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[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="mrs. johnson"][quote name="Fullofkittens"]Because I fucking hate The Doors and Pink Floyd. Actually, we can all agree on Freezepop and LLB's band.[/quote] Now I'm not going to frown upon someone else's musical tastes, but disliking Pink Floyd and The Doors makes you a terrible human being. Sorry. the mrs.[/quote] Example here: the above sentence is self-contradictory. "I'm not going to frown upon someone else's musical tastes" and then you make a statement doing just that. HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE: "Now I'm not going to frown upon someone else's musical tastes, but disliking Pink Floyd and The Doors automatically qualifies you as a sub-human." See? That statement is both more vicious AND solves the problem of self-contradiction! You're not frowning on anybody's musical tastes while claiming not to, but rather classifying who falls into the category of someone else to begin with! Not only that, but it's more inflammatory. Then everybody can get nice and worked up and you can continue to play along with them, all the while laughing at them. --SB[/quote]