SASA Blog 15
I wouldn’t call myself a blog reader per se but every time I find one I like I will sit there for hours scrolling through page after page until I get my fix. I friend of mine sent me a link to a website that posted hilarious misspellings on Facebook. This was particularly funny because I constantly berate him for misspelling things. While there were many funny postings this works best. It is a girl basically saying that she is going to kill herself and that the people that have been waiting for it will be happy. Then she says “congradulations.” I for one hate people who threaten to kill themselves to gain sympathy. One of her friends gives her the typical reply of “no don’t do it, we love you!” while another person simply comments “you spelled ‘congratulations’ wrong.” It provides a sense of relief to those who feel guilty for not believing the girl’s threat or those that saw it as I did, a rouse for attention. It is an example of appropriate incongruity because the stereotype of “emo” teenagers talking about suicide on the internet has become cliché and worth laughing over. It also juxtaposes nicely the polite response against the thing most of us want to say “well, maybe you should since you can’t even spell.”
