Alrightee; the *other* most contentious topic on DU?

[BlueIris]

Poll question: Alrightee; the *other* most contentious topic on DU?

I left off all the economic topics again, sorry. I also realized that I left off "weight, weight loss, weight issues and eating habits/dieting trends." My bad.

[saltpoint]

1. I propose "Chuck Connors: Was He Underrated?"

Conners played The Rifleman, one of the more popular tv westerns.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175488/bio

But I think his apex was in Robert Altman's A WEDDING, in which I believe he had only one speaking line: "Hell, I'll walk through your goddamned line."

One of the most perfectly delivered sentences in the history of film.

[BlueIris]

3. Well, I thought that might be too "hot" for this poll.

You know how quickly a testy Chuck Connors thread can degenerate into total flamage. I just wanted to keep this poll civilized.

[saltpoint]

5. I understand. Chuck's an explosive personage, no question.

Still, my feelings are hurt that he wasn't included.

[Buzz Clik]

7. Good choice.

My experience is that every thread with Chuck Connors even mentioned in the OP was locked within minutes.

Howard Cosell can be blamed for some of this. If I recall correctly, Connors made an appearance on Cosell's short-lived, "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell". After one of the skits, Howard was ragging on Connors saying that Howard had witnessed Connors's less-than-stellar baseball career, and, after Connors's final at-bat, Cosell said he was convinced that he had witnessed Connors striking out for the final time. "However, after seeing tonight's performance, oh how wrong I was."

Now THAT's entertainment!

[saltpoint]

10. Shhhhh! You're playing with FIRE here! One passing reference to the

Cosell-Connors dust-up and this whole place will go up in smoke!

Of course I'm the one to blame. I brought it up in the first place.

O dear god what have I done?

[BlueIris]

14. You crazy instigator, you.

The mods may have to beat you down later.

[saltpoint]

24. ALERT: THIS IS ONE OF DU'S MODERATORS. WE'RE TAKING CARE OF

THAT JERK CRUSOE RIGHT NOW.

HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS SO YOU CAN HEAR ME OVER THE SCREAMS FOR MERCY.

OVER AND OUT.

[omega minimo]

11. U spelt "tasty" wrong

"You know how quickly a testy Chuck Connors thread......"


You forgot the main category:

"ANYTHING ABOUT SEX"





Right now, "terminology" is in the lead and "DU Rules" has zero votes. It's the same category, not two. Its all right there, really clear.

What people have trouble with is not the terms, but an understanding of "respect" -- which the Rules depend on.

[BlueIris]

18. When I made the "DU rules" option a separate category, I was thinking of incidents like

the near-meltdown over the "thermonuclear ignore" feature.

[Buzz Clik]

2. What about: "The incessant appearance of annoying polls."?

[BlueIris]

4. 'Kay, when I make my third pair of polls about contentious DU subject matter,

I'll be sure to include your feedback.

[BlueIris]

6. Ooo, someone finally voted for the validity of the childfree life.

Nice. I thought that one would have more votes by now.

[Caution]

8. Where is this normally discussed on DU?

I don't think I have EVER seen that brought up anywhere but in this poll. Are people actually condemning this lifestyle choice?

This is a question my wife and I are struggling with right now. We're 33 and have been putting off making a decision one way or the other for years. I'd love to see some intelligent discussion from the people who have decided against having children as this is where we are leaning.

[BlueIris]

9. It's come up a lot in the Lounge and in GD.

True, it seemed to come up more often in '05 than in '06 or this year, but I last remember posting about it in mid-'06, and, as usual, seeing a lot of hostile comments from folks who just don't understand why some of us choose to remain childfree. They viewed even the mildest comments about our values as personal attacks aimed at the parents of the world. Blech. If I were you, I'd go search some blogs or read some self-help books. I don't think DU is really the place for intelligent discussion of this issue.

[MedleyMisty]

12. edit

delete, I guess

[BlueIris]

16. Hey. I hadn't had a chance to read that yet.

Spoil-sport.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict and religion vs atheism ought to be on there.

Two of the most acrimonious subforums I've found are I/P and R&T

[BlueIris]

15. Apparently, you totally missed my other poll.

I/P beat Religion/Spirituality/Theology by a mile.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x366808

[Little Wing]

17. What is the point of these polls?

They prove nothing, and only remind everyone of the crap that gets passed off as debate

[BlueIris]

20. Thoughtful.

Didn't realize a poll here had to "prove" anything. As I posted in one of the other ones, I'm just curious to see what we all think of each other. Also, especially today, I'm finding them useful for helping me flesh out my ignore list.

[Little Wing]

21. Clever. You really snuck that in, gee, I'm glad you're not subtle or anything

cause that would've flown right over my head :eyes:

[Renew Deal]

19. PETA

:hide:

[BlueIris]

22. Yeah, that smilie is appropriate for that post.

And I post that as a person who has to hide the PETA threads.

[BlueIris]

23. Geeze, the language issue is so much more popular than I thought it would be.

You learn something new everyday.