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| I think the point is that if you choose your friends wisely you can trust their logic. If they ALL jumped, ther must be a reason, unless you hang out with morons. | | I think the point is that if you choose your friends wisely you can trust their logic. If they ALL jumped, ther must be a reason, unless you hang out with morons. |
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− | :Or they have been all influenced by some gas or radiation, so cannot reason logically. :-) [[User:Arifsaha|Arifsaha]] ([[User talk:Arifsaha|talk]]) 17:16, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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− | :Or, you know, blood control or something. Except I'm the A positive...maybe they'd have the sense not to let me jump. --Prairie
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| I can't help but notice: We've all heard this, right? So basically, a lot of persons repeat saying that after having heard another say it. Should it make them question their logic? Not really. Saying this adage is kind of a fine example where doing something just because so many others did it, is rather stupid. | | I can't help but notice: We've all heard this, right? So basically, a lot of persons repeat saying that after having heard another say it. Should it make them question their logic? Not really. Saying this adage is kind of a fine example where doing something just because so many others did it, is rather stupid. |
| -thelvin | | -thelvin |
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− | I wonder what Cueball and his friends were going to do? On the face of it, it didn't appear to be anything all that dangerous. His mother, if she was using this argument out of reflex, probably just got her comeuppance for applying it in an inappropriate context. Poor mom. She probably already has too much on her hands, working for a living and raising a very intelligent kid, and now she has the extra chore of checking her metaphors carefully before use. This should push her right to that old favorite, "Because!"[[Special:Contributions/24.79.11.46|24.79.11.46]] 20:42, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
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− | So Mom, got her comeuppance? Isn't this exactly what she wanted her son to do, examine what was going on and make a logical decision based on it... the fact that he said "their must be a reason", means she failed of course and must retrain him. So now she just has to say..."Ok, you can go as long as you can demonstrate to me the value of you attending (said function) and those that will be denied to you by not attending and doing something more socially responsible!18:24, 11 February 2013 (UTC) MI Ranger 11 Feb 2013
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− | I want to do this! Except that it requires having friends...
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− | Wait... All my friends are doing it is still a valid argument, since any expression of the form 'All X are Y' is always true whenever X (my friends) is an empty set! (vacuously true)[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.244|141.101.98.244]] 21:57, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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− | Much simpler... Up until the parent asks about bridge jumping, everything is the same: then cueball says "yeah. We're going bungee jumping." {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.35}}
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− | If I ever have children, and the situation comes where I'll have to say "If all your friends...", I'll say it and see how they answer.
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− | :If they give up on doing what they were going to do, I'll tell them they're wrong and then expose the idea of this comic.
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− | :If, instead, they respond with the idea of this comic, then I raised them well.
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− | [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.18|108.162.212.18]] 01:37, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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− | Wait a second.... If the bridge is on fire, then you're probably a wolf. So your friends would jump off WITHOUT the bridge being on fire, simply because they see a wolf.
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− | [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.141|173.245.50.141]] 20:29, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
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− | According to my mom, I was such a smartass as a kid that she knew not to say this to me... But when she tried it on my sister, I butted in with, "that's probably the best time every to jump, with all those friends to cushion her fall". [[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.180|199.27.130.180]] 02:02, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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− | :You read the TV Tropes article, didn't you. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 09:08, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
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− | * weak explanation, sorry. What about those cookies? [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 00:06, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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− | "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?"
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− | "...What friends?"
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− | "Me! I'll jump with you!"
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