Pretty much every time someone posts “slow news day?” they are being snarky and rude.
It is no different than the putzes who go on every thread about TV’s posting they don’t have a TV. This group is usually lying too.
You have certainly been here long enough to know this..
And there is a group of putzes (your term) that feel they need to read into comments of others, projecting their own perceptions and take insult where none was ever intended. These putzes resort to name calling like “rude” and “lying” to try and belittle others with their own comments even when the original comment was not directed to them.