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If that small inconvenience represents the most horrible experience in your life, you must have an exceptionally charmed life.

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So at least one person here doesn't know what droll means.

You're getting my upvote because you were able to control yourself and not say get off my lawn.

Also, you said what I was going to say.

Finally, I wonder if the author is using the literary technique called "hyperbole"? These days, it is hard to know.

You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the author was using hyperbole or was conveying that this was, in fact, the most horrible experience of his life.

Do you know what “pedantic” means? And do you think maybe you’re being… that?

Yes, thanks for the English lessons, and for draining what little humor one might find in the exchange.

Go sleep it off, sock puppet of the original "droll"-sayer account.

That's not what droll means. That's not what irony means. But you have pedantic nailed. As well as un-funny "sarcasm", the word you were probably struggling after . . .

I interpret the “most horrible experience in my life” as hyperbole, but I don’t know for sure. The OP did take the time to post a long-ish complaint after all.

This kind of routine friction ranks above breaking a shoelace, but just barely. We can all sympathize, I’m sure. No need for the public whinging.

We may never know for sure if using Firebase was, indeed, literally the most horrible experience of Cracker Jack’s life. I mean, the rest of us do, of course, because we don’t have the emotional intelligence of a gnat.

you must be fun at parties

How droll, Greg. How droll.

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