Posted on Dec 3, 2014
How often does your sarcasm get you into trouble?
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Sarcasm, noun, def. The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
The word comes from the Greek, sarkasmos, def. To tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer.
There are many uses for sarcasm, some meant to ridicule, banter, irony, aggression. It's meaning can taken many different ways; its interpretation is in the eyes of the receiver. It may be used subtlety, overtly, passive aggressive, homurously, to ridicule, mock, express rudeness, show contempt but is almost always caustic to one person or a group of persons. Is it appropriate in a military environment? Professional setting? What about sociably amongst friends?
Have you had to counsel for excessive use of sarcasm?
Give if examples if you may...
The word comes from the Greek, sarkasmos, def. To tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer.
There are many uses for sarcasm, some meant to ridicule, banter, irony, aggression. It's meaning can taken many different ways; its interpretation is in the eyes of the receiver. It may be used subtlety, overtly, passive aggressive, homurously, to ridicule, mock, express rudeness, show contempt but is almost always caustic to one person or a group of persons. Is it appropriate in a military environment? Professional setting? What about sociably amongst friends?
Have you had to counsel for excessive use of sarcasm?
Give if examples if you may...
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"That is the dumbest thing I have heard. Who came up with this crap?" Oh, it was you Chief, alrighty then.
Oh ya. I fall into the group that has had to ask the question "was that my outside voice?"
Sarcasm has a place. It is a skill to be able to use it, without getting into trouble with it.
Oh ya. I fall into the group that has had to ask the question "was that my outside voice?"
Sarcasm has a place. It is a skill to be able to use it, without getting into trouble with it.
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"Oh ya. I fall into the group that has had to ask the question "was that my outside voice?"
LOL.
LOL.
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HA! Many times I have caught myself asking "Did I just say that out Loud?" Lol oh yeah Smartass is my middle name!
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Just about ever time. FYI no matter what they say cops DO NOT have a sense of humor .
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CMSgt James Nolan
SPC David S. Sure they do. When they get back together later, they all go "you should have seen......"
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
I notice their nightsticks like to poke me with sarcasm...that is sarcasm they are poking me with right? I am not sarcastic with cops, unless they are sarcastic with me.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
I was 2d vehicle at a stop sign .. the car in front went and I moved forward the woman behind plowed into the back bumper on the truck. Didn’t hurt it.. it wasn’t a stock
Bumper but a pipe with a trailer hitch(but the hitch part was not in it.). She said I wrecked the bumper. On her Toyota .. I kept my mouth
Shut and waited for the police(I noticed her little tag was expired)..
It was a woman county Mountie..
She got out with her little book asked what happened I told her my
story.. The woman thought for a minute it was a stop light... and s’thing In a foreign language... the officer responded back and told her to sit in her auto . She went back to her car and did some writing and gave me a copy.. I was noticing s’thing on her back plate officer and pointed to the expired tag..
“Oh thank you !” She went back and wrote a $150.00 citation and handed it to her.. I didn’t need to turn it in I had a buddy at base auto-hobby shop check it.. we hooked a strap over the bumper and he did a couple cranks and my bumper was right back where it was before. I was leaving in a couple days to go to N. Dakota ., I didn’t need my truck tied up in a repair shop or waiting on a Insurance adjuster. There was a call in the
CQ office.. in a whiny voice : “ this is sahib omoullah ishmabibbel.. My wife ran into you on the highway at”
“ e’thing ok Ish, I didn’t even report it .. you’re off the hook good buddy,
Bye .! and I hung up. .. Next day I signed out and headed to N. Dakota
Ol Ish would be on the hook anyway for his own bumper.. A day later a mule deer decided it wanted to jump off side of hill and run in front of my truck. I had bumper off a Calif dept Nat resources truck.. I had a crash bar and braces added across top in front of my grill . That deer bounced off the right front corner (that bar wrapped around and down.). That deer went over the guard rail and to the river below..
“Breaker-Breaker big orange truck!yoh gotta go back an check that deer..!” Scramble scramble..
“That’s ok good buddy, you can have it ! State line is 50 foot away,
Don't Have time now !.. I put that petal to the metal an’ was across that line.. from Utah to Wyoming ..
I settled back and enjoyed the ride.. As soon as I got to Grand Forks and signed in I bad a few errands to do and drove to town and got my Nodak tags and insurance.. a lot lower than Calif !
I got back to base and got my new base tag and turned in my old one (I got my heavy glove and got some dry ice. I used a putty knife and it peeled off easy. Put it in a little envelope and turned it in at the
Vehicle Regis. Office. I put my new one in my window on my side (the guard shack was in my side going in).. one of the gate guards... a GSA Officer.. asked when I hit the deer..,oh in Utah not far from the state line.. I hit it’s right rear button it went over the rail to the river below. The coyotes had a good dinner that day ! d’ya think it suffered? I don’t know, I didn’t stop to ask it !... I went on in and drove to the Squadron.. I kept that to myself until now.. 3 days later I got a note to go speak to Chaplain B_____
about the deer I hit. and having compassion for God’S creatures .
When you took that oath you would protect them too... laying the guilt trip on me.. Excuse me Chaplain that deer decided to cross the road in front of my truck .. was I supposed to go over that side? Never mind, Don’t Answer that question.. I’ve an appointment at
CBPO.. in about 15 min sir.. Go ahead .. I got another phone call,
“Who is this please ?” It’s Travis AFB.. It’s ms _____ for Mr.Lomeli.. the Food Svc Sup’t at the hospital Food service. “ AMN Herrst..!”
