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Chikane's Law
From this wank:

If your response to a carefully reasoned, logical, and well-thought-out argument is to tell people to go back and reread what you wrote, you lose at life, the internets, and everything.

Edited to add this corollary, suggested by eljuno:

"If, on the other hand, the answer is obviously because someone HASN'T read what you said, this law is null and void. To cover, say, the day when I found myself having to ward off people who were trying to explain to me why Michael Corner wasn't (necessarily) black and all I could do was go 'I AGREE. LOOK BACK AT WHAT I SAID.'"

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	khym_chanur 2006-05-14 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	Shouldn't that be LaFeeMechante's/wizzart's/ginny_weasley's Law (wiki link)? Because she often uses that in a resposne to people who disagree with what she says, and did so long before chikane did. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-14 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	Well, sure, but you could also make the same argument for Ginmar, or any number of other Big Name Wankers. Chikane was just the most recent example. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sheep 2006-05-19 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	I know this is an old post, but I just found this comm. Are we exempt from randomly saying 'go back and re-read' it on batshit Harmoanians as well. There is a tradition to uphold, started by the Godess of Harry Potter herself! ;) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	smo 2006-05-19 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that's not something we wrote, per se, so I guess it's fair game. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sheep 2006-05-19 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	That's good, we have to keep up FW's reputation of oppresshun! Anything that annoys harmoanians (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mcity 2006-05-24 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Sweet Christmas, it's like some sort of Mobius strip of misintepretation. What about people who credit you with saying certain things which you never said(read: make up BS), and, when asked for backup, never produce the evidence, often claiming that they 'already gave an example' or ignoring that part of your posts entirely? (Reply to this)