Posted May 02, 2017
phaolo: I am not a comedian, so I don't have an "audience" to please.
I was just talking to the guy who replied to me in an unfriendly way.
Maxvorstadt may have been half joking, but he made the point that I was going to: if you make a joke in a public forum, everyone who reads it can be considered your audience. When you then say something like this: I was just talking to the guy who replied to me in an unfriendly way.
Well, they also need a clever audience who can get their jokes.
...you are -- intentionally or not -- insulting the intelligence of all those other people, as well as whomever you may have been directly replying to. Perhaps you honestly didn't consider that, but that's how it came across.