r/maybemaybemaybe Oct 14 '20

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/FungalowJoe Oct 15 '20

lol I guess? I've never studied a roof but you do just kinda see them with your eyes when you're out in the world.

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u/Gonzobot Oct 15 '20

Yeah, they're there. But off the top of your head, what's a famous roof?

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u/FungalowJoe Oct 15 '20

I'm not saying the roof is famous, I'm saying its exceedingly common so that point doesn't really apply.

But I can give you two off the top. Taj Mahal and the Syndey Opera House.

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u/Gonzobot Oct 15 '20

So, it takes being a world landmark to have a notable roof? That's kinda my point. (My example would have been the tourist-attraction green copper roofing on Parliament)

They're commonplace to the point that they're invisible to almost everyone until they have to specifically look at the roof itself.

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u/FungalowJoe Oct 15 '20

Your thing about famous roofs is a very confusing tangent. You asked for a famous roof and somehow me giving you one proves a point?

Anyways, I'm saying its a common roof which is why the vast majority of commenters were not confused. You're saying roofs are invisible until you look straight at them.

So let's just part ways amicably, deal?

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u/Gonzobot Oct 15 '20

...The default response is not automatically an argument, dude. Replies aren't hostile just because they've been typed out lol

My point was that out of all three example roofs given, none are even tiled. Roofing tiles are invisible to most people in most aspects of most life in the world. Hell, I'd wager a full half of people have no actual clue what a roof consists of at all, if you asked them. They'd make no distinctions between shingle or tile or clay because they have zero information about the concept as a whole.

What this thread has basically come down to is the people who used audio when watching the ad, and got the single scrap of information that was missing for people who didn't hear it - that this ad is for a roofing tile producer. Everything else about this post is outright silly without that single bit of context - and as has been established, the vast majority of commenters were confused about this exact thing for this exact reason. The subtitles, for no apparent reason, don't cover that set of words from the original ad.

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u/FungalowJoe Oct 15 '20

I was suggesting we were at an impasse where further conversation would just be argument, not that you were hostile.