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Comment by rm445 | Hacker News Reader

Well done, you've noticed a tremendous character flaw and now you can strive to correct it.

Honestly, how are you going to live life if any reminder of pop culture can distract you from a serious subject? And how are you going to interact with people if noticing such a thing (even if it's tremendously obvious) makes you feel the need to shout about it? Best to knock it on the head now.

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Dude you need to get something for your soreness. I don't take everything seriously and comments on the internet are definitely one of those things. You are like a loser klingon captain whose ship is about to blow up because the Enterprise is firing its photon torpedoes at him. And no I don't care about you downvoting either.

Jesus dude. It was just an anecdote. It's a hell of a thing to call that a "tremendous character flaw" based on like, literally no evidence other than your assumptions.

Just for clarity, genuinely being incapable of taking anything seriously which sounded like a pop culture reference, would indeed be a tremendously damaging flaw.

Of course I don't really believe parent poster has that problem: it was making a little fun as mild chastisement for the terrible comment. I honestly think you could have interpreted it correctly if you hadn't been so quick to take offence.

If you don't actually believe the poster has that problem, why respond the way that you did? Doesn't that make your comment at least as terrible?

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