[LightG]

The first time I heard the phrase 'nothing burger' was from the mouth of Eric Trump. It's possibly time to upgrade your vocabularly. I mean, Eric is a verified idiot and I can't help but think of you as being one by association. Apologies if that is in inaccurate.

[dang]

You started a hellish flamewar here and perpetuated it so badly that I've banned the account.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386829.

[rvz]

Your point being? The use of 'Nothing burger' has been around since the mid 1950s and it is not something that because a Trump family member starts using it, they're immediately associated with creating the word and who ever uses it agrees with them. [0]

This is the problem with erroneous guilt by associations just because someone you may not like used the phrase.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/nothing-burger-word-...

[LightG]

I don't doubt that you are right. I assume it is an Americanism. However, I repeat the n=1. The first time I heard it was from Eric. My point stands.

[sidibe]

I've noticed it's a pretty reliable tell of your politics though. I think Fox News used it a ton and you tend to to use the terms you hear more often.

[stjohnswarts]

I'm sure the venn diagram of what he says and what I say overlap a lot as far as vocabulary so I think I'll keep using nothing-burger where appropriate. I'm not going to let Trumpian influence ruin my zest for life. Words are just tools.

[LightG]

On the contrary, I would argue the urge to move beyond conventional language norms is what gave us Shakespeare and his numerous additions to the language.

I can taste the zest for life by moving beyond the boundaries of Trumpian idiots.

It's like seeing a nothingburger and fries on your plate telling the Maitre d to take it away and serve us a wonderful new dish.

[sn0w_crash]

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[dang]

I just hadn't seen this wretched thread yet. I've banned the account that started it.

You, however, have also broken the site guidelines badly, and since we've warned you before and you've continued to do just what we asked you to stop, I've banned your account as well.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [e-mail] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[LightG]

You need to be accurate.

There's a lefty-rightist, Stanlist conspiracy going on here on HN, and you're at the very centre of it.

[dang]

The mods didn't see this thread until a few minutes ago. The flags in this thread before that were from regular users.

I've banned the worst offenders in this thread, which were you and the person you were fighting with.

[mansion7]

The first time I heard it was when Emmy-winning CNN host Van Jones, no Trump ally, referred to Russia-gate as a "nothingburger".

Think things through before you call people idiots by association.

[dang]

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html