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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by pc86 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:49PM (#30826589)
They're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.
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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by thereare5lights on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:28PM (#30826834)
There's nothing silly about it. It's just a metaphor. It's more incredulous that people have a problem with figurative speech like this than the comparison itself.
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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by bally0241 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:31PM (#30826857)
Its called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.
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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by refurb on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:10AM (#30827069)
Hyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.
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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by lamontcg on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:15AM (#30827090)
American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.
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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by geoduck14 on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:31AM (#30830344)
>American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.

I feel like this is sarcasm, but I guess that my inability to know proves the point

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Re:Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers b... by scsilver on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:56AM (#30830499)
I went into a bar and asked for a glass of wine they had already poured it into a plastic cup before informing me it was 19 bucks. I was mugged.
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