Tom Cruise has absolutely nothing to do with this discussion, and was injected to deflect and discredit the discussion.
I made no argument concerning Tom Cruise, strawman or otherwise. It was an appropriate joke (and I think rather clever). It took nothing from the subject. The subject does not affect the life of a single person beyond some personal pride. You are an over-sensitive psychologist.
So...BuzzKillington.... take yourself less seriously, else some here might diagnose you with a mental condition (that Tom Cruise could help you with).
I’m sure you love to laugh at your own ‘jokes.’
Nobody else does, so I guess you have to.
Chosing between you and Cruise, I’d have to go with Cruise.
It's great to have threads start with really good ones. That's why many of us love this place. The more sophisticated snark can be delicious. Your own offering was FR Puur-fect.
We like jokes. We like to share them, and have them understood, teller and listener alike.
Ironically, jokes themselves, how they "work", touching upon differing subject matter, combining them in ways which can provoke laughter, have subtle powers far beyond the momentary laugh, which long have been exploited. Which powers themselves can be understood from a basis of psychology, as a science...
Leaving one to be able to breezily proclaim, with a straight face and no malice;