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Rayvn
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14 Aug 2010, 5:24 pm

Sometimes it's okay to answer seriously to a joke.

Some other times it means you are joking back.



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16 Aug 2010, 12:12 am

I do that too, although with my group of friends I can play the seriousness off as a joke itself. Although this doesn't always work either. And when you think they are being joking but is being serious... Ah, fun.



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16 Aug 2010, 1:38 am

DrS wrote:
...sometimes when I do I still treat it like a logical statement to be parsed and responded to literally -- I feel like I can't help myself, like this literal interpretation needs to be said.


That is the most common response from me. I have no idea why I do that - insist on showing how I would answer if it were serious - but I do. It usually gets taken as my way of joking back.



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16 Aug 2010, 11:40 pm

Bonne wrote:
DrS wrote:
...sometimes when I do I still treat it like a logical statement to be parsed and responded to literally -- I feel like I can't help myself, like this literal interpretation needs to be said.


That is the most common response from me. I have no idea why I do that - insist on showing how I would answer if it were serious - but I do. It usually gets taken as my way of joking back.


Humour is serious, seriousness is humour, war is peace and ignorance is freedom.