What (serious) flamewars sadistically amuse you?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I always used to lurk at the North/South bang-em-ups in GD. Regional bashing! How 1850's! Saw a lot of Preston's with their canes flapping around.

The Olive Garden flamewar was classic as well. I missed the beginning but came in right in time to see the thing explode into epic proportions as multiple threads ravaged the Lounge, decrying all Loungers of any taste (good, bad, weird, elitist, vulgar, anything) at all.

Then there was the enormous, multi-forum explosion over the ethics (or lack thereof, depending on who you asked) at "that other progressive website" that got several old-timers banned, including the starter of said website. I was horrified, and yet it was like a car crash. You wanted to see who got burned next, who started the next angry thread, etc. That one was awful.

On Edit: I forgot my own Cialis flamewar. That one was fascinating, if disturbing. Who knew people could be so defensive of boner pills?

[terrya]

1. I didn't like the "other forum" one.

A friend of mine got banned over it.

In my opinion, the person who started that "other forum" was an asshole. Again, my opinion.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Yeah, I thought that way about him, too.

:evilgrin:

I figure that all flamewars can be so ridiculous that it's good to laugh about them. If you can't laugh about a flamewar, you have far too much invested in it to be healthy.

[terrya]

4. There was a bit of amusement for me...

when Skinner posted in the Lounge about the rule of not referring to it. It was seriously amusing to read some of the "who, me?" comments in there by people who were clearly regulars over there. :-)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. I wish I could find that announcement again.

Or the classic one about chicken. To this day I still regret missing the chicken flamefest.

[Goblinmonger]

30. Cause you are so damn cool

Here it is (I have it bookmarked cause it is hilarious)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3499154

[WritingIsMyReligion]

35. So damn cool!

:blush:

Thankee!

[Goblinmonger]

27. This guy?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2507034

[terrya]

44. No...

He ran "the other site"

Always posted that stupid popcorn smiley whenever he posted here.

He was such an asshole.

[flvegan]

3. Death penalty threads

They make me laugh and cry at the same time. Most flamefests at least have 2 (or more) sides to them. This one (in my opinion alone, of course) really only has one reasonable one.

I'll probably get flamed for saying that.

Of course, I'm the "humane eggs flamewar" guy, so...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. Death penalty threads are always interesting.

The Tookie Williams multi-day, multi-forum dust-up was a classic. :scared:

[thefool_wa]

17. must *** resist *** urge *** to flame ** this ** is the lounge....

There are always at least two sides to every issue.

Usually three or four. Just because we hold an opinion doesn't mean it is the only valid one.

[flvegan]

21. Yes, there are two sides.

One advocating revenge, and one working for punishment.

The Death Penalty is revenge, based in human emotion. Nothing more, nothing less. Flame away.

[thefool_wa]

52. I respectfully decline

as I am no mood for flamewars and this is my least favorite of them all...

:P

[sasquatch]

6. I really like the ones that involve Breastfeeding now

I used to start some of those North/South ones in GD. I started one this year in the lounge on MLK day, wonder if there's any correlation there?
:shrug:
I inedvertedly started one on Hippy bashing in the lounge one day, but it was epic.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. The inadvertent ones are the weirdest.

My Cialis one--I seriously did NOT know there were people so invested in the drug. I merely complained about the idiocy of the ads, and their lack of any taste or subtlety.

You never know what people will blow up about.

[thefool_wa]

18. The lounge is definitely not a flame free zone

I jumped on a lady who was accusing a couple of "abusing" her children because she had them in a restaurant at 9pm on the weekend before christmas. And this was not the only flame-war in this thread - this lady really called in the rain of fire.

It was brutal, back and forth for like 2 days until the thread was finally locked. Even the OP came in on several strings and said

"MY GOD - THIS IS THE LOUNGE - CAN'T YOU PEOPLE JUST LET IT GO!"

The answer - of course - was no. The only way to stop an unruly flame war once it is started is to get the thread locked. Afterward I realized that I got caught up in the flame war myself and PM'd the OP to apologize for getting out of hand, which elicited an apology from her as well.

We can't all say that our flame-wars have ended that way, I was very pleased.

[HEyHEY]

8. All of them

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Good answer.

:P

:hi:

[GirlinContempt]

55. Ditto

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. The Code Pink flamewars going in in GD right now....

Ol' Midge Potts outfit from yesterday is causing quite a stir.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x436576

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=436695&mesg_id=436695

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=435899&mesg_id=435899

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x437018

[BulletproofLandshark]

13. Yes, and I stupidly walked right in the middle of it

I didn't think a mild act of civil disobedience would provoke such anger. Not exactly "Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus" type stuff

[SusanaMontana41]

25. Agreed!

That's why I'm here. Just visited the "bath vs. shower" thread for advice on the best way to get clean again ...

[Shine]

12. I try to stay away from flamewars, personally.

I guess I am amused, and also saddened sometimes, by how attached people can get to their opinions. It's almost as if they identify so fully with them that any sort of disagreement is seen as a personal attack, which is just plain silly sometimes. That said, people can also be quite nasty and disrespectful of other points of view. It's frustrating and yet very metaphoric for what happens on the global level, as well. I bear witness, but try not to get sucked into the drama of it all.

That's my two cents.

:hi:

[acmavm]

14. Anyone else remember the one over the use of the word 'bitch'?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. Which one?

:P

[TOhioLiberal]

43. all 8 of em...

:rofl:

[acmavm]

46. The first one. The one that lasted for days and days.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. The "douchebag" war was my favorite.

