QI - Best forfeit ever?

LOL, you go ahead and keep moving those goalposts.

Literally the only thing we are discussing is whether "yes" and "no" get used "all the time". That was the original claim, that was what I responded to. The original claim was that we should infer that the elves always have "yes" and "no" queued up BECAUSE they get used all the time. But if you watch QI, you know it's just a plain objective fact that the words "yes" and "no" are rarely the answers to questions. So there's no reason to assert that they get used all the time nor any reason to assume that this can be used as a justification for us to assume they have queued up the words.

You seem deeply confused about the concept of the burden of proof. If somebody says we should believe that the QI elves have perpetually queued up "yes" and "no" as responses and the reason is because those answers are used all the time, the fact that the justification isn't true means we don't need to accept the claim. That doesn't mean the QI elves don't have some common/generic words queued up. But we have no reason to believe they do and certainly the reason given is not a good reason to believe they do.

You, on the other hand, somehow think it's my responsibility to prove the negative that they don't queue up any common words. Obviously that isn't my responsibility and it has nothing to do with anything anybody is talking about. I get that this seems like an easy out for you, now that you've decided you're desperate to disagree with me. But that's a pretty pathetic approach to any discussion.

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