Sentences with phrase «jokes as jokes»

When we trust people, we recognize their jokes as jokes, their metaphors as metaphors, and their fishing stories for the tall tales that they are.

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You can almost see Lacie as being similar to one of the most famous real - life examples of internet shaming, Justine Sacco, who tweeted a joke which was perceived to be racist.

At least part of the reason why Trump was seen as a joke — even after it was obvious that he had a broad level of support — is that most mainstream media outlets underestimated his appeal with U.S. voters.

During an interview with Fox News, Mercedes Schlapp seemed eager to frame Wolf's jokes as disrespectful to women in general, and Fox underlined that theme with a chiron reading «So - Called Feminist Attacks Conservative Women.»

«The media made a mistake by covering Trump's candidacy at the start as some sort of joke or media prank,» Harvard political scientist Danielle S. Allen tells the NYT columnist.

As a manager I get to encourage my team to laugh and joke with each other.

«We've always described our manufacturing and R&D facility in San Diego as our Ocean's Eleven vault, where we build it once and others can replicate it,» jokes Hargovan.

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

When I spoke to Hannah as part of my 2018 Big Ideas project, she referred to a famous old saying: marketers used to joke that they knew 50 percent of their ads worked, they just didn't know which 50 percent.

Sessions has said that the comment was a joke, but Figures did not take the comment about a white supremacist group as funny.

FCB followed «Ship My Pants» with the equally punny «Big Gas Savings» spot, as well as commercials that revived «Yo Mama» jokes and featured a branded Kmart rap.

«This election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them «sixes at best,»» Oliver joked, alluding to a handful of Trump's scandals.

But as with most humor there's a grain of truth to the joke.

James has famously struggled with thinning hair on top of his head, even joking about it on social media as far as back as 2011.

I joke that my unofficial title is «chief taste officer,» as I love to participate in the flavor and product development process.

That feud included Hannity calling Kimmel a racist, pervert, and «Harvey Weinstein Jr.,» while Kimmel ultimately drew criticism and apologized for making what many saw as a homophobic joke about Hannity's apparent love for Trump.

First Lady Melania Trump dismissed Ivana Trump's comments joking that she really held the position of First Lady, as the former insinuated in a statement that her husband's ex-wife only made the comments to sell her new memoir.

Jokes abound, as do cynicism and outright disbelief.

The hashtag #WhiteLiesOnMyResume is trending on Twitter today as users join in to brag, or joke, about misstatements on their job applications.

But as the Explorers hit the streets, they drew stares and jokes.

You can book a weekend to Paris too, but a nice card that also serves as an inside joke can be a fun addition to an already thoughtful gesture.

Business plans often turn into a joke by April Fools Day, as they are seldom reviewed and reflected on throughout the year.

As someone on Twitter joked, Benchmark has quickly gone from turning a blind eye to the side eye.

The moral of this story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be on you.

She joked that it was because her mom was «too lazy to roll the dice» as part of a password generation method called Diceware that she discovered in her book research.

The Spox (rhymes with jokes) wheels look more like standard bicycle wheels, and as such aren't as noticeable as the Rev - x wheels until Connolly points them out.

The emails contain disparaging comments about celebrities including Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as racially charged «jokes» about President Obama.

Fast - food employees have been the butt of jokes for decades, and with good reason — with annual turnover for the industry topping as much as 50 percent, running a shift can be like monitoring an unruly detention hall.

And if we learn anything, it is that he is just as charming as Peyton and with better jokes.

Travelers sometimes joke that you should «pack half as much stuff and twice as much money» for a trip — advice Russell says could also apply to mini-retirements.

CEOs and leaders from Bell, Talisman Energy and Shell Canada were in attendance as well as the heads of CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank, TD, BMO and HSBC Bank of Canada, prompting Tory to joke in her acceptance speech that she as wary of an erupting «battle of the banks.»

Zidane, perhaps, was just joking as he quickly reverted the focus back to Ronaldo's whopper.

«Which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a joke.»)

One board member at an energy company carries around a wooden phone — as a joke mocking his colleagues» smartphone dependency.

«As it turns out, mobile phones have phones on them,» jokes Brian Massey, AKA The Conversion Scientist.

And just to give you an idea of her fitness progression — she put on 14 pounds of muscle for her role as Wonder Woman, so her transformation is no joke.

«And then just as a joke we looked at the effect of Brexit - hard Brexit without any free movement with full detachment from the rights that come from the European Union - and it ended up with the UK passport at the level of the Argentine document,» Kochenov said.

The Verizon Hum video is meant as a joke.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

He jokes about his teenage days as a juggler and hanging out in onesie pajamas as an adult.

You could just as easily question whether it ever made sense to archive a bunch of bad jokes, but now we know we don't need to save everything.

These are usually dressed up as «just jokes» so that they can get away with saying appalling things while still maintaining an innocent, cool demeanor.

The holiday started as a joke, but when the Chinese e-commerce giant capitalized on it, sales went through the roof.

There's the bigger question of whether the far - right media is truly as relevant and impactful as the show's creators argue, and whether the presumably left - leaning audience will know enough about the far right to fully get the joke.

«I will be covering all of the presidential candidates who are Donald Trump,» Colbert joked as Jeb Bush waited in the wings for his appearance later in the program.

The same day as Kalanick's letter, Uber board member David Bonderman announced his resignation after coming under fire for a sexist joke he made during the all - hands meeting to go over the results of an internal investigation surrounding sexual harassment and discrimination.

She began working as soon as she was old enough, as a babysitter, waitress, table busser and switch - board operator — «name a crappy job [and] I've done it,» she jokes — and when her grades remained near - perfect despite all those extracurricular activities, she switched to a more challenging private school.

It's as simple as sending silly photos and jokes back and forth just to laugh.

After the workout was over, I wobbled off the machine and guzzled as much water as I could — doing modified squats for 10 - ish minutes is no freakin» joke.

Mulvaney, who was appointed by Trump as a temporary leader, has been critical of the agency in the past, going as far as to call it a «joke» and a «wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody.»