[Midlodemocrat]

24. It will go down in history as the greatest hijacking evah.

Some folks don't see it that way, though.

:rofl:

[Goblinmonger]

28. What has THAT got to do with global warming?

:rofl:
:rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

59. This exchange on "Douchebag" was one of the highlights of DU evah! :

Jakefrep: If every house in America had a bidet....
...there would be no need for douchebags.

LynneSin: Yes but what if there are more people than bidets in a home...
What if I live in a home with 4 people but there is only 1 bidet to share amongst us. What would I do if I felt I needed a bit of freshening but someone was on the bidet already. At that time, perhaps, a douchebag could fill in a pinch - you never know!

Jakefrep: If someone spends THAT much time on a bidet...
...they've got bigger problems than just an "unfresh" feeling.

LynneSin: Why do you hate unfresh people - they have rights too you know...
You probably segregate them at gathering - if you smell dirty go stand over there in that other corner away from us fresh people.

You are an unfreshaphobe

Jakefrep: The "unfresh" people caused 9/11...
besides, who wants to hang out with stank-ass peeps?

LynneSin: Well this wouldn't be a problem if we had douchebags for EVERYONE or at least multiple bidets in every house
Why do you hate baby Jesus?

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"unfreshaphobe" -- classic!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[thefool_wa]

16. Breastfeeding

My wife calls me the worlds only militant male breastfeeding proponent. I love reading all the stupid arguments against it, and I even like participating whenever the subject comes up.

My favorite thing to do is to tell the anti-breastfeeding women in the discussions that they only oppose breastfeeding because men have oppressed them into thinking that their boobs are not there for what God intended them.

I just love it. It makes me giggle. And what's best is that this is something I will argue endlessly because I am right: breasts were put there to feed babies.

aside: what is with the Olive Garden flame wars? this seems to be something that spans boards across the internet. I've never read or participated in them and I have a hard time believing that boil-in-bag itallian food could ruffle the ires of everyone. So, WTF?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. i was flamed about not sending thank you cards. its was vastly amusing.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

37. I remember that.

"ONG U DIDNT SEND THANK U CARDS!!1!1?!1!??"

:eyes:

:D

[trof]

20. North-South, fer sure.

As a newbie, I used to bite.
Live and learn.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

38. I used to bite, too.

Played devil's advocate: "Those fucking southerners..."

:P

Don't bother anymore.

[sasquatch]

45. I occasionally still bite sometimes too!

You can see in my avatar which side I take up.

[rockymountaindem]

22. Pretty much all of them

The fact that people fight over such stupid shit like Olive Garden always amuses me. As for the ones over more serious matters, I just like to see people expressing themselves vigorously, regardless of whether or not they're on my side.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

40. Sometimes I like to wade into flamewars and laugh at the people involved.

:evilgrin:

[zanne]

51. Hey--let's talk about guns and religion! nt

[SOteric]

23. See my sigline.

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

41. LOL.

:rofl:

Nice.

:thumbsup:

[BluePatriot]

61. LOL

I love that graphic!

[DainBramaged]

26. Over a squirrel

You remember, the one where one side valued the life of a squirrel over the life of a human.


I even found a site that had squirrel recipes. http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html

[KG]

29. i enjoy nader bashing threads, it's like listening to cavemen grunting.

:hi:

[DainBramaged]

32. I enjoy listening to the Nader supporters, like elephant farts in the zoo

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :nuke: :puke:

[KG]

34. that's cool. dude. not many people would admit to enjoying hearing to elephants fart.

dig the smell, too?

[DainBramaged]

39. Wait, I forgot something in that reply, look again.

[realisticphish]

31. I love reading GD flamewars

I always look for locked threads first :D

[AwakeAtLast]

53. And I thought I was the only one!

:hi:

[datasuspect]

33. that's why i have this new sigline

[sniffa]

42. kandi kids

bestest, most ridicuLous, fLame war evah!!!

[WindRavenX]

48. wtf was that about

I was v. confused! :crazy:

[Karenca]

49. It was a thread about kandi kids -- and

was misconstrued as a personal attack. I think it ended up getting locked.

[JackBeck]

54. My most recent fav.

Too bad it was locked.

[Karenca]

47. kandi kids........too funny. eom

[T_i_B]

50. Any thread on obesity...

...usually ends in a flame war. The funny thing is that you can never work out where the flames are going to come from. It could be a thin person claiming that we are discriminating against thin people, a fat person claiming we discriminate against fat people, bogus science being used to claim that being 10 stone overweight is OK, dodgy surgical procedures to lose weight the unnatural way...I could go on here.

[Lautremont]

56. SUV threads.

"How else am I supposed to haul my big boat around / take my 8 kids to Mickey D's / negotiate that tricky patch of gravel in my driveway?"

[name not needed]

57. Fat Actress

[libodem]

58. You said 'boner pills'

ha ha ha 'boner pills' :7

[Little Wing]

60. 300 threads amused me until about 6 minutes ago. Holy shit

I've seen the end of the Internet staring back at me, and boy it was dark

[Ekirh]

62. Damn you . .

I was coming in to post 300 . .

Well I'll just say I concur with this poster about the 300 . .

I haven't particpated in them though . . I'm a very rare G.D poster.. (Which means non-existence considering I'm a are D.U Lounge poster heh)

[Tektonik]

63. that 300 thread should be locked

so misdirected and pointless

[PassingFair]

64. Porn

Ouch!
Those are so SERIESSSS!!!1!