Here is some more data. Actual video of a lion going head to head with a tiger.
He says English isn’t his first language. It gets on my nerves when Dopers rag on some guy for poor grammar whose first language isn’t English. Can those being critical even speak a second language?
Give the guy a break.
Wow, that lion had the jabs scoring. He won that round on the basis of punches landed. Well, and the fact that the tiger rolled over on his back to fight the last minute of the round. Pretty sure that should have been a 10-count.
I will also use My Lord’s incredible list of cites as “find the real cite” camouflage for some future thread.
They might- both the Asiatic lion and the Bengal tiger are found in India, though admittedly the sole location of the lions is currently at least a few hundred miles from the nearest tiger habitat, that’s not always been the case; historically they certainly would have met, and it might happen again, you never know.
I don’t believe him. He appears to be doing this on purpose to me. I don’t see any indication that he is not fluent in English.
He even admits that it’s only because he’s “lazy” and not because his English is deficient.
I too find his single minded devotion to the topic quite entertaining. It’s particularly hilarious how he somehow feels that with a newer PC he could somehow triple his citations. As though lion v. tiger fights were the new bitcoin.
Oh leave him alone team. It’s a didactic thread which will die of natural causes. No harm done, this is the quirky stuff which makes life interesting.
Wow, that thread is still rolling? I figured the lions would have won by now and moved on to something else to kill.
I don’t care if he keeps doing it. It could become a Dope classic. His writing has improved, a little. But the early stuff was unreadable, and I have a high tolerance for that. I like the current situation where people are goading him to provide more cites.
Wow. That reminds me of some obscure academic debates I’ve witnessed from time to time (not at the AAGs*, never! okay, maybe occasionally…), except that this guy provides more cites – more power to him.
*Association of American Geographers.
I’m visualizing a spinoff of Deadliest Warrior on Animal Planet. My Lord is at a large computer calculating thousands of battles between lions and tigers and . . . [not going to say it] . . . where’s the outcome? Find out next time, when he upgrade’s.
They totally already had a show like that. I believe lion vs tiger was one of the episodes, and the lion won.
The thread itself is hilarious. I hope it never dies. There are less interesting things to go crazy over than lions and tigers fighting.
I will love that thread forever, just for producing this gem, which might be my all-time favorite post in the whole world.
Hey! I remember that! It was called Animal Face Off. The Asiatic Lion did beat the Bengal Tiger.
However, an African lion lost to a Nile crocodile in another episode, so lions may not be all that. They also did Hippopotamous vs. Bull Shark (Go, Hippo!), among others. Sadly, no episode featured “Batman vs..”
Tigers rule. Lions are little bitches. Fuck a lion.
I can think of worse ways to try and spice up a Friday night, but not many.
I’m really beginning to like that thread. What’s particularly mirth inducing right now is how posters (shout outs to Tripolar, Indian) are starting to copy the wall of cites style. It’s fucking fantastic!
I think you guys are misunderstanding this thread. It’s not really a pitting. No one’s mad at My Lord, and no one really is attacking him, although the freedom of the Pit is allowing them to do some harmless name calling.
The Pit is the only place we can say anything negative about other posters (save maybe ATMB), even if the gripe is rather small. The fact that people are not really insulting him is a pretty good indication that no one really thinks that badly of him.
This, by the way, is what I consider snark. And it’s much tamer than what passes for snark on some other boards. I don’t think I’d mind people saying this stuff about me. (Unless I was in a really, really foul mood)
Y’know what’d win in a battle in the wild? Not the lion, not the tiger, but the snark!
As it should be.