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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7650 on: April 12, 2012, 12:38:09 am »

"Taken to an extreme"? Is she implying there is a level of association fallacy that is not absurd?
Actually, I wanna respond to this. There actually is a level of assigning guilt by association that, while not necessarily logically rigorous, is nevertheless prudent. For instance, if I read about a Senator spending a lot of time at dinner parties and playing golf with, say, a member of the KKK, I would probably form a negative opinion of the Senator, even if he emphatically denied any sort of racist beliefs (voting habits, however, might convince me, but for the sake of argument let's say that looking at his voting record doesn't suggest a particular trend). Maybe the KKK dude's just got a killer sense of humor, but I don't feel that's a sufficiently plausible explanation to earn the benefit of the doubt.
While I would believe that worthy of suspicion, it's far from enough to make any sort of sound conclusion. I myself have friends with vastly different political beliefs than mine, and anyone who assumed I had the same opinions as my friends would just be laughed at.

As your example emphatically denies the things you're worried about, then I wouldn't think there's more reason to believe he's lying than any other politician.



Aren't there plenty of real life politicians who are friends or even married to people on the other side of the aisle? A random anecdote I'm reading right now says Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush are buddies.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7651 on: April 12, 2012, 02:00:38 am »

Killer Klowns from outer space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXy8DpF5k0
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« Reply #7652 on: April 12, 2012, 03:23:12 am »

My current theory is that MLP is spread through some sort of radiation, or perhaps an airborne virus. I apparently, accidentally, turned my brother into a fan.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7653 on: April 12, 2012, 03:26:29 am »

http://youtu.be/vDKrztlPQ0Q (Bit NSFW, but no nudity, except for a thumbnail for a "related" video)

My WTF of the day. :I
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« Reply #7654 on: April 12, 2012, 04:12:26 am »

http://youtu.be/vDKrztlPQ0Q (Bit NSFW, but no nudity, except for a thumbnail for a "related" video)

My WTF of the day. :I

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7655 on: April 12, 2012, 04:21:50 am »

My current theory is that MLP is spread through some sort of radiation, or perhaps an airborne virus. I apparently, accidentally, turned my brother into a fan.
I'm pretty sure they stuck morphine in the airwaves.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7656 on: April 12, 2012, 04:27:11 am »

I just realised that you can accurately describe the final boss of an RP on my site as a "giant black fire skull snake dandelion butterfly death god". This guy was a PC in the previous RP in the series.
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« Reply #7657 on: April 12, 2012, 04:29:43 am »

This guy was a PC in the previous RP in the series.
This is the WTF part, right?
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« Reply #7658 on: April 12, 2012, 05:26:28 am »

This guy was a PC in the previous RP in the series.
This is the WTF part, right?
Partially. The rest of the WTF is that there's anything that can be summed up as a giant black fire skull snake dandelion butterfly death god.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7659 on: April 12, 2012, 10:40:12 am »

This guy was a PC in the previous RP in the series.
This is the WTF part, right?
Partially. The rest of the WTF is that there's anything that can be summed up as a giant black fire skull snake dandelion butterfly death god.
Sounds a little bit like an amalgam of Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli (butterflies being seen as the souls of dead warriors in Aztec myth). There's also this pretty sweet Tezcatlipoca mask:
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« Reply #7660 on: April 12, 2012, 10:40:15 am »

While I would believe that worthy of suspicion, it's far from enough to make any sort of sound conclusion. I myself have friends with vastly different political beliefs than mine, and anyone who assumed I had the same opinions as my friends would just be laughed at.

As your example emphatically denies the things you're worried about, then I wouldn't think there's more reason to believe he's lying than any other politician.

Aren't there plenty of real life politicians who are friends or even married to people on the other side of the aisle? A random anecdote I'm reading right now says Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush are buddies.

Tangentially relevant to both that discussion, and the topic: Larry Flint and Falwell ended up good friends and spend a lot of time together despite a number of radically different opinions on things, and the fact that they fought each other in court.
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« Reply #7661 on: April 12, 2012, 10:59:20 am »

I just...

looking at this sheet. it tells me I need to use proper grammar and spelling. cool, cool.

underneath that:
'the data are analysed carefully'

yeah, can you expect me to use grammar when you can't?
Hmmm... That could be grammatically correct, but it's a very odd thing to say and it sounds like they should say, "The data should be analysed carefully". Or "analyzed", depending on your degree of Britishness, I think.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7662 on: April 12, 2012, 11:03:55 am »

I just...

looking at this sheet. it tells me I need to use proper grammar and spelling. cool, cool.

underneath that:
'the data are analysed carefully'

yeah, can you expect me to use grammar when you can't?
Hmmm... That could be grammatically correct, but it's a very odd thing to say and it sounds like they should say, "The data should be analysed carefully". Or "analyzed", depending on your degree of Britishness, I think.

Depending on context, that could be correct and not remarkably unusual, if it was saying something along the lines of "We have provided you with these data. The data are analyzed carefully below." Though again, if it is instructions rather than provided information, it should be something like "Analyze the data carefully."
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7663 on: April 12, 2012, 11:10:37 am »

Yeah, technically "data" is a plural (of datum) so it would be "are". But in common usage people tend to use "data" as an abstract singular noun.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #7664 on: April 12, 2012, 11:16:51 am »

I suppose this really shouldn't be a WTF any more, but browsing 4chan has become like piloting a space ship with poor handling through a bullet hell game with the bullets being pornographic images on what's supposed to be a work safe board. It happens often enough to stop being a WTF moment, but still.

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