Isn’t that magellan person an annoying bullshit poster that lay dormant for some years, only to reappear with the same shit they always flung (a lawyer maybe, judging by the style they post?)? I thought they had been banned a long time ago.
His former claim to fame was opposing marriage rights for non heterosexuals, he’s come back to attack trans kids.
I’m imagining the lollipop guild licking their giant lollipops down to a blade-like edge around the whole circumference and then wielding them like scythes through a field of Oompa-Loompas, their heads popping off like grotesque and horrified pumpkins.
So I guess the munchkins would win (and that’s even discounting their armed forces, soldiers of which can be seen marching in Dorothy’s welcome parade). The Oompa-Loompas’ only hope would be to lure them into their chocolate factory and wage a defensive campaign a la Home Alone and the Fabian strategy of the Second Punic War, but the munchkins would be fools to pursue a war on such terms. Far better to encircle the factory and dig in for a protracted siege. Who knows? If they wait long enough, a house might fall from the sky and smite their enemies. It’s happened before, you know…
I don’t know, from the Wiki on Oompaland
According to Willy Wonka himself, the whole place is nothing but thick jungles, desolate wastes and the most horrid beasts in the world: Hornsnozzlers, Snozzwangers and Whangdoodles (beasts that, unfortunately, were never documented).
You got to expect that having lived in that hellhole, the Oompa-Loompa’s would have honed some survival skills and the sort of quasi-Russian fatalist attitude (that would serve them will in Wonka’s deathtrap of a factory) that leads to heavy munchkin losses. After all, the munchkin’s had largely buckled under the domineering threat of the Witches and the bluster of the Wizard - their armed forced may be nothing more than a paper tiger.
Okay, got that out of my system.
I read about 5 of their posts, not counting the ones I was vaguely involved in with the “Rudy lies” thread and quickly formed my “fuck them” opinion. The only good news I see was they hadn’t posted for over 4 years prior to a return less than a week ago. I hope they get tired of trolling again quickly and disappear for at least another 4.
A poster like that doesn’t really disappear, just changes socks.
Lol, you just reminded me of when my daughters used to earnestly debate who would win in a fight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Dark Angel. They never reached a definitive conclusion.
Yes, thank you.
Just for fun, I went looking for that thread. I found it, and to my surprise (well, it was over 16 years ago, after all), found that I was the OP:
I’m going down the rabbit hole of the O-L / Munchin war, and can’t help but note there was an even EARLIER thread on in 2003.
Then again, there’s the Dark Horse of the Grunka Lunka’s, it’s implied they’ve been involved in some hits.
The prior thread of @Spoons also had a 3 way battle with the Ewoks, but I think in the realm of deadly but small (side helping of cute) no one is going to beat the Niblonians. Small, cute, FTL civilization with energy weapons and the ability to swallow entire beasts in one slurp!
Your imaginative capacities are original and impressive, not to mention a little bit worrying.
Having served some years in the Navy, I find it all too easy to start thinking of how things presented in film or television can be weaponized within the *fictional world. In truth, it’s ruined most depictions of space combat for me (Star Wars most of all, but also Star Trek) as I just can’t suspend my disbelief long enough for the action to unfold (I’ve already thought of so many ways the technology in the film should have been weaponized to make the action being presented on screen utterly absurd). A rare exception is The Expanse. That’s some damn fine world-building there, right down to all the ways people have come up with to kill each other in space. Five stars out of five.
*You might be comforted to know this doesn’t extend to real life. But then you may be disquieted to consider that it’s likely because I am all too aware of how extensively things have already been weaponized in real life: I just take it for granted that militaries around the world have already thought up more ways of killing people than even I, with my warped imagination, could possibly imagine, so why bother thinking about it myself?
Agree. There’s ignorance that’s willing to learn, and there’s ignorance that fights back with an agenda. I am fervently hoping for a topic ban on the issue in the very near future.
True true, I was joking about the “worrying” aspect, but it was definitely an original take on the Lollipop Guild! 
The man is a goldfish debater. He jumps into the subject, people explain why he is wrong, he pretends to see the light (even agreeing with some posters to show how reasonable he is), but when the same subject comes up again he acts like it is the first time the subject ever came up and he asks the very same questions, gets the very same researched answers and responds the very same way. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Goldfish: “Look! There’s a castle!..Look! There’s a castle!..Look! There’s a castle!..”
Yep.
Ignorance = a lack of knowledge, but it can be cured by learning.
Ignorance that fights back with an agenda = Republicans.
Deliberate ignorance.
That and the racism.
As if I forgot the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo!
Indeed. This [censored] crawling out from under their rock reminded me of one of my biggest peeves related to the change in board software: my old settings including my ignore list were not carried forward. It took seeing only 2 of their posts to confirm that my decisions to *plonk* somebody are usually sound. *re-plonk*.
Noob named “Eep” posted a contentless OP in FQ.