Yes, no doubt. But the opinion in this case seemed so innocuous as to be not worth mentioning. Making a case out of this instance just dilutes the general case against this habit.
That was my reaction as well. This feels like trying to inflate an anthill, not even a molehill, into a mountain.
Same. Seems like a big nothingburger.
I don’t know how it’s judged, his “appeals to authority” or simply saying: “hey, I Googled that”.
I doubt there is one person* on this board that is such a genius they just “know” everything. We have to, by definition, rely on others, Google, your personal encyclopedia, your Grandma. Or your 7th grade science teacher.
Humans waste so much brain power tryna retain so much gobbity goo. I say “appeal to authority” all you want. I can decide whether I wanna believe you or not.
Cites are like assholes. If you dig around long enough, you’ll find one.
*excepting our Perfect Master, of course.
We had such a poster. But he was dissed and left us. 
No, I’m still here.
Waitaminute. Who dissed me?
You mean you don’t “know”?
Well, your status as a “know-it-all” may be waning.
Sorry, it was fun while it lasted..
I can’t be arsed to keep track of EVERY TIME one of the hoi polloi mentions me. It’s not like I’m the America-hating fuckstick, who has a staff of sycophants to do it.
You appear to be unfamiliar with Doc’s oeuvre.
“I heard it from my friend. He’s Canadian - you wouldn’t know him.”
“Canadian friend, eh? What’s his name?”
“Errr… Tim… Tim Google. Ya, that’s the ticket.”
I love the oft-expressed assumption by some Americans that if they have a Canadian friend, and then they meet another Canadian, that that Canadian must obviously know their Canadian friend, since they’re from the same place.
The other assumption is that any Canadian must know everything there is to know about Canada which is unknown to Americans, such as how many states we have, who our president is, and how to build an igloo.
Tim Horton.
“Tom in Toronto? Sure I know him. He told me to tell you to give me the $20 you owe him.”
I had a very close friend in Canada, and I once asked her what she did every summer when her house melted, and if she ever had to take a day off work if the sled dogs got sick.
Am I an asshole? Absolutely.
I hate the “assumptions” about the South too.
Wadda ya’ll gonna do?
Like those lamented assholes we all have, we all have assumptions as well.
Also, I assume most folks here tell mostly the truth about their lives.
Eh, I’m nice like that.
(No not Canadian, sorry @wolfpup couldn’t help myself from making a tiny funny. Feel free to make a joke on me)
In the Kier Starmer thread his confident ignorance has struck again. Ignorant dumbass seems to think the populist fascist wannabe party in the UK is the Conservatives, not Reform.
Why not both?
… because Reform isn’t just wannabe? Up until the “and I think that’s a good thing”, that would have been a stretchy possibility.
Plus a sizable percentage of the current Reform Party are defective Tories.
He’s also in the Barney Frank thread arguing that Gavin Newsome has done more for trans rights than any other person. You know, the one guy clearly running for President that trans people have actively said they will not endorse. He clearly went back on being pro-trans.
I’ve been upset at him for being stupid or annoying or not reading facts, but not for being a bigot before. It’s not fucking hard to center the voices of the minority you are talking about. It really isn’t.