Being witty means using words in clever or funny way. Telling someone stop talking as to not waste oxygen is an obvious example of trying to put someone down with clever (witty) language.
Also, do you know what an abstraction is? Because calling someone dumb and a waste of oxygen isn’t one, I’m not even sure if it really counts as a metaphor even.
An abstraction is more or less a simplification of a more complex topic. The fuck were you simplifying?
Common doesn’t mean good dawg. Herpes is common, doesn’t mean I want it.
I understood what you meant. I understood you were trying to be witty. I just don’t think you were successful.
But hey, that’s just my subjective opinion. If you don’t agree, then by all means continue this pointless argument. I love a good low stakes pissing match.
You do realise that this is a text based conversation right? Contributing or not has no impact on oxygen use. I understand using hyperbole to be witty, but that only works if you, y’know, have wit.
There’s a lot of things that lawmakers put into law to protect people from their own dumbass decisions. Places where wearing seatbelts are mandatory have less car related deaths, same with helmets on motorbikes. Both things people should have the common sense to do without laws, but they don’t. Furthermore, places where pool fencing is mandatory have less child deaths due to drowning, but that doesn’t stop some people from not having a pool fence where it’s not mandatory. There’s hundreds of “common sense” things like these, that if they weren’t actual law would be completely ignored.
So actual protections for children’s use of the internet being made into law isn’t necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. And if be all for them if they were reasonable and realistic, but they never are. No matter how much you want to make it so, expecting everyone to do reasonable things to protect themselves and those dependent on them without some sort of incentive is unrealistic.
Of course in saying all that, banning VPNs and all the laws people want to implement similar to it, have nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with controlling people.
I see that you’ve completely sidestepped that you were in fact attempting to use witty language.
I could care less about you putting someone down, I only brought it up for context. The substance of the other person being knowledgeable or not is completely irrelevant here. You’re just bringing it up to deflect from the original point, that being your use of “the oxygen metaphor” was in fact an example of wit or wittiness.
My saying that this is a text based conversation and thus doesn’t require oxygen, was my attempt at wittiness. But unlike you I’m not going to attempt to deny it, nor do I particularly care whether it was a good or not.
And addressing the metaphor itself, it’s not a very good one here. One comment in one thread where everything is equally visible is hardly using up much the conversational oxygen or whatever you want to call it. It just reeks of whinging because you don’t like people having other opinions from you.
Also it’s breathe, not breath. Can you not read at a high-school level yet? Shouldn’t be throwing those stones in your glass house there.