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If they wanted to buy ice cream and that was the price, then they had to pay it or they wouldn’t get ice cream. Are you saying there is a lower cost ice cream
by itake 5y ago
If they wanted to buy ice cream and that was the price, then they had to pay it or they wouldn’t get ice cream.
Are you saying there is a lower cost ice cream store across the street?
- pc86 5y agoThey're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.
- thereare5lights 5y agoThere's nothing silly about it. It's just a metaphor. It's more incredulous that people have a problem with figurative speech like this than the comparison itself.
- bally0241 5y agoIts called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.
- refurb 5y agoHyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.
- lamontcg 5y agoAmerican scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.
- geoduck14 5y ago>American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word. I feel like this is sarcasm, but I guess that my inability to know proves the point
- scsilver 5y agoI went into a bar and asked for a glass of wine they had already poured it into a plastic cup before informing me it was 19 bucks. I was mugged.
- vba616 5y agoThere's a convenience store chain where I live that has a "flavor of the week" available at $3.39 for a half gallon. But if you want to lose weight, perhaps it's better not to know.