Discuss this insanity
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- mikotondria30
"Airport security staff do not have a sense of humour when it comes to potential risk”
It's not a sense of humour that is needed by the airport staff. They don't have to HAVE a sense of humour to understand that the comment is not intended to be taken literally. They just have to have a basic understanding of literary style.
What they're doing by saying that they don't have a sense of humour is recognising that the statement that caused the fuss wasn't intended to be taken literally, but that they're deliberately mis-interpreting the statements as if they were. One cannot simply declare that one does not understand something - this is not a valid transaction in the exchange; if one truly believes something is unclear then one asks for clarification.
"What does this mean ?" is a useful phrase.
To declare both that a statement isn't meant to be taken literally - by indicating that they think "humour" is involved, and then also to declare that they do not understand that it isn't meant to be taken literally is utterly nonsensical by their own standards.
Which is it, "Airport Authority" -
a) You DO understand that the statements were not intended to be taken at face value, and therefore are not evidence of any substantive threat (this begin your sole position to investigate),
or
b) You do NOT understand anything beyond the language and communicative style of a 5 year old, and are deliberately ignoring any attempts to understand it.
or
c) There is no "c". You understand irony or you don't. That is the nature of 'not'. Things are or they are not, there is no third way - there is no "not not".Your attempts at literary critique are highly inappropriate.
- I was once given a pat-down by a gorgeous lady solider in an Israeli airport. One thing they do right.waterhouse
- they deliberately ignored the meaning and went after him to make a big scene in the mediaGminor