Sentences with phrase «poke fun at people»

While it's easy to poke fun at people who can't manage to pay attention to where they are walking, smartphone users oblivious to the world around them are a serious safety — and societal — concern.

I don't mean to poke fun at people's fears.

All you people, Im sorry most of you people who do not believe seem to be cold and like to poke fun at people who believe and almost hate people who believe.

The comedian Jon Stewart, more apt to poke fun at people on the right of the political spectrum, spent a good five minutes at the top of The Daily Show last month gaping in disbelief at the Obama administration's favours to the company.

Salt is needed for fluid regulation Sodium in nerve signalling» but I explained that your article was satire poking fun at the people who actually believe such alternative clap - trap.

MTV has a show poking fun at people who fall prey to catfishing scams, while Dr. Phil and Katie Couric have shows warning against the dangers of such.

The gags in this comedy are low brow and they don't mind poking fun at people who don't fit in.

The author was poking fun at people's desire to impress others.

One of the initial impressions I had while plodding through Dragon Quest IV's quest was that the by using «exotic» English dialects and situating itself in a series of small - time, country villages, the game was poking fun at people from less fortunate backgrounds.

What began as a joke poking fun at people going crazy over new digital coins, quickly became a serious currency.

Not exact matches

Never assume people who make fun of themselves give you permission to poke the same fun at them.

People poked fun at Apple because you couldn't connect the iPhone X to a new MacBook without a dongle, as the latter only have USB - C ports.

If the article is written in the same style as almost every onion article, it is poking fun at religious people.

Or do you seriously think you are doing anything more than just poking fun at religion and religious people?

@ grassroots: I would like to believe that you were sincere in claiming that atheists have a ``... duty (as if being responsible to some authority) to debunk...» (I presume you to mean a belief in God) ``... via the Internet... [etc]», but when you mix sarcasm with rationality, then you lose creditability with me because you join the ranks of those who just want to poke fun at believers for entertainment and invite a heated argument with no intentions of converting such people.

Most rational people recognize this Onion articles pokes fun at hard line atheists who say religious people are brainwashed:

I see a lot of finger pointing and people poking fun but there are two ways to look at this

If people came to the conclusion that god exists, don't poke fun at them... respect their opinion.

In the Student Review, an alternative and unofficial school paper, Brooks poked fun at university policies, interviewed polygamists, wrote about gay issues and simply didn't shy away from matters most people were afraid to talk about.

Even though I poke fun at the idea of «sheep» being an analogy for church people, I still find lots of value in it.

I know it's rude, but I've always poked fun at one - dish people — you know, the people who go to a restaurant and always order the same dish time after time (but, yes, Melissa, I love you anyway).

People are becoming increasingly disillusioned by the buzz surrounding the launch of new products, and here Samsung's witty advert pokes fun at the cult status of some of the trendiest new products on the market.

And each time someone celebrated a retirement or service anniversary, Mr. Scortino was on hand to sing a jingle poking good - natured fun at the person, most often to the tune of «Davy Crockett,» former colleagues said.

He then called out former campaign adviser Hank Sheinkopf, as he poked fun at the way Jewish people dance.

I'll throw my support behind a power - hungry dame who shamefully told relatives of four people murdered at diplomatic compounds in Benghazi, Libya, that the killers were not terrorists, but ordinary Muslims driven to an uncontrollable rage by a stupid Internet movie that poked fun at the Prophet Mohammed.

People can still poke fun at «fatties» with impunity.

After poking fun at his own knowledge of science — a model of chromosomes made from pink swim noodles «was helpful to me,» he said — Obama explained what precision medicine is: «delivering the right treatments, at the right time, every time to the right person.»

Remind me to tell you the story about how my boss once forwarded me an email poking fun at someone and I responded, poking fun back, and managed to INCLUDE THE PERSON WE WERE LAUGHING AT IN THE EMAIat someone and I responded, poking fun back, and managed to INCLUDE THE PERSON WE WERE LAUGHING AT IN THE EMAIAT IN THE EMAIL.

He also pokes fun at the E Harmony case by including 7 sample cases in which other groups of people could sue companies for not providing a certain service.

Contestants and judges on King of Masked Singer were trying to guess who he was, with one person guessing that it was President Donald Trump, which Reynolds poked a little fun at later in the show.

While it can miss at times, it hits more often than not with a dry comment about the setting you're in, poking fun at first person shooters in general, or just the main character, Athena, being witty in reaction to an NPC or situation.

It seems that people are lining up to say goodbye to Metal Gear Solid, poke fun at it, or in the case of this latest video, to sing its culturally - significant praises.

He might be falling into it the way some people pick up accents, or he might be poking a bit of fun at the man who he plays in The Disaster Artist.

This video pokes fun at the stereotyping questions many people of color receive as a result of their appearance.

Yes, people poke fun at the GC, but it meets many buyers» needs, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Our culture teeters on the brink, I guess, when people poke fun at each other.

On the lighter side, Stuff Parisians Like (Berkley) by native Parisian and wine bar owner Olivier Magny riffs on the popular blog - turned - book Stuff White People Like to poke good - natured fun at Parisians.

«Many people assumed it was,» they wrote yesterday, «mostly because the announcement came the day before April Fool's, but also because the idea seemed to poke fun at Amazon's omnipresence, making it visibly manifest with little plastic one - click shopping buttons adhered to surfaces all over your home.»

Through this increased awareness of quality - made over quantity - paid, people have started to poke fun at the insidious hilarity of it all.

A lot of people I meet poke fun at them or are skeptical to get one, but I am a firm believer that they are a must for every traveler, especially solo travelers.

Monster Prom isn't afraid to poke fun at an oversaturated, niche genre in a way that is self - deprecative, self - referential and so bitingly witty that it goes over people's heads.

We're all sitting here poking fun at the small PS3 game library and telling people that BluRay is going to lose out to HD downloads yet we may be missing the bigger picture: an all - in - one media empire solution.

using simple materials, mundane objects, wit and written instructions, wurm invites people to interact with his art, transforming spectators into active participants, encouraging them to poke fun at the paradoxes of contemporary society.

It could be that Lewis was poking fun at someone in his community, a bit past her prime, dreaming of love, but the artist also allows us to witness a person experiencing an inner event and in trying to understand her inner state we can see the possibilities and limitations for shared experiences — what do we do, exactly, when we want to understand how another is feeling?

His paintings of people immersed in books caricature the loneliness of the reader, the author and the painter but they also poke fun at our absorption into our mobile devices.

I find it odd that some of the same people who are showing support for Occupy Museums have poked fun at the UK Stuckists in the past for some of the protests they have had in the same spirit... including their protest of the Turner Prize.

In the case of Memory Ware Flats, he pokes fun at the nostalgic value people invest in keepsakes and other objects.

A satirist also can't function unless people are at least aware of the subject he is poking fun at.

After all, people have been poking fun at us for generations for using such nice expressions as «not inconsiderable» and «not unreasonable» etc., as though we were skilled enough to nail down that impossibly slim sliver of space between «reasonable» and «unreasonable.»

«If we can understand ourselves, how people view us, and show that we can poke fun at ourselves, that probably improves our image.»