Bizarre leaps of logicAmorous Badger says: "I once humorously suggested that someone had been internet-stalking a Big Brother contestant. They concluded that I was threatening them. What's the oddest misunderstanding you've been involved in?"
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Dec 2013, 13:48)
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On a slightly more serious noteYou are of course right, people who go barging in armed with facts (particularly those who only believe they are armed with facts) add little to a debate if they miss undercurrents of humour, injokes, etc
But on the flipside, when the trending reply to some point of government policy is 'They should reduce the interest rate so the government can borrow more money and achieve [target x] sooner!' what do you do with that?
The easy thing is to go along with it, have a good laugh, sock it to the evil Tories, hope its a joke of some sort and hope people are pretending not to realise that the demand for borrowing sets the interest rate which is the cost of money.
If you're more interested in a socially beneficial policy that wont crash and burn, however....
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