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"Don't think of a pink elephant" comes to mind with this stuff as well, where telling someone not to think about something causes them to think about it.
by furyofantares 3y ago
"Don't think of a pink elephant" comes to mind with this stuff as well, where telling someone not to think about something causes them to think about it.
- tgv 3y agoThat's different. That's a meta-linguistic joke, that works because we can't read that sentence without at least briefly thinking of a pink elephant (for some value of "thinking" anyway).