Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia 389
An anonymous reader writes "Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
This will end badly... (Score:5, Funny)
Studies also found that old people who do not have dementia are likely to whack you with their canes for sassing them.
Doctor: "Oh, yeaaaa, you're normal"
Patient: "Why you little whippernapper! *WHACK* *WHACK*"
Doctor: "No! Ow! No! It was a medical test!
Patient: "I lived through 15 wars and 5 depressions, and I'm not going to let some damn young quack backtalk me in the name of science!" *WHACK* *WHACK*
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
<sarcasm>Really?</sarcasm>
This just in... (Score:5, Funny)
...90% of the internet is demented.
Ooo.. nice. (Score:5, Funny)
What a great idea.
If you're wondering if you've got dementia, and you thought this comment was sarcastic, then you have because it wasn't.
If you're not wondering if you've got dementia, then you have too because it totally was sarcastic.
Or maybe it's me who has dementia. I don't know if I'm being sarcastic. Oh dear.
Re:This just in... (Score:3, Funny)
Fortunately Slashdot is in the other badger.
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
~yeah, ~as ~if ~that ~would ~work().
House (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if whoever called sarcasm the lowest form of wit was demented.
Alternate title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
Sarcasm has no place on the internet. period.
Humorless bastards (Score:0, Funny)
Studies also found that old people who do not have dementia are likely to whack you with their canes for sassing them.
Doctor: "Oh, yeaaaa, you're normal" Patient: "Why you little whippernapper! *WHACK* *WHACK*" Doctor: "No! Ow! No! It was a medical test! Patient: "I lived through 15 wars and 5 depressions, and I'm not going to let some damn young quack backtalk me in the name of science!" *WHACK* *WHACK*
People really eat this shit up, don't they? Not a god damned thing was funny about this, but it still got the mandatory +5 Funny like too many other lame unoriginal jokes.
Re:Sarcasm is a Scourge (Score:3, Funny)
I am tired of people trying to appear insightful by stating an obvious irony in a sneering and sometimes exaggerated way
I bet you're fun at parties.
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
Your smiley has a goatee.
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This will end badly... (Score:5, Funny)
And I thought I was just an ass, turns out I'm a dementia detecting savant.
Comic Book Guy would approve... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
I have a friend who said once that you can give sexual meaning to any statement as long as you end it with "if you know what I mean".
Ironically, the same results can be achieved by ending statements with 'would you have sex with me.'
Re:Speak as a Masshole (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately it can also be a problem in real-life, generally when I'm being sarcastic I sound and act exactly as if I wasn't, combine this with my quirky personalty and it gets interesting.
(while in a job interview)
Interviewer: so what kind of hobbies do you have, apart from coding?
Me: Well, rock climbing, some music production, necrophelia and subtle dark humor.
I wanted to convey that he's just trying to make small-talk to cover up the fact that he's already decided they weren't going to employ me, instead his face twitched for a second and his mouth opened and you could see his brain clicking away trying to digest what I'd just said.
Um yah, getting back ontopic you can be sarcastic on the internet if people know you well, we all understand subtle humour & emotions while reading what other people write, but for complete strangers that's pretty much impossible.
Re:Sarcasm is a Scourge (Score:5, Funny)
I bet you're fun at parties.
Ha! Dementia detected.
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:3, Funny)
Everybody knows that sarcasm contains no iron.
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:4, Funny)
Or drool...
goodluckwiththat (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks!
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:5, Funny)
It does if it's ferocious enough.
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:1, Funny)
[shot to the head]
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They recognize it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A good idea for early detection of mental illne (Score:2, Funny)
I have suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since the age of 15. I'm 33 now, and I can say from my own personal experience that this is very true.
One of the many reasons I have trouble 'fitting in', especially at social gatherings, is my inability to detect sarcasm. It can be terrifying when someone says something that could be interpreted 'literally' as demeaning or cruel but is only 'joking around' etc.
I think your friends are being passive agressive and there's nothing wrong with you. KILL THEM ALL.
Re:Humorless bastards (Score:1, Funny)
You're grammar is awesome.
Re:Humorless bastards (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:3, Funny)
"that's what she said?"
Hmm I guess I'm starting to get it.. ;)
Re:Sarcasm mark (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In related news... (Score:4, Funny)
It's not lupus.
Re:They recognize it (Score:3, Funny)
Irony. It's like goldy or bronzy, only it's made of iron.
20/20..... (Score:3, Funny)
"Researchers at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
-I guess this means that most cops are suffering from dementia.
This handy dandy little piece of information would have been helpful to know a while ago, especially before I told that Highway Patrolwomen she could put me in handcuffs anytime she wanted to.
No drawl needed... (Score:2, Funny)