Whenever I saunter into the Pit looking for a nice juicy flame to sit back and enjoy, I inevitably stumble across a couple of morons indulging in the Pit equivelant of handbags at ten paces. Y’know when you see rioters on the news who are actually wusses and they are gesturing provocatively while skipping backwards all the while? That kinda thing. It is typified by the sort of language you would expect to hear in some WWF show…
“If you gotta problem with me, BRING IT ON! I’m right here waiting f’r ya!”
Cringeworthy posturing at it’s best. Now I don’t mean to single anybody out and I certainly don’t want to give the impression that Wally is the sole perpetrator but it was his opening statement in this thread http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26424 that prompted me to post. Come on! Read it through again and tell me it isn’t embarassing.
The difference is this: When Triple H screams “Bring it on, Rock!”, Triple H is acting and getting paid big bucks for it. When Wally screams “Bring it on, Krispy!”, Wally’s NOT acting and is genuinely angry.
However, with regards to your WWF comparison… there ARE some people that I would like to choke-slam…
Oh come on. I sincerely hope that he is never actually angry in a foaming at the mouth, purple-faced frenzy kinda way because of something KO posts. Because of something ANYONE posts for that matter. Anyway, it wasn’t so much the fact that people get emotional and post, or even invite inflammatory comments…just the redneck, bar-room speak that is so laughable. “Jethro, you got a problem with me bro? Bring it aaaaawn Daddy-o!”
Don’t get yer knickers in a knot. As stated it wasn’t a personal attack on you. Just this idiotic aggressive posturing. As for a sample flame, well, I wouldn’t dream of claiming to be High Poo-Bah of Flaming. I was pointing out something that annoyed me, using the Pit as it was intended. “Bring it on, Wally! I’m right here fellar! Come right ahead!” Etc.
So, MadHun, whenever someone really pisses you off around here, (and I’m not talking about this thread–I certainly hope you can distinguish the difference between ‘that’s annoying’ and ‘I want to give that motherfucker a Colombian Necktie’) what do you do? You want to get their attention and get something settled with them. Do you sit down and refer to your MLA Handbook when writing a formal invitation for a gentlemanly duel at half past three?
Actually, a duel might be a good idea. Any Admins or Mods out there… think you can arrange this? “Wally, take ten paces, turn, and fire… Krispy, you take twenty paces…”
Whenever someone really pisses me off? Gee golly I don’t think that’s ever really happened. True I have vigorously traded insults with the gun-toting, constitution-waving contingent but none of them pissed me off. Not even Krispy with his Prozac-addled bunkum on football. Trading insults is cool as long as you’re creative, drawing attention to yourself with the sort of garbage you’d normally hear on Jerry Springer is funny and unlikely to illicit the desired response…witness “The Urge’s” tribute to martyrdom before he was banned. All sorts of hopeless babble about people having a problem with him and how they should “bring it on”…pathetic.