Yank bun fight
Jan 21 2007
#2
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What's a "bun fight?"
It's when some argument ceases to be about ideas and is just about flinging insults or restating positions at each other, ie when it ceases to be a discussion.
Jan 21 2007
#3
Dundee_United wrote:
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What's a "bun fight?"It's when some argument ceases to be about ideas and is just about flinging insults or restating positions at each other, ie when it ceases to be a discussion.
Oh good. I thought it was some sort of homophobic crap.
Jan 21 2007
#4
Bun-fight, bunfight, bun fight:
If it sounds to you like a Victorian children’s nursery at teatime, that surely must be the original allusion behind it. Imagine children having tea, inevitably squabbling over the buns, teacakes, muffins and — this being a British expression — crumpets. Two similar expressions are known from the middle of the nineteenth century: crumpet-scramble and muffin-worry; these haven’t survived.
Interestingly, some of the early uses of bun-fight (these days, also often bunfight) borrowed the idea of afternoon tea in the nursery but left out the fighting: it could refer to the most decorous of engagements, such as those one was invited to by elderly aunts of the Wodehousian persuasion, at which squabbling over food was inconceivable. Then, as now, a bun-fight could more generally be any occasion at which food was served, it often being a sarcastic term describing rather formal ones for which guests had to dress up. In 1994, a newspaper report told of a British MP who turned up improperly dressed (in a lounge suit) at an engagement that was described as the “annual bunfight of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, at which black tie and decorations are de rigueur”.
Another sense of bun-fight, also still with us, borrowed the fight sense but left out the food. Often this refers to a heated altercation, but one that the describing observer feels is of no importance, rather like the nursery squabble that started the expression off.
Jan 22 2007
#5
Great post! 
i have always liked that saying - don't like it when the food aspect is left out of the equation.. 
Jan 22 2007
#6
Another wasted thread. Started off good, intersting and went down hill. This is why there's no more nefac-friends list in the US.
Jan 22 2007
#7
Lone Wolf wrote:
Great post!
I'm going to use the old version of crumpet-scramble.
If you've never been to vegas you'll have to trust me when I tell you how funny it'll be for me to start saying "crumpet-scramble" in actual conversation.
Jan 22 2007
#8
syndicalist wrote:
Another wasted thread. Started off good, intersting and went down hill. This is why there's no more nefac-friends list in the US.
Fucking crybaby. Remember when people from Jersey were tough?
Jan 22 2007
#9
Duke, if you want to blather at the mouth, just do it as PM's to people.
Jan 22 2007
#10
syndicalist wrote:
Duke, if you want to blather at the mouth, just do it as PM's to people.
Mitch, if you want to whine like a tired old woman do it to someone else.
Jan 22 2007
#11
leave mitch alone. its sunday and his team isnt in the playoffs
Jan 22 2007
#12
Mathias wrote:
leave mitch alone. its sunday and his team isnt in the playoffs
The Pats are kicking ass right now. 21 to 3.
Jan 22 2007
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Another wasted thread. Started off good, intersting and went down hill. This is why there's no more nefac-friends list in the US.
I agree entirely. This is exactly what happened to the NEFAC friends list and its really disappointing seeing this board declining the same way.
Jan 22 2007
#14
EdmontonWobbly wrote:
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Another wasted thread. Started off good, intersting and went down hill. This is why there's no more nefac-friends list in the US.I agree entirely. This is exactly what happened to the NEFAC friends list and its really disappointing seeing this board declining the same way.
Totally. I can't understand why anarchism puts up with these clowns.
Jan 22 2007
#15
Yeah but who cares what you potheads think
Jan 22 2007
#16
Mathias wrote:
Yeah but who cares what you potheads think
That's uncalled for. Lets not turn this into a crumpet-scramble.
Jan 22 2007
#17
fuck nefac.
fuck leftists.
fuck tom, mitch and even that canadian fucker mick.
They haven't organized workers and wouldn't know how to if they had to.
