• @quaddo
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    1110 months ago

    I’m personally more a fan of curses of wicked inconvenience.

    Eg, “May you never find the pebble pressing into the sole of your foot, even after you’ve removed your shoe and your sock”

    or, “May you always run out of toilet paper when you most need it, every time, no matter where you are”

    continues to fantasise about other such curses

      • @Cryophilia
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        610 months ago

        Some people need to be laughed out of the room.

        • @[email protected]
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          -110 months ago

          Agreed. But that’s different than cursing them. You can laugh someone out of the room by thoroughly attacking their arguments.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            You can laugh someone out of the room by thoroughly attacking their arguments.

            Nope, they are two distinct categories of response. Laughing someone out of the room is refusing to engage them with words.

            • @[email protected]
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              110 months ago

              No, that’s what most call “cancelling.”

              Laughing someone out of the room is pointing out the absurdity of someone’s arguments. Laughing at someone is just intolerance.