Oddest flame war you've ever been a part of here at DU

[LynneSin]

I think I'm getting into a Flame war about cat food. Heck it's even in GD

[madinmaryland]

1. I-95 toll wars. In the Lounge no less!!

:shrug:

[LostinVA]

8. I cannot believe those tolls in DelEware

hehehehhehehehe

[LynneSin]

13. Haruka - stop posting!!!

:grr:

[LostinVA]

16. hehehehhehehe

It's me, Sissie!!!

[LynneSin]

17. Yeah right - I smell freeper all over you

and you didn't reply to my pm - which is typical Haruka

I know better!

[LostinVA]

19. I didn't see a PM -- let me go look

[LostinVA]

21. Okay, I read it and

I am talking to Haruka on the phone right now. I'm supposed to tell you, "DElEware is a fake state, and it sucks. And costs too much fucking money to rive 15 minutes."

[LynneSin]

24. Well damnit, she should stop riving in our state

And if she was nice to me I'd tell her how to avoid both the DE, MD and NJ tolls. But she's a meanie who can go kiss my ass

[LostinVA]

25. You'll saying that because you know she can't reply

You are soooo scared of her semi-Freeper ass.

[LynneSin]

26. Oh seriously - you're becoming nothing more than a mouthpiece for her

I just KNOW it!!

BTW - did you guys set a date yet?

[LostinVA]

31. Shut up, the Eagles suck

Hahhahahha -- October for sure... we are firming a date up the nexxt few days

[LynneSin]

33. I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT

If this was LostinVA she'd never say that the Eagles suck

[LostinVA]

34. I told Haruka that on the phone

I said, "What's something I can write that Lynne knows I would never say?" She was like."

THE GIANTS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!1

[idgiehkt]

2. I think

the Suze Orman 50-year old virgin lesbian sex one. It was the most fun, anyway.

[SteppingRazor]

3. The stupidest one would definitely be over use of the word "utilize." n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. The Douchebag War, hands down.

[lutefisk]

42. Do you mean the "Ralph Nader is a Douchebag" war?....n/t

[CTyankee]

44. Oh, man, I saw the way that was going and stayed out!

Ralph Nader is guaranteed to raise the collective blood pressure at DU 30 points on average.

Nothing really new in the Nader wars actually. I've been hearing the same rap against him (mine included; don't get me started!)for YEARS...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

71. No, it was literally a flamewar over the word "douchebag."

:rofl:

[omega minimo]

81. That wasn't a flamewar----- was a mob hijacking

[LostInAnomie]

55. That one got my vote too.

:crazy:

[jakefrep]

86. The Douchebag War...

...and all of the "nuclear ignore" madness that followed. It was an all-time classic hijacking of the humorless scolds in GD.

[Kutjara]

5. Flamewar over whether it's acceptable to call people "spaz."

I maintained that it was not, because the word derives from "spastic," which itself derives from the muscular spasticity that sufferers from cerebral palsey have to endure (until very recently in the UK, Australia and other countries, "spastic" was the official term for someone with CP). Therefore, I went on, "spaz" is a slur that compares the target to someone with CP, and not in a flattering way.

I was thoroughly torched for that one. It happened about three days after I joined DU and almost made me leave, on the grounds that this was truly not a progressive site. Fortunately I stayed, and had my suspicions confirmed. ;)

[ghostsofgiants]

12. "Fortunately I stayed, and had my suspicions confirmed."

HAHA!

[LynneSin]

15. I once was in a flame war about the use of the word 'midget'

Little People find the word 'midget' offensive because it was the term used back during the Carny days. They prefer Little People, Dwarf or Vertically Challenged

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Haha, South Park had an aepisode about that recently.

Hilarious? Yes. Politically correct? Not so much.

[jpgray]

45. It's a grey area where the intent is not necessarily in line with the word's origins

In other words, people who say "spaz" aren't thinking of CP, but the perception of someone who knows the word well will think they are. To me, those people should learn they are offending some people and use a different word if they want to avoid trouble--in this case it's less anybody's fault than when someone deliberately uses the word to evoke the bigoted origins. Like when grade schoolers say "gay" to mean "stupid"--not necessarily deliberate homophobia, but they need to be educated. Or when someone loves the Army of Virginia battle flag--the intent may be fine and non-racist, but people need to understand what perceptions they are creating.

