Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

But I am certainly not going to go look around for worse.

So maybe it was the indisputably most inane thing in the headline of a site American's would consider major (if I ignore whatever other horrible things are out there)?

You have to remember that a lot of the sports-like stuff that gets put up is mostly to generate arguments in order to make content. That content being people arguing about the articles.

This is why you see so many list of the "greatest ever" by various sports sites.* A great and recent example was the ESPN Top 100 Athletes of the 21st Century, which I think was designed only to make people angry about stuff. But I believe it gave Stephen A. Smith approximately 492 hours of content along with an aneurysm.


*Unlike my lists of the greatest ever things, which are generated by Colosson the Numberwang Robot and cannot be gainsaid.

 

[CleverNickName]

Look, I can save you guys some time.

I'm the absolute worst.

 

[Umbran]

I mean, there are lots of things on the internet. But this claim was also in the headline:

I know. I understand the original point. It certainly is dumb. But this is inane only in roughly the same way as using "literally" as an intensifier for specifically non-literal statements.

I'm just saying there are more inane (and harmful) topics... and people... currently on the internet.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I mean, there are lots of things on the internet. But this claim was also in the headline:

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and the article itself explains why it was wrong and just ignores that it did so:

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But I am certainly not going to go look around for worse!

So maybe it was the indisputably most inane thing in the headline of a site American's would consider major (if I ignore whatever other horrible things are out there)?

Sports reporting is generally seems not that great to. Have you ever noticed just about every athlete has the same narrative of starting out from humble roots, rising high, facing some serious, perhaps seemingly insurmountable challenge, then they overcome it and win. It isn't like they are 100% written that way but you do hear the same story again and again told about completely different athletes

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I'm just saying there are more inane (and harmful) topics... and people... currently on the internet.

Real talk for a moment-

I know that. And that's why I'm here, and not there.

 

[Umbran]

Real talk for a moment-

I know that. And that's why I'm here, and not there.

Which is exactly why we have those rules.
"The most inane thing we can talk about here" is fine, though.

 

[Umbran]

"The most inane thing we can talk about here" is fine, though.

...just realizing that this will start an inanity-sizing argument that, by definition, will be more inane than any of the inane things up for the title of most-inane thing...

...and possiblly a discussion on inanity-measurement, and the definition of inanity, which will contest with the argument above for most-inane...

...then it is recursively inane turtles all the way down.

 

[Bedrockgames]

You have to remember that a lot of the sports-like stuff that gets put up is mostly to generate arguments in order to make content. That content being people arguing about the articles.

This is why you see so many list of the "greatest ever" by various sports sites.* A great and recent example was the ESPN Top 100 Athletes of the 21st Century, which I think was designed only to make people angry about stuff. But I believe it gave Stephen A. Smith approximately 492 hours of content along with an aneurysm.


*Unlike my lists of the greatest ever things, which are generated by Colosson the Numberwang Robot and cannot be gainsaid.

The debates about the greatest are pretty much always going to be a debate, whether it is an athlete, a musician, a director, etc because there are so many different aspects to consider. That said sports does have a lot more quantified that can narrow things down greatly (you can argue that Reggie Strickland was the greatest boxer of all time if you want, but you are going to have to explain how that is so with 276 losses)

 

[Scribe]

Jesus @Snarf Zagyg ... respect for the throughput.

 

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