Non Sequitur Distraction: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[I Take Offense to That Last One]], where the target (if being lambasted) only disagrees with one of the insults, implying that they admit the others are correct. Also compare [[You Make Me Sic]], where in a situation you expect someone to have a strong reaction to a statement or insult they single out bad spelling and grammar.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Kitty Pryde provides us this example from ''[[Astonishing X Men]],'' though in this case what Kitty points out ''was'' the thing she was most concerned over.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* On one of the [[Image Board]] forums, someone told the story about how his mother's bakery was broken into, and to protect the merchandise, she had him store all the cakes on hand at his apartment—about forty of them. He laments that he already housed<ref>ate the whole thing by himself</ref> one of them, and didn't know what else to do. This was the immediate response:

 

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