PPOT Rules of Debate (for those of you who missed the memo)

[Dottore]

Since (as is apparent from other threads) some of you didn’t get the memo about the new PPOT Debating Rules, I thought I should draw the key points to your attention.

They’re really quite simple.

1. Forget facts. Facts are not important. Important is that you weigh in on a subject as though you understood it. When you know absolutely nothing about a topic, a quick look at Wiki will bring you up to speed in no time. Quote liberally from Wiki, but always disguise your quote, because, hey, everyone else is reading Wiki too.

2. Logic? What’s that? No need to be rational. Just say whatever comes to your mind. If anyone disagrees with you just call them names. (*******, asshat and douchenozzle are perennial favorites.) And if that doesn’t work, mail the mods in a huff and ask them to move the thread to PARF.

3. Post frequently on the gun threads. This will give you a certain gravitas that is highly respected here.

4. Finally, and most importantly, you must carefully construct, cultivate and mythologize your on-screen persona. This will make you irresistible to the new generation of grasshoppers on PPOT.

You could for example be a Falstaffian, Zorbaesque guru of infinite wisdom, taste and prescience, who is disturbingly close to his mother and whose only vice is gluttony. Or you could be an international man of mystery who drives important people to exotic lands on a jet plane, drinks flagons of whisky and rogers his cabin crew thrice daily, and then posts at length about his solitary adventures on the Hershey Highway from distant hotel rooms. Or you could be a mysterious man of action who writes poetry and draws ancient dragons, drives the best car in automotive history, dates scary black Russian lesbians with PhDs on internet forums, and spends long nights alone sharpening his Katana sword. Or you could keep it simple and just be a completely daft religious nut job who quotes scripture in reply to every issue raised. Or even better: a rock star! The possibilities are endless, and the only limit your imagination.

Hope this helps.

[kaisen]

I disagree, douchehat!!

Why isn't this in PARF!?

[vash]

great stuff.

[GH85Carrera]

This should end in a fight, or debate.

I is impossible to "debate" someone that sees a fact in a different way than you can imagine possible.

Many topics are what one person sees as a fact and it really just an opinion. "Because I KNOW this to be true you must be wrong". If I believe that pink unicorns are real there is no way to prove me wrong and that applies to any strongly held belief.

[BRPORSCHE]

I see this thread going down the hershey highway quickly.

Azzhat.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Well played sir, I can't even discipher if that should have been typed in green. In which case I will default to calling you a douchebag and move on with my day.

[herr_oberst]

This is too damn funny. Best thing, you're safe from retribution, because the illustrations you cite won't recognize themselves - rock-star included, because he comes across as too modest to see himself as one.

[Roosterrusek]

Only two appropriate ways to insult here....

When referring to a male, the term is "douchenozzle".

When referring to a chick, the term is "swampdonkey".

[Roosterrusek]

Originally Posted by Roosterrusek

Only two appropriate ways to insult here....

When referring to a male, the term is "douchenozzle".

When referring to a chick, the term is "swampdonkey".

So...as an example, when someone wants to smack down Dipso, they say "Dipso, you are such a swampdonkey"

[Tervuren]

I should edit Wikipedia with rules of debate other than what is posted here, and then prove you wrong!!! But my time is far more important because I'm not a ******* like the rest of you morons.

[pwd72s]

I feel slighted

[Taz's Master]

Originally Posted by Dottore

Since (as is apparent from other threads) some of you didn’t get the memo about the new PPOT Debating Rules, I thought I should draw the key points to your attention.

They’re really quite simple.

1. Forget facts. Facts are not important. Important is that you weigh in on a subject as though you understood it. When you know absolutely nothing about a topic, a quick look at Wiki will bring you up to speed in no time. Quote liberally from Wiki, but always disguise your quote, because, hey, everyone else is reading Wiki too.

2. Logic? What’s that? No need to be rational. Just say whatever comes to your mind. If anyone disagrees with you just call them names. (*******, asshat and douchenozzle are perennial favorites.) And if that doesn’t work, mail the mods in a huff and ask them to move the thread to PARF.

