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Category: common-sense

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most quoted re "common-sense": other (4), Tristan Alexander McLeay (4), Jonathan North Washington (4), professors (2), Mark McGrath (1)

other categories found with "common-sense": computers (4), sadness (4), bad-ideas (4), SSSR (4), badness (3)


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[link] heard: 9 November 2007
[edit] added: 12 November 2007

me: "Do you know any numbers for a taxi to Karakol?"

all: "Taxi? Take a marshrutka. They're cheap and fast."

me: "Aren't taxis faster?"

Leo: "Yeah, but do you really want to go that fast?"

bad-ideas, SSSR, technology, common-sense, cars
[comment] [rate] 5/5


[link] heard: 15 January 2007
[edit] added: 15 January 2007

(19:48:35) [Aladnsane]: Kosher slaughter generally seems a good idea to me. Simple. Effective. Not Traif.

religion, tautologies, bad-ideas, common-sense, food, animals, death
[comment] [rate] 1/5


[link] heard: 2 November 2007
[edit] added: 2 November 2007

"Well, Europeans travel because they're in Europe, and Australians travel because we're not."

patriotism, provincialism, common-sense, culture, insightfulness
[comment] [rate] no rating


[link] heard: 26 October 2007
[edit] added: 26 October 2007

"You know what I don't understand about bribing people to buy things—why don't you just lower the prices to what it would've been...?"

money, SSSR, conspiracies, common-sense, stupidity, incompetence
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[link] heard: 23 January 2007
[edit] added: 23 January 2007

(23:14:08) [Sarah]: Yeah...I can see me in Poland...I'll have to remember not to go out and get drunk.

alcohol, bad-ideas, misfortune, SSSR, common-sense, sadness
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[link] heard: 10 January 2007
[edit] added: 16 January 2007

"I'm a fan of the syllable; I believe in the syllable, but some people don't."

Laura
linguistics, sadness, people, common-sense, religion, phonetics
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[link] heard: 9 October 2006
[edit] added: 9 October 2006

"Okay, be careful when you're going to the bathroom, cause we don't want toilet paper falling in the toilet."

insightfulness, deepness, common-sense, badness, bad-ideas, sadness, misfortune
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[link] heard: 3 April 2005
[edit] added: 3 April 2005

"You see, cats are a lot more resourceful than plants."

cats, animals, obviousness, common-sense, obviousness
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[link] heard: 21 June 2003
[edit] added: 21 June 2003

(02:51:51) Casuarius: though you can tell something's going to taste bad when it's advertised as being good for you and the most well-known brand is called 'so good'...

discussing (disgusting) soy milk
food, common-sense
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[link] heard: 23 May 2003
[edit] added: 23 May 2003

(12:15:30) Pyþagorous: throw enough processor and bandwidth at most problems and they cease to be problems

computers, common-sense
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[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Drug movies are so in right now. It's such a fad."

common-sense, weirdness, drugs, movies
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[link] heard: unknown
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"Uh, just place it on the floor. ...Right side up. Yeah, I know I have to be pretty specific when I'm talking to you."

making sure I didn't lunge an "empty" soda bottle towards the recycling bin
child-like, common-sense, sarcasm
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[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"Don't fight your own battle; let God fight it! When he does, it's clean, it's [complete?], it's total!"

Pat Francis—apparently a big-time televangelist.
common-sense, religion, scariness, inappropriateness
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[link] heard: 22 October 2002
[edit] added: unknown

"And if it says on the [box?], 'Banana from Iceland,' then they need to check it."

Omid Omidvar on C-SPAN
weirdness, common-sense, politics
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[link] heard: 1 May 2008
[edit] added: 1 May 2008

(16:27:22) kesuari: is *that* what causes that bug?

(16:27:27) kesuari: i hadn't worked it out yet

(16:27:30) kesuari: but you could easily be right!

(16:27:33) [me]: that's what I assumed it was

(16:27:36) [me]: and of course I'm right

(16:27:50) kesuari: including about all the contradictory things you might've said about l/n?

(16:28:02) [me]: that's all just theory

(16:28:07) [me]: there's no way to be right for sure ;)

(16:28:21) kesuari: but if you contradict yourself, you must be wrong

(16:28:32) [me]: no, just stating theories

(16:28:32) kesuari: especially if you begin the contradiction by saying "oh, i was wrong before"

(16:28:39) [me]: have I said that?

(16:28:42) [me]: .. probably actually

(16:28:43) kesuari: i don't know

(16:28:45) kesuari: i'm assuming you have

(16:28:50) kesuari: because it makes my theory make you look bad

machoism, contradiction, badness, common-sense, linguistics, stupidity, computers, linux, programming
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[link] heard: 11 September 2009
[edit] added: 11 September 2009

"As a consequence, Postmodernists' judgment about the invalidity of judgments must also be invalid, but the idea of criticizing Postmodernist dogma does not seem to be popular among them."

Beckwith
philosophy, double-standards, wisdom, contradiction, common-sense
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[link] heard: 7 May 2010
[edit] added: 9 May 2010

"Ой, өчүр рекламаны. Түшүндүк уже: сатылат экен."

Tolgonay learns about paid programming.
common-sense, kyrgyz, multilingualisms, tv
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[link] heard: 11 October 2011
[edit] added: 11 October 2011

"Wait, what's this a commercial for? It's a waste of paper and it's inconvenient!"

(screen shows "USPS")

"Oh, of course."

tv, common-sense, badness, insults, computers, cynicism
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[link] heard: 3 March 2012
[edit] added: 4 March 2012

[shows slide with poster]

"I don't have to say much about this poster. You can all see who's handing who the baby."

RK presenting at the ACES conference
relationships, russian, ethnocentrism, common-sense, sadness, SSSR, friends
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[link] heard: 7 April 2014
[edit] added: 7 April 2014

(17:29:40) sushain: their philosophy of decentralization sort of requires everyone to download the whole repo :\

(17:29:51) firespeaker: it doesn't necessitate it

(17:29:56) firespeaker: they just force it to

(17:30:14) firespeaker: Thomas Jefferson's idea of decentralisation of libraries

(17:30:20) firespeaker: doesn't mean you have to have ALL THE BOOKS

(17:30:23) firespeaker: in each library

about git and this quote
computers, linux, books, common-sense
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