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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:06 PM
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What was the first flame war you started?
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 11:07 PM by sundog
I think I had like 20 posts & I started a thread about Jean-Luc Godard dissing Fahrenheit 9/11 at

Cannes... and next thing I knew it was up to like 100 there was all this flame shit going on & I didn't know what the hell was happening & I walked silently away... :scared:
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:08 PM
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1. I haven't really started a flame war here
Edited on Fri Jan-21-05 11:08 PM by Maestro
I have had heated discussions but no flame wars. Now at some rethuglican dominated sites I definitely have started some crap. Got banned too and I am damned proud of it.

BTW, you want a flame war? You a effin snob you gutless POS!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:09 PM
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3. mine was unintentional... I was new & just posting some news
I didn't know wtf was going on
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:14 PM
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5. Well so was my heated discussion
I really didn't think that it would cause such a polarizing reaction but it did. I know what you mean.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:09 PM
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2. abortion
'nuff said.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:11 PM
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4. Oh ... any posts promoting creationism.
I can't resist slapping them down. So I've battled through the odd flamewar before.

Plus one time when Someone completely misunderstood my remarkas and blazed away at me time after time, not realising he was underminign his own point. But that was a while ago.
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:18 PM
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6. I've never started a flame war...
:shrug:
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:20 PM
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7. Only Sports Flame wars
;-)

How 'bout those Dolphins?
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:31 PM
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12. How 'bout Those EAGLES?
I might get grief for this, living in Maine now and for the rest of my days, but as a Philly native I HAVE to pull for the "IGGLES" at least until they win one Superbowl!
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:20 PM
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8. I wasn't suggesting you did.
Why did you think I did?
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:30 AM
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18. LOL
I am trumad...king of the flame wars.... It's a badge of honor for me...;-)
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:22 PM
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9. The first night of the Iraq war
I later learned that it almost caused me to be tombstoned. It was titled "Nader voters: You caused this!" and I posted it as the first bombs were falling in Baghdad. I made a lot of people quite angry, to say the least (though I never apologized). I was just so furious, thinking of all those upper-crust Nader voters sitting in their San Francisco townhouses and Upper East side penthouses going about life without a care in the world to the consequences of what they did in 2000. Fortunately, most of them learned their lesson in time for 2004.
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Rockerdem Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:27 PM
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10. It wasnt here
On another nonpolitical site a few years ago, I started one aimed at a nasty poster that didnt belong. it wasnt that bad and I didnt use his name, but it was hinted strongly. A few months afterward, we were notified by his wife who also posted that he died suddenly. I'll never go down that road again.
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:28 PM
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11. I Don't Think I Started it,...
...but I was just in my first earlier this week when another DU'er pointed me to a site that bashed adoption across racial lines. I frankly got sick of it after awhile and have no interest in another one. It was a situation, however, that I felt called for response.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:31 PM
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13. It may have been this one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1890388#1890474
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:36 PM
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17. Here's a similar one.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2243326#2244291

Believe it or not, I don't want the government to ban abortion. I just think the way that some people argue for that position is silly.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:32 PM
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14. It involved Reagan
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:33 PM
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15. I thought it involved Millard Fillmore?
:shrug:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 11:36 PM
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16. I've blocked that period of DU out
of my conscious & sub-conscious mind... eek! :scared:
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democratic pride Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:33 AM
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19. None
I'm sure it has nothing to do with my under 10 posts:shrug:
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 08:01 AM
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21. Welcome to DU -
under ten posts would definitely mean you haven't been involved in any flame wars. :hi:

And to the OP: I didn't start one, but I accidentally stepped in one regarding frivolous lawsuits. Oops.
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democratic pride Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 08:03 AM
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22. Thanks JimmyJazz!
I know you through my stalker-like lurking of DU for 2 days.:hi:
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 08:11 AM
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23. and you signed up anyway?
I hope you enjoy yourself - we have to stick together for the next four years!

...just don't feed the animals and stay off my chaise lounge - you'll be fine....

:P
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:34 AM
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20. Started a flame war at work last week. I overheard the dispatcher
talking about how he plans to make life miserable for some of the older drivers. I even heard the names and his plans of making them quit.
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 09:21 AM
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24. Woody Allen: Brilliant Director, or Overrated Hack?
I meant it to be a pure, objective evaluation of his directing talent... but instead it turned into an enormous flame war about his - uh - "relationship" with Sun Yi.
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