Buckwheat
13 years ago
I think that this phrase applies to a lot of the arguments on this board and in the current political discourse. 🍺
HockeyDad
13 years ago
Speak English.....we won that war.
Buckwheat
13 years ago

Speak English.....we won that war.

HockeyDad wrote:



I didn’t realize that the US went to war against any Latin speaking countries. My bad. [sarcasm]

And here I thought that Latin was a dead language. 🌫

Reductio ad absurdum = reduction to absurdity 🤦 [frypan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum 

ZRX1200
13 years ago
Vim vi repello
dstieger
13 years ago
or some of the corollaries....

Expansion to absurdity (otherwise knows as jpottsitized)

Senility induced absurdity

Reduction to rugby jokes

Absurdity for Absurdity's Sake (cbbb - esp. Politics forum, but often Trades and Gen, as well)

I almost forgot.....

Smellmop
teedubbya
13 years ago
don't let your meat loaf
ZRX1200
13 years ago
Keep your timber limber!
teedubbya
13 years ago
don't let the fireman spit
ZRX1200
13 years ago
Officially jacked?
teedubbya
13 years ago
squirt the smurf baby
DadZilla3
13 years ago
Veni Vidi Vino
fiddler898
13 years ago
Actually I find the most oft-applied, and therefore abused, logical fallacy of this political season, to be "post hoc, ergo prompter hoc." "After which, therefore because of which."

In case anyone wants to know what I think.
Gene363
13 years ago



Vescere bracis meis

Gene363
13 years ago

I think that this phrase applies to a lot of the arguments on this board and in the current political discourse. 🍺

Buckwheat wrote:




I always thought it was: argumentum ad hominem

lgops
13 years ago
Gene363
13 years ago

Sua Sponte!

lgops wrote:



Latin for, "I have a keyboard, therefore I'm an expert."

bloody spaniard
13 years ago
I doubt many here studied Latin.

Thank God for google, eh?🙄
lgops
13 years ago


Latin for, "I have a keyboard, therefore I'm an expert."

Gene363 wrote:




😕
lgops
13 years ago

I doubt many here studied Latin.

Thank God for google, eh?🙄

bloody spaniard wrote:




Me thinks Gene363's google is broken
bloody spaniard
13 years ago

Me thinks Gene363's google is broken

lgops wrote:




LOL! I think it was a diving accident.[-o<
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