Sentences with phrase «instead as a joke»

Why one little boy here asked his father for a fish, but the fellow gave him a snake instead as a joke!

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Now in our postmodern condition, the incoherence in Anglicanism that has been scoffed at as a joke can instead be seen as a tendency to sit at a table with someone with whom you disagree and find a way to get along.

as a whole, to say something insightful about Kayla's question, but instead, we're given another joke and we move on.

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

He seems to have been joking about who the QBOTF would be if we «Release the Mahomes» as in kick him off the team instead of the «Release the Mahomes!»

By far the best article I have ever read on this site, there was no bias or empty statements, just cold hard facts, the writer even respected wengers budget but still pointed to where he should've improved, there are no excuses, what you read is literrally all u get with arsene, if you gave him a budget of 9m or 1 billion, he will ALWAYS take the risk cause he doesn't give a fk about the consequences as if he was a teenager raging through puberty, his stubborn is absolutely pathetic, can you believe he turned down signing a keeper when almunia was shocking, can you believe he didn't sign a CB when squillaci was awful, can you believe that he REFUSED to sign a CDM for almost 8 years, CAN you believe on one of the most important transfer windows of arsenals history, arsene decided to go host charity matches in rome, that's right instead of trying hard for the fans that have respected him and pay him one of the highest managerial wages in the world, he decided to do what he pleased as usual, cause he doesn't answer to anyone, nor does he giving a flying fk, gazidis a man i thought was also a crook went and did arsene's job for him and at least got us a striker (which cost us the title in january last season) and arsene foolishly proclaims that «if i was here we wouldn't of signed danny» meaning we wouldn't of had ANY recognised cf till giroud recovered, arsene wenger is a joke of the highest order, lack of respect, lack of shame and lack order, i despise him

Must be a joke; should be ashamed to even mention this game again... I need a good drink after what i read and shut my computer... Someone said we should not complain as Chelsea flopped 2 years ago... So, yeah, we should as well and accuse referrees... I'm out guys... The season is over, what we fighting for, 6 to 12 place... Liverpool can't finish behind us, we have no consistency nor game, just pass the ball like academy 6 year old do, passing the ball... Instead to put the damn ball behind the net, contrrol the ball and never score means no control of the game nor the ball, it should be behind frekin net...

Now, it looks like the Gladbach man was perhaps not joking at all, as the latest video on Arsenal's official YouTube channel shows Francis Coquelin wearing a # 27 shirt instead of his usual # 34.

On the subject of making mistakes, remember, just as you wouldn't want every youthful mistake, every wrong choice, every unfortunate decision to be broadcast to the world or even just joked about privately instead of being left in the past where it belongs, be sure to practice «The Golden Rule of Parenting» and treat your children how you prefer to be treated.

The former London mayor ditched the jokes and instead opted for a statesmanlike tones as he sought to reassure «young people who may feel that this decision involves somehow pulling up the drawbridge because I think the very opposite is true».

But I don't get offended, instead I laugh because I know the comments are meant as a joke and its only a bit of fun, often such comments are made as a clever play on a stupid stereotype anyway.

Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Clinton.

Paladino says he wrote those answers as a joke and never meant to send them to the paper; instead, he was going to email them to friends.

Instead, they've come to recognize that the genuine leader is just as likely to be the candidate who turns away with a smile and a casual joke, or the boss who cajoles her subordinates into beating their quarterly targets.

The only piece of fashion that seems to make sense around these parts right now is this tee shirt I made for me and Lindsey because we always joke that instead of going to the gym we just worry a lot as a method of weight management.

Instead of making a flirtatious joke or describing herself as a person, she decides to use her profile to rant about what she does NOT want in a partner.

The film doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.

One Mississippi is the most subtle version of that new post-Louie comedy we've been given so far, in that Tig rarely goes for deliberate jokes, and instead lets her dry sense of humor act as a kind of shield against the pervasive sense of melancholy that permeates almost every scene of this show; it's a fascinating choice.

As portrayed by the film, the rules make very little sense, and consequently vested interest in the proceedings doesn't have the impact it should during key moments when victories fizzle instead of pay off, and jokes fare little better.

Instead, the writers settle on complacent jokes such as the running gag that Scott doesn't understand simple mathematics.

Instead it shy's away both from the redundant formula of mainstream Marvel films (only concerned with jokes, action and flash) as well as the darker more relatable circumstances from the hands of Christopher Nolan.

