Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
"....bigmouth strikes again, and I've got no right to take my place with the human race...."<p>SCJP 1.4
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
No, just an overall sense that interesting debates tend to devolve around here, and that if we all paid a little more attention we could have some truly interesting, lively discussions. I guess I just get disappointed again and again that topics with such promise get lost in the shuffle of carelessness.
"....bigmouth strikes again, and I've got no right to take my place with the human race...."<p>SCJP 1.4
Uncontrolled vocabularies
"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
One recent thread certainly hit that point.
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Acutally two. The first time it happened, I actually invoked Godwin, but things just kept on going.
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
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