“Correction Mr. L., It’s SSGT Herrst to you ! He blabbered on about how I preplanned turning my leave in.. I told him I made that decision in Wyoming.. and I have that right to change my mind,this isn’t some army slick sleeve you’re trying to pull one over on.. When you can speak civil we’ll resume this convolt. I laid the reciever on it’s side... The Lt picked it up.. The Lt’s a former enlisted.. Staff or TSGT..
He said he had it and to go on back
to my room.. I thought that went rather well from my end.. A knock on my door.. the Lt. ; He will not bd bothering you any more SSGT. If he does let me know., nobody F’s
With my people especially some GS Out In la-la land..
Bumper but a pipe with a trailer hitch(but the hitch part was not in it.). She said I wrecked the bumper. On her Toyota .. I kept my mouth
Shut and waited for the police(I noticed her little tag was expired)..
It was a woman county Mountie..
She got out with her little book asked what happened I told her my
story.. The woman thought for a minute it was a stop light... and s’thing In a foreign language... the officer responded back and told her to sit in her auto . She went back to her car and did some writing and gave me a copy.. I was noticing s’thing on her back plate officer and pointed to the expired tag..
“Oh thank you !” She went back and wrote a $150.00 citation and handed it to her.. I didn’t need to turn it in I had a buddy at base auto-hobby shop check it.. we hooked a strap over the bumper and he did a couple cranks and my bumper was right back where it was before. I was leaving in a couple days to go to N. Dakota ., I didn’t need my truck tied up in a repair shop or waiting on a Insurance adjuster. There was a call in the
CQ office.. in a whiny voice : “ this is sahib omoullah ishmabibbel.. My wife ran into you on the highway at”
“ e’thing ok Ish, I didn’t even report it .. you’re off the hook good buddy,
Bye .! and I hung up. .. Next day I signed out and headed to N. Dakota
Ol Ish would be on the hook anyway for his own bumper.. A day later a mule deer decided it wanted to jump off side of hill and run in front of my truck. I had bumper off a Calif dept Nat resources truck.. I had a crash bar and braces added across top in front of my grill . That deer bounced off the right front corner (that bar wrapped around and down.). That deer went over the guard rail and to the river below..
“Breaker-Breaker big orange truck!yoh gotta go back an check that deer..!” Scramble scramble..
“That’s ok good buddy, you can have it ! State line is 50 foot away,
Don't Have time now !.. I put that petal to the metal an’ was across that line.. from Utah to Wyoming ..
I settled back and enjoyed the ride.. As soon as I got to Grand Forks and signed in I bad a few errands to do and drove to town and got my Nodak tags and insurance.. a lot lower than Calif !
I got back to base and got my new base tag and turned in my old one (I got my heavy glove and got some dry ice. I used a putty knife and it peeled off easy. Put it in a little envelope and turned it in at the
Vehicle Regis. Office. I put my new one in my window on my side (the guard shack was in my side going in).. one of the gate guards... a GSA Officer.. asked when I hit the deer..,oh in Utah not far from the state line.. I hit it’s right rear button it went over the rail to the river below. The coyotes had a good dinner that day ! d’ya think it suffered? I don’t know, I didn’t stop to ask it !... I went on in and drove to the Squadron.. I kept that to myself until now.. 3 days later I got a note to go speak to Chaplain B_____
about the deer I hit. and having compassion for God’S creatures .
When you took that oath you would protect them too... laying the guilt trip on me.. Excuse me Chaplain that deer decided to cross the road in front of my truck .. was I supposed to go over that side? Never mind, Don’t Answer that question.. I’ve an appointment at
CBPO.. in about 15 min sir.. Go ahead .. I got another phone call,
“Who is this please ?” It’s Travis AFB.. It’s ms _____ for Mr.Lomeli.. the Food Svc Sup’t at the hospital Food service. “ AMN Herrst..!”
“Correction Mr. L., It’s SSGT Herrst to you ! He blabbered on about how I preplanned turning my leave in.. I told him I made that decision in Wyoming.. and I have that right to change my mind,this isn’t some army slick sleeve you’re trying to pull one over on.. When you can speak civil we’ll resume this convolt. I laid the reciever on it’s side... The Lt picked it up.. The Lt’s a former enlisted.. Staff or TSGT..
He said he had it and to go on back
to my room.. I thought that went rather well from my end.. A knock on my door.. the Lt. ; He will not bd bothering you any more SSGT. If he does let me know., nobody F’s
With my people especially some GS Out In la-la land..
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I love sarcasm. Its like, going through "Opposite Day" every day.
*disclaimer: I actually wan't being sarcastic here. (!)
If you can exploit life's ironies with sharp, cynical wit...you are a hopeless fail.
*sarcasm*
And if the two cancel out, you are boring.
If you see what I did there, a thousand points for you. (Am I being sarcastic or not?)
*disclaimer: I actually wan't being sarcastic here. (!)
If you can exploit life's ironies with sharp, cynical wit...you are a hopeless fail.
*sarcasm*
And if the two cancel out, you are boring.
If you see what I did there, a thousand points for you. (Am I being sarcastic or not?)
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Or am I just being ironic in an environment that apparently, values sarcasm?
Thanks, SSG(P) (Join to see), how do you like this rabbit-hole?
Thanks, SSG(P) (Join to see), how do you like this rabbit-hole?
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