'Libbing out' is the latest irony-fueled coping mechanism
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'Libbing out' is the latest irony-fueled coping mechanism
“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Irish people find humour in everything, and it is my favourite thing about us — the darker, or sadder, or grimmer a thing is, the easier it is to stand in, or next to, if you can laugh at it. Yet beneath the humour we aim at one another is a warning that what you do is seen and noticed. You are weighed and measured. You are found to have fucking no... See more
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