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Nah. Flounces are boring. I like a good laugh like Transponder's carnivores eating the herbivores on the Ark causing them to go extinct or Troutdude's "may the liberal god bless you."
Nah. Flounces are boring. I like a good laugh like Transponder's carnivores eating the herbivores on the Ark causing them to go extinct or Troutdude's "may the liberal god bless you."
How odd. I'm glad you like the Dinovores causing an extinction with one snap of the jaw, but it wasn't intended as a funny. That is quite an old argument. Though I recall a time when everyone was arguing the 'too many species' argument (when Woodmorappe had simply reduced the species to 10% by taking basic cats, cows, reptiles etc to cut numbers down) and i was arguing for the 'but there's nothing to eat when they come out' apologetic, which (along with 2 is not a viable breeding pool) is standard aplogetics. What i do find funny though is raising the problem with food, keeping them all alive, just one family having to cope with all that and you can just see their fingers twitch, longing to reach for the magic wand, but as soon as they do, the whole thing becomes pointless.
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Originally Posted by Rafius
What a good idea. 'The City-Data Flounce of the Year Award.'
We could have that with the honorary brigade rank in the New Atheist campaign -army for apologists who are worth a couple of divisions to us. I'm still trying to sell doctrinal -denominational gladitorial games with appropriate costume for each faction (guess who will have the clowns' outfit) and a lot of Brians (1)selling nightingales' balls, hummingbird's tongues and ocelot spleens to the atheists in the popcorn and peanut gallery. The Red -riding - hooded Star Chamber of the central Darwinist Orthodoxy and Dogma Committee keep rejecting my idea of spiked clubs on the grounds that it'll alarm the children. I say they see worse on their video games and hear worse at Christian Boot Camp.
I've not heard of this term until I joined this site. But isn't it a bit like accusing someone of being a troll?
Well, technically, since the forum rules say, "No "I'm leaving" messages.
I haven't heard the term, "flounce" before this forum, although I think it's perfect, but the concept is common on all forums of this type. A person makes a dramatic announcement about how they've been done wrong and/or are being picked on, or they are smarter than everyone else on the forum, or whatever, and they are LEAVING, so THERE!
Well, technically, since the forum rules say, "No "I'm leaving" messages.
I haven't heard the term, "flounce" before this forum, although I think it's perfect, but the concept is common on all forums of this type. A person makes a dramatic announcement about how they've been done wrong and/or are being picked on, or they are smarter than everyone else on the forum, or whatever, and they are LEAVING, so THERE!
Rarely do they actually leave for good.
I know the kind of behaviour you mean so shouldn't the normal standard apply - if you believe the behaviour breaks the rules report it.
Hanlon's razor suggests that not all behaviour is malicious, so one shouldn't go accusing people of trolling because they may not be and it only serves to inflame the situation. Shouldn't the similar rule be applied here? After all, suggesting that one is leaving a discussion because of a cancer scare, family emergency, or an anniversary of a tragedy could also then fall into the flouncing criteria. I'm only thinking "aloud" not trying to re-write rules or anything.
I've not heard of this term until I joined this site. But isn't it a bit like accusing someone of being a troll?
Nothing like - it is a Rhetorical tactic. I don't see them as 'i'm leaving' messages but more a kind of 'There's no point in talking to the closed -minded' ploy. I won't go into what it is supposed to achieve or what position they got themselves into, but it is a rearguard retreat without admitting being beat. As said - they will be back, on some later thread - probably with the same arguments.
I believe the term first appeared on this site but the term is getting out into the wider Atheist world. Raffa and I can't remember which of us minted the term, so it's down to who wins t'cup - Wales or England.
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) and a lot of Brians (1)selling nightingales' balls, hummingbird's tongues and ocelot spleens to the atheists in the popcorn and peanut gallery. The Red -riding - hooded Star Chamber of the central Darwinist Orthodoxy and Dogma Committee keep rejecting my idea of spiked clubs on the grounds that it'll alarm the children. I say they see worse on their video games and hear worse at Christian Boot Camp.
