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

[billd91]

what the hell is up with Australia?

Further reading: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/26/spanker-knob-naughty word-hill-and-guys-dirty-hole-are-all-real-places-in-australia


My conclusion: Australian surveyors (or anyone else who names things) were all teenage boys. I blame lax child labor laws.

Edit: Well, crap, ENWorld is sanitizing the URL because it has a naughty word. So here's an alternative link (I hope): Spanker Knob, naughty word Hill and Guys Dirty Hole are all real places in Australia

 

[Scribe]

I really, really, really wish that people could get it through their heads that it's not even a little bit anti-Canadian to strongly oppose putting pineapple on pizza. That the Canadian people have been through and continue to go through so much is not even remotely an excuse for committing that level of atrocity. And they just keep doing it! Over and over again!

There are even plenty of Canadians who are against putting pineapple on pizza! Do they just not matter at all? Are they not "true" Canadians?

I dont know how to parse this, as a Canadian.

 

[Ryujin]

I dont know how to parse this, as a Canadian.

I'm just parsing it as a variation of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

 

[Scribe]

Maybe I'm confused, as putting Pineapple on a Canadian pizza IS objectively an atrocity...

 

[Gradine]

 

[Ryujin]

Maybe I'm confused, as putting Pineapple on a Canadian pizza IS objectively an atrocity...

Well pizza is an atrocity to my blood glucose, but I rather like pineapple on it.

 

[Alzrius]

Ugh, yet another baseless implication that you can judge someone's moral character by what sort of magic elf games they like.

At what point is there a realization that, if you absolutely have to decide whether someone's a bad person or not, their choice of recreational fiction is perhaps the single worst data point to go off of?

 

[niklinna]

what the hell is up with Australia?

"Settled" by transported convicts, for the most part?

Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Ugh, yet another baseless implication that you can judge someone's moral character by what sort of magic elf games they like.

At what point is there a realization that, if you absolutely have to decide whether someone's a bad person or not, their choice of recreational fiction is perhaps the single worst data point to go off of?

You're not wrong, but what do you do with the guy who tells you he's really into ... and I mean really into ... Triumph of the Will?

 

[darjr]

It’s mostly not a good way, mostly, but sometimes it absolutely is a hundred percent.