Originally Posted by
oldmako
I'm not a TK guy, but my hat is off to 99 percent of the PI's who I've had over the years. And, my whiners comment was meant to be sarcastic and was intentionally accompanied by both a winking emoji and a big smile. I've been on reserve most of my 18 years here, so I've got a pretty good grip on it, the good and the bad.
From The Washington Post's, Style Invitational
sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it
The challenge was to make a new word by altered by adding, subtracting, or changing only one letter and supplying a new definition.
Yea yea. I got your sarcasm in your singular post " you whiners" with emojis (and I don't even know how to add emojis)
I was commenting on your subsequent post where you mentioned that some on this forum label reserve complainers as whiners
I don't think that was sarcasm. When I tried sarcasm and irony in high school English lit, my teacher scolded me and said it was dangerous to try and usually fails. If your second comment was meant as sarcasm, I think it fails.
I stand by the proper label of the reserve forum posters who complain about reserve. They are whining. Pure and simple