It’s like fingernails on a fucking chalkboard. Stop using this non-word. It’s not funny…It’s not fun. It makes “all your base” sound hip. My grandmother thought “snarky” was played out when she was in first grade. Actually, Plato used the word “snarky” and the other Greeks laughed at him. It gets an 8.4 on the geek scale. Oh, the humanity!
For convenience, I will pre-post some standard responses. Feel free to copy & paste them:
Blowero, why does it make you so angry? I like the word snarky. Why must you spew your venemous hatred on us poor innocents? If you don’t like it, don’t read our posts. You are such an angry, hate-filled, bitter person, that I fear you are going to buy a shotgun and go berserk.
“Jumped the shark” has jumped the shark, too, you hypocrite.
Great. Just great. I finally perfect my posting style so that I’m the perfect snarky waste of bandwidth and now they’re going to change the rules on me! I suppose “asshat” is on the way out next too. All that work wasted.
there was some game, I think, from Japan (?) where the ENglish was a little, um, tortured?? one of the lines in it was “all your base belong to us”.
and unfortunately, that line for unknown reasons, struck a semi universal funny bone with internet geeks, and for a horrible period of time, you just couldn’t open any forum here w/o at least a half dozen threads about “all your base”.
I used “snarky” during a staff meeting last year and my boss thought it was hilarious. Today, I found out that I’m getting a promotion at the end of the month.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to send my division head an email with the words “goat-felcher” and “asshat” in it. Management, here I come!
There was a cruise missile under development, called the Snark, which often failed and went plunging into the ocean. Thus, the joke was that they were “snark infested waters”.
That’s all history. The question upon us now: was that area of ocean also shark infested, and if so, did the Snark jump the shark?
Nah. Saying ““Jumped the shark” has jumped the shark” has jumped the shark.
And don’t say “Saying “Saying ““Jumped the shark” has jumped the shark” has jumped the shark.” has jumped the shark.” because infinite recursion has really jumped the shark.
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(No real reason for that smilie, I just haven’t used it yet.)
Waitaminute, when the hell did “snarky” become an internet catchphrase? I’ve been using that word all my life, in much the way I use all sorts of other words, and I never knew it was hip or trendy at all! And now it’s not, so I sound lame and dated whenever I use it! Which isn’t really a big change for me!