Fail Quotes

[AnCap Dave]

[MrBogosity]

Wow.

(This is a REALLY long image, so I'll just post the link, but it's one of Brianna Wu's "friends" realizing she's a "privileged cunt.")

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[MrBogosity]

Skeptical Meme Society on Facebook:

Please do not post political memes to this page. We are not now, nor will we ever be a place to discuss politics. We thought that the way we keep deleting them would have been a hint, but....

Yeah, more statheists got butthurt...

[Travis Retriever]

Skeptical Meme Society on Facebook:

Yeah, more statheists got butthurt...

Yet the anti-pot bogosity of theirs gets to stay...

[Travis Retriever]

Anyone using the phrase, "common sense" as a reason for why I should have known something.  Seriously, fuck you with a thousand nuclear dicks for you getting pissy at me for not being a fucking psychic, you assholes.  I'm convinced at this point that "common sense" is just cop out phrase at this point.

[MrBogosity]

Anyone using the phrase, "common sense" as a reason for why I should have known something.  Seriously, fuck you with a thousand nuclear dicks for you getting pissy at me for not being a fucking psychic, you assholes.  I'm convinced at this point that "common sense" is just cop out phrase at this point.

I became convinced of that decades ago. I consider Appeal to Common Sense to be a fallacy, and in most cases "common sense" seems to be a phrase that's mostly used when someone wants to believe or defend something but has no rational argument for it.

[Travis Retriever]

I became convinced of that decades ago. I consider Appeal to Common Sense to be a fallacy, and in most cases "common sense" seems to be a phrase that's mostly used when someone wants to believe or defend something but has no rational argument for it.

In my case, I find it used when I ask how I should have known a social rule, or why someone is mad at me online, etc.  Whenever they respond with "um, common sense?" I want to clock them.  As that response is about as useful as telling a programmer in order to be better at his job, he has to "synergize his paradigms" from his pointy haired boss.

[dallen68]

Did you change how the bogometer works?

The thing with "common sense" is at it's best it's an assumption of societal norms that aren't in evidence, except in the persons head. In it's middle of the road meaning: it means "common knowledge" - which, as it turns out actually isn't all that common, and a lot of what people take as it is, well, the opposite of true. At it's worse it means "I'm having a fuss because you said/did something with which I disapprove, and I don't have a single reason to call you on it."

[MrBogosity]

Did you change how the bogometer works?

Nope, lower numbers are still better.

[Travis Retriever]

Did you change how the bogometer works?

I think me, Shane, and Dave made someone on the board mad.  Meh, oh well.

The thing with "common sense" is at it's best it's an assumption of societal norms that aren't in evidence, except in the persons head. In it's middle of the road meaning: it means "common knowledge" - which, as it turns out actually isn't all that common, and a lot of what people take as it is, well, the opposite of true. At it's worse it means "I'm having a fuss because you said/did something with which I disapprove, and I don't have a single reason to call you on it."

*applause* Well said, Dallen.

[MrBogosity]

I think me, Shane, and Dave made someone on the board mad.  Meh, oh well.

I don't even pay attention to it. It's only there as a lark.

[Ibrahim90]

well, just to be clear, it wasn't me. No one said anything I take exception to.

[Ibrahim90]

wow, what a cunt...

so 11 guys who exercised their right to free speech (even if what they did was a stupid--they knew the risks), and died for it is somehow equivalent to accusations of lacking journalistic credibility?

[Travis Retriever]

"Common sense" is not a thing that exists, OP.  Kindly get off your high horse.

[AnCap Dave]

Dave made someone on the board mad.

Then I'm doing my job.