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Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
„Is drinking Paint thinner really as bad as everybody says?“
Well. It could be worse than what everybody says
is the poupe deck really what i think it is
No.
Are we talking about water-based paint?
I believe that paint thinner does contain water
Water-based paints can be thinned with water, so technically water is a paint thinner... which is safe to drink.
Not if it's for oil based paints.
Corollary:
How not following trends and drinking paint thinner boosted my B2B sales
You joke, but I actually know some contrarians that would legit try it if this was a headline they saw.
Maybe it can be modified to something like:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by yes or no, whichever seems the most obvious."
Nope:
That’s no longer true. As reporting quality continues to decline and headlines focus more and more on outrage clicks straying further and further from the content, all too many can now be answered with ”n/a”