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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3304582" data-attributes="member: 177">The point of the phrase is certainly dismissive, and since dismissiveness is rude, I think calling it rude separately is a touch redundant.  Antagonistic?  I wouldn't call it that, it is more patronizing.  But still unpleasant.  I suspect if the use of it continues, we are rather likely to consider it akin to the "that'd make a great house rule" thing in the Rules forum.Mind you, I am loath to create a list of things one cannot say - that way madness, and the road to EN World Political Correctness, which would not be a good thing.  Lists of forbidden phrases give rise to workarounds - which come out as the passive aggressive stuff that people don't like any more than outright aggression.I would prefer folks discover that the gneral mode of operation is less than fruitful.</blockquote>