Bandwagon : Everyone is doing it, so why shouldn't you?
--> This is exactly where fashion trends begin. One of the latest observable trends were hair feathers, they were huge this summer. I began noticing them in magazines and in fashion images long before the summer, but that is when I really began seeing people I know wearing them. Particularly at the pool I worked at this summer, I was able to see the trend grow through this very technique. The first week the pool opened only a few of the girls were sporting this new trend. I knew how much it cost to get these feathers put in, but i also knew how to get them cheap and put them in myself. I never wore them personally, but I made a little bit of extra money by offering them to the other guards. The first week I started I put feathers in one girl's hair, after 5 weeks I had done the same to nearly all the female guards, and one of the male guards too. I heard several "well, if you're going to get them, then I will too," and "did so-and-so get one? Okay I will too." Yup girls, jump on that bandwagon. I'm not free of this, I loved my ugg-style boots.
Either-or: suggesting there are only two choices in a complex situation
--> Either you clean your room, or you're grounded! That's one I heard a lot. To my mother, those were the only two options, but I'm pretty sure I heard this a lot more than I was ever grounded, and my room was never clean. For one reason or anther, the outcome many times was not what she argued.
Hasty Generalization: a broad claim based on a few occurrences
--> I'm from a small town and I feel this is how to explain why each town has another small town that they just don't like. The town I'm from has a particular feeling towards every other nearby town. Ex. We don't like town A because they are all snobby, we don't like town B because they are all really dumb, and town C is just a bunch of ridiculously rude people. Obviously, these statements are not true but that is how it is generalized possibly because of singular occurrences or people.
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