▲ 626 ▼ xkcd #2922: Pub Trivia (imgs.xkcd.com) submitted 2 years ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world 74 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://xkcd.com/2922 Alt text: Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Woosh permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Oh no dude, that wasn't referred to you at all, I got and enjoyed your lighthearted humour, the comment was a just general consideration on the rhetoric I too often encounter when diving into a heavily controversial threads on the interweb; e.g. usually a rando with 5 figures karma points will suddenly pop up out of nowhere bringing up bro'mbastically that in his own singular experience the argument was true/false, therefore whatever was the hypothesis, or the wall of text of fact-checked peer-reviewed argumentation presented, it surely must be simply correct/wrong...and everyone lived happily ever after in demagogyland. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Oh no dude, that wasn't referred to you at all, I got and enjoyed your lighthearted humour, the comment was a just general consideration on the rhetoric I too often encounter when diving into a heavily controversial threads on the interweb; e.g. usually a rando with 5 figures karma points will suddenly pop up out of nowhere bringing up bro'mbastically that in his own singular experience the argument was true/false, therefore whatever was the hypothesis, or the wall of text of fact-checked peer-reviewed argumentation presented, it surely must be simply correct/wrong...and everyone lived happily ever after in demagogyland. permalink fedilink source parent