And listen, I'm not saying that all tech support phone operators only care about getting you off the phone. All I'm saying here is that of all the tech support people in the universe, one hundred percent of them are trying to get you off of the phone. That's all I'm sayinig here. But I can see how one would get that idea.
I gotta say, this is one of the things that I wish I'd been prepared for in certain past debates. When someone brings "Kinda, if you think about it" as support for a premise, they are informing you that you additional contemplation will lead you to their conclusion, rather than offering the actual data that will lead to that revelation. Now, an artist at heart, I'm not a talented debater, or even very adept at logic. But I know this one thing, and that is that no sober exchange will ever go like this:
"You know what I found out? Listen. Let me tell you what I found out."
"What is that?"
"I found out two things. One--that Johnny Depp and Brendan Fraser are actually the same person. Two--that pencils are actually pens. All of them! All pencils are actually pens!"
"Pencils aren't actually pens."
"Dude, listen. You're not listening. Really listen. They sort of are, ______________________."
The blank is where the statement in question goes. Now, my position is that this will never occur. However. If this ever does occur, and you witness it, please go immediately to craigslist or your social networking/freelance-work website of choice and hire the savage, sea-faring Norse to destroy the person who has said it, raze their village, plunder various things, and sail off into the sunset on dragon-headed longboats, oars plying the waters like so many wings in a tumultuous sky. Do not hesitate.