[mikeytherat]

6. If a tenant's cats damage your property, is it OK to blast them with a shotgun?

That is, are you, as the property owner, justified in blasting someone's pets into little pieces because they clawed your curtains. As you might imagine, I argued that evicting the tenant was a much better option, but got into an extended flamewar with someone who insisted that blasting the kitties with a shotgun (as had actually happened in a tenant dispute) was the preferred manner to deal with the problem.

I wish I was kidding about this. I really do.

mikey_the_rat

[usaftmo]

41. Shhhhhhhhhhh....you'll give the right wing morans

an idea! They look for any excuse to use their automatic/semi-automatic weapons for whatever purposes!

[AllegroRondo]

7. I havent been in one

I guess Im just too non-confrontational.

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. I accidentally started a minor flame war about Brad Pitt a few months ago.

:shrug:

[Kutjara]

11. I think I was largely responsible for that one.

I recall ranting about Brad and Angelina in unflattering terms, and earning myself a thorough singing. I'm still trying to get the smell of smoke out of my soft furnishings.

[Name removed]

10. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[BurtWorm]

14. Without a doubt, the strangest flame war I was involved in was over Mariah Carey

and American Idol style melismatic singing. My position was that it was ruining the sound of the human voice for me. My "opponent" (who would not let go) accused me of being like parents in the 1950s, just not getting hip to this rocking and rolling racket on the radio. I tried to explain to him that rock and roll was rebellious, but this shit is straight out of the corporate can. It went back and forth and back and forth getting louder and meaner and finally he was telling me I should see a therapist to understand why I felt such hostility to Mariah Carey.

That was in the Lounge, by the way. :crazy:

[LostinVA]

18. How did I miss that???

[BurtWorm]

22. It was wa-a-a-a-ay back in 2003, I think.

It's probably lost from the archives even.

Hmmm. Methinks I'll do an advanced search...


PS: Success!:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=20928

[Madspirit]

46. Wow

I wish I had been around for that one. I hate Mariah Carey and her ilk. I was a teen and twenties in the late 60s, early 70s. I still only like ROCK!!!!

Lee

[BurtWorm]

50. You can relive it vicariously, here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=20928

I can't believe I had that "conversation!" :crazy:

[Madspirit]

51. I started reading

...and my face started getting red and feeling hot and I started getting pissed off. That's no way to start the weekend...<g>

Ahhhhhhhhhhh...but thanks.
Lee

[BurtWorm]

53. You should only know what it was like to be in it!

(Actually it was kind of fun! :evilgrin: )

:hi: Passez un bon weekend! Laissez les bons temps rouler!

[Madspirit]

58. "Passez un bon weekend! Laissez les bons temps rouler!"

Back at you! <g>
Lee

[blondeatlast]

68. OHMIGOD--I think I, of all people, started that one.

I had completely forgotten about that one. Wow, nostalgia...

Here's the post that set it off--me, of all people.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=20928#21924

[BurtWorm]

73. Kind of fun to relive it, isn't it?

:toast:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. thank you cards. angelina jolie.

[Cannikin]

27. The best way to coat your fried chicken...hands down.

Corn flakes?
Flour?
I cant recall all the ways...

[LynneSin]

29. I like using Bisquick - that's what my mom used

Bisquick and some paprika, put in a cake pan lined with Aluminum foil and put just a lil bit of Olive Oil in the pan along with the chicken - bake.

Yummy!

[LostinVA]

78. Using Bisquick is just insane

hehehehehhehehehe

[xmas74]

56. I was in that one.

The cornflake wars!

Remember when we couldn't even talk about chicken?

[Cannikin]

70. LOL I forgot about chicken being on the taboo list for a while. I'm so sorry the mods have to put..

up with us when we get that way...but it is funny to look back on.

[xmas74]

94. It was mean and funny at the same time.

I remember how everyone was purposely trying to skirt around the word "chicken".

I remember references to KFC and snarky comments about bannings over dinner. I even remember duck threads instead of chicken.

[sniffa]

28. jeez, no one said "kandi kids"?

insano thread.

[LynneSin]

30. I don't even remember that one

And I try not to miss out on any good flame wars

[sniffa]

35. this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6268073

[LynneSin]

36. I missed that one

Probably because I was never a Kandi Kid

:shrug:

But I'm not sure why anyone would find that offensive - I guess I'd have to read the deleted posts

[xmas74]

57. I missed that one!

I know what a kandi kid is-my college roommate was one.


