u/drram

Well, maybe, but my point was that the guy was just joking.

why so serious?

Well, I don't regard myself as a photon or a neutrino, so I'll consider it happened 25,000 years ago and be happy with this.

He could make a hole (not necessarily with his foot), stick his hand through it and unlock the door.

You need to watch "The Shining" again, by the way.

Because his screenshot isn't from SA, maybe?

No, never. Probably because I'm a francophone. The French equivalent doesn't seem to be used much except in direct translation of English material.

I'll use the downvotes to buy myself an English newspaper subscription!

He means that the canadian army has high-caliber Risk players.

The "leader of the free world"? WTF?

Woah there, don't unleash the triple double-quotes on a mere human! Keep them for the final boss.

Likely, he just picked C# as an easy example of a "business software" language with a reputation for having a lot of code monkeys with their Microsoft certifications. C# drones are the opposite of "hackers", passionate coders trying to improve their skills. Substitute for "Java" or "blub" if you prefer.

you called me a pseudo-intellectual for it

(A bit late, but: I was talking about a lot of people on SA and Reddit, not about you specifically. )

If you start thinking of yourself as an intellectual or a learned person because you read stuff like that, though, that's what I call pseudo-intellectualism.

He looks more like the tea and crumpets kind of chap.

Well I am certainly flubbergased.

I upvote your posts, and you introduce me to this fine horny lass. Deal?

I think he was fishing for karma by using the bacon meme.

Let's go guys, downvote all his past comments into hell!

On Something Awful, Reddit and such, people often consider themselves more educated than the average because they read some science articles on the internet or intellectual comics or whatever. They then proceed to debate with eachother, pumping out malformed arguments and rehashed wikipedia quotes in a totally worthless battle for truth on the internet.

Reading an article on the net doesn't make you a chemist. Stop arguing about chemistry if you don't know what you're talking about.

Calvin and Hobbes is a good cartoon. It's good entertainment. If you start thinking of yourself as an intellectual or a learned person because you read stuff like that, though, that's what I call pseudo-intellectualism.

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It's the 4chan art&critique board official copypasta.

Because people who have people skills and are dedicated to their work, usually do not end up at a backwater job answering support emails.

I live in a suburb of Tokyo/Yokohama and most people here have no car. It's a not really a matter of size.

And that, friends, is why we say reddit is full of pseudo-intellectuals

It's a fucking newspaper comic strip for crying out loud.

You wish.

Do you treat people like you treat apostrophe's?

You must not have tried GHC before...

Hacker News has a much higher standards of conversation than Reddit if that's your thing.

A problem with this kind of website is that people keep submitting stuff like "Am I the only one who wipes seating down on the toilet", or that fight in the bus, as comments or submission. Inane stuff, that doesn't matter, and gets upvoted for cheap entertainment. I've also seen plenty of times someone talking out of his hat on stuff and be just wrong, but get upvoted way up because of his I-know-that-stuff tone or amusing comebacks. Heck I tried to correct some guy inventing stuff on coding theory, which I study at university, and just got downvoted for it. It's a bit sad.

I think A LOT of comments are just useless. Eg. people saying "that's outrageous" on an article, or stating their own uninformed opinion on some shit.

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