I write this in the hope that somebody on the internet will read it and learn from it. If I can only help one person it is still an improvement. The goal is to educate you – the reader, as to what wit actually is.
Wit:
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- brain: mental ability; “he’s got plenty of brains but no common sense”
- wag: a witty amusing person who makes jokes
Wit must adapt to it’s surroundings, circumstances and especially to what it replies to, so those standard replies you see on “wit” websites are in fact, not witty. “is that all you’ve got?” is not witty. “I fucked your mum” is especially not witty. The only reason you may find “Oh yeah? Well I’m smarter/bigger/stronger/better-looking than you” (or its partner in crime, “I’m not as bad/stupid etc as you”) witty is because it is as far from being witty as it is possible to be and is therefore close to wit, though on the other side.
I’m just sick of people thinking these things are witty when they are in fact about as intelligent as a sea sponge. Mindless Mario loving tossers.
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