Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>
>
> >Hm, _can_ data be anti-homosexual? Or pro-homosexual?
>
> It was a shortcut for "data biased in order to fit the anti-homosexual
> or
> pro-homosexual agenda of the person using those data". I thought it
> was
> clear enough seen the context, especially since data, as you rightly
> said,
> *cannot* have an opinion by itself :))) . I thought this kind of
> shortcut
> transfers was understandable.
They're, usually. I don't remember the exact wording I responded to, but it's
entirely possibly I was unusually dimwitted or sleep-deprived when I wrote the
above reply. OTOH, I do appreciate if people express themselves clearly,
especially in a medium where one does not have instant feedback from the
person/people one is communicating with. It's certainly not inconceivable that
there's people out there who fiercely believe in the existence of data with
opinions.

A certain segment of humanity dislike me for my tendency to interpret
literally what they say. Often, I in turn tend to dislike their habit of
assuming that I mean the entire alphabet when I say A, B, K and Z.

                                                                  Andreas

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