Buckwheat
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:46:16 PM
I think that this phrase applies to a lot of the arguments on this board and in the current political discourse. 🍺
HockeyDad
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:49:02 PM
Speak English.....we won that war.
Buckwheat
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:36:34 PM

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
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:01:12 PM
Vim vi repello
dstieger
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:13:59 PM
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
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:13:03 PM
don't let your meat loaf
ZRX1200
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:21:31 PM
Keep your timber limber!
teedubbya
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:22:37 PM
don't let the fireman spit
ZRX1200
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:26:19 PM
Officially jacked?
teedubbya
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:27:18 PM
squirt the smurf baby
DadZilla3
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:11:31 PM
Veni Vidi Vino
fiddler898
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:20:37 PM
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
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:26:55 PM

Vescere bracis meis

Gene363
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:30:14 PM

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
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:30:17 PM
Sua Sponte!
Gene363
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:32:47 PM

Sua Sponte!

lgops wrote:

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

bloody spaniard
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:41:42 PM
I doubt many here studied Latin.

Thank God for google, eh?🙄

lgops
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:42:04 PM

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

Gene363 wrote:

😕

lgops
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:43:07 PM

I doubt many here studied Latin.

Thank God for google, eh?🙄

bloody spaniard wrote:

Me thinks Gene363's google is broken

bloody spaniard
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:45:01 PM

Me thinks Gene363's google is broken

lgops wrote:

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