After starving for several hours, my roommate and I heated up some leftovers for lunch this afternoon and, because they weren't fresh, they tasted like shit.
The roommate wouldn't stop complaining and after a while I said, dryly, "We should be grateful that we have food at all." It was a dumb joke.
But that's the thing. I meant it as a joke, but I do actually believe the content of the message. Is there a word or phrase for this kind of dissonance?
Being a faggot.
If he took it as a joke as well then it was a prime example of post-post-irony
No, you were simply telling a joke, one which you happened to believe. If you said it only with the intent of making your roommate laugh. Were you subconsciously annoyed about his complaining?
You should have followed it with
>Children in Africa are starving
or some bullshit like that.
It's called quamcha.
Its still sarcasm, just with another layer of irony go flip it from insincere back to sincere, but the second layer of irony makes it sound insincere to mask the sincerity.
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Yeah, I just wanted to make him laugh. I guess I'm just dumb and didn't realize explicitly that a lot of humor plays on that kind of dissonance.
>believing your own jokes
This is how Ann Coulter got created.
>a lot of humor plays on that kind of dissonance.
Does it?