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Should Barbelith have battle threads? Or Haus vs Toksik for the cruserweight belt

Jack Denfeld

09:06 / 01.02.03

Sometimes personal arguments become threadrot (I really hate some of the words I learn here). And even when the people agree with the fact that they're off topic, neither really wants to back down, in fear of looking like they lost. And even if both parties say they don't care about trying to win, they might actually care about the other members seeing their clever remarks and insults, but of course aren't going to admit it. And even though we might say we don't want to see it, and suggest for the parties to pm each other, perhaps we like seeing these mini battles. So maybe we can start having battle threads, much like the battle raps, or diss songs you might hear Jay-Z and Nas do. So when two posters get off topic and start thread rotting they can excuse themselves and start a battle thread.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:11 / 01.02.03

Fun in principle, but would probably degenerate into the type of "your mum"/"no, your mum" argument which is so much fun in real life but so crap as a text-based spectator sport, which would, I reckon, distract attention from the really good bits of the board and foster a climate of conflict.

Although I like your gladiatorial thinking...

...ahh. Let me think more, then I'll say something else. Probably.

Jack Denfeld

09:17 / 01.02.03

Well, we could put a system in place, couldn't we? System's work good. Did wonders for metric and all. Maybe each party would have to get the approval of 3 barbalonians before entering into battle.

But I really don't think there would be that many battles. Just the occasional one to keep the crowd entertained.

Spatula Clarke

13:36 / 01.02.03

I like it. Open it up a bit, though. Each time there's a feud in the offing an independant observer should choose the weapons that the combatants will have access to. Rap battles is a sound idea, but some people are going to find it impossible to keep up with others should they come face to face. Rules should be set, and the breaking of these rules mean an automatic disqualification. Providing that the rules are adhered to, and if neither party manages to clearly pull ahead, the winner will be chosen after a set number of rounds based on some form of voting system, with votes cast by, say, the ten newest board members.

Yu-Gi-Oh?

Although I like your gladiatorial thinking...

Now this I like. Barbeloids gathered together in the amphitheatre, bloodlust glittering in the sentence construction of their posts. The two combatants enter the area, togas and sandals at twenty paces. I can see Tom now, disdainful and aloof, hand raised as the crowd falls into expectant silence, their eyes fixed eagerly upon the turn of his thumb...

Mourne Kransky

18:27 / 01.02.03

There are some very fierce words exchanged in these conversational duels, bespeaking deeply held emotion and the utter conviction with which some important opinions are held. It is easy to see how the flaming can spark off and why it can become a bit intemperate.

I like the idea of using all this heat to fuel a separate thread for BarbeSpectacle but, in order to accord such verbal duelling the appropriate respect, I think we should take it into meatspace and advertise it in the Gathering.

Then, at the appointed hour, the embattled pair would assemble, with seconds, and enact the classic Monty Python scene where the two fisherman dance back and forward slapping each other in the face, in turn, with a wet herring. Thus might perspective be the more quickly restored.

Goodness Gracious Meme

19:46 / 01.02.03

That sounds like a glorious idea to me.

Do they get to have seconds, in proper duelling stylee?

8===>Q: alyn

20:41 / 01.02.03

Seconds in the European fashion, who carry the guns, or in the Japanese sense, who cut off the head of dishonored samurai?

Ganesh

20:56 / 01.02.03

Are planks allowed?

The Natural Way

20:58 / 01.02.03

Always.

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:02 / 01.02.03

as seconds?

aus

23:18 / 01.02.03

This "meatspace" herring duel idea would be impractical if the rivals are on opposite sides of the Atlantic or, even worse, the Pacific. I wouldn't fly to England just to slap someone with a herring and in turn be herring-slapped, no matter what the issue. Ah, the futility of war!

I think the original suggestion makes more sense. A contest more consistent with the art of diplomacy - i.e., a war of words.

So shut up.

Mourne Kransky

23:21 / 01.02.03

*prances daintily towards auszilla, dangling wet herring, bestriding inconveniently placed ocean like a (dainty) colossus*

*SLAP*

*runs away and cowers fearfully*

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:11 / 02.02.03

You know, it's only the fact that I don't know what auszilla looks like that stops that running as a constant film clip in my head in glorious Technicolour.

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00:35 / 02.02.03

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