When I first registered, I did a forumn jump and I visited GD thinking I might see a thread on some of the truly great debates, you know, Ginger or Mary Ann? Beatles or Stones? Paper or plastic? But no, it was mostly all religous stuff. Imagine my disapointment.
Dangit! How am I going to keep the lead in Pit threads about moderators if you actually say nice things about me?
(Though it does worry me a bit that you know how I smell.)
Well, you could just ignore the religious threads, ya know. There are a number of others (for example, recently there have been more election threads than you thought possible in a single place).
Hey, red! Yer beautiful! I couldna said it any better myself!
After I read your OP I immediately started composing the Bush/Gore GD thread in my mind, and when I got to the end I found you’d done it better than I possibly could have.
Sometimes I get that grim impotent feeling because I don’t often post in GD…or even open the forum half the time…but I like to feel that my input to GQ* pays the rent for my excursions into IMHO, MPSIMS, and the Pit.
This is not to say that I do not share the immense respect for David B and the unhealthy obsession with Gaudere that all good Dopers enjoy. But after I get tired of banging my own head against the brick wall, I don’t necessarily get kicks from watching others bang theirs.
Put the garlic into the hot olive oil only AFTER the onions have been sauteeing for at least five minutes.
The drummer on that particular date was Art Taylor.
None of you realize that Great Debates is just a clandestine physics experiment in which skilled experimenters are engaged in watching what happens when particle and anti-particle collide.
Nah. You just have to know whose messages give off the light and whose are merely heat. Those of us who are zestfully clean, for example, always give off enough light to turn night into day.
Sounds like my type of debate, imthjckaz…Let’s do it! Those are debates that I have often spent more than a minute on, anyway. And I’m tired of the election chatter. Let’s get to where its really at. The hotties on Gilligan’s Island. What to put your groceries in…
From what I’ve seen in GD, it’s filled with pointless head-butting and windmill jousting nonsense. If those individuals wish to waste their time and energy arguing until they’re blue in the face, well let them. Those arguments have nutty-buddy’s chance in heck or being won because of the nature of the combatants. Do these people actually think that they are going to change the mind of their polar opposites?
fundie: “I guess maybe gays should adopt children, but God still hates them.”
athiest: “Well, I guess that’s a good enough compromise. Hey, lets go to mass together!”
republican: “Let’s all go down to the Liertarian party HQ and sign up right now!”
democrat: “How could I have been so stupid as to vote for a party who’s symbol is a donkey…what a fool I have been.”
Oh dear. I’m so pleased to get a laugh out of this. It’s a pity your existence is forfeit to the great Mods of GD. Farewell, brave casdave. Your spirit will be missed.
I like reading GD, but I don’t actually get involved in many debates. Not because there’s so many of the same debates, mind you. It’s because I’m bright enough to know that one should not engage in battles of wits when one is unarmed, and the GDenizens would positively toast my ass.
