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[patcon]

heh, normally how these friendly call-response threads work is someone either yes-and's the attempt [1] or ignores/downvotes it. Just because we're on HN, that doesn't mean puns need to be critiqued -- even if they are agaravatingly bad :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...

[samatman → patcon]

It kinda does, though.

I like that HN has a very high bar for humor, and cracks down on soft-pitch puns which are an attempt at a long chain of groaners.

Reddit exists, and if you like that, you can get it on Reddit. Here it's just noise. We have other bad habits ;)

[guerrilla → samatman]

Here you have to make a plausible argument that the expert who spent their life studying something has no idea what they're talking about and you somehow know better, or manage to one-up the parent who just did something like that with some exceptionally high-grade sophistry.