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I just dive right in with "So, how about those crazy Republicans!" If they're a Republican, they'll be offended and go away. If they're not, they'll talk my ear off.

The key is to offend people early so as not to waste time getting to know someone you'll hate.

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"If they're a Republican, they'll be offended and go away"

Or possibly they just don't like rabid partisans who are incapable of discussing any subject outside their personal political beliefs.

"not to waste time getting to know someone you'll hate"

Yep. Automatically hating anyone with a different point of view before even getting to know them is definitely the way to go. It's called "diversity", right?

I recommend googling "advice dog".

I recommend less political bigotry. For everybody.

You didn't google "advice dog," did you?

I did and I don't get it.

"Advice Dog is a popular image macro series that that features a picture of the head of a smiling puppy on a multicolored color wheel background split into 6 colors. Usual derivatives are often accompanied by two lines of text written in a guidance / advising format with the advice given usually being very poor, unethical or deplorable."

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/advice-dog

(Addressing all parents of this comment) Don't tell people to google it, just paste it in first and avoid all the distracting chatter so we can go read other threads.

Better yet, don't make tongue-in-cheek comments or reference well-established Internet memes. Actually, try not to be funny at all. No... even better, just don't post. There. Now there's more time for everyone!

I enjoyed it :) It's not the joke, it's explaining it that can get tiresome and must be dealt with with dispatch.

IMHO, Hacker News is a place for insightful discussion; if you want to invoke memes and what not, I'd appreciate you going to r/programming or a different site.

Interesting theory. Tell me that after you get 37,000 more karma points.

>I just dive right in

Advice dog aside, that part is actually correct. Just dive right in. Say it. Start the conversation you want to have.

Don't worry about what they may think, or preamble, or leading up to it, or any of that.

If you've got something interesting to say, most people will appreciate that you just took the bull by the horns and started talking about it.

And even if not, most people appreciate someone who can steer away from awkward silences and boring small talk, no matter which direction they actually go with it.

This is pretty well regarded advice in dating circles, where it is important not to waste your life chasing dead ends on dealbreakers.

I live in Europe, here we have more left wing fanatics and fewer right wing fanatics.

That said, some of the True believers (politics, religion, programming languages, etc) are the nicest people. As long as you can handle non-rationality.

(Also, being Swedish originally, I'd rather die than offend someone in person; the internet is different.)

Edit: How about an ASCII face for "advice dog" comments? What I commented on could have been said by lots of cool people I know (they might not know me, though :-) ).

How about down voting "advice dog" and other meme comments lest HN be overrun by memes?

Your comment reminded of me of a hypothesis I once read about Fermi's paradox, that it may not be physical infection that extraterrestrials would worry about catching from humans, but memetic infection.

Same principle here.

You just described the climax of the movie Independence Day.

What figlet did for ascii art fonts your new website could do for ascii art meme spewing.

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Yeah, well I can decode double-rot13!

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