Bad Brain Habits: How to Change Them

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In summary, the conversation discusses whether the content is real or satire, and whether there should be a law against double negatives.f
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Hmmm. I'm not convinced it's not purposely written to appear completely uneducated.
 
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Hmmm. I'm not convinced it's not purposely written to appear completely uneducated.
I think its satire
 
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Hmmm. I'm not convinced it's not purposely written to appear completely uneducated.
If that's the case, it should have gone into a joke thread.
 
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If that's the case, it should have gone into a joke thread.
Agreed...but maybe this is not just a joke maybe the uploader is assembleing a group of wise intelectuals like us to find out something...to uncovrr a secret so grave no one knows...i guess
 
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. ...u have to be kidding me ! HOW COULD IT TAKE SO LONG FOR PEOPLE TO REALISE THIS !
Pffff...Einstein knew this !
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Hmmm. I'm not convinced it's not purposely written to appear completely uneducated.
There should be a law, here, and I'm sure I've said it before, that there should not be allowed, more than a "double-negative", in a post, as they get my head spinning, wildly.

Wait! Negating the "nots", was not that difficult.

Drak-2_nots said:
Hmmm. I'm convinced it's purposely written to appear completely uneducated.

Never mind. That makes sense.
Ok. I'm off to take my nap now...
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There should be a law, here, and I'm sure I've said it before, that there should not be allowed, more than a "double-negative", in a post, as they get my head spinning, wildly.

Wait! Negating the "nots", was not that difficult.

I ain't never not paid attention to no 'double-negative' nonsense before! And I ain't startin' now!
 
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I ain't never not paid attention to no 'double-negative' nonsense before! And I ain't startin' now!
No!
 
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or Not No!
 
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Hmmm. I'm not convinced it's not purposely written to appear completely uneducated.
On the other hand, I have met some people who had some incredibly weird (including stupid) ideas.

I guess there is no way to distinguish between the two without more data.
Satire or Real?
 
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I guess there is no way to distinguish between the two without more data.
Satire or Real?

You better believe it. It's a bit like Poe's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law


Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the parodied views.
 
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There should be a law, here, and I'm sure I've said it before, that there should not be allowed, more than a "double-negative", in a post, as they get my head spinning, wildly.

Remember the compuserve diskettes?
compuserve Instructions said:
If you don't want to not uninstall the current instance of cserv.exe, type "Yes" or "Y".
 
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If that's the case, it should have gone into a joke thread.
No need to, it just converted the present one! :rolleyes:
 
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The author's name appears too real for this to be a joke.
 
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Signed. I would also like to propose legislation to get rid of Mondays. In doing so, we wouldn't have to go to work after a good weekend.
 
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You better believe it. It's a bit like Poe's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law


Also confused by double by double negatives, (Alan Greenspan did a funny extension “ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”)


POEs law talks about creationism as a good example and below is an illustration of that.





Difficult to tell first viewing if they are serious or not.


Same with the OP, I think it’s a joke (95% certain) perhaps the editor wasn’t sure?
 

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