apologies to those who don't read any German - an online translation won't do true justice to just how stupid this article is but should give you the general picture. some of the comments are even better than the article. so much for my daily hour with Tagi to help improve my German...
My German isn't any good so won't comment on article.
This is however a case of who posts in these newspapers? I used to read the online version of a newspaper from back home and I must say that the comments were mean, full of hatred, despicable and the grammar was so bad I just had to quit. I guess this is an international phenomenon unfortunately.
Like most means of feedback, it's often only the outraged minority that feel the need to post on such things. I've long since given up reading anyone's comments on news articles - frankly I'm not interested in what Mr Angry from Tunbridge Wells has to say on a subject about which he knows even less than I do.
Anyone posting on the idiocy of such comments is simply doing the same thing themselves...
it's a piece ostensibly about the strange phenomenon that is Honey Boo Boo (I marginally know the name but didn't even know it was a reality tv show back in the US). on a certain level I get the satire, but like most satire the truest words are always said in jest (which is after all the true purpose of satire), and so it is at heart a critique and a rather cheap and superficial one at that.
in any event, I feel better already, and will simply look to The Onion as my source of satirical criticism, mostly because The Onion is actually funny. I'll stick to the Sports section of Tagi.
Sorry. I never indented to say that you said that irony does not in German speaking countries. I was mere referring to one or other thread here on EF about said topic.
On the other have you learned a new word which many of the Swiss commentators of article do not know as much as they do not know irony, sarcasm, etc. (here is the stereotype again )
Is the Tagi piece a good Glosse? No, it doesn't really get the point. But it's not for real either (as Bucentaure feared)