Shouldn’t the title be 'Proof America is demented'?

RLY?

"People with FTD become very gullible and they often part with large amounts of money"

That explains all the Mac/Win/Pay*-tards!

* Delete as applicable. Or insert your own favourite prefix.

Who knows I’m just f*cking bored.

Didn't Monty Python do this with the Piranha Brothers?

"Baldrick have you no idea what Irony is?"

"Yeah, it's like Goldy or Bronzy, only it's made of Iron."

... and me!

"People with FTD become very gullible and they often part with large amounts of money"

I thought FTD people tried to get OTHERS to part with large amounts of money by selling them flowers...

Now there's an oxymoron...

and btw, Americans CAN do sarcasm - just try speaking to a Yank teenager.....

It's irony they can't do.....

sheesh.

Anyone want to play a game of "Hunt the IT Article" ? Clearly we're not going to find it on ElReg due to the influx of non-IT hacktards.

I am very sarcastic, and find it necessary to more often than not to explain I'm only joking. They should see if toxin quantities in the food/water supply correlate with the higher amounts of FTD, becuase being an American, you're a lot more likely to be punched for being sarcastic because people get angry when they are confused and assume you're trying to make them feel stupid. And while many sarcastic people are often insulting, I like my participants to enjoy the joke too ;P Some people are just assholes though, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if FTD might be related to the number of assholes in a given population, like bored people with broken dreams vs. ADHD ;P

But what do I know, I'm off to collect mud on my mud farm with the other peasants.

So a doctor that wants to figure out the difference should try to charge the patient a ridiculous amount of money? I think I know of a few countries they have already implemented this test.

> and btw, Americans CAN do sarcasm

Can't /detect it though, any buffoon can be sarcastic it's the gawping lost expression merkins have when others are using it that the Australians have evidently noticed.

but sadly all this study suggests is that 99% of the people I communicate with are demented... hmmmm maybe not such useless research after all.

An interesting idea. Does that mean that many people on the Autistic spectrum also have a 'brain illness'?

Failing to understand things such as sarcasm is often seen as part of the diagnostic criteria for ASDs (Autistic Spectrum Disorders)

Couldn't you English boffins tell that was a sarcastic article??

--Glenn

(an American) ((sigh))

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they just prefer pancakes and syrup