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After A Nuclear Holocaust All That Will Be Left Are Cockroaches & Chewers.

post #1 of 13
6/22/08 at 8:46am
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http://www.livescience.com/history/0...n-sarcasm.html

Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.

Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California, San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human social interaction.

So what?

I mean really, who cares? Oh for God's sake. Don’t you have anything better to do that read this column?

According to Dr. Rankin, if you didn’t get the sarcastic tone of the previous sentences you must have some damage to your parahippocampal gyrus which is located in the right brain. People with dementia, or head injuries in that area, often lose the ability to pick up on sarcasm, and so they don’t respond in a socially appropriate ways.
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post #2 of 13
6/22/08 at 8:49am
Yeah, great, Johnny. Really fucking interesting.

(See that? I just added another year onto my life.)
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post #3 of 13
6/22/08 at 8:55am
It's a damn good thing sarcasm is an evolutionary survival skill, because I'll need it to fight with evolution-denying Christians.

Also... I guess that's what killed the dinosaurs. Lack of sarcasm.
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post #4 of 13
6/22/08 at 12:03pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
It's a damn good thing sarcasm is an evolutionary survival skill, because I'll need it to fight with evolution-denying Christians.
I think you've just pinpointed the role sarcasm plays in the survival of a certain set of people. Because if my two choices when interacting with the wee brained were starting a fight or keeping my mouth shut? I'd have a stroke. And then they'd win.

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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny
Also... I guess that's what killed the dinosaurs. Lack of sarcasm.
I'm picturing an Brontosaur surrounded by tiny rodents on their hind legs - "Oh, don't worry about the snow. I'm sure you'll be fine."
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post #5 of 13
6/22/08 at 12:38pm
See, I got a mammoth talking with a Tyrannosaur...

"What? The fiery rock that just came down with the tail? Yeah, pretty sure it's gonna skate right by us. And don't worry about the sun, I'm pretty sure we can live without it. I fuckin' hate you guys."
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post #6 of 13
6/22/08 at 12:42pm
You guys are sooooo funny.
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post #7 of 13
6/22/08 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
It's a damn good thing sarcasm is an evolutionary survival skill, because I'll need it to fight with evolution-denying Christians.

Also... I guess that's what killed the dinosaurs. Lack of sarcasm.
Dinosaurs were literalists.

And JJ, thanks so much for sharing the article with us. You're a helluva guy.

looks down and to the left

Helluva guy.
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post #8 of 13
6/22/08 at 1:28pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
Also... I guess that's what killed the dinosaurs. Lack of sarcasm.
Hate to dispute you on that one:

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post #9 of 13
6/22/08 at 1:33pm
This thread is so similar to the film Damnation Alley. Does that mean that the cockroaches will be armor plated...and that Albany is the last paradise on Earth? Hey, maybe the surviving chewers will be armor plated too!
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post #10 of 13
6/22/08 at 4:28pm
I'm still not moving to fucking Albany. But, all things considered, it's better than Utica.
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post #11 of 13
6/22/08 at 5:15pm
Oh, gosh, thanks. I'm sure this will be reeeeal helpful when the endtimes happen.
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post #12 of 13
6/22/08 at 6:03pm
Well, y'know, my offer still stands to put you folks up in my neck of the woods in case of catastrophe. More cannon fodder the better, I always say. The mutated zombies? Oh, don't worry about them. They're friendly. Sure. They love to hug folks. Hug 'em back.

What's that? They're trying to eat you? Don't be silly. They're into giving hickies, that's all. That's how they say "Hi!", "Welcome to the neighborhood!", that kind of thing. And who doesn't like getting a hickey?

So you folks be real FRIENDLY to them, y'know? Me? Oh, don't mind me, I'll just be over here, whistling Rush tunes, loading supplies and ammo into my car, haulin' ass along Rt. 9, but you folks make nicey-nice with the local undead and give your Uncle Tim time to make tracks outta here. That's right, stick your head into the zombies' mouth! That's how ya say "Howdy!"

"Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze...
Lakeside Park, so many memories..."
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post #13 of 13
6/23/08 at 12:11am
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Oh, gosh, thanks. I'm sure this will be reeeeal helpful when the endtimes happen.
Wait. . . you're being sarcastic right now, aren't you?
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