but here's how you do it and still keep your beer hand clean

Videos that look like they have sound, but they don't. Super annoying trying to figure out what's wrong with my volume.

The name "snow machine". When I was a kid they were called snowmobiles, which is a much cooler name. Why did we have to change it to a suckier name? I assume there's some dumb technical distinction or something. But **** that, just call them snowmobiles. Everyone will know what you mean.

and today i learned something not chiefs related due to suzzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

Even though the new use of begs the question is becoming common, I use XXX "invites the question" - which is more accurate and you don't have to worry about annoying pedants chiming in.

The original begs the question is a dumb debate term that almost never comes up in regular conversation. I always have to look it up to understand it again, and then immediately forget it.

i do love how his pedants normally wear fedoras, he's got down the profile well

That's more of a boater.

yeah my hat game is weak i don't even know what they are called

Good solution...I like it.



Same for me.

It's so easy to forget because it's not very memorable.

icwudt

Thanks, now I understand it again. But it will be gone tomorrow.

Maybe if they named it something more reasonable and descriptive, like "assuming the premise", it would be easier to remember.

Like what does begs the question even mean in the example above? What is the question and how is it being begged?

It's assuming away a question. I don't know how that falls under the definition of "beg" either.

It's basically never worth using that phrase.

This, literarily, begs the question.

Begs (you to not ask) the question

Do you literally mean literally?

Yes, yes I do.

From wikepedia:

The original phrase used by Aristotle from which begging the question descends is: τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς (or sometimes ἐν ἀρχῇ) αἰτεῖν, "asking for the initial thing". Aristotle's intended meaning is closely tied to the type of dialectical argument he discusses in his Topics, book VIII: a formalized debate in which the defending party asserts a thesis that the attacking party must attempt to refute by asking yes-or-no questions and deducing some inconsistency between the responses and the original thesis.

In this stylized form of debate, the proposition that the answerer undertakes to defend is called "the initial thing" (τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ) and one of the rules of the debate is that the questioner cannot simply ask for it.

The term was translated into English from Latin in the 16th century. The Latin version, petitio principii, "asking for the starting point", can be interpreted in different ways. Petitio (from peto), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means assuming or postulating, but in the older classical sense means petition, request or beseeching. Principii means beginning, basis or premise (of an argument). Literally petitio principii means "assuming the premise" or "assuming the original point.". The Latin phrase comes from the Greek in Aristotle's Prior Analytics.

Pisses me off that I actually read that.

t-rex cartoons always remind me of this gem

omg that's a gem

When i pull into a parking spot and theres someone just sitting in the car next to me.

No joke it feels like its been happening like 50% of the time i go anywhere now lol.

omg i can't stand that either, it feels like my privacy and personal space has been violated

never understood why that upset me and very comforted to know i'm not the only one

Yes! I know I have posted that exact thing ITT.