Dude. I was the one who downvoted you, and here's why: 1) You replied to a troll 2) It was a very old troll 3) You did not say anything new or interesting 4) I think "Yay EY" is the kind of thing we want to stay away from, and anyway I'm a contrarian so I reflexively dislike it 5) I don't like that we even have a list of mostly-unfunny Chuck Norris jokes about EY, and I don't like seeing it pop up in recent comments
It was just one downvote. Everyone gets 'em; I'll probably get several here. No need to go into your "This demonstrates my superior rationality!" failure mode over it.
Thank you for explaining. However:
3) You did not say anything new or interesting
I wish you had added "in my opinion" to this sentence. Because I thought my comment was new and interesting: I took a trollish comment and turned it into a legitimate element of the list -- thereby creating irony, which is interesting. Moreover, the particular list element that resulted -- "EY is a high school dropout with no formal education in anything, and yet people write lists like this about him" -- is distinguished from nearly all the others in...
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