Sentences with phrase «statement as a joke»

The idea seemed so silly then that many members of the online community dismissed Musk's statement as a joke.

In a press statement yesterday, Public Relations Officer of the Tribunal, Ibrahim Alhassan, urged the public to regard the statement as a joke made in good faith and not to obstruct the practice of journalism in the country.

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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.

The techniques include claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings; saying and doing things and then denying it; blaming others for misunderstanding their intent; disparaging others» concerns as over-sensitivity; and other forms of twilighting the truth.

I find it incredibly short sighted to try and make blanket statements like saying «not gay» should never be used as a joke.

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

As May opted for a sombre and joke - free opening statement, cabinet ministers did their best to look suitably serious.

For the past few weeks, Smith's stance on the EU has largely been ignored as the media have focused on a series of peculiar statements and jokes Smith has made regarding a 29 - inch penis, whether he uses viagra, and on Saturday, his comment that he had to fight off over a thousand boys at school to marry his wife.

In a statement by her media adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, the ex-minister who described such move as a joke said «the malicious attempt by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana to mix Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala up in issues that have nothing to do with her in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adding that it is a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan (ICC).»

While his brief statement to ComicBook.com was meant as somewhat of a joke, Patrick Stewart does have a point.

But still, as a pupil in the rural area of Thuringia in the 1980ies, he could hear a lot of antisemitic, facist and racist statements of peer students on the schoolground, often in form of «jokes «like «Ich bin hungrig / mir ist kalt — ich will zurück nach Buchenwald «(I am hungry, I am cold — I want to go back to Buchenwald «-RRB-.

As I joked once, some people could say Dear Author's statements were untrue with a straight face if seven figures were owed.

I beat Modern Warfare 2 in a night... on Veteran, so it's reassuring to hear a developer recognise this as an issue and address it with their game, even if the statement was a joke.

Obviously Nintendo didn't think it was a joke, as they reached out to Tabata after the statement was made!

Now that her third exhibition this year opened last week at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, Tracey Emin feels that she has earned a yearlong sabbatical, which she chose to announce, in the tradition of artists who wish to make an overt statement that doubles as an inside joke, by taking out an ad in Artforum: a photo of herself along with her four representatives, their contact information, and the message «If you need anything call one of these people» in the scrawl now so recognizable from her signature neons.

Buterin had also argued that it doesn't matter whether the joke was made or not as the statements made by him should be ascertained on their facts.

Interestingly, Buterin had later shown on Monday through his tweets that his statements were jokes — some sorts of «meta - joke» so as to allow people not to debate on the details of the proposal and to see whether or not it was real.

A straightforward opening statement is the best course to take, because a joke or quote may not come across as sufficiently invested.