Not long ago, on this forum, I took polite exception to an apparently professional pilot's joking remark that to go up, you pull the stick back and to go down you pushed it forward. What's so hard about that?
I don't think he had any idea what I was talking about when I suggested that the throttle/power lever was actually the up/down control. Several others jumped in to complain that I was talking nonsense. "Try telling that to somebody taking off," one snarked.