with AS often have deficits in pragmatics and prosody. Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context. Read full definition here"
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--Dude: you just described 97% of people on
Score: 5, Insightful
Oh, THAT'S a good moderation.
Post is modded insightful which makes it funny which makes it no longer insightful which makes it considerably less funny...
*eyes cross*
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en_uk:
en_us:Being married to a Chinese woman I assure you this is not true. Sarcasm is alive and well in China. Your instructions about use of sarcasm may have been given for your own best interests, but not because the concept does not exist.
If you're spending your time trying to understand what someone is saying you sometimes don't also catch the queue that he's being sarcastic. Similarly, at least speaking chinese, you have to be careful with how you change your inflections. "Our" sarcasm, which usually relies on emphasizing or changing the inflection of certain words may indeed not translate. However they seem to get along just fine.
I believe my wife in fact communicated to her mother last night she was pregnant with three twins and was doing her best to produce them on time for her mothers birthday. None of these things are in any way true, or frankly I'd shoot myself. Somehow her mother picked up on the joke and commenced with the usual nagging.
If everything you say is insightful and you are saying you are insightful, then you are funny, but if everything you say is insightful, then you are being funny, but insightful... help help, Norman, Co-ordinate!!!
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So, were you one of the subjects?
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a _real_ useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
http://www.snpp.com/guides/cbg.file.html#6
The reverse happened to me in Taiwan, talking to a taxi driver in Chinese (which I'm a very poor speaker of):
Me: Do you know where Ding Tai Fung is?
Cabbie: No.
Me: OK. [leaving]
Cabbie: Get in the car! Everyone knows where Ding Tai Fung is!
I suggest we institute a sarcasm recognition protocol for the sarcasm-challenged amongst us. During non-elctronic communication this could be a sharp slap in the face. To avoid confusion in situations where a slap in the face would have been natural anyway, we insist that in such situations, the slap be followed by a kick in the bollocks. To avoid confusion in situations where a kick in the bollocks, preceeded by a slap in the face would have been natural, anyway, we suggest that this specific procedure be avoided, except in communications with a sarcasm-challenged person. During electronic communications, if the speaker suspects a sarcasm-challenged listener, he can either verbally shout, "SLAP, BALL-KICK" followed by his sarcastic communication, followed by "FINISH SLAP AND FINISH BALL-KICK", or in written messages substitue a written version. To avoid situations where it would have been natural to write/shout the above in a non-sarcastic context, we suggest that communications which require the use of these words in a non-sarcastic context be avoided. In the unlikely event that any females read slashdot, and find this protocol sexist, all occurrences of "bollocks" above can be replaced by "groin". Likewise, "ball-kick" can be replaced with "groin-kick".