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rosehiptea
2008-04-03 04:15 pm UTC (link)

You are mistaken about how the maxim of relevance works. The maxim is part of Grice's Cooperation Principal, which basically states that people make certain assumptions when they communicate (the four maxims) and that when those maxims are violated the hearer assumes that the cooperation principle is still operative and the violation was intentional. The speaker is therefore using the flouting of the maxim to create an IMPLICATION.

I love (in a largely non-sarcastic fashion) that someone got this out of ketchup.

Originally I had real sympathy for the OP's desire to make their own ketchup and not be challenged about why, because I've done things like that purely for the hell of it and I don't see what's so odd about it. But all the references to high fructose corn syrup turning people into mindless zombies (except it really doesn't! I'm not saying it does, over and over, or anything!) and the pointless wanking kind of killed that.

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	brennalarose 2008-04-03 05:38 pm UTC (link)
	When you put it like that, yeah, sure, I've used bizarre recipes, just find out what they're talking about (that's where I got my favorite chocolate mousse recipe). But, yes, pretentious wanker is pretentious. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2008-04-03 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Sometimes I make things from scratch just because I want to know if I can. I admit I'm fine with ketchup out of a bottle, but I made tehina from sesame seeds because it just sounded fun. But yeah, then they veered off into "people just don't understand my lifestyle except for MY GIRLFRIEND who by the way I AM HAVING SEX WITH." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2008-04-03 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	"I wish you could meet my girlfriend, My girlfriend, who lives in Canada. Her name is Alberta. She lives in Vancouver. She cooks like my mother And sucks like a Hoover!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2008-04-03 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	I never heard that one before... XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2008-04-03 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	Avenue Q, which almost ruined my childhood. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lingvo 2008-04-04 12:28 pm UTC (link)
	But in a Magical way. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2008-04-04 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Could someone who speaks Pompous Wanker tell me WTF that paragraph is about? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2008-04-04 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	I was going with "They were making fun of you, dumbass" but I'll admit my Pompous Wanker is a little rusty. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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