Things like “Fiat stands for “Fix It Again Tony”” etc.

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    10 months ago

    Forming an uneducated opinion on something based on an anecdotal experience, and then refusing to back down from it no matter how much time has passed or new informationtion is provided, is a boomer way of life.

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        10 months ago

        You can tell a fundamentalist mindset when they start with the conclusions and the backwards logic doesn’t make sense

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      The idea that the argument “it’s adam and eve, not adam and steve” is as logically valid as “he who smelt it, dealt it” really fucked with boomer’s minds. It makes me wonder how serious they were about the smelt it/dealt it rule.