It's enervating and deflating and completely ruins any joke when the teller has to explain it. If that's what happened here, I'm actually empathetic to the emotional position in which I placed you.
Yet, still, I really don't get the joke you were going for.
So, at risk of awkwardness, could you please explain it to m?. (To make it easier, just pretend I'm German, or an average chick, or a member of any other humor-challenged tribe.)
Okay, I’ll give it a shot. It’s not a joke, it’s a common expression when somebody doesn’t want to argue a point of a larger debate.
In his case, you labeled something as an old trope. Instead of arguing about that label, my response was sarcastic.
Sarcasm sometimes doesn’t translate in written form. However, the form I used would quickly be understood to be sarcastic due to its common use in English. I wasn’t being insulting when I asked about your background, I was curious why this common usage wasn’t familiar to you.
Adding parentheticals to my response.
I don't think this board operates under an old and deprecated paradigm or trope but myself and others embrace what you think is an old outdated trope.
The common expression to avoid that wordiness would be to use a common usage that’s widely understood to be sarcastic,
I guess I’m okay with old tropes. That reaffirms my belief while questioning your unilateral categorization of something as being a trope.
A political example, if somebody oversimplifies a complex political issue by throwing a bumper sticker like
Republicans hate the poor, a sarcastic response might be warranted. One might say,
I guess I hate the poor. It often signals a willingness to end a debate.
See the pattern?
