"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:11:20 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 1 May 2014 01:32:48 +0100, Janet > wrote:
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>>>>In article >,
>>>>says...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:06:08 +1000, John J > wrote:
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>>>>> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:38:52 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > >On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:29:46 +1000, John J >
>>>>> > >wrote:
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >>On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:46:56 -0500, DreadfulBitch
>>>>> > > wrote:
>>>>> > >>
>>>>> > >>>On 4/28/2014 10:54 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>> > >>>
>>>>> > >>>> Yikes! Butter and Mayo? Now that is overkill!
>>>>> > >>>
>>>>> > >>>By whose definition?
>>>>> > >>
>>>>> > >>The Heart Foundation.
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > >Oh, those idiots?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Yes, mainstream doctors, a crazy bunch 
>>>>>
>>>>> It's actually laughable how many people here think they know more than
>>>>> an actual doctors who went to school, got a degree in their field and
>>>>> conduct research on the subject.
>>>>
>>>> Seems your doctors still haven't found a cure for irony deficiency.
>>>
>>> She specialises in irony. But it seems you've already noticed that
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>>Irony must be a UK thing. You rarely even hear the word here. But I used
>>to moderate an online forum and the UK people were constantly going on
>>about
>>it.
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> I've noticed that before. Americans aren't very familiar with irony,
> and to a lesser extent, sarcasm. Which goes a long to explain why
> British and Australian humour doesnt go down well in the U.S. That's
> not a criticism, just a fact of life.
I love a lot of the Britcoms and there used to be one that I think was
Australian called "Mother and Son". I was trying to tell my elderly
neighbor about it but she saw no humor, perhaps because she thought it was
poking fun at elderly people. It wasn't really poking fun at all elderly
people. Just the guy's mother. And she did some nutty things like putting
the electric tea kettle on the stove burner.