How to save this forum and your mental health

[Serkat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm_mark Discuss.

[Universal Mind]

That second mark would be very helpful for You Tube comments, if everybody knew what it means. I sometimes feel like I should put in parentheses, "What I just said involved the use of sarcasm. I actually believe the opposite of what I just said, and I said it to illustrate the absurdity of the concept that what I actually believe is false. Please read the two previous sentences at least ten times."

[Sandform]

The main way to save your sanity in this thread is to force everyone into Taoism and make them practice Wu Wei. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei When it comes to Wu Wei I fail horrible. "knowing when to act and when not to act" When it comes to the R/S forum the answer is always to not act.

[Oneironaut Zero]

I usually just put [/sarcasm] at the end of mine. As I've said to a few people on forums and whatnot: [paraphrase]"The main thing about using sarcasm on the internet is that, for ever witty, sarcastic comment that you post, there are handfulls of idiots that have been seen to have the exact same sort of perspective as that facetious comment you made, so you can't really blame people that mistake your sarcasm for a genuine act of stupidity."[/paraphrase]

[Kael Seoras]

Well heck...irony has its own punctuation... That would make for a lot less material to study hard in english class

[Sandform]

I'm coming after you with razor blades and lemon juice.