No sarcasm, I made too many assumptions about the shared context, and I got it wrong. My initial sentence would've been fine if this would've come up with a friend because we share the context and he would've understood what I meant. But with "the world at large", not only do I not share that specific context necessarily, I'm not even sharing the cultural context most of the time, and without those it's just something that's neither here not there and could be commented on pretty much any thread with other words from the title.