“You know the kinda guy who flips fifteen coins, gets seven heads, tells you he flipped ten coins[1], claims he got eight heads, then when someone digs into it and points out one of those heads was actually a tails he makes you prove it exhaustively before admitting maybe he said one false thing but jeez why are you so invested in every single mistake he makes?”
″. . . no, I don’t think I know anyone like that. Why do you ask?”
“He just volunteered to run a competitive coin-flipping tournament.”
I don’t think so but possibly. Subtweeting is when you’re talking about a specific person indirectly, right? I have run into enough of these that I think of them as a type of person, like people who blare music on the subway and people who smoke in the non-smoking section.
(Fewer of them volunteer to run the equivalent of coin-flipping tournaments and there’s selection effects on who I’d run into, but even still it feels like too many of them do that too!)
“You know the kinda guy who flips fifteen coins, gets seven heads, tells you he flipped ten coins[1], claims he got eight heads, then when someone digs into it and points out one of those heads was actually a tails he makes you prove it exhaustively before admitting maybe he said one false thing but jeez why are you so invested in every single mistake he makes?”
″. . . no, I don’t think I know anyone like that. Why do you ask?”
“He just volunteered to run a competitive coin-flipping tournament.”
Technically true! He did flip ten coins! He just flipped five more he didn’t mention.
Is this subtweeting something?
I don’t think so but possibly. Subtweeting is when you’re talking about a specific person indirectly, right? I have run into enough of these that I think of them as a type of person, like people who blare music on the subway and people who smoke in the non-smoking section.
(Fewer of them volunteer to run the equivalent of coin-flipping tournaments and there’s selection effects on who I’d run into, but even still it feels like too many of them do that too!)
Sounds like you have enough material for another interesting article!