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No chance this was satire from a hilarious person?
The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It's from the comic Viz, and the "Letterbocks" section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.
Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you've met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.
They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic
I'm invoking Poe's Law. I've met people, family friends, who would flip between Climate Change not being real to Wind Turbines causing Climate Change. The posted image is absolutely possible to have come from a true believer.
Almost certainly, the British do sarcasm in a way that the colonials just don't get.
Lemmies are often too autistic to realize this.
I can't believe people are taking this seriously even after it's been pointed out it's blatant satire
Yeah, British humour is not something an American can understand. If there's no "laugh here" sign, then they'll never understand that it's a joke.
Are you sure they did not just want to make the reader say "cocks" in their brain?