Sutton_blows_goats 4,044 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 16 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Where would our health service be without immigrants appearing en masse in our neighbourhoods? I know a dental hospital where 90% of students are of non-white origin. Just for example. Amazing 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 9,188 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: Too late. The moustache has been invoked. You've lost the argument but the real loser is anybody that reads the thread. There's a name for it, isn't there? Once the moustached one has been invoked, debate over. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, Rousseau said: There's a name for it, isn't there? Once the moustached one has been invoked, debate over. Hard to imagine there being a ready made name for such an innovative rhetorical move. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 13,345 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 24 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: I know a dental hospital where 90% of students are of non-white origin. Just for example. Tony Blair deserves the Order of the Garter for his services to teeth. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 9,188 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said: Hard to imagine there being a ready made name for such an innovative rhetorical move. "Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1. [...] There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself) than others. For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that, when a Hitler comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law#:~:text=For example%2C there is a,referred to as Godwin's law. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rousseau 9,188 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, Rousseau said: "Godwin's law, short for Godwin's law (or rule) of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting that as an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1. [...] There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself) than others. For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that, when a Hitler comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law#:~:text=For example%2C there is a,referred to as Godwin's law. @alexscottislegend seems to have invoked the moustache after only 1 page of the thread. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Hitler?! I thought he was alluding to Mugabe! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 1,982 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: Tony Blair deserves the Order of the Garter for his services to teeth. The garter should be placed around his neck. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,687 Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 37 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Where would our health service be without immigrants appearing en masse in our neighbourhoods? I know a dental hospital where 90% of students are of non-white origin. Just for example. God forbid we should be subjected to white dentists. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uilleam 5,278 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 47 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Yeah, let's just dispense with human rights altogether. I knew a chap with a little moustache who once thought that was a good idea...... I know of a chap with a big moustache who also thought so. And one with a goatee beard, too. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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