[pc86]

They're saying that it's pretty silly to compare buying ice cream to being mugged. If it's too expensive, don't buy the ice cream. The price of ice cream isn't an invariant, if nobody buys it the price will decrease. If nobody has a problem paying $5/scoop for ice cream, that's what the price is going to be.

[thereare5lights]

There's nothing silly about it. It's just a metaphor. It's more incredulous that people have a problem with figurative speech like this than the comparison itself.

[bally0241]

Its called hyperbole. Seriously HN can be so pedantic sometimes.

[refurb]

Hyperbole, like sarcasm doesn't come across well on the internet.

[lamontcg]

American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.

[geoduck14]

>American scientists have actually mathematically proven that it is impossible to detect sarcasm in the written word.

I feel like this is sarcasm, but I guess that my inability to know proves the point

[scsilver]

I went into a bar and asked for a glass of wine they had already poured it into a plastic cup before informing me it was 19 bucks. I was mugged.