Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

If it helps, my housemates spent dinner attempting to dissect their complicated feelings about Charlie Brooker marrying Konni Huq, being as she is the epitome of amazing female wonderfulness and they've worshipped her since forever, but he's an icon of all grumpy gamer boys and they have to respect that he is one of them and would, according to C 'give her a good home full of shiny things like a bower bird'.