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@ghost-of-a-duke said
You care too much about thumbs.

I don't think I do. It is you who has just said that they signify... "If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas." Sounds like you are the one who cares about them and how they are "flak".

@booger said
Whatever happened to him?

He made an utter fool of himself last and stopped posting with that screen name

@fmf said
I don't think I do. It is you who has just said that they signify... "If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas." Sounds like you are the one who cares about them and how they are "flak".

You asked a question and I gave you an answer.

That's how it works.

@fmf said
I don't think I do. It is you who has just said that they signify... "If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas." Sounds like you are the one who cares about them and how they are "flak".

It's more common to put a C in flack when referring to criticism.

@fmf said
He made an utter fool of himself last and stopped posting with that screen name

No, he didn't. He remains highly regarded by a great many.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You asked a question and I gave you an answer.

Yes, but your answer revealed that you seem to care more about thumbs and see a much darker meaning in them than I do.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
No, he didn't. He remains highly regarded by a great many.

The thing where he was accusing me of cybercrimes was ludicrous amd malicious. Biggest case of malevolent gaslighting in recent memory.

@fmf said
Yes, but your answer revealed that you seem to care more about thumbs and see a much darker meaning in them than I do.

Your question was about thumbs. 😴

@ghost-of-a-duke said
It's more common to put a C in flack when referring to criticism.

I think you are mistaken. Flak and Flack are different.

@fmf said
The thing where he was accusing me of cybercrimes was ludicrous amd malicious. Biggest case of malevolent gaslighting in recent memory.

Hardly.

@fmf said
I think you are mistaken. Flak and Flack are different.

"For the most part, flak remains the spelling used for the gunfire, with flack as an occasional variant that turns up slightly more frequently when referring to criticism. For the publicist/publicity senses, while flack was for a long time the preferred spelling, flak has turned up increasingly over the past decade."

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@ghost-of-a-duke said
Your question was about thumbs. 😴

And from what you said, you seem to care much more about them than I do. You see them as being some sort of dark malice being cast over the likes of Woodgirl and Indonesia Phil for example.

@fmf said
And from what you said, you seem to care much more about them than I do. You see them as being some sort of dark malice being cast over the likes of Woodgirl and Indonesia Phil for example.

You asked a question about why thumbs were given and I provided a viable hypothesis.

Are you ever going to win an argument?

@fmf said
I think you are mistaken. Flak and Flack are different.

Flak = strong criticism
Flack = publicity

@fmf said
Flak = strong criticism
Flack = publicity

"For the most part, flak remains the spelling used for the gunfire, with flack as an occasional variant that turns up slightly more frequently when referring to criticism. For the publicist/publicity senses, while flack was for a long time the preferred spelling, flak has turned up increasingly over the past decade."

Merriam-Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com