This is your culture setting itself on fire.

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Aesop
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This is your culture setting itself on fire.

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So, evidently a team of two black female troglodytes from Towson University - a legitimate public institution with a nearly 150-year history located outside Baltimore MD - have been awarded the Cross Examination Debate Association's intercollegiate national championship trophy. Which up until this time was generally considered a legitimate award for achievement.

Here's a Fox News local affiliate report, including excerpts from the actual debate.
Nota bene this is legit, not a parody. The topic, purely theoretically, was the restrictions on the President under the War Powers Act. It may as well have been on selected readings of Vogon poetry from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, a topic to which, frankly, it bears much more resemblance.

That was not a debate.
It was fucktards with Tourette's.

As even other college students took about 0.2 seconds to figure out.

If they're handing out debating trophies for doing it, it can only be to provide employment for professional athletes after they are physically incapable of meeting the demands of their sport, and to make work for hopelessly retarded people. Like these two. Even with the dubious utility of a degree from Towson, it's doubtful either of these two shining examples of the current standards of excellence in collegiate debate will be qualified for much beyond either processing driver's license exams at the DMV, or ringing up Slurpees at the local 7-11. (The last assumes the real-life version of Apu wouldn't throw them out the door in 5 seconds.)

I can only question how low the entry bar is that two such individuals even qualified for acceptance into an actual university, and whether hard drugs were involved, either in payment, or for use in judging the applicants on their chances at such an institution.

But to hand them a debate trophy for this performance is akin to printing college diplomas on rolls of perforated tissue paper from here on out.

To truly and adequately commemorate their debate performance, one would need a much larger trophy, ideally of porcelain, with an attached water reservoir and a handy pull-lever to dispose of their entry after depositing it in the bowl of the trophy, and with a comfortable seat to ease the passage of their entry into the judge's in-box. I believe one could locate exactly the thing in the latest catalog of products from American Standard.
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That has to be fake. Either the "championship" or the footage or something.

Should they intend to go into law, as so many debate types do, and that footage is correct, they will be in for quite a shock the first time they try something like that in an older black woman's class.
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Great googly moogly! This is NOT a parody! Link My granddaughter has better debating skills when she argues she doesn't want to do something.
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They must win a lot of matches by forfeit when the other team can't figure out how the fuck they are supposed to even respond to that.
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Basically, a national championship for playing The Dozens. In other words, Yo Momma. BFD...
There must be an end to this intimidation by those who come to this great country, but reject its culture.
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What, no link to their Tumblrs? Seriously, their debate technique sounds like Tumblr posts fed into a shredder, haphazardly glued back together and then read by a stuttering auctioneer.
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This is not the Cross-Ex Debate I engaged in. I did Cross-Ex and Lincoln Douglass for a few years. These girls can't even sp-readworth a damn. In Cross-Ex I was reading my brief so fast I didn't have time for filler words. I am disappointed as it used to be refutation of evidence with evidence.
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their debate technique sounds like Tumblr posts fed into a shredder
Evidently there's something called "Tumblr" of which I am unaware. Don't bother to educate me, leave me in blissful ignorance. There are some things of which a curmudgeon should be blissfully ignorant.
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PawPaw wrote:
their debate technique sounds like Tumblr posts fed into a shredder
Evidently there's something called "Tumblr" of which I am unaware. Don't bother to educate me, leave me in blissful ignorance. There are some things of which a curmudgeon should be blissfully ignorant.
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What, and miss out on the "gunblr" subcommunity?

It's just a kind of blog site that makes it really easy to share things. Sort of like Facebook without the live invasion and Twitter in a (usually) more-legible format without the character limit. It's customizable though. I don't know if you saw how bad MySpace pages could get, but some Tumblrs are like that. However, even if you're friends with someone who seems to have a vendetta against anyone with eyeballs, you won't have to see it because their posts will show up on your own homepage so you can view them with ease.

It is a fantastic site to see some truly hilarious images, videos, memes, and the best method to get away with viewing porn in the desert.

It is also home to everyone with a social justice axe to grind, real or imagined. If you thought you might be responsible for all the ills in the world because you're a straight, white, cisgendered male, then tumblr is a great place to go for validation, because there is literally nothing that won't be pinned on you.

So that's actually another thing Tumblr's great for, if you're a straight white "cishet:" Feeling like an all-powerful supervillain. :twisted:
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So, its, essentially, a "rap battle"?

Why would anyone give a rat's ass about it, then?

Its not a debate in any fashion, its just a bunch of brats who need spankings/time-outs/etc..
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