SURVEY: If you met your SDMB enemy

Hang in there, the year has barely begun! :stuck_out_tongue:

NADS is…okay, I don’t remember what it stands for (North Atlantic Doper Society, maybe?), but it’s a smaller MB for British and Irish Dopers. The Australians and New Zealanders have their own MB, too.

Well, I’m pretty sure if I met up with any of my FEMALE Doper-haters; We’d probably wind up in the thrawls of passion by the end of the night. :stuck_out_tongue:

Just say’n.

Great. Now I get to feed my social paranoia with this thread.
Enemies seems a bit strong–I doubt I have any enemies in my life.

Adversaries or people who just plain don’t like me–well, I’ve got a special on those…*

I exaggerate.
But that’s more interesting than “I get along with everyone”, no?
*

** I’m grown up, so it is more the case-I do get along with most people.

I’m boring–I need some drama.

I don’t argue enough to have enemies, just some Dopers who I think are dicks. Online, I deal with people like this by not wasting my time on them, and would probably do the same in real life.

So A. Nothing extreme or showy like refusing to be in the same room with them, just enojying the evening with other people.

I think I would also have to go with “G.” That’s one of the weird things about meeting Dopers - here you are, talking to these strangers that you already know stuff about. I think you’d have to start the clock at zero, regardless of any animosity you may have felt in the past. I can only think of one poster on the Dope who I would have some qualms about meeting, and it isn’t you, msmith. :smiley:

I think we have just received the Straight Dope on how to be an SDMB moderator…

Ah, it all makes sense now.

I’d take a shot at option B. If they responded in dick-like fashion, I’d just move on and ignore them. I can get along with a lot of people in real life who’s views on certain subjects I find repugnant (my wife’s whole family is a bunch of rabid Bush supporters and I get along great with them). I would be likely to make some sort of genuine effort to be congenial. I would not actively seek out any sort of confrontation (but I’d be happy to finish something if they felt like starting).

Just so we actually have some “enemies” to talk about, I hereby declare Dio and Kyla to be my “enemies.”

Now we need to find some place in the center of the country we can meet at, have a few beers, and answer START’s question.

Actually, I should declare START my enemy. He’s local…I could be having a beer with him tomorrow evening!

For those who asked, NADS is a spin off board from the SDMB. It was originally intended as somewhere we don’t have to explain Britishisms, and it’s mainly populated by British and Irish dopers and former dopers, though its by no means exclusive with plenty of different nationalities, including Americans. NADS stands for Non-American Dopers Society.

And Quartz, while I have never met you (or interacted with you online, to the best of my memory), I have been to several NADSfests/UK dopefests and they have all been extremely amicable. I sincerely doubt you would be in any danger attending one. I know you’ve been to UK Dopefests in the past and from what I heard of them it seemed like everyone (you included) had a great time and got on well. I’m sorry you don’t feel that you would be comfortable coming along to future gatherings.

Well, that goes without saying, right? Like I’d be friends with a Dodgers fan anyway!

Doper enemies? I have no Doper enemies–living.

That can work great. I like to turn on the sweet-and-reasonable switch when people are making asses of themselves, because it throws their attitude into such relief. They can’t have the slightest excuse of being goaded into it, and it sometimes makes them even madder.

If she was female then we would get in some sort of messy food fight. Maybe one that ended up in water if we really hated each other. If he was male then he would be forbidden from watching said fight.

I would flick boogers at my hyopthetical Doper nemesis.