Way too much X-not a straight edger by any means.

[LostinVA]

32. It was short and bizarre

[LSK]

37. i've never been in a flame war

:popcorn:

[CTyankee]

38. Childbirth with or without painkillers. Some guy put me on his ignore list cuz

he and his wife were zealous about NO painkillers in childbirth. My daughter had a dreadful time with her first childbirth and should have had an epidural but the doc said "too late!" and I've been angry ever since. This guy and I had a real brawl over it. He was mad as hell at me and I thought he was way too supercilious.

[Left Is Write]

40. Good grief. This guy and his wife can make decisions for themselves.

They don't get to make those decisions for you or your daughter!

[CTyankee]

43. Both of us were obviously taking the issue way too personally

and it was an emotional issue for each of us. He was defending his and his wife's "spiritual" childbirth experience and I came along and said it was way overrated, blah blah and I think he felt I demeaned his and his wife's experience. Which I didn't rally mean to do but that attitude just got to me...:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

48. I completely understand.

The birthing experience is really so individual that comparisons just can't be made from woman to woman. I wouldn't knock someone who chose medicated birth and I wouldn't knock someone who chose unmedicated. I've done it both ways, and frankly, there's a lot to be said for an epidural when you're birthing a ten-and-a-half pounder! :)

[CTyankee]

67. Whoa! I was 10.2 but my mother was "out"

That's a big baby!

I had smaller babies but I wised up with my second and third. I just had no patience with people who claim spiritual perfection with physical suffering in childbirth. I think we should all have the pain medication we need so that we don't feel pain at all. If people want to go out and be martyrs, fine, just don't do it and preach to the rest of us about your superior morality.

But, don't get me started...

[WeRQ4U]

39. It was about Aaron Neville...

And I have to admit, I was being a dick. Whoever that was...sorry.

Oh, and the one about whether GW was giving a "thumbs up" or flipping the bird.

[Shakespeare]

47. I rather enjoyed the Top Chef/Anthony Bourdain flamewar.

Good times, good times.

[bicentennial_baby]

64. Wasn't it though?!

You rocked out on that thread!! :bounce:

:loveya:

[crim son]

49. My opinion is, no, don't do it.

All other things being equal at the moment, they won't be when she's fifty and you're seventy-one. My STBE is ten years older and a very energetic man, but recently he's begun to show signs of his age and it disturbs us both... not his aging, but the difference in our energy levels, choices for entertainment, etc. None of this was apparent when I was 25.

[Karenca]

52. ? nt

[crim son]

65. I told you - Don't Do It!

No, sorry. Obviously I posted in the wrong thread and now it's too late to delete it. I apologize.

[Karenca]

66. I knew you did.

I was just playing. :hug:

[skygazer]

61. crim son dear

You've wandered into the wrong thread again. :rofl:

[crim son]

63. Bwahahahaha!

And it's too late to delete the post. Well, now you know! :rofl:

[LostInAnomie]

54. The Douchebag Thread was a molotov throwers paradise.

And the dumbest effort to censor people I have ever witnessed.

It didn't help matters that it happened at the dawn of the blocking rule.

[omega minimo]

82. What's really dumb is the claim that it was an "effort to censor people"

It was an informational thread on the history-- with pitchers!-- of a word.

What's really dumb is the inability of some to take it or leave it. That's dumb.

Attacking what ya don't understand. Definition of dumb.

Rounding up a gang to disrupt and starting a thread to announce it: dumb

Hijacking a thread with mob bullshit and claiming it was a flamewar: dumb

Crowing about it for months: dumb

Crying about being blocked after acting like that: really dumb

Being proud of all that shit: pathetic


:thumbsdown:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. Thinking your thread was actually meaningful: Priceless.

[omega minimo]

92. Don't be afraid of information

:hi: SB


Thinking yer opinion justifies all that disruptive bullshit: :evilfrown:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

93. "Information" indicates something informative.

:hi:

[jakefrep]

90. Self-appointed arbiters of political correctness..

...constantly moving the goalposts of what is and is not acceptable: DUMB!

I suspect these folks rearranged Helen Keller's bedroom furniture for shits and giggles in a previous life.

