The Beatles Fallacy

The Beatles Fallacy is the hegemonic misconception among hack musicologists that the British Rock band The Beatles were "revolutionary" or "groundbreaking" in the history of music, ignoring earlier rock and roll, garage, and politically relevant songwriting; the Beatles are mistakenly assumed to have invented or been the "most influential" in the myriad styles they performed, despite the existence of contemporaries like The Rolling Stones, The Sonics, etc., and the pre-existence of like way harder albums than Revolver.

NOTE: The Beatles Fallacy is related to the misconception that Rock and Roll prior to 1960 was all hokey crap, and is the bastard stepchild of the Elvis Hypothesis, crediting "The King" with the invention of Rock and Roll, thereby ignoring shit black people had been doing for like 10 years.

The Beatles are obviously the most influential rock band of all time," said Adam the music hack, espousing The Beatles Fallacy.

by barry b September 16, 2010

The At-The-End-Of-The-Day Fallacy

A Type of Fallacy that only apologists use to dismiss the action of re-evaluating their position and to re-verify, then to only dismiss said statement or argument as fallacy, false, or incorrect.

First off, you're assuming that the family will say "the children". Not all Christian families will say that, and each individual member may have a different answer.

Second, you assume Christian families do that, but you have yet to back it up. Their reaction is not proof, they could be shocked for a number of reasons, as in, they maybe be shocked that you think something so incorrect. Even so, most families will just look at you weirdly or laugh, and say no.

At the end of the day, you have no proof; you have not fulfilled your BoP. Vote con.

A not-so-famous example of The At-The-End-Of-The-Day Fallacy!

by BM99 September 25, 2018

fallace

a device used by women to pleasure themselves

adam: "my fallace is stuck in my ass greg"
greg: "dude should if i stick my dick in your ass, will that help?"

by matt May 13, 2005

fallange

1: general term for a dimwit or idiot

2: another name for the female sexual part

1: YOU are a fallange

2: "can i see your fallange?"; "nice fallange.."

by lightscameraaction April 9, 2009

falla

A person who is usually a failer , this person may be on drugs or had had no success in things such as relationships. Often being the type of person that's kind and fun to hang with but not someone people should get involved with to deeply.

I think my friend might be a falla .

by Trinity Gumdrop July 9, 2017

Strawman Fallacy

What 99% of the definitions and examples on Urban Dictionary articles that have even the smallest relationship with religion and/or politics.

Strawman Fallacy:
From UD's humanist entry: "Ha, you believe in God? We humanists are smarter than you because we think we are just going to rot in a hole in the ground and that the universe just appeared on it's own one day."

"And that is smart because...?"

"Uh... gay pride?"

"God have mercy on these morons..."

Strawman Fallacy: From UD's entry on liberal: 2. "I hate liberals. Stupid pinko liberals are ruining America."
"Yeah, damn liberals and their...their...liberty. Psht, this is America, we don't need liberty. God bless America."
"Hey, wait..."

by Flambe December 18, 2009

sunk cost fallacy fallacy

The fallacy that anyone who has incurred a sunk cost and refuses to stop an activity. IE, applying the sunk cost fallacy when it should not be used.

Joe: Man, Jill has already blown like 1000 bucks on video games. She shouldn't buy any more.

John: Ya, but the next game is only a dollar and it is worth 5 bucks to her. Sunk cost fallacy fallacy, man.

by atomicplatypus November 9, 2011