I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith as “out of this world” did not appear until this comment.
This would be similar to calling Einstein a cow, then waiting an hour to say it’s because he’s outstanding in his field.
This would be similar to calling Einstein a cow, then waiting an hour to say it’s because he’s outstanding in his field.
Do you wait for the comedian to explain the joke before you're able to clarify their position?
I don't think you're commenting in good faith because none of the alternatives for what I could've meant make any sense.
Tesla? Actually an alien.
(I'm kidding please stop).
I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word "Boomer" while referring to a model of car that only that generation would have remembered.
There's a smattering of extra crispy ESR-style hackers on here that occasionally trips over something you might not expect them to.
There is no weird conspiracy here, there was just someone acting in an uncivil manner who was called out on it and who then kept things going.
I was actually expecting the joke to fall back on the fact that he was indeed a completely legal alien. Because he was, and that is humor.
If English is your native language and you interpret that literally, then yeah, I don't know what to tell you.
The downvotes for you and the rest of the people that took that literally should also probably indicate that the majority of people thought you were being ridiculous. Yet... you continue on.
Also I forget that a lot of engineer types take a very rigid approach to language.
He's still there to this day...