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

Granted, Cruz doesn't get it as bad as Strong (two words: elephant penis), but this is her second terrible comedy in as many months following «Zoolander 2,» and although «The Brothers Grimsby» at least tries to tell jokes instead of relying on cheap cameos, it still isn't funny.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

The comparison to Shaun of the Dead is inevitable, so let's get it out of the way: Zombieland is kinda sorta Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's comic masterpiece of mayhem after the undead apocalypse done up American style, so instead of cricket bats as weapons and jokes about tea, it's shotguns as anti-zombie devices and a quest to find the last Twinkie.

At a time when we seem to have become overly sensitive about humor that pushes those limits, this is, perhaps, an admirable goal (We can probably, sensibly draw the line at a homicidal kid), or it would be if the movie offered us actual jokes, instead of merely passing off broad ideas and incomplete setups as fully formed ones.

Only instead of portraying his plight as fate's dark joke, which would probably be a natural fit for a film that begins with the man's attempted suicide in the waters of the Seine (weighted down, no doubt, by his extremely heavy Priapic genitals), Renoir juxtaposes Boudu's infinite zest against the studied mannerisms of the genial bookseller who rescues him from the waters, Edouard Lestingois.

Luckily that joke doesn't wear too thin as the movie slowly escalates its over-the-top action and instead of going for broke right away only gradually becomes a gloriously (albeit at times faded) Technicolor cartoon.

She's worried about being seen as a show off, or a know it all, so she sits in the back of the class getting in trouble for telling jokes and clowning around instead of revealing that she did all this three years ago, and can recite the lesson word for word if you ask.

Instead, contribute recommendations for other people's books, tips and pointers, or the occasional joke, as well as information about your book when it's relevant to the conversation.

As the joke goes, I'm proud I no longer make the same mistakes... now I just make different ones instead.

We joke here that the mosquito is really the state bird instead of the beautiful Yellowhammer and we also have populations of feral dogs and coyotes that serve as wildlife reservoirs for heartworm disease.

I suggested that the signage from the subway could be better (in a nice way) and instead of saying he would pass on the comment to management, the desk clerk merely laughed, as if I had made a joke.

The guy made a joke, and since the idustry / community takes everything as fact instead of having a sense of humour, he's put into positions like this.

You aren't wrong in the sense that if I hadn't made a joke and instead made just as serious a post as I did a few articles back, I wouldn't have gotten responses like this, most likely.

This really detracts from the game's jokes, many of which fall flat as they don't have that delivery that made them special in Undercover — instead relying on poor animations and expressions to rely the humour.

I had the opportunity to ask the Shovel Knight guys, to their faces, why they still hadn't gotten around to putting female characters in their game, as they promised in their Kickstarter so long ago — but instead, I made some jokes about how they should put Samus («me») in the game.

Instead, because 1 - 2 Switch is a retail game sold separately, it's getting torn apart as a joke that no one would ever enjoy, let alone buy.

While the «joke paintings» take a swing at Richard Prince, say, or at the power dynamics generally played out in contemporary painting — and do so with Prior's legacy as weapon — the present installation instead quiets and diffuses a man the artist plainly admires.

As if to confirm this, Barlow notes that she was rather taken with the way a delivery firm had stacked up the elements for her Hide (2010) installation in Basel (where it was eventually installed as part of a group exhibition curated by Berlin - based independent space Silberkuppe); and I get the impression she is only half joking when she says she was tempted to abandon plans for a full - scale recreation of a petrol station shell, preferring the unintentional sculptural amalgamation of the material pile insteaAs if to confirm this, Barlow notes that she was rather taken with the way a delivery firm had stacked up the elements for her Hide (2010) installation in Basel (where it was eventually installed as part of a group exhibition curated by Berlin - based independent space Silberkuppe); and I get the impression she is only half joking when she says she was tempted to abandon plans for a full - scale recreation of a petrol station shell, preferring the unintentional sculptural amalgamation of the material pile insteaas part of a group exhibition curated by Berlin - based independent space Silberkuppe); and I get the impression she is only half joking when she says she was tempted to abandon plans for a full - scale recreation of a petrol station shell, preferring the unintentional sculptural amalgamation of the material pile instead.

Instead, President Trump has stated that he believes climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese (which doesn't seem to qualify as a joke even if that's what was intended) and today he gave up our nation's seat at the table where life - and - death international climate change negotiations are taking place.

The paper acknowledged it had falsely identified a song from the rap group Public Enemy as «9/11 is a joke» instead of the actual title, «911 is a joke.»

Instead of dry information and facts, they actually work in jokes, funny pictures, funny videos, and try to make this as pleasant as possible (although it still is defensive driving so there's only so much they can do).

For example, you might say, «I feel hurt when you make jokes about my weight in front of our friends» instead of saying something such as «stop being mean and hateful.»

Instead, couples viewed less direct strategies (such as making jokes to avoid talking about the topic or keep from making one's partner feel bad) as more successful in the short - term.