Godwin's Law
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Following on from 'The Gingerbread Man' - my channel surfing other half switched channels to find THE BUNKER was on. During my conversation about vegetarianism I had alluded to the way animals are treated as being like the way the Nazi's treated the Jews,this also had cropped up in a previous conversation today about an artist pouring molten aluminium in ant's nests.
Someone had posted that Godwin's law had been proven pretty quickly - that is - the propensity to bring up Hitler during an online conversation,which indeed I had done twice before THE BUNKER came on - which was indeed about Hitler!
Oddly though I would only expect this sort of occurrence to happen once per year - it actually happened twice in one day - which tends to suggest that these situations occur more than we actually expect.
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Dec 2013 19:24:17 +0000Coincidence ID:7331
