The setting: A conference meeting in Zurich on computational models in astrophysics. It's the end of the third day and the discussion section on the presented talks has just started.
Chair: So today's results can be summed up as "Your simulations suck!".
Audience member: Don't you mean, "Our simulations suck!"?
Chair: No, no, I mean your simulations suck!
Audience member: Okay. Just so long as we clarify that.
And so begins a debate on one of the oldest topics in the world; are girls really better than boys? Oh, wait, no, I mean the other longest debate... particle codes or grid codes?
[An hour later]
Chair: So what we're really saying is it's all the observers' fault?
[Mass cheering]
....sigh....
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