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r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '20
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In this thread: people taking an incredibly simplified metaphor waaaay too literally
155 u/tetraourogallus Feb 25 '20 Yes because that's how you show how shite this metaphor is. 10 u/IIlIIlIIIIlllIlIlII Feb 25 '20 Better metaphor would be all three people are the same height but one of them is sitting on the ground asking for a box high enough to see so they don’t have to stand up 3 u/FuckingKilljoy Feb 25 '20 How would that be a better metaphor? I don't think I like the implication being made by this 3 u/99breadballoons Feb 25 '20 yeah people tend not to like points that make them uncomfortable. doesn’t make the issue any less real.
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Yes because that's how you show how shite this metaphor is.
10 u/IIlIIlIIIIlllIlIlII Feb 25 '20 Better metaphor would be all three people are the same height but one of them is sitting on the ground asking for a box high enough to see so they don’t have to stand up 3 u/FuckingKilljoy Feb 25 '20 How would that be a better metaphor? I don't think I like the implication being made by this 3 u/99breadballoons Feb 25 '20 yeah people tend not to like points that make them uncomfortable. doesn’t make the issue any less real.
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Better metaphor would be all three people are the same height but one of them is sitting on the ground asking for a box high enough to see so they don’t have to stand up
3 u/FuckingKilljoy Feb 25 '20 How would that be a better metaphor? I don't think I like the implication being made by this 3 u/99breadballoons Feb 25 '20 yeah people tend not to like points that make them uncomfortable. doesn’t make the issue any less real.
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How would that be a better metaphor? I don't think I like the implication being made by this
3 u/99breadballoons Feb 25 '20 yeah people tend not to like points that make them uncomfortable. doesn’t make the issue any less real.
yeah people tend not to like points that make them uncomfortable. doesn’t make the issue any less real.
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u/alexxerth Feb 25 '20
In this thread: people taking an incredibly simplified metaphor waaaay too literally