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These are hilarious, but I don’t think I’d survive in a country where the national sport is trolling.
They call it banter rather than trolling, but yes.
My family is like this. All we do is make fun of each other. It’s kept mostly internal (including close family friends) but that’s how we show love.
I still dress like a ranch hand about a quarter of the time even though I’m only out there to lend a hand once in a while. I showed up at my parent’s place while my siblings were in town while I was wearing my boots and a pearl snap shirt. In our group chat my dad still asks “Hey Cowboy, did ya yee any haws today?” and that’s been over a year.
Turns out Derry Girls was an accurate portrayal of the Irish.
This sounds like a magical place.
The spaceship one was brutal.
At the same time, that’s one of the easiest ones to throw a funny response back
Played well, this could be a free pass for all the other times the person is late.
Next time they are late they can put on the silver jacket, enter the classroom with a space related excuse:
- Sorry, the traffic was awful on the asteroid belt
- My comet was delayed
- A gravitational anomaly threw me out of the solar system, it took me forever to come back
- …
These are great, I want more. The communion card was especially brutal.
It’s nice to hear some witty and lighthearted ones because we do have a problem with that kind of thing straying into the territory of abuse and bullying.
The line between banter and bullying can be pretty simple: does the target find it funny, and can you take back what you dish out?
Yeah, but you never know how the targez takes it, so there is a risk. Personal I think a bit of banter is good for the mood, but you have to make it 1000% clear that you are making light hearted fun. Which isn’t always easy.
Sadly, a big part of these (admittedly clever and funny) put-downs is to enforce conformity. Makes it hard to have some degree of self-expression when you know you’re going to face ridicule for the smallest thing.
