Bahraini Esra'a Al Shafei sarcastically notes

As for me, I am simultaneously a cynic and an idealist.

In his childhood he produced his own satirical hobby magazine.

Now what's the right response to that? Yeah, right!

Raye Sabz Iran (Green Iran Vote) writes with irony

Version 4.0 of the operating system OpenBSD features a parody of an Asterix story.

It contained a character Lady Bab Blue who was a parody of bluestockings.

Twitter user Pipelinemkd used the mocking tone of government announcements to comment on this phenomenon

Egyptian Twitter user TheMiinz gathered pictures of nullified ballots with humourous messages

They found out my number and threw it in a joke group so random people could mock me.

Meme shared online criticizing the legislators asking that Cocori not be adapted with public funds.

Take for example the relative difficulty of determining whether a modern text message is serious or sarcastic in tone.

History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarely is it capable of irony.

Some reactions were sarcastic, some were eye opening, and some explaining the absurdity of this call.

Concerns and comments, including ironic ones, were also expressed on social media sites under the hashtag uranio.

Lawyer Haykal Bafana shared a cartoon by Yemeni cartoonist Rashad Alsamey, who sarcastically depicted the police's reaction to the murder of the two youth

A comical FIFA voting sheet quite scarily v.close to reality as their corruption model no longer requires discretion pic.twitter.com 43bcg1usDp Dave Waters ( DaveWaters_) February 25, 2015

Generals, it is said, always prepare to fight the last war an old jibe, but one that contains an element of truth.

The post titled, We Never Thought That 203 Other Countries Would Attend is a satirical post about Venezuela's participation in the recent Olympics

Blogger Fonzi from Con la cámara en el bolsillo ( With a camera in my pocket ) posts images of a house in Montevideo with images of comics painted on its facade.

Two of the largest memes that have come out of this site some of you might be familiar with are these LOLcats just silly pictures of cats with text.

BTB is a famous blogger who writes a lot in the Tunisian dialect in an ironic way, while Khil we lil, who posts in French and the Tunisian dialect, writes a lot about cultural aspects and the southern region of Tunisia.

Shayegan used to write in the blog Gameron where the tagline description says that most of the posts are satirical and nothing is too sacred to be criticized.

Shipilov s crime was authoring two blog posts in November 2011 that each lampooned the region s governor, Aman Tuleyev, as well as members of his staff, often in colorful language.

And in fact, making things using technology and I'm being serious here, even though I'm using my sarcastic voice I won't hold on. Making things, you know making things actually does give me a lot of joy.

In a brilliantly tongue in cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating the optimum TEDTalk based on user ratings. How do you rate it? Jaw dropping ? Unconvincing ? Or just plain Funny ?

Medad blog published a sarcastic short story depicting a Muslim cleric and a Christian cleric passionately discussing virtue and interfaith understanding as each of them tries to claim a spot that allows them to peep through a crack in the wall of a women's bathhouse.

The country s ruling generals will twist what is meant to be a democratic process, whereby the people get to express their will, into a mockery of free expression in which people vote in fear and without hope.

Tunisian netizens have also taken part in this event and have commented with laughter on the event's wall, leaving sarcastic comments against the Ennahda party, which won a majority in Tunisia's constituent elections last month, and its head Rached Ghannouchi.

It has gotten to the point where, you know, within advertising or within the movie industry, happy has gotten such a bad reputation that if you actually want to do something with the subject and still appear authentic, you almost would have to, you know, do it from a cynical point of view.

But Reinfeldt, like Jacques Chirac, has forgotten something. Liberal minded people may very well prefer not just to exchange one cynical prime minister for another at the next election.

Being human beings, we can grasp the meaning of ironical expressions and understand these better than the best technological devices currently available. As for phrases like This mobile phone is so great it has a battery that doesn't even last for five minutes, any reader would understand that the above written statement is irony and that the word great stands for its opposite here.

Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the 100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between Tom and Al Gore.

The question remains, is Obama really and truly sincere in his words? Or is he, as this editorial puts it, simply another Napoleon, a man who appropriated Islam in order to advance own material interests at the expense of local populations? But even though I m a cynical person, that doesn t mean I m still not hopeful.

Which brings us back to China s greatest modern writer, Lu Xun. In 1921, he wrote a biting piece of social criticism, The True Story of Ah Q, about a hapless character who adjusts his values to whatever the circumstances and people around him seem to demand.

Whether Socrates humility was sincere or a secret joke at the expense of the powers that be (before said powers put him to death after tiring of his irreverence), the point is that the beginning of wisdom lies in the recognition of how little we really know.

I chanted that song my mom used to hate I m going out to protest with my soul on my hand And if I come back to you a martyr, mother, don t cry. How ironic life is.

But Reinfeldt, like Jacques Chirac, has forgotten something. Liberal minded people may very well prefer not just to exchange one cynical prime minister for another at the next election.

As for me, I am simultaneously a cynic and an idealist. I would rather get my advice for free from a genuine friend, or perhaps even from some folks on Facebook, than from a jobless stranger who has just spent 2,295 on a five month, part time course.