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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:48 PM
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Why do people sometimes present *opinions* as *facts*?
Edited on Sun Mar-05-06 10:50 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04
:shrug:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:49 PM
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1. Because nobody can easily digest velveeta or ovaltine?
:shrug:
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:50 PM
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2. That's deep, man.
I have no idea what it means, but it's deep.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:54 PM
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10. People like to think they're real, but they're not.
Facts are real. Ergo, sharp cheddar is real. Unsweetened cocoa is also real.

Heaps of processed chemicals, whether in powder or semi-gelatinous state, are not. People think that because it looks like real cheese or because it looks like real ground-up cocoa (or better than the real article) doesn't make it so.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:56 PM
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12. Oh, okay! I get it now!
Sorta.:D
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:51 PM
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4. LOL
I fixed a typo, does that make my post better now? :shrug:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:50 PM
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3. Because it's easy.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:52 PM
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7. This is true.
Sad, but true.



*sigh*
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:51 PM
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5. Because all people are equal, but some people are more equal than others
:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:52 PM
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9. You... leave my thread.
You are not equal enough to post here. :silly:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:57 PM
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14. :(
:insert sadfuck smiley here:

:cry:

I'll only be here for a few more days, be nice! :spank:

:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:58 PM
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16. Did you not see the silly smiley?
:eyes:


:P



And YOU'RE the one leaving ME so, no, I won't be nice. :cry:
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:00 PM
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18. What? Do you want to come?
You can write my screenplay for me and then spend a week in Freeperville, New Mexico, if you really want. :eyes:

:P
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:52 PM
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6. Does this have a context or is it a totally
hypothetical question?
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:57 PM
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13. In another thread..
People are hating on rap music, calling it "crap" and stuff.


But calling it crap is their opinion, not a fact. Because everyone has different tastes in music, and just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's crap. It just means you don't like it.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:59 PM
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Yes, it does. I'm God, or didn't you know?


See?

:silly:
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:59 PM
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17. No, that's not true.
That which I dislike is definitly crap.:D
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:02 PM
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19. Bad fuzzy!
:spank:



:P
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k_jerome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:52 PM
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8. i believe my opinions to be, in fact, facts. nt.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:54 PM
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11. Is that a fact?
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 10:57 PM
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15. It could be.
:shrug:
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:03 PM
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20. It's the nature of the time in which we live.
We're living in pretty irrational times.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-05-06 11:06 PM
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21. Why do some people read opinions as facts?
Edited on Sun Mar-05-06 11:07 PM by jpgray
:P

When I see someone post "rap music is crap" I interpret it as "my opinion of rap music is that it is crap." But that of course is just my opinion. Another opinion of mine is that people who wholesale dismiss a genre of music are close-minded.
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