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No, the problem is you're taking a very niche stance in service of an interpretation of an ambiguous title that probably meant something entirely different, presumably because you enjoy a fight?
Everyone else but you went with the "probably" instead of this war path you're on against the person who wrote the title for not being clear enough.
I'm asking what's being compared. It's unclear and not specified. I don't want to make a poor assumption. That is all. Why are you offended by that? What are you imagining I'm asking?
As I said, we all know it's unclear, but the rest of us made a reasonable conclusion as to what they meant.
My question implies that there is no guess that seems reasonable. Successive 17-year periods is a highly unusual method for measurement, so that doesn't really make sense. Or am I simply missing something otherwise more obvious? Why not share that information instead of being condescending?
And if "you all" know that it's unclear, why not simply agree that it's unclear in the first place?
Sorry to hear that, but it seems to be a problem unique to you.
It's simply arbitrary. As they say, "it's not that deep." There is no standard period for measuring such a thing. 17 is weird, but then what's less weird about 5, 10, 15, 20, or 50? That they're evenly divisible by 5?
I wasn't trying to be condescending, I'm just pointing out that you are the person who has stubbornly refused to make a reasonable conclusion. If that gives offense, perhaps you should consider whether or not your stance makes any sense before decrying someone pointing out that your stance doesn't make any sense?
If I'm being less pleasant as this conversation goes on, maybe it's because you keep down-voting all of my replies despite my being cordial in helping you understand why people are dog-piling you?
... reread that sentence a few times and tell me if it isn't hilariously ironic to the point I'm starting to think you're a rage-baiter and heavily considering a block.
On the off-chance you're not a rage-baiter, here's why it's ironic:
You are complaining I did not "agree that it's unclear in the first place" in spite of the fact that I literally agreed with you in the first message I wrote to you.
I'm referring to everyone in this thread and not the singular you. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
And no, assuming that traffic casualties are consistently measured in seventeen-year intervals is not reasonable.
You obviously didn't read my comment and think about it to respond to it, so I guess I owe you the same treatment.
Whether you're stubborn and love arguing with strangers for no reason or are an actual rage-baiter, I don't want to waste any more seconds of my life on reading anything you have to say; either way, I hope you get the help you need and enjoy the block.
Well, at least the trash took itself out.