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This article wrote:Starting next month, Beijing shopkeepers who vent their anger, act impatiently, glance at customers disdainfully or act absent-mindedly are in violation of the law. Also forbidden under the draft regulations are sarcastic or ironic comments, vague explanations and grabbing customers to coerce them into buying something, according to a report released on a state media Web site last month.
What I want to know is how you prove the guy was really being ironic and not just that he has an unusual opinion.
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Irony's already dead. Real life can beat anything irony can throw at you.
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Does that relegate them to NPC status?

But yeah, enforcement should be pretty entertaining. I'd argue that it would make for a pretty good reality/game show concept.
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Zhongda wrote:Does that relegate them to NPC status?
:lol: :lol:
You're just jealous because you can't get away with speaking in the third person...

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Since when do NPCs not give vague answers?
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Do these new regulations also prohibit steely glares?


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Damn, now that I can't grab you and force you to buy my merchandise, my sales have been cut by 50%!
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Well, there goes my basic lesson plan structure...
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TRI wrote:
This article wrote:Starting next month, Beijing shopkeepers who vent their anger, act impatiently, glance at customers disdainfully or act absent-mindedly are in violation of the law. Also forbidden under the draft regulations are sarcastic or ironic comments, vague explanations and grabbing customers to coerce them into buying something, according to a report released on a state media Web site last month.
What I want to know is how you prove the guy was really being ironic and not just that he has an unusual opinion.
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This article wrote:Also forbidden under the draft regulations are sarcastic or ironic comments.
Oh no! :o

I foresee an epidemic people will be terribly anemic. What with iron-y banned and all...

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Oh I can totally see why they'd ban sarcasm. It's just horrible :shifty:
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Lord Vetinari would never allowed this to have happened.
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Mr.Bob wrote:Lord Vetinari would never allowed this to have happened.
Certainly not, since he would be one of the first people to be accused under any law against sarcasm. He would, however, likely have required the sarcastic shopkeepers to form a guild separate from the friendly shopkeeper guild and feature a corresponding batch outside their shops. :D
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Nervous Spy wrote:
Mr.Bob wrote:Lord Vetinari would never allowed this to have happened.
Certainly not, since he would be one of the first people to be accused under any law against sarcasm. He would, however, likely have required the sarcastic shopkeepers to form a guild separate from the friendly shopkeeper guild and feature a corresponding batch outside their shops. :D
Even if Vetinari did let something like that past, I think the real problem would be getting Carrot and Vimes to enforce it.

Song Xuelei, a 27-year-old student, said he applauds the idea. His pet peeve is getting dirty looks from shopkeepers when he is only window shopping.
I feel the inexplicable urge to slap this person across the face. With a fish.
Or possibley have Maddox tear into him for a bit.
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This pisses me off for some reason. :-?
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Oh noes! I might aswell shut up for the rest of my life, then. :P
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I'm already waiting for joel's position on this topic.
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I wonder if this site is blocked in China. If they extended their authority here we wouldn't be forced to buy his terrible repartee then!
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pierce studios wrote:Oh I can totally see why they'd ban sarcasm. It's just horrible :shifty:
I wonder what would internet look like if sarcasm was banned from it.
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It would look like this...
pierce studios wrote:[COMMENT BANNED FOR SARCASM]
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