Do flists ever get into flame wars with each other?

[gray_ghost]

Just wondering, after my good friend katekat1010 called in a napalm strike on the church girl

So I was thinking that if church girl's flist was of the hellraising sort, my LJ could suddenly be filled with comments from a bunch of Christian high schoolers telling me that I was going to burn in hell. Which would actually be super cool, because it's kind of primitive and tribal =) But I'm a freak, and flame wars can be kind of fun. I used to read and enjoy the flame wars between alt.gothic and alt.punk (which sometimes led to denial of service attacks on newsgroup servers).

Maybe in the future LJ will have an option to settle differences between rival flists where everyone on both sides logs onto a Quake server and both sides frag the shit out of each other until everyone gets all their aggression out.

TNT is running X-Files marathon (again) and playing one of my favs ("Tithonus -1999) about a crime scene photographer who is immortal and can see death coming. Maybe I've changed some since the X-Files was actually on the air - but I like the episodes that are just weird and creepy (like the early seasons) better than the later episodes involving alien conspiracy theories and Cabals within the govt. and Cancer man politics. Or maybe just that the episodes about creepy cabals within our government our a little too close to the truth for comfort currently, and the older episodes are a nice escape.

Comments

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

I can admit this as most of my flist isn't on yours (and our mutual friends know my stance on this), but i adore flame wars and kerfluffles. They warm the very cockles of my heart. I'm very rarely involved in them, however. I am so bad at stating my opinions, it's usually best for me to just watch from afar.

Reading your comments, I found myself giggling...until I read:
Actually in my previous post I was being nice by saying your friend was not being judgemental, as eb says.

At which point, I stuck out my tongue at the computer screen you and said, "thanks for that, brutus."

~e!

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

to answer your question:

yes, it happens every few months or so on my flist. in fact, there was one so huge, it's split the buffy-slash fandom into sections (and this is the main one that continues to flare up every-so-often)!

~e!

[phendog.livejournal.com]

*grin* Okay...that one was completely fun ;^)

For those of us not immediately involved. Good god that was great gossip fodder.

*whispers* That's my blue raspberry popsicle and you can't have it! Ever! Not even in metaphor. Damn it!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

Wow. What started it? What's the point of contention?

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

Sorry eb! I made you the heavy. In flame wars I like to start out soft and then progressively turn up the heat.

I'm used to flaming geeky Ayn Rand worshipping guys though. And usually by the second or third round of posting they are typing in all caps with lots of exclamation points and epithets. Christian girls is entirely new territory for me. It's kind of like going after saber-toothed kittens with
3-inch canines.

[phendog.livejournal.com]

Maybe in the future LJ will have an option to settle differences between rival flists where everyone on both sides logs onto a Quake server and both sides frag the shit out of each other until everyone gets all their aggression out.

Okay, I gotta say:

that would be totatally cool! ;^)

[phendog.livejournal.com]

And look at me! All unable to spell words like "totally" today. *sigh*