President Trump Makes False Genocide Claims. South Africans Respond With Humor.
The jokes mask a deep-seated anger over the legacy of apartheid and the inequality that many Black people say continues to define life in their country.
No one had solid answers, just informed speculation. Livelihoods and veterans’ well-being were at stake, so the vibe was somber. But there was still room for dark humor.
“We gotta pay for Greenland somehow,” one person joked.
Reddit, a bare-bones social media site organized around more than 100,000 niche communities called subreddits, has long catered to people with quirky shared interests, whether Bitcoin, fly-fishing or photos of Keanu Reeves being awesome.
"We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects."
Absolutely spot on from Sir David Jason.
As Bank Frames a Defense, Barclays’ C.E.O. Resigns
By BEN PROTESS and MARK SCOTT
Ahead of a parliamentary hearing in Britain, senior executives said they
thought they had implicit approval from regulators to manipulate
interest rates.
“I suppose there is a risk there if it becomes a major market. We are not going to make a financially based decision to stay in a market that is intolerable for us,” he said.
Google’s decision amounts to an implicit admission that its gamble that it could help open China has failed.
verb: humor
- comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be."she was always humouring him to prevent trouble"
verb: humor
- comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be."she was always humouring him to prevent trouble"
Black comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience.
黑色喜劇，也稱為黑色幽默、淒涼喜劇、黑色喜劇、黑色幽默、黑色幽默或病態幽默，是一種喜劇風格，它淡化了通常被認為是禁忌的話題，特別是那些通常被認為是嚴肅或痛苦的話題。作家和喜劇演員經常利用它來引發觀眾的不適感、嚴肅的思考和娛樂，從而探討低俗問題。
adj.
- Implied or understood though not directly expressed: an implicit agreement not to raise the touchy subject.
- Contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent: "Frustration is implicit in any attempt to express the deepest self" (Patricia Hampl).
- Having no doubts or reservations; unquestioning: implicit trust.
[Latin implicitus, variant of implicātus, past participle of implicāre, to entangle. See implicate.]
implicitly im·plic'it·ly adv.implicitness im·plic'it·ness n.
- im・plic・it
- ━━ a. 暗黙のうちの, それとなしの; 絶対の; 必然的に含まれている ((in)). give implicit consent 黙...
- im・plic・it・ly
- ━━ ad.⇒implicit
touchy
(tŭch'ē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.
- Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
- Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate: a touchy situation.
- Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
- Easily ignited; flammable.
touchiness touch'i·ness n.
(tŭch'ē-fē'lē)
adj. Informal
- Marked by or emphasizing physical closeness and emotional openness: became uncomfortable when the group therapy session got too touchy-feely.
- Based on sentiment or intuition, especially to the exclusion of critical judgment: "a book that proves the existence of the Almighty ... without recourse to spiritual mumbo jumbo or any of that touchy-feely faith stuff" (Adam Begley).
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