09-21-2006, 08:11 PM
I hate when people say that, especially when you know that it is a person who has never read anything beyond the back of the cereal box while slurping their kix. Yet whenever they have some crazy factoid or some outlandish story, and have zero back up they always pull they "I swear, I read it.... somewhere". I mean, I can usually remember where I heard or read an item, or at the very least what type of format it was, was it a newspaper, magazine, a pamphlet?
They usually fall into one of three categories:
First is the worst type and thats the person who just heard a tiny line somewhere, on tv maybe and then draw their own conclusion. Or even worse than that, they just make up shit. JESUS WAS NOT A JEW... MAN I READ IT SOMEWHERE!!! I had that argument with a bible freak, of course it was easier to defend my stance since I DID read it somewheres, "it's called the bible, look into it before you preach it".
The second type is kinda similar to the first but they pass off their own crazy theories, it's not just concluding something from a third party. These are people who take a subject and have come up with their own little theory on the subject and it's something only they agree with, cause no one else is that dumb. So to make their point, they say that they had read it somewhere, in addition to their own belief. These people also get desperate and drag other "people" in their cause with the other horrible line of "man you know how many people believe this? THEY DID A SURVERY RECENTLY!!!". I love how the survery has always been done "Recently", I give credit to the creative ones who spice it up with a city, a number, etc. "They did a poll in atlanta, they asked 3,000 people if they believe that when getting aids is a bad thing, and guess what... IT IS!!!".
Then finally there are the people who use the "I read it somewhere" line so they don't have to say that the information they have is from a movie, especially when it involves some sort of biographical or historical information. Like the people who base their information on the JFK assassination based off the oliver stone movie. These people are dead give aways since their information always contains "dramatic license".
They usually fall into one of three categories:
First is the worst type and thats the person who just heard a tiny line somewhere, on tv maybe and then draw their own conclusion. Or even worse than that, they just make up shit. JESUS WAS NOT A JEW... MAN I READ IT SOMEWHERE!!! I had that argument with a bible freak, of course it was easier to defend my stance since I DID read it somewheres, "it's called the bible, look into it before you preach it".
The second type is kinda similar to the first but they pass off their own crazy theories, it's not just concluding something from a third party. These are people who take a subject and have come up with their own little theory on the subject and it's something only they agree with, cause no one else is that dumb. So to make their point, they say that they had read it somewhere, in addition to their own belief. These people also get desperate and drag other "people" in their cause with the other horrible line of "man you know how many people believe this? THEY DID A SURVERY RECENTLY!!!". I love how the survery has always been done "Recently", I give credit to the creative ones who spice it up with a city, a number, etc. "They did a poll in atlanta, they asked 3,000 people if they believe that when getting aids is a bad thing, and guess what... IT IS!!!".
Then finally there are the people who use the "I read it somewhere" line so they don't have to say that the information they have is from a movie, especially when it involves some sort of biographical or historical information. Like the people who base their information on the JFK assassination based off the oliver stone movie. These people are dead give aways since their information always contains "dramatic license".