Well, if you want to pick nits, a vacuum cleaner sucks more than realizing you’re wrong in an argument.
That’s not picking nits; that’s switching out a metaphorical definition mid-discussion for a more literal one, a species of “moving the goalposts”.
This is picking nits.
Well, I don’t feel bad at all, so obviously you haven’t won this argument yet. Unless I’m wrong, of course.
Well, I don’t feel bad at all, so obviously you haven’t won this argument yet.\
This does much to explain the mechanism by which humans avoid realizing when they are wrong!
I have a pound of Sweet-n-Sour pork for you to eat, and some scratchy toilet paper that can correct that …
Well, if you want to pick nits, a vacuum cleaner sucks more than realizing you’re wrong in an argument.
That’s not picking nits; that’s switching out a metaphorical definition mid-discussion for a more literal one, a species of “moving the goalposts”.
This is picking nits.
Well, I don’t feel bad at all, so obviously you haven’t won this argument yet. Unless I’m wrong, of course.
This does much to explain the mechanism by which humans avoid realizing when they are wrong!
I have a pound of Sweet-n-Sour pork for you to eat, and some scratchy toilet paper that can correct that …