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Argument - Monty Python

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1 HN user recommended this comedy video1 month2019–2025 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Mostly posted as a joke reply in arguments, with one commenter recommending it as a lovely skit about how to argue.

The classic Monty Python 'Argument Clinic' sketch, lightly trimmed, in which a man pays for an argument and gets contradiction instead.

“absolutely lovely Monty python skit” (HN, 2025)

1 recommendations · 7 jokes · Comedy

8 Hacker News comments

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@mooreed Apr 2025 Recommends
on HN thread How to win an argument with a toddler
Post reminds me of the absolutely lovely Monty python skit [1] that is not only humorous, but has a lot you can learn from. [1]: [this video]
Humorous skit with lessons about arguing.

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@happytiger Apr 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread GPT Chats with T-Mobile Support to get discounts
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I’m you want me to go on arguing, you’re going to have to pay for another 5 minutes. Every time one of these enshitification AI customer service startups pops up I always think of the ultimate form of where this is going… to people paying to argue with people. Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second. Imagine all of these things succeeded eventually and Customer Service completely saturated by talking to bots, to which they then have to deploy bots, and in very short order essentially becoming a bot API layer for Customer Service issues with gamification driving at the core. It’s almost inevitable. So then, people will want to develop the debate skills. They will feel like they are missing out in the negotiating skills people used to have. There will be coaches to help people learn how to deal with the skills set of negotiation, as all negotiation is now automated (which is, at the root, all this business is — its automated negotiation). Which leads my brain to believe that Monty Python was prescient and this will become a reality. [this video]
@slowhadoken Jun 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault
This is a Monty Python skit. Chomsky called him amoral and his philosophy fake. He doesn’t disagree with Foucault’s “philosophy” he thinks it’s fake. A moral person doesn’t swingle people with lies. [this video]

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