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>It's like suggesting that a little heroin on the weekend would really brighten up the week. I hope you won't need me to point out the various ways in which yo
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
>It's like suggesting that a little heroin on the weekend would really brighten up the week.
I hope you won't need me to point out the various ways in which your analogy between humour and, er, heroin breaks down.
- nkurz 16y agoPlease do. I briefly debated choosing 'meth' or 'coke' in my analogy, and went with heroin because the it's one of the few drugs that is frequently fully demonized, and because I worried the others were American slang. I think heroin better creates the impression I want, although meth might be more technically accurate. Note that the analogy is not that each individual user will suffer as due to drug addiction, but that the community as a whole will be ravaged by the cumulative effects of the drug. Compare the comment quality on Digg, Reddit, and HN as viewed through the light of http://www.montanameth.org/View_Ads/index.php http://www.montanameth.org/View_Ads/index.php.