How ironic that you fail to understand the difference between sarcasm and irony.:)
If I say 'its a beautiful day' and its actually 'partly cloudy and may be even just a touch chilly' that is not ironic. If it were pouring rain and the floods were rising, that would be ironic.
No, that would be sarcasm.
If I pick up a pen I expect it to work not be dried out, but if its dried out that's not irony. If I specifically chose to pick up the pen with the sticker 'gauranteed never to dry up' and carried it around precisely to avoid the hassle of a dried up pen... and then it was dried up... that would be irony.
Now that's irony!
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[...] a lot of pollution comes from Third World countries that have no pollution laws, or don't enforce the ones they have [...]
Yeah, right! Sure it's those ultra-developed industries in unregulated Third World countries producing all the polution. I'm sure that the fact that countries like the USA or Russia are conveniently not abiding by the Kyoto Treaty has nothing to do with it.
I think this is a typical "blowing smoke in your eyes" kind of situation. Child abusers aren't i most cases total strangers to the children. They aren't someone they just met on the street or in a chat room over the Internet. Most child abusers are intimate to the children they abuse: either a close family member or close friend of the family. Child abusers are, for the most part, people that are trusted by the parents. In some of the cases the parent *is* the abuser.
We should be teaching and educating our children as to "what" they should be aware of and not "who" . The "Don't talk to strangers!" slogan is just helping spread the paranoia. When the abuser is someone they know, strangers (be they psychologists, shool counselors, whatever...) are usually the only people they'll be able to talk to about it.
Isn't this painfully obvious by now? This advertising model is all wrong! That's simply not the way that advertising works. The effectiveness of an ad is not measured by the number of people who immediately react upon it. The whole point of advertising is to create brand awareness. To measure the effectivenss of an online ad by its click-through rate is the same as measuring how many people turn on the next freeway exit to drink a after seeing some billboard.
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How ironic that you fail to understand the difference between sarcasm and irony. :)
... and then it was dried up... that would be irony.
If I say 'its a beautiful day' and its actually 'partly cloudy and may be even just a touch chilly' that is not ironic. If it were pouring rain and the floods were rising, that would be ironic.
No, that would be sarcasm.
If I pick up a pen I expect it to work not be dried out, but if its dried out that's not irony. If I specifically chose to pick up the pen with the sticker 'gauranteed never to dry up' and carried it around precisely to avoid the hassle of a dried up pen
Now that's irony!
[...] a lot of pollution comes from Third World countries that have no pollution laws, or don't enforce the ones they have [...]
Yeah, right! Sure it's those ultra-developed industries in unregulated Third World countries producing all the polution. I'm sure that the fact that countries like the USA or Russia are conveniently not abiding by the Kyoto Treaty has nothing to do with it.
I think this is a typical "blowing smoke in your eyes" kind of situation. Child abusers aren't i most cases total strangers to the children. They aren't someone they just met on the street or in a chat room over the Internet. Most child abusers are intimate to the children they abuse: either a close family member or close friend of the family. Child abusers are, for the most part, people that are trusted by the parents. In some of the cases the parent *is* the abuser.
We should be teaching and educating our children as to "what" they should be aware of and not "who" . The "Don't talk to strangers!" slogan is just helping spread the paranoia. When the abuser is someone they know, strangers (be they psychologists, shool counselors, whatever...) are usually the only people they'll be able to talk to about it.
-- Marco.
Isn't this painfully obvious by now? This advertising model is all wrong! That's simply not the way that advertising works. The effectiveness of an ad is not measured by the number of people who immediately react upon it. The whole point of advertising is to create brand awareness. To measure the effectivenss of an online ad by its click-through rate is the same as measuring how many people turn on the next freeway exit to drink a after seeing some billboard.