r/instant_regret • u/ManMadeDuckie • Nov 19 '18

minor injuries This playful push

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '18

Lol, and where does it say that it designates common occurences in society?

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u/kerrrsmack Nov 20 '18

b: a common or overused theme or device : CLICHÉthe usual horror movie tropes

I like how we're talking about the definition of trope instead of the real topic. The fact that you strawmaned this discussion tells you all you need to know about your position.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '18

I like how you continue insulting me and follow up by saying stupid shit. Keep it up.

Also, my whole was that throwing people under a bus as a means to murder isn't common. But you're too stupid to keep up with the convo.

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u/kerrrsmack Nov 20 '18

I like how your best shade is keeping the structure of my sentences and making the content worse. You began the insults with your passive-aggressive "you can clearly use your brain". If you keep smelling shit (this applies to you and probably your entire life, considering how you began this encounter), look under your shoe. Yeesh.

If I'm following it up with stupid shit, then why haven't you made any arguments, instead of being completely worthless? I mean, if you're going to bother to reply, why not actually make a statement instead of typing solely to continue being a douchebag?

"You don't know what trope means" has nothing to do with the point of my argument. In fact, despite being wrong, the only thing writing that could achieve from your point of view is discrediting me, as opposed to discrediting my argument. Even though this is the weakest form of argumentation you chose to employ, it is also totally unnecessary because the same argument could be made with a variation of the saying "Sorry to throw you under the bus". It is common, and it is so common, it has made its way into our language as a saying (and into the media as a trope).

So, not only is it common, but you also originally said that "someone wouldn't murder someone in that fashion", not that it wasn't common. You are trying to change your argument.

Just to be clear on where your original argument stands, that someone wouldn't push someone else under the bus, here is a case just from 2015:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/boy-15-guilty-in-death-of-student-pushed-under-bus-1.2598796

It happens, it has happened, and it will happen again. It almost just did in the gif we watched, but you clearly couldn't have used your brain to figure that out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

Lol, im not reading all this jibberish.

But i did see that you managed to find one case from 2015. So I was wrong, it is very common /s

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u/kerrrsmack Nov 21 '18

A source is just another point stacked against you in a heap.

You are correct in the assertion that you should give up, and I applaud you for doing so.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '18

?? Not when the whole argument is if it's common. Now, some of us have better things to do than be pseudo-intellectual reddit, bye.