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Tuesday, November 11th, 2003
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8:00a - Hi. XD
Joined this community about a week ago. VERY nice. XD
Anyway, this is something I came up with. I dunno how well it's phrased, but...
"S/he who needs to have the last word even after someone declares the argument over shall never again be taken seriously."
Something to that effect.
current mood: *Snarl*
current music: The radio (23 comments |comment on this)
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12:59p - Heh.
I like this. Here's one I wrote for XF fandom, but it applies everywhere:
Deirdre's Law: As a fandom discussion grows longer, the probability that participants will define True Fans as "those who agree with us" approaches one.
[Just as an FYI, Deirdre is in charge of The Gossamer Project, the biggest and oldest XF fanfic archive.]
current mood: Caffeinated (11 comments |comment on this)
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10:51p - Emotional Manipulation Law
Inspired by a conversation here:http://www.journalfen.net/community/i_wank/3348.html
The Emotional Manipulation Law: When debating the party that brings up a personal tragedy [death/divorce/illness] that has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand as a way of gaining sympathy, or making the other party look bad, loses.
Second Corollary: They also lose all future arguments if they pretend to be a friend or relative who (they claim) in the midst of tragedy decides to log on to tell everybody what horrible fate befell the poster.
Third Corollary: Claiming fatal illness/crippling physical condition/age/mental illness as an excuse for piss-poor debate skills automatically loses the argument.
current mood: *sporfle!* (5 comments |comment on this)
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