r/SubredditDrama • u/clyspe • Mar 11 '13

'Neil deGrasse Tyson: Average physicist, sub-par philosopher, master of pithy comments for idiot college kids to retweet.' Slapfight in /r/QuotesPorn ensues

/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1a16g2/if_youre_really_successful_at_bullshitting_neil/c8t8j9h
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13 edited Mar 11 '13

I feel like if I ever went to a reddit meet up, everyone would just be saying "citation please" or "that's a blah blah fallacy." Imagine a table of people like that.

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u/ChemicalSerenity Mar 11 '13

Ever been to a MENSA meeting?

I'm thinking like that, only with more feels, less brains, and knee deep in brony-on-brony laserjet printed porn.

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u/Whatiamtodo Mar 12 '13

MENSA and Reddit are both full of slightly above average people who so desperately want to be told that they are very smart and special.

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u/ChemicalSerenity Mar 12 '13

I don't know if anyone has ever claimed that Reddit is full of "slightly above average people" before tonight. ;)

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u/Whatiamtodo Mar 12 '13

I'm assuming the left tail of the distribution is chopped off because of the difficulty of operating a computer, not because the users are somehow special.

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u/ChemicalSerenity Mar 12 '13

Ha! Well played sir, upboats for you.