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...with a colleague who claimed that 90% of everything on the Internet is wrong.
I asked him, "Where did you get that information?"
His reply, "From the internet..."
Opinions?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dunno. I, personally, believe everything I read on the internet! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Obligatory XKCD[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You beat me to it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A recursive dumb down?
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
JaxCoder.com
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Forogar wrote: who claimed that 90% of everything on the Internet is wrong.
72% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Let me get my bathrobe...
Quote: Oh no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken, about a great many things.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Your colleague has a 10% chance of being right. Not overly great odds, but I've seen worse.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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A millennial who checked this info on his iFone.*
* you do realize that this post is on the internet. If it's correct than all the other posts in the are wrong.
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I don't believe a word you just said 
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Sorry? Which word was that?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I think I would agree with your colleague... in a way. But I would have to translate the statement to it's real meaning first...
90% is a pretty common go-to number when you are trying to say "a lot of" in percentage form. Give it a try and run a few fake conversations through your mind. If you want to say a lot, you will probably pick 90% (or maybe 99% if you REALLY want to emphasis a lot). So we easily translate that to "a lot".
Then take "the internet", in general conversation people are not really referring to the exact definition of the internet in terms of "a global system of interconnected computer networks" (wiki steal). Most the time we just mean "the stuff we do online". For example, reading news, or socialising in forums, etc. But it varies from person to person. One person might be a Facebook fanatic, another only reads articles on trusted news sites. So "the internet" can mean different things to different people.
So I think what is really being said is:
A lot of the stuff I see on the internet is wrong
...and to that I would have to agree. There is so much crap that people make up and post as facts, and people just believe it. Social media has brought us a world where people can say whatever they want, and not have to provide proof that it is real. It doesn't matter that 10% (a few) of people call them out on it, because the 90% (a lot) of people that believe it is a pretty good result.
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Forogar wrote: 90% of everything on the Internet is wrong porn.
FTFY.
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Here is another fact for you: 68% of online statistics are made on the spot!
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90%[^] of all adages are wrong.
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...between today's smaller "SUV"s and hatchbacks?
for sure the latter certainly came with much better music
Also worth ranting:
1. how do today's SUV's actually do the "S"?
-- Most cant unless you want to count carrying a football or frisbie in the hatch.
2. isn't every vehicle effectively able to do "U"?
-- (the Top Gear ...vomit, sorry... Grand Tour cast proved that many times.)
3. and why not?[^]
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I'd say a few pieces of plastic, a couple of inches in height and a few miles per gallon.
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Yes, well "they"'ve stared calling cross-overs SUVs and we must not let them do that.
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Quote: we must not let them do that.
The fact is "they" can do what they like. The only risk they take is that no-one will buy them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What get's me about these micro SUVs etc is the AWD systems on them... my thumb is larger than the majority of their rear axles.
Maybe I should just put some air shocks on a Pinto station wagon
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Today's witty comment on this in the daily news was:
By returning the results from another search engine?
True story, Microsoft used to do this back in tha day. Google caught them by injecting some fake results into their search results and sure enough those fake results were turning up in Bing!
Funny stuff. Speaking of search engines, what does everyone use? I use Google just cuz I'm conditioned to. Who has the best search results these days?
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I'm partial to DuckDuckGo.
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If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'm partial to DuckDuck, but roasted.
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The WebCrawler. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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