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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by dang on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:38PM (#17789867)
Please don't react to a bad comment by posting another bad one. That just makes this place worse. Moreover, it breaks the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by gpvos on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:52AM (#17788708)
That's ad hominem.
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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by danharaj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:58AM (#17788752)
Ad hominem is "you're an asshole and that's why you're wrong", not "you're wrong and that makes you an asshole".
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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by andybak on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:36AM (#17788944)
That's a nice and pithy definition. Mind if I use it?
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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by waxwander on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:31PM (#17789221)
I wouldn't be surprised that in addition to your ad hominem philosophy, you were also an uneducated toad.
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Re:What happens if you mistakenly apply for British citizens... by danharaj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:05PM (#17790356)
I'll have you know that I earned my degree at the finest toad university.
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