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Is green the square root of turnip?

You keep resorting to the ad hominem. I’ve pointed that out, yet you keep going on doing it. It’s a fallacy and doesn’t wash. It even smells bad. Pretty bad.

Oh tropical, you can vote until you’re blue but that won’t make ML the GOAT. You’ll only show that a number of people think so. And that don’t make it so. Sorry, facts are immune to pop polls.

Fallacy: Loaded question. Fallacy: Ad hominem. Fallacy: Sample size. Would you say 31 is a sufficient quorum to decide this for the entirety of mankind for all of history - past, present and future (the "AT" in "GOAT")? Fallacy: Ad populum. If I don't like spinach, 16 people expressing...

Ah. Back to Chewbacca it is. With an extra slice of Ad Hominem.

Assumptions, assumptions. Why not ask when not getting it? (Well-versed in political philosophy, sorry. Been there, done that, got the Ph. D.; and that might just be why I get tempted to point out fallacies every now and then.) Anyway, let’s rephrase. The statement ‘X is the GOAT’ is a...

It makes no sense. Chewbacca defense! Hence, the GOAT of GOATs is born. And then we can proceed to vote whether or not Pi equals three. As the Scripture implies! It must be so, and all naysayers are infidels to be rooted out.

Round, and round, and round she goes

"Y'all don't git to vote whether it rains or not. If yer gettin' wet it's rainin', no matter the vote."

Can't believe I'm seeing people actually proposing that the veracity of a fact can be decided by means of a popularity contest. C'mon folks, that's a well-known fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum. In this case it's even an "argumentum ad populum" with regards to a...

Wow. I keep thinking rock bottom must be within reach, but everytime I do new depths get explored. Let’s not seek the lowest in us, folks.

This thread should be renamed to The Surrealist’s Guide to Table Tennis.

Sloppy glue job, methinks.

Boosters gonna boost, of course. Power to you. I'd rather not, and have shunned rubbers that are unplayable unless treated with virgin oils while dancing at midnight in the light of the full moon. I've had this adversity ever since, as a young player, people started to speedglue. To me, a...

5 out of 5 rating for Rozena I wrote up a little review shortly after having started using Rozena. I've been using it for a long time now, time to restate things. The following pertains to sheets of Rozena used for 10-16 hours/week in intensive training and matches during about 6 months...

Yes, that's a theoretic possibility; the emergence of a future player clearly and definitively trumping all other players past and present, at exactly that point in time where the future of table tennis ceases. (If that is going to happen, I'm betting it will be shortly after the final...

Descending into ancient history here. Take a flock of kings, and all of a sudden the hassle will be over who gets to be named king of kings. Let's not go there indeed.

Well, there's auto-translate that presumably shows us the near-state of the art. "So it is going to spent 10 Tues if Rory. You add by subtracting 13 degrees. You do not have a player raised the button. This communication is like putting mushrooms. Yeah I think fast. I ran into this place...

Stated before, but repeated here: it's a loaded question. "Are you still beating your wife?" That question has an implicit assumption. To accept the question means to accept its premise, which is that there actually is a (note: singular) GOAT. I don't accept that premise. I think it's a...