• T Clark
    13k
    Lesser known logical fallacies:

    • Michael Scott fallacy – Using the phrase “That’s what she said.”
    • Family dog fallacy – Telling your opponent that your dog ate your argument.
    • In mater tua fallacy – Insulting your opponent’s mother
    • Appeal to personal authority fallacy – Using the phrase “Because I said so.”
    • Command fallacy – Defending your argument using the phrase “Shut up!”
    • Timeline/MikeL fallacy – Using the phrase “Well, that’s how we do it in Australia.”
    • Conturbabimus illa ratio fallacy – Expressing your numerical arguments in base 7.
  • MikeL
    644
    Timeline/MikeL fallacy – Using the phrase “Well, that’s how we do it in Australia.”T Clark

    Why is that a logical fallacy? We don't consider it a logical fallacy in Australia.
  • T Clark
    13k
    Why is that a logical fallacy? We don't consider it a logical fallacy in Australia.MikeL

    Just to clarify - You don't think using the phrase "Well, that's how we do it in Australia" is a logical fallacy because that's how you do it in Australia. Is that correct?
  • T Clark
    13k
    Of course.MikeL

    Perhaps a new logical fallacy - appeal to irony.
  • T Clark
    13k
    Why is that a logical fallacy?MikeL

    Since we're being ironic, how about "because I said so."
  • MikeL
    644
    Funny you should say that because that's what she said, so shut up before my dog eats your argument and then your mum - oops mom - because that's the way we do it Australia T Clark....base 7
  • T Clark
    13k
    Funny you should say that because that's what she said, so shut up before my dog eats your argument and then your mum - oops mom - because that's the way we do it Australia T Clark....base 7MikeL

    I am amused and deeply moved.
  • MikeL
    644
    As well you should be.
  • TimeLine
    2.7k
    That's not how we do it in Australia.

    Wait, what?
  • Michael
    14.1k
    Timeline/MikeL fallacy – Using the phrase “Well, that’s how we do it in Australia.”
    — T Clark

    Why is that a logical fallacy? We don't consider it a logical fallacy in Australia.
    MikeL

    Golden. :D
  • S
    11.7k
    Command fallacy – Defending your argument using the phrase “Shut up!”T Clark

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  • T Clark
    13k
    Wait, what?TimeLine

    You should be proud. Now you have a logical fallacy named after you.
  • T Clark
    13k


    I said it was a logical fallacy, not that it might not be effective and feel good.
  • Jake Tarragon
    341
    A man walks into a bar.
    Nothing happens.
  • Nils Loc
    1.3k
    We're here to negligibly increase the rate of entropy.
    This is not a joke.
  • praxis
    6.2k
    How many Übermensch does it take to change a lightbulb?
  • T Clark
    13k


    I'll go with one.
  • unenlightened
    8.7k
    Disagreeing with me is known as 'the enlightenment fallacy'.

    My favourite lightbulb joke:

    How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
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    One, and it's not funny.
  • T Clark
    13k
    My favourite lightbulb joke:

    How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
    One, and it's not funny.
    unenlightened

    I will not comment on that.

    My favorite lightbulb joke is political and is specific to the US:
    Q: How many Democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
    A: 60
  • S
    11.7k
    Watt? :s
  • T Clark
    13k
    Watt?Sapientia

    Nice pun, but explaining jokes is the Jay Leno fallacy.
  • praxis
    6.2k


    One to hold the ladder. One to screw it in. One to... okay I got noth'n
  • Shawn
    12.6k
    A couple is being robbed.
    The wife asks the husband, 'Can he be reasoned with?'
    The robber is a philosopher.
  • MikeL
    644


    Q: How many Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
    A: One, so long as its T Clark.
  • T Clark
    13k
    Q: How many Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
    A: One, so long as its T Clark.
    MikeL

    The University of Delaware Institute for Finding Out Things did a study. On average, it takes 1.09 Americans to screw in a light bulb.
  • MikeL
    644
    That's okay, in Australia we try to screw in candles.
  • S
    11.7k
    Q: How many lightbulbs does it take to screw with an American?
    A: One, provided that light bulb is the Second Amendment and you threaten to take it away from them.
  • Noble Dust
    7.8k
    The Agustino fallacy: >:O :s >:)
  • BC
    13.2k
    Q: How many Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?MikeL

    I don't know, but how how many screwing Americans can a lightbulb take?
  • MikeL
    644
    As the semiotic, or just as the observer?
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