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> but I honestly suspected somebody is trying to make fun of me with some concentrated technobabble

Let me tell about a revolutionary device called a Turbo encabulator.




sounds like a perfectly cromulent topic to embiggen our knowledge.


Perfectumentous!


An author named David Duncan wrote a series of books, called A Man of His Word (and A Handful of Men)[0]. Great books.

One of the races in the books was the Anthropophagi (basically modeled on New Guinea headhunters). They talked like that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Duncan_(writer)


You joke, but this is surprisingly close to the name given to Dumbledore in the Dutch translation of Harry Potter.


supercali ...


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Are you really this upset because people don't know a 60 year old movie reference, and downvoted a comment that didn't add to discussion? And you need to flex your age because of it?

If you get this upset you don't have to post on this site. Or you can learn to be not as reactive to social media.


>Are you really this upset because people don't know a 60 year old movie reference, and downvoted a comment that didn't add to discussion?

Maybe you should read more carefully before replying.

I already said above that I was not complaining.

As for my comment (the supercali... word) not adding to the discussion, you are wrong again. The comment was in the same spirit as my parent and grandparent comments, who used words like cromulent, embiggen and perfectumentous.

>And you need to flex your age because of it?

Wrong again. Nothing in my comment shows that I was "flexing my age", as you call it.

>If you get this upset you don't have to post on this site.

Oh, I don't mind posting. I am having fun. I don't let comments like the one that I replied to, spoil my fun.

>Or you can learn to be not as reactive to social media.

Er, the term is "social" media, not "lone wolf baying at the moon" media.

It indicates people reacting (by replying) to other people, which could include approvingly, neutrally or critically, just like in real life, you know.

But there is something in what you say. This "comments about comments about comments about ..." scenario is getting boring and tedious.

From now on, I'll let the blind downvoters be blind downvoters and keep doing their thing. As I said earlier, HN points are not at all important, to me, at least.


Are you okay?


no, I'm fuzztester :)


You joke but newer rails versions come with a front end framework named Turbo, and there's also a JS bundler named Turbo, so this is actually too close to reality




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