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Eeevil posted:The origin of that quote was a fictional longwinded blowhard. It was a sentiment Shakespeare was mocking. The actual joke was that Polonius was a twit who didn't follow his own advice. The maxim is still valid.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The actual joke was that Polonius was a twit who didn't follow his own advice. The maxim is still valid. If brevity was the soul of wit then things without brevity wouldn't have wit, which is observably untrue. The "maxim" has remained relevant because of its similarity to an actual true thing, which is that the essence of comedy is timing.
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Eeevil posted:If brevity was the soul of wit then things without brevity wouldn't have wit, which is observably untrue. The "maxim" has remained relevant because of its similarity to an actual true thing, which is that the essence of comedy is timing. That isn’t even a little bit how logic works.
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Xiahou Dun posted:That isn’t even a little bit how logic works. what do you think it means for something to be "the soul" of something else? i would assume that it means the first thing is vital to the second but it sounds like you disagree? edit: I see the statement "brevity is the soul of wit" as being functionally identical to the statement "there is no wit without brevity." If that interpretation is correct, the statement is as easy to disprove as "all cats are at least 50 feet tall;" one counterexample immediately disproves it. If that interpretation is incorrect, I admit that leaves a lot of potential holes in my logic. Eeevil fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Eeevil posted:what do you think it means for something to be "the soul" of something else? i would assume that it means the first thing is vital to the second but it sounds like you disagree? Do you hold all aphorisms to literalist interpretation. Like only Brits can be penny wise and pound foolish.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Do you hold all aphorisms to literalist interpretation. Like only Brits can be penny wise and pound foolish. yes
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Eeevil posted:If brevity was the soul of wit then things without brevity wouldn't have wit, which is observably untrue. The "maxim" has remained relevant because of its similarity to an actual true thing, which is that the essence of comedy is timing. deer god
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I guess I'm the rear end in a top hat for thinking something that was made up to be wrong, is wrong. drat, my bad. While I'm at it, I also think that one definition of insanity quote that everyone loves is insanely dumb.
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Pants Donkey posted:Start your year off badly with Ben I'm not surprised that Ben keeps on banging about how millions of people have died from the vaccine. It's one of those claims that is delightfully unfalsifiable, if you take as a given any facts that run counter to the narrative are just a conspiracy by big pharma. I'm just surprised that Ben hasn't taken the obvious next step and started shilling magic cure all water, like Hapajap.
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Lmao I immediately started searching for a newspaper that simply said "WOKE" on it and sure enough, there it was! Man is obsessed
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Skios posted:A.F. Branco Is there a "worst concern trolling" category? e: Kellies nomination worst concern trolling Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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What the gently caress is that Three Kings one  Here's to another year of being completely baffled by images from across the ocean!
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Kikas posted:What the gently caress is that Three Kings one Musk fired anyone who knew what they were doing, it's the time of year when every hack is doing a "three wise men" toon, voila!
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Stultus Maximus posted:Is there a "worst concern trolling" category? Yes, be sure to say “Kellies nomination” so I can find it. Including the author of the cartoon or t the date it was posted also saves me a ton of time.
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Jerry Nadler is fat and he smells. —Cutting Commentary from a Political Cartoonist
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Skios posted:A.F. Branco Man if he’s upset about that wait till he finds out how our entire capitalist system is setup!
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Discendo Vox posted:(also if no single person is contributing as much they're less likely to be targeted next) sorry, hang on, are you implying that the mere act of posting cartoons to the political cartoons thread in a dead gay forum is getting people harrassed for some reason
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Stultus Maximus posted:Is there a "worst concern trolling" category? For real. "Okay great let's ban child labor and sweatshops then" *cue conservative screeching about job creators*
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Garrison posted:Bill is for anyone who pushes mass jabs, injections, punctures, pokes, vaccines, and inoculations into humanity. He talks as if he’s an expert on the subject despite the fact he’s a college dropout. He possesses no medical degree or expertise. He’s certainly not a virologist. Ben. Ben, you don't listen to the virologists and doctors.
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Skios posted:Gary Varvel Kellies Nomination: Worst A Thing Happened
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It really is the 80's satanic panic all over again. "The evil homosexuals cabals are coming for your kids!!!" This kind of thing has been circulating among the alt right for nearly a decade, but it really has become much more of a mainstream talking point in the last 6 months. I think 30 years ago it burned itself out after people got tired of hearing about innocent people being jailed over transparently bullshit allegations with zero evidence. Of course, this was before the rise of Fox news and the self contained right wing media ecosystem. Who knows if and when it will end this time. Let me just go ahead and Kellies Nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry in a Cartoon (LGBT+)
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Even now there’s overt Satanic Panic. A few years back they were talking about how the drag queens looked demonic.
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Angepain posted:sorry, hang on, are you implying that the mere act of posting cartoons to the political cartoons thread in a dead gay forum is getting people harrassed for some reason Hang on you just gave me an idea of how we can escape this hell and never see another political cartoon in here again
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VitalSigns posted:Hang on you just gave me an idea of how we can escape this hell and never see another political cartoon in here again It seems a bit early to activate the doomsday device.
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VitalSigns posted:Hang on you just gave me an idea of how we can escape this hell and never see another political cartoon in here again 
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VitalSigns posted:Hang on you just gave me an idea of how we can escape this hell and never see another political cartoon in here again i'm sure the crime of just posting discussions in this thread is just as serious and damaging. we're all surely culpable and deserving of wrath
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Angepain posted:sorry, hang on, are you implying that the mere act of posting cartoons to the political cartoons thread in a dead gay forum is getting people harrassed for some reason In brief, yeah, that appeared to have been the motivating factor.
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Discendo Vox posted:In brief, yeah, that appeared to have been the motivating factor. What in tarnation
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China Daily War machine by Cai Meng  Le Monde  by Urbs from FranceStay postive! "Happy Last Year!" Charlie Hebdo  Back to school during the Crisis "Kevin is absent?" "His parents ate him during Christmas."
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Allie literally the same day elsewhere: "All lgbt people are disgusting pedophiles"
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Discendo Vox posted:In brief, yeah, that appeared to have been the motivating factor. That is incredibly hosed up. I'll take a couple, if we're splitting them up.
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