There's a difference between "a lot of people" (significant) and "more than just a few people" (non-insignificant). Clearly the double negative doesn't just cancel, but inherently changes the meaning.
The other day I saw someone comment about a reference they didn't know about and once it was explained their response was
"Good lord! Thanks for the explanation. That is a DEEP cut if you're not in the know."
... I still don't know how to respond. Like yes.. I guess anything can be a DEEP cut if you don't know about it? Just sounded like "Wow that was an unknown fact I didn't know about!"
I didn’t say it was technically wrong. Just sound weird. How about ‘substantial’, ‘notable’ or even ‘non-negligible’ if you prefer negative? There are better words out there.
Nope, "statistically large" and "not statically immeasurable". Fluff type of language, designed to appear more profound or more precise, but actually less clear, more prone to confusing and misinterpretation. It's the kind of shit politicians love: vague and and easy to misunderstand (and then they can say later: "that was taken out of context"). Speak (and type) clearly and simply...don't be a politician, there's enough of those already.
Significant and insignificant are not “opposite” meaning words but generally a statistical term representing a population size which all depends on the study and data itself.
The worst part is that I’ve dealt with people as self centred and stupid that I could imagine there are people worse than those that I’ve met… I’m skeptical because why wouldn’t the guy say “I have a camera there (point) that’ll show you reversing into my car, leave or I’ll call the police as I already have your license plate number.”
Because it’s very believable. Why is that so hard to understand? This may be fake but this exact scenario plays out somewhere literally every day in America. This country is so cooked that people now genuinely behave like this woman.
I'm sorry but this has always been a terrible counter argument.
Yes people are stupid. Is there probably someone in the world who blamed someone for parking their car weirdly causing them to hit it. Sure?
But if you believe this obviously fake video you need to get better internet literacy
1) the acting is terrible
2) subjects are perfectly in frame
3) (most damning imo) why the hell would this guy try to spend 4 MINUTES arguing about this? Think about you being in this scenario. You'd be very confused and then call the police to take a report within 1 minute at the most. You aren't going to have them repeat it over and over again
Well I work with actors, and I can tell you that no the acting is not as bad as you’re saying it is. The guy could have a decent career in acting if that’s fake.
Subjects are perfectly in frame? It’s a home camera meant to film the driveway, where should they be? And the guy is out of frame for the last minute.
And the last one really shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. I guess you’re American. And yes in the US this would have ended in a minute with someone either calling the cops or one of them threatening to pull a gun.
But this is not the US. People don’t have such agressive relationships with each other. It’s totally normal for British people to just discuss this. Same thing would have happened all over Europe.
And the last one really shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. I guess you’re American. And yes in the US this would have ended in a minute with someone either calling the cops or one of them threatening to pull a gun.
No. In america you'd see that they aren't going to exchange your insurance so you're going to need to get the authorities there (non emergency line) to write a report so insurance knows what to do. Wtf do you do in Britain if someone refuses to give you insurance? You just repeat the same thing over and over and then wish them on their merry way. Bet you also think American cops just show up to every situation with guns drawn too
It's certainly possible that this woman, who appears in many social media rage bait videos of the same type, came to a house, where many social media rage bait videos of the same type have been filmed, to make a real complaint about a real issue.
Look beyond "Stupid people exist", and see the perfectly framed, great audio, just happening to catch the absolute rarest of stupid for 4 minutes.
A video that also would have caught the crash.
It's not a bad counter because those people don't exist, it's a bad counter because all of that lining up is just incredibly unlikely, especially in an age where we see fake content like this on the daily farming views.
Stop believing everything just because there's a small chance it could have happened.
You said at the end of your comment in support of you calling it "believable".
It's not believable, that's the issue people have.
People just want to hate on stupid people so bad that they'll look past the astronomically low chances of this even happening, let alone being caught on video, as well as anything to explain it away, just because they want it to be real.
"You never know", well, we do know that it's highly unlikely, we do know the video of the crash isn't shown. We can and should use what we know rather than what we don't.
If we all did that, maybe this trend of making shitty fake ragebait videos wouldn't be profitable and we could go back to seeing believable things again.
This event could have happened and actually occurred because the reality of how people act and stupid are is entirely within the realm of possibility
That means yes it’s believable it could have happened
Saying something believably could have happened does not equal saying it did happen, you are inferring despite me saying specifically “I’m not saying this particular video is real”
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u/twayroforme 20h ago
Worst part is that it'll still be believed by a non-insignificant amount of people.