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This exactly.

People on this website are so fucking pedantic and argumentative over the most obvious or inconsequential minutiae it drives me nuts.

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Comparing the tone of your message with its parent, do you not see the irony?

Yeah, better to be passive aggressive and faux-intellectual so as not to throw off the usual HN vibe.

Okay, I'll be directly aggressive. They were helpful and added thoughtful discussion, while your response added nothing but bitterness

That they were responding to someone else who couldn't see how it worked means it wasn't just pedantic nitpicking

I concur. I found this discussion on the phrase very enlightening and aided both my understanding of the idiom and how I should use it in the future.

I'm not really 100% certain this is the correct or only meaning, for what it's worth, so don't take me as authority. It's just the common thread I've been able to gather from context over time. If you're gonna use it (I rarely do) it'd be worth researching it to make sure you're using it correctly...

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