[omega minimo]

91. Don't be afraid of information

:hug:

[catbert836]

59. The Olive Garden Wars

[thefool_wa]

98. WHAT ARE THE OLIVE GARDEN WARS!!!

I hear this mentioned constantly and have yet to recieve a stisfactory explanation as to how a faux itallian restaurant that serves boil-in-bag entres can stir up the kind of emotional flamewars I hear so much about.


W T F!?

:wtf:

[xmas74]

60. Cornflakes,

breastfeeding (I was actually told on here that I had damaged my child by breastfeeding them since formula was created to be healthy and that I was also throwing all the hardwork that feminists of the past done in the toilet. My answer: by nursing I was giving a big old middle finger to the corporations.)

Drugfree childbirth (I said I had been overmedicated and wish I could remember something. I was informed that I was stupid and that drugs are there for a reason-to make you forget.)

Fat Actress-I don't know how I got involved. I think I said something like I hadn't watched it yet but heard it was funny. I was torn up in a pm.

[Guava Jelly]

62. I stumbled into a vegan flamewar once

I'll never do that again.

eeek

[Lost-in-FL]

69. Where a male Du'er was afraid someone

from the same sex would make advances on him. That is why he didn't believe on same sex marriage. That was the oddest, most ridiculous thread I have read.

[Random_Australian]

74. Ah yes, a position that makes sense. Pledging to live with someone

and getting freaking married to them is obviously the kind of thing that gets people to make advances to all sorts of people.

And of course, if someone made advances, it would fucking kill someone to say "no, I'm straight as a ruler I'm afraid" or similar.

Gragh. Oh well, back to laughing at the fools elsewhere.....

Incidentally, your description sounds very accurate. :thumbsup:

[Redneck Socialist]

72. The taxonomic classification of apes

I shit you not. In the Gungeon of all places.

The thread was ostensibly about a murderous deer hunter, but it quickly went off the rails and devolved into a debate about the relative merits of the 30-30 as a deer hunting round, Diane Feinstein, boa constrictors and the correct taxonomic classification of apes, chimpanzees and humans, all in less than 100 posts.

I wasn't the most flamey by any standards but it certainly was the oddest. Even by lounge standards it was pretty fucking bizarre.

On Edit: I also got flamed for suggesting Yankees fans were brain damaged. Given that opening day is right around the corner I feel that it is appropriate to dredge that gem up. :evilgrin:

[bicentennial_baby]

79. Um, that sounds AWESOME

:wow:

[ScreamingMeemie]

75. On whether or not it is okay to stand to the right on an escalator...

:eyes: Nuts, I tell you.

[Shakespeare]

77. Stand right, walk left...

stand right walk left stand right walk left STAND RIGHT WALK LEFT!!!!

Shakespeare, a veteran of years riding the DC subway. :7

[thefool_wa]

99. Amen

That's where I learned it too.

One should apply the Stand Right/Walk Left rule to all moving causways, both horizontal and vertical.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

87. Haha, I remember that.

Goddamn, that was funny. But after being in DC, I can see how people get pissed off with "standers," especially those who do not walk left stand right, or whatever it is. High traffic escalators like those in DC, NYC, etc. definitely need rules.

[Critters2]

95. OMG! What some people won't argue about.

Any idiot knows you don't do that :)

[BlueIris]

76. I was in a mini-one once about whether its wrong to criticize people who have fat

pets.

[skygazer]

80. Well, the Jane Fonda flamewars got pretty odd at times

Hard to pick an oddest although I guess the chicken threads will have to get my vote.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

83. Arguing in the dungeon against someone

supporting a "space energy beam weapon brought down the WTC" theory.

[Kali]

84. the word skank

it was in a wild subthread in a flamewar on Ann Coulter and the word bitch

[WritingIsMyReligion]

88. Cialis, tampons, the escalator one, innumerable rehashed ones over religion

Hell, I've seen a fair few. I love flame wars sometimes. They can be so fucking stupid.

[Phentex]

89. return your damn shopping cart

um, please?

[Critters2]

96. Saw that thread in GD, and you're right

about not buying stuff from red companies. It's tricky to stick to that, but important. Thanks for saying it.

[LynneSin]

97. Thanks for your support

my kitties are very proud to be blue kitties

[northofdenali]

100. Cat food isn't the problem.

It's the hairballs. And the thunderfeet. And the its-my-bedishness. And the myfoodnnnoooowwww.



And I have not read anything on this thread but the OP's.... and yes, the photo was there to steal, but I had it first. So there. Pooh.