The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Jfdlsjfd]

It's also used in the Anecdotal Evidence Fallacy. "I don't care what that peer reviewed study says. This is what happened to ME."

Actually, it's only a fallacy if it's used to extrapolate a general rule. If studies shows that 1 in 100,000,000 persons die in a stampede of kangaroos, concluding that wearing a kangaroo-repelling hat is not something that should be made mandatory, you could very well care and be extremely vocal if you're the one that got stampeded despite the odds.

 

[Cadence]

Has reading the first post in a thread before replying become gauche? (Or has avoiding reading them always been the thing to do?)

 

[prabe]

Has reading the first post in a thread before replying become gauche? (Or has avoiding reading them always been the thing to do?)

Sometimes one will reply to something said in the thread, rather than to the OP. It happens. It happens more with some posters than others, 'tis true.

 

[Cadence]

Sometimes one will reply to something said in the thread, rather than to the OP. It happens. It happens more with some posters than others, 'tis true.

"We can let people have their fun while misery is safely in this thread." <- Holy crap. I just checked. We're supposed to be having misery here!

 

[Ryujin]

Actually, it's only a fallacy if it's used to extrapolate a general rule. If studies shows that 1 in 100,000,000 persons die in a stampede of kangaroos, concluding that wearing a kangaroo-repelling hat is not something that should be made mandatory, you could very well care and be extremely vocal if you're the one that got stampeded despite the odds.

It's right in the definition of the fallacy

 

[Guest 7034872]

"I just can't get over how many people complain to me about the 'accidental' pineapple they get served on pizza."

"That's strange, I'm not sure I've ever heard of more than one or two people getting 'accidental' pineapple. But you should hear about all the folks who actually order cheese pizza and later complain that there is no pepperoni on it!"

"That's totally different, and good, because pepperoni is gross. Can we focus on the pineapple problem?"

"Don't you prefer calzones anyway?"

"Stromboli!!!"

I was in a conversation that went like that Friday night. I bowed out of it: I simply could not keep track of what was being said.

 

[Aeson]

Sometimes one will reply to something said in the thread, rather than to the OP. It happens. It happens more with some posters than others, 'tis true.

You're talking about me aren't you?

 

[prabe]

You're talking about me aren't you?

 

[prabe]

It's a neat rhetorical trick, to keep using a phrase others have told you they find insulting, while insisting you're not being insulting. It almost seems clever, the way it puts people off their balance. I bet it makes you feel superior.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

But you should hear about all the folks who actually order cheese pizza and later complain that there is no pepperoni on it!"

As absurdist as the pepperoni scenario is, my first experience as an American dining abroad was ordering a mushroom pizza in an Italian restaurant and being disappointed to discover it had no cheese on it. For back in my homeland pizza with cheese is the default, naked pizza, the canvas upon which topping art is created.

But, that's an anecdote about actual pizza, so perhaps this isn't the thread for it.