Jan 22 2007
#18
throwhen wrote:
fuck nefac.
fuck leftists.
fuck tom, mitch and even that canadian fucker mick.They haven't organized workers and wouldn't know how to if they had to.
The Pats just got intercepted. Colts are going to the superbowl.
Jan 22 2007
#19
thugarchist wrote:
throwhen wrote:
fuck nefac.
fuck leftists.
fuck tom, mitch and even that canadian fucker mick.They haven't organized workers and wouldn't know how to if they had to.
The Pats just got intercepted. Colts are going to the superbowl.
colts vs. chicago...
midwest all the mother fucking way
Jan 22 2007
#20
throwhen wrote:
thugarchist wrote:
throwhen wrote:
fuck nefac.
fuck leftists.
fuck tom, mitch and even that canadian fucker mick.They haven't organized workers and wouldn't know how to if they had to.
The Pats just got intercepted. Colts are going to the superbowl.
colts vs. chicago...
midwest all the mother fucking way
1st superbowl with two black coaches ever.
Jan 22 2007
#21
The working class rejoices
Jan 22 2007
#22
Mathias wrote:
The working class rejoices
do you even watch football.
does buddha allow that or is it too much violence for your krishna ass?
Jan 22 2007
#23
throwhen wrote:
Mathias wrote:
The working class rejoicesdo you even watch football.
does buddha allow that or is it too much violence for your krishna ass?
Mathias is a Hare Krishna? And a trade unionist? And an anarchist? Bizarre.
Jan 22 2007
#24
This is more of a muffin-worry than a bun-fight.
Jan 22 2007
#25
thugarchist wrote:
Remember when people from Jersey were tough?
no. no i don't. 
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Jan 22 2007
#26
newyawka wrote:
thugarchist wrote:
Remember when people from Jersey were tough?no. no i don't.
Having grown up in Boston I do not recognize the existence of your so-called "New York" in any way, shape or form.
Jan 23 2007
#27
ah, libcom falls prey to the anarcho-labor no it alls of Duke, Mathias, and Chuck. not to dismiss their experiences, because there is much to learn, but these guys seem intenet on just making a joke out of @ist forums. they think their participation challenges and provokes, but in honesty it just becomes a bore. their answers are "look im in a million strong union, what does your little 10 person anarchist group have?". perhaps their insight could be usefull but they are not interessted in trying to build revolutionary anarchist organizations or movements or help devise strategy. a discussion that may start some anarchists talking about their labor organizing and approaches gets turned into a joke. come on guys, why even waste peoples time here, it's not like yall are actually interessted in revolutionary libertarian politics anymore, if you ever really were...
Jan 23 2007
#28
blackstarbhoy wrote:
ah, libcom falls prey to the anarcho-labor no it alls of Duke, Mathias, and Chuck. not to dismiss their experiences, because there is much to learn, but these guys seem intenet on just making a joke out of @ist forums. they think their participation challenges and provokes, but in honesty it just becomes a bore. their answers are "look im in a million strong union, what does your little 10 person anarchist group have?". perhaps their insight could be usefull but they are not interessted in trying to build revolutionary anarchist organizations or movements or help devise strategy. a discussion that may start some anarchists talking about their labor organizing and approaches gets turned into a joke. come on guys, why even waste peoples time here, it's not like yall are actually interessted in revolutionary libertarian politics anymore, if you ever really were...
Who are you?
Jan 23 2007
#29
As a life long jersey boy (Paterson NJ) my experience with NY'ers has been that it is usually transplants who live outside NYC, move there and then try fitting in by attempting to take on the accent (like writing new yawka) and talking shit about jersey as if this makes their kansas transplanted ass a real new yorker.
New York has become nothing but a playground for the bourgoise and their offspring.
Jan 23 2007
#30
Mathias wrote:
New York has become nothing but a playground for the bourgoise and their offspring.
As opposed to when you were young and Chris Day was chief anarcho-rev?
What's a "bun fight?"