3. Post frequently on the gun threads. This will give you a certain gravitas that is highly respected here.

4. Finally, and most importantly, you must carefully construct, cultivate and mythologize your on-screen persona. This will make you irresistible to the new generation of grasshoppers on PPOT.

You could for example be a Falstaffian, Zorbaesque guru of infinite wisdom, taste and prescience, who is disturbingly close to his mother and whose only vice is gluttony. Or you could be an international man of mystery who drives important people to exotic lands on a jet plane, drinks flagons of whisky and rogers his cabin crew thrice daily, and then posts at length about his solitary adventures on the Hershey Highway from distant hotel rooms. Or you could be a mysterious man of action who writes poetry and draws ancient dragons, drives the best car in automotive history, dates scary black Russian lesbians with PhDs on internet forums, and spends long nights alone sharpening his Katana sword. Or you could keep it simple and just be a completely daft religious nut job who quotes scripture in reply to every issue raised. Or even better: a rock star! The possibilities are endless, and the only limit your imagination.

Hope this helps.

Should this post be submitted to wikipedia as an illustration of irony or sanctimony?

[BeyGon]

I know you are just trolling but you forgot one description

Il Dottore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[creaturecat]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

I know you are just trolling but you forgot one description

Il Dottore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Jeff Higgins]

That was all way too hard to understand, so, if you don't mind, I will continue to contribute as the resident drunken Irish, gun toting, Harley riding bastard I am. Anyone who believes a god damn thing I say does so at their peril.

[Jim Richards]

Rebuttals should always take on one of the the following two forms:

"So, you prefer that (insert stoopid blather here)?" or

"So, you're saying that (insert made up fecal matter)?"

And make sure to use the term asshat liberally, and the term liberal as only a fascist fanatic can. Unless of course you're a leftist/commie. Then you must call out the mouthbreathers.

Debate? We doan need no stinkin' debate!

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Dottore

Hope this helps.

Yes it does.

Thanks for the tips.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Dottore

Since (as is apparent from other threads) some of you didn’t get the memo about the new PPOT Debating Rules, I thought I should draw the key points to your attention.

They’re really quite simple.

1. Forget facts. Facts are not important. Important is that you weigh in on a subject as though you understood it. When you know absolutely nothing about a topic, a quick look at Wiki will bring you up to speed in no time. Quote liberally from Wiki, but always disguise your quote, because, hey, everyone else is reading Wiki too.

2. Logic? What’s that? No need to be rational. Just say whatever comes to your mind. If anyone disagrees with you just call them names. (*******, asshat and douchenozzle are perennial favorites.) And if that doesn’t work, mail the mods in a huff and ask them to move the thread to PARF.

3. Post frequently on the gun threads. This will give you a certain gravitas that is highly respected here.

4. Finally, and most importantly, you must carefully construct, cultivate and mythologize your on-screen persona. This will make you irresistible to the new generation of grasshoppers on PPOT.

You could for example be a Falstaffian, Zorbaesque guru of infinite wisdom, taste and prescience, who is disturbingly close to his mother and whose only vice is gluttony. Or you could be an international man of mystery who drives important people to exotic lands on a jet plane, drinks flagons of whisky and rogers his cabin crew thrice daily, and then posts at length about his solitary adventures on the Hershey Highway from distant hotel rooms. Or you could be a mysterious man of action who writes poetry and draws ancient dragons, drives the best car in automotive history, dates scary black Russian lesbians with PhDs on internet forums, and spends long nights alone sharpening his Katana sword. Or you could keep it simple and just be a completely daft religious nut job who quotes scripture in reply to every issue raised. Or even better: a rock star! The possibilities are endless, and the only limit your imagination.

Hope this helps.

Are you rankled because you defended a pedophile and dozens of posters called you a lot of nasty names?

Don't you think a moderator should start a thread like this? Or are you not nuanced enough to make that realization?

Net nanny.

PS: I sure didn't get any memo.

[M.D. Holloway]

What about sea monsters, vaginas and kid posts? Where is the debate rules for those?

[Superman]

Bravo, Bravo! I just wish I had received the honor of a caricature. Or did I? Or do I?