From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Nuno Silva  wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-23, John Ames wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:45:34 -0000 (UTC)   
   >> Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> > *A.* that's not what a straw-man argument is ...   
   >>> > ... Obviously, having trouble with a misbehaving website is a   
   >>> > smaller thing than burning to death in a badly-renovated apartment   
   >>> > building.   
   >>>   
   >>> You say no, and then you say yes.   
   >>   
   >> A straw-man argument is, to quote Wikipedia, "the informal fallacy   
   >> of refuting an argument different from the one actually under   
   >> discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction."   
   >> Shoddy work-   
   >   
   > Now that's funny, because I think this describes almost perfectly   
   > *Lawrence's* reactions in several threads here.   
      
   That is because, quite often, Lawrence is trolling.  And one way to   
   troll someone is to strawman them, therefore the fact that this   
   definition matches some of Lawrence's posts so closely.   
      
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