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[TheBiggerFish]

I couldn't tell.  Sounded too normal.

Guess that was my first clue :x

[Orange Wizard]

Honestly that one was your fault for not realising that 90% of LW's posts are either shitposts or meta-shitposts

[Frumple]

I assumed people would realise what was going on when the anti-America guy started sounding American

Borderline (or entirely) suicidal lack of self-awareness on particular subjects is something that exists. Like turn signals on a car, it's good to display not only what you're doing (which may indeed be obvious!), but also that you realize what you're doing. Don't assume the person behind you is aware you know you're in a turn lane, unless your light is blinking.

[darkrider2]

If a parody of poe's law was existentially possible, this forum is getting pretty damn close to that event horizon.

And to be fair, not everyone who wonder's through threads like these know all the DF forum members from previous incursions, and just what everyone's biases are and how to compare that against what they are currently right now saying to determine whether it's sarcasm/meta-shitpost/what-have-you or otherwise.

While [/s] tags certainly take some of the "fun" out of it. They are also the Tylenol pill we need, not the Tylenol pill we deserve.

[Max™]

My point was that clearly OW loves murrika, you don't learn how to emulate something so flawlessly without care and devotion. You done us proud, you done US proud, and remember... we can't spell US without you because our education system sucks.

Most of the rest of the world has strong family units where when one family member becomes incapable, the next most capable abandons all current activities to support them. I suspect America is not different in this manner

Most of the world also has people who's family situation is fairly screwed up too. I don't bother much with retric about what people deserve or don't deserve. Plenty of countries have a strong social security system and do just fine. To me it's preferable to have a system in place that helps you out when things go wrong. Certainly prefer that to the alternative.

It took me way too long to realize that is supposed to be rhetoric.

[Rolan7]

You're kidding, right?

He was being sarcastic.

He better have!  Sarcasm is all we have left!
/s

[Frumple]

All you need is love sarcasm sarlacc


Incidentally, the strikethrough code is why there is a sarcasm font. Less potential for confusion.

[Shadowlord]

Are you sure comic sans cannot be sarcasm font?

[Chevaleresse]

we don't need a font that inspires virulent instinctive hatred in the politics thread

[mainiac]

we don't need a font that inspires virulent instinctive hatred in the politics thread

Yeah, that would be redundant.

[TheBiggerFish]

There's always [nobbc].

Huh, forum supports HTML directly.

[Reelya]

It looks like the code translates some common HTML tags into bbcode. e.g. if I preview < /a > tag, I get a [ /url ] appearing in the output, although I can't work out what to do to get a valid < a> tag to create a valid [ url ] tag. It's certainly heavily filtered.

[martinuzz]

Now available at Toys'R'Us

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[TheBiggerFish]

It looks like the code translates some common HTML tags into bbcode. e.g. if I preview < /a > tag, I get a [ /url ] appearing in the output, although I can't work out what to do to get a valid < a> tag to create a valid [ url ] tag. It's certainly heavily filtered.

a href=URL

[Shadowlord]

but did you TRY it? 

Edit to demonstrate the kind of thing I tried earlier, which failed: <a href=index.php?topic=147340.18645>here, now[/url]