your sarcasm detector is broken. Or mine is. I dunno.
This is an interesting subject.. Maybe my sarcasm detector IS broken. I've been around so much sarcasm in my life that it's difficult to tell the difference.
My father for one, used
emotional blackmail on me my whole life, and still tries today and I'm sure that has a lot to do with it..
My in-laws are another good example. When I met them, they constantly brought false accusations against me, taking "low blow" shots whenever possible, and generally attempting to drag me down... As a matter of fact, I don't talk to them anymore because I cannot get along with them. I use to have a long list of particular things that they did (even typed up a long text file and burned it to CD so I wouldn't ever loose it or forget why I don't talk to them) but just decided to get rid of it because it just felt like a burden.. When my in-laws claimed to be joking with me, it always seems like some kind of trap. My father in law invited me out to dinner one night, when I barely knew him, and before we left he asked me if I had money for a tip.. I said, "yes"...But was he joking? If I say "no", then I'll be criticized by him and his family for not having my "sh**" together, as they did many times.. If I say "yes", then the Joke is on me, and I need to chill out...There's just no way to win, with some people.. My in-laws would always ask me questions in a form that would humiliate me, despite how I answered... This is just one of about 100 incidents I had with them. They were always asking me about my personal business and finances, as if I had to prove myself to them for some reason... I got news for you IN-LAWS, it's not going to make a freaken difference whether you approve of me or not, so unless you want to be despised by me the rest of your lives, just shut the *censored* up! It's been over a year since the last confrontation I had with them and haven't spoken a word to them... Don't plan on it either... My other good half was talking to her mom on Skype one day and her mother seemed to have problems with slow video.. I eMailed her some suggestions on what she can try to fix it, but it was merely for the sake of my wife being able to have a steady conversion on Skype..