Update to

narcissam's coverage of Deathmarch Deathmarch: kia is apparently dissatisfied by the effects of previous wankage and has returned to protest use of the word "venom" as a forum acronym. Someone attempts to apply logic to the forum rules.

Right now this is mini-wank, thanks in part to heidi's quick replies. What a ...sober end to the Deathmarch difficulties.

Edited: Aww, kia's trimmed three screenfuls off the original post. All that's left are a couple lines and the quoted fragments in heidi's response.

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	yadda 2004-01-24 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	From the forum discription: We've been inspired by the structure of the National Forensic League and the Oxford Union, especially their Rough Guide to Debating; posts in this forum should follow the concepts and precepts of extemporaneous speechmaking. Why, I declare, it's almost as though the mods want to make it as hard as possible to post and argue there! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	eiviiaru 2004-01-25 12:06 am UTC (link)
	I <3 NFL argumentation rules, even though they still allow wankiness. It's usually just better-documented (or better-bullshitted), more erudite-seeming wank -- and doesn't everyone love that? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

meril
2004-01-25 12:19 am UTC (link)

Better-bullshitted is more like it. My high school speech team's extemporaneous speakers produced more bullshit than your average rodeo. Other teams carried around carts of hanging files; we had a guy with the CIA Factbook, and I had the last week's worth of the Star Tribune and a few economics textbooks. Oh, man, could we BS.

I just can't imagine going through all that shit for Harry Potter, though. RESOLVED: That much rigor in discussing a poorly written and edited YA novel is wasted on its subject.

(...my Yamazaki icon is on my LJ account, so I'm using his counter Chiharu. XD)

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	ladylisse 2004-01-25 01:00 am UTC (link)
	I'm having flashbacks to debate team and mock trial. Mmmm, trialwank. Yeeowch. (Reply to this)(Parent)

eiviiaru
2004-01-25 04:03 am UTC (link)

My high school speech team's extemporaneous speakers produced more bullshit than your average rodeo. Other teams carried around carts of hanging files; we had a guy with the CIA Factbook, and I had the last week's worth of the Star Tribune and a few economics textbooks. Oh, man, could we BS.

Oh, yeah, that was the story of my last three years in high school. We had... a lot of Christian Science Monitor cuttings and a whole lot more CSM citations, since the CSM published daily and all.

BS is good, and hey, attempting to provide citations just makes the wanking that much meatier.

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