The discovery that laughter is more often produced at banal
comments than jokes prompts the question, what did it evolve for?
Not exact matches
I am not doubting their passion for this club but to come week in week out talk crap about Wenger is a
joke and then when we win he becomes the greatest manager that some even call him better
than sir alex. I look at
comments made by arsenal fans in twitter, it just embarrassed me.
29/03/2018 10:48 pm - Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde insists that a
comment he made which suggested that Lionel Messi was better
than Cristiano Ronaldo was «a
joke»...
@ Gord — Would love more
jokes on here
than to read «their» stupid
comments.
Commenting on this, he stated that the sign was initially regarded as a bit of a
joke rather
than a threat, until one of his colleagues was disciplined and later dismissed for the crime of not smiling.
Also, underlying
jokes, underlying dismissive verbatim, whether it's sexist
jokes or — I wouldn't say straight out harassment, but some of it is harassment that women tend to get more
than men — more
comments about how we look or more
comments about being seen as sexual objects.
What's more, the
jokes made courtesy of ultra - sexist / racist caricatures actually go further
than being witty and insightful
comments about our multicultural society, and in fact come right back around to being sexist and racist.
Flirty
comments and emails,
comments on personal social media walls,
jokes that can be considered sexist, and behavior that could be interpreted as sexual harassment are more common in the workplace
than we might think.
But the
comment is less useful as an indicator of Mitt's personal beliefs
than a reflection of the current Republican zeitgeist — Romney played the line for laughs, knowing that all of the convention attendees more or less agreed that both Obama's grand ambitions and climate change itself is a
joke.
I see in the
comments that others might taken it as a
joke on the reporter being uninformed rather
than a
joke on the professor being unintelligible.