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Talk about a college debate getting out of hand

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 4:58 pm
by 4everfsu

Re: Talk about a college debate getting out of hand

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 5:11 pm
by adam42381
4everfsu wrote:http://news.aol.com/article/debate-coac ... nce/132022


Be aware of language.
Wow, that was ridiculous...entertaining but ridiculous.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 5:41 pm
by LUconn
I wonder what the debate was about. Freaking hippy. I love how the dude thinks he's like in some passionate hollywood moment "This is not about a loss! This is huge!". But in reality he's just acting like a 3 year old having a temper tantrum.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 6:25 pm
by RagingTireFire
Debaters are all jerks anyway.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:25 pm
by Cider Jim
Thank God that Quiz Bowl is more civilized than that. :oops:

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:26 pm
by AZjonz
LUconn wrote:I wonder what the debate was about. Freaking hippy. I love how the dude thinks he's like in some passionate hollywood moment "This is not about a loss! This is huge!". But in reality he's just acting like a 3 year old having a temper tantrum.
This guy pulls this crap all the time.

And yes, he always acted like he was having a "Hollywood moment". Well said.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:27 pm
by AZjonz
RagingTireFire wrote:Debaters are all jerks anyway.
Resolved: You're an a-hole!



:P

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:33 pm
by RagingTireFire
AZjonz wrote:
RagingTireFire wrote:Debaters are all jerks anyway.
Resolved: You're an a-hole!



:P
The sad part is that I knew someone was going to say that, I had the perfect comeback already sitting on deck and, now, I can't remember what it was. It's like starting to tell a joke and forgetting the punchline.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:36 pm
by AZjonz
RagingTireFire wrote:
AZjonz wrote:
RagingTireFire wrote:Debaters are all jerks anyway.
Resolved: You're an a-hole!



:P
The sad part is that I knew someone was going to say that, I had the perfect comeback already sitting on deck and, now, I can't remember what it was. It's like starting to tell a joke and forgetting the punchline.
Man, even the "resolved" part? I thought I was really throwing some kind of new debate twist in there on a standard comeback.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:41 pm
by RagingTireFire
AZjonz wrote:
RagingTireFire wrote:
AZjonz wrote: Resolved: You're an a-hole!



:P
The sad part is that I knew someone was going to say that, I had the perfect comeback already sitting on deck and, now, I can't remember what it was. It's like starting to tell a joke and forgetting the punchline.
Man, even the "resolved" part? I thought I was really throwing some kind of new debate twist in there on a standard comeback.
It was kind of a generalized comeback but perfect to the situation.

And I still can't remember it.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 8:51 pm
by AZjonz
Here's a debate forum discussing the incident - I believe these are first person accounts. Gives some background to the events that led to the video.

www.ndtceda.com


http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebat ... 75460.html

Click the link on "Next Message" at the top to read more posts.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 9:17 pm
by 01LUGrad
It's good to see that Michael Moore lost some weight. I'm not sure about the beard, though.

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 9:19 pm
by LUconn
I understood about 10% of that entire post.