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[Duck]

Ever went to a place in the Internet or maybe even in real life and ... just see someone completely and utterly miss the point?

This is the place to mention your latest experience and maybe commiserate with fellow users, although do try to keep it light since this isn't a S E R I O U S or Debate thread.

Here's an experience I had recently:

Piracy isn't wrong and big companies use misleading language to frame loss of potential earnings as actual losses.

This is a dumb argument, piracy is wrong because it's a crime.

Wow, Person B, it's almost like ... Person A is saying piracy shouldn't be a crime. Even without mentioning that crime doesn't necessarily mean immoral, that's just such a wild take. If a person doesn't think something is wrong, saying "It's a crime" isn't the argument you think it is, because nobody goes "This isn't wrong but should be a crime."

 

[Fairy]

I'll come back when I have an example because I'm drawing a complete blank atm but big mood.

 

[Roni]

That tweet I read where the guy went "To those people who keep talking about fragile masculinity, why don't we fight irl and see who's the real fragile one?"

Not many posts make me laugh out loud, but that one did.

 

[gimmepie]

I feel like this happens a lot when I talk to people because I'm very sarcastic. I can't think of any actual examples I've seen recently though.

 

[Corrin]

I'm the one missing the point, lol.

 

[Duck]

Might doesn't make right.

It does because winners write the history books.

My dude, first of all, that's not even true. Reliable sources look at all angles and as the Japanese educational system has shown us, losers can absolutely rewrite history to suit their needs too (WW2 barely happened until Hiroshima and Nagasaki apparently).

Second of all, "Might doesn't make right" is a folksy way to say "Just because you can bruteforce your way doesn't make it right.", mentioning history books does absolutely nothing to tackle the problem at hand.

 

[Starlight]

I'm the one missing the point, lol.

We should start a club ;)

 

[Tsutarja]

all the time with my dad

 

[Roni]

Another contribution. I hate how "Age is just a number" is being grossly misused these days by child molesters/groomers. I don't know if they're purposefully doing it, or if they genuinely don't know the original meaning of that quote.

 

[Corrin]

Another contribution. I hate how "Age is just a number" is being grossly misused these days by child molesters/groomers. I don't know if they're purposefully doing it, or if they genuinely don't know the original meaning of that quote.

I get suspicious of it. It's supposed to mean that you're never too old to accomplish/learn/have fun/etc. Like if an 80 year old was killing it at the gym and said "age is just a number". It's disheartening.

 

[Duck]

Yeah, "age is just a number" is mostly a counter for ageism.

And while there is a kernel of truth in that most age cutoffs are arbitrary (because they are - one common example is being able to vote and operate heavy machinery but not being able to drink at age 18 in the US) this is one of those problems that you kinda have to draw an arbitrary line at some point.

Unfortunately we can't rely on people having common sense.

This one is a bit borderline, but, the amount of people that don't seem to get that texting isn't synchronous and therefore means you can get quite a while before getting a response is way too high.

Like, if you really need an answer, call the person.

 

[Roni]

This one is a bit borderline, but, the amount of people that don't seem to get that texting isn't synchronous and therefore means you can get quite a while before getting a response is way too high.

My aunt is exactly like this. Expects people to reply to her texts within the next 10 seconds and blows her top when they don't. I usually get her texts when I'm bathing/commuting/haven't woken up yet/working and putting my phone on DND.

 

[Duck]

Here's a common one I see often, mainly by Americans.

Cursive is useless

When this is very much not the case? Like, I can only affirm that is almost universally used by literate people in my own country, but a quick search suggests that lots of other countries use cursive. But let's take the generous approach and suppose that the person meant this:

Cursive is useless in the US.

That's still missing the point, probably because when people think cursive they mean artsy, flourished, "dress" pieces. If you write something without lifting the pen between two letters, congratulations, you've just written in cursive!

That's really all there is to cursive: you lift the pen less often, so you write faster. Saying that's useless because you don't write in paper often enough / aren't using to writing like that, is akin to your grandma saying that touch typing / typing with multiple fingers is useless because she doesn't type things very often.

I'm not saying Cursive is the only Correct Way™️ to write, if you feel more comfortable writing in print, go for it. You're the only one that knows your workflow, but just because you don't find cursive useful to you, it doesn't mean it's useless. Anymore than your grandma finding touch typing useless and hard to learn means it isn't useful to you.

And to be fair to this hypothetical person, just because someone finds cursive useful, it doesn't mean that you not using it or not knowing how to use it means you're inferior in any way. Cursive is just a tool, and all tools have their trade-offs.

 

[Amore]

I'm English and I had to use Wikipedia to find out what 'cursive' even means - seen a bunch of Americans post about it but just didn't care to engage. We were taught how to do it all fancy in primary school and tested on it, then once you left that age bracket the only thing anyone cares about is if they can read it.

 

[Corrin]

Tone indicators like /srs help when used correctly.