Discussion blindness. It can hit anyone.

[Geminex]

By "save me", do you mean:
a) Kill me
b) Kill everyone other than me
c) Sympathize with me
d) Invade France
?

[bluestarultor]

For those of you who actually thought I was being serious with that image:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

No. I just wanted to be goofy and I've been waiting for months to share that thing. Kinda like my flamboyant pink camo joke, only slightly better received this time.


Granted, I never would have gotten away with that in Discussion.

[Archbio]

For those of you who actually thought I was being serious with that image:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

One could have been serious, though, in as much as someone can seriously intend to make an argument with a comedic form. I didn't mean to imply that was the actual intent there, though... I didn't even cite it very specifically in this thread. There's no box turtle on that image!

That argument is problematic in that sense because it's compatible with a delivery in an humorous tone, since it's an attempted reductio ad absurdum argument (mixed with a dose of slippery slope) but it's also extremely ridiculous as to be very parody friendly. I wouldn't bet one way or the other on what was the intent when the image itself was made.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

For those of you who actually thought I was being serious with that image:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ugggggggggggggh welp AB guess you were right after all.

[Archbio]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

ugggggggggggggh welp AB guess you were right after all.

Obviously.

It goes without saying. Everybody could do with saying it a little more often, though.

[bluestarultor]

Guys, seriously, give me some credit. Progression:

The Female is a Human Mammal.
The Male is a Human Mammal.

So, as long as their offspring is a Human mammal, who gives a fuck about anything else?!

Party 1 is a Human Mammal.
Party 2 is a Human Mammal.

So, as long as the love each other, who gives a fuck about anything else?!

[image depicting a guy with a dog and a girl with tentacles]

I thought it was pretty clear it was a joke. I do that sometimes, you know. :J

[Archbio]

Originally Posted by Blue Realtor

I thought it was pretty clear it was a joke.

Originally Posted by My First Post About This

The best thing about the lack of a Discussion section is someone making Rick Santorum's "box turtle argument" in macro form in a thread with a relatively serious tone, and nobody objects, because it's in joke form!

The rest of what I said flows from the premise that yes, it does appear to be a joke. The image is clearly "humoristic" material. That doesn't exclude that it might have been made with the intent of presenting that argument.

Originally Posted by Blue Star Ultor

[image depicting a guy with a dog and a girl with tentacles]

It also includes little adult figures next to little diminutive figures. Not dwarves.

Originally Posted by Motherfrakking Bob

Oh wow, my stepdad actually used that. He said gay marriage is the first step towards letting grown men marry little boys.

In fact, everything on the second row is out of the scope of arguments that have been proven to be likely to be made with dead seriousness.

So like I said, I wouldn't bet on way or the other what was the intent of that image (which is a pastiche of an actual pro-same sex marriage slogan), if it was parody or jocular repetition/endorsement of existing arguments.

Taking for granted that you were using it merely as a joke, my point is that it doesn't matter. The door's open either way. I'm saying all this in the optic that NPF is intended to continue to play host to Discussion type... well, discussions.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I thought it was pretty clear it was a joke. I do that sometimes, you know. :J

I'm not saying it's not a joke, I'm saying the punchline of the joke is "Bein' gay is just like fuckin' dogs! Lol!"

[shiney]

Yeah this is stupid and you're all stupid. I think this one could probably be taken up in general by now 'cause the thread is apparently now instead about whatever idiot image macros and/or failed joke captain blueballs there is hawking around the forums and well that has no apparent place in this region.

[Meister]

Or!

We close it and if the guys want to make a thread about whatever it is they're doing here they can do that!

e: wait that's what you meant and I'm also stupid