
Am I so out of touch?
About this video
A short Simpsons clip (S5E20) of the 'Am I so out of touch?' moment, in which Principal Skinner concludes it must be the children who are wrong.
Why it appears in the archive
Used as a meme reply when someone's view clashes with everyone else's.
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From the Hacker News discussion
That wasn't implied to me. When people go out of their way to point out how what you said isn't what you meant to say, and you brush it off as "no no, it's you who don't understand my eloquent prose," you might want to consider taking the feedback as constructive. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Funny, adopting authoritianism sounds like "vote for me to be your dictator"... Do you consider yourself sane and intelligent? Ever wondered if you could also suffer from evidence bias, thinking everything from the point of view that the elite trying to force something down your throat? Or maybe you have the certainty of Principal Skinner? [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I assumed that this was intentionally a signal that you shouldn't take this too seriously and a reference to this Simpsons clip: [VIDEO]
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