How to piss people off in debate

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Occasionally you come across an opponent in debate who is pretty difficult to reason with.

In these cases, you are better off just trolling the opponent and pissing him/her off, because to try to debate intelligently will only lead to frustration...

So...let's post tactics on how to piss people off in debate here.

My favorite: Repeated straw man attacks. These are by far the most common(and most annoying). Purposely misrepresent your opponents viewpoint, then attack that misrepresentation relentlessly.
 
If someone is being unreasonable, I say so and end the discussion.

If you wanted to have fun, I guess you could start making up Bible verses and quoting them in support of your argument.
 
Repeatedly just say no to everything they say.

"Orange is better than purple!"
"No!"

"French Fries should be called Freedom Fries"
"No!"

"The sun is at the center of our universe"
"No!"

They will get frustrated and give up because of you acting stupid, and then after they give up claim that you win. Rinse and repeat.
 
impirius said:
If someone is being unreasonable, I say so and end the discussion.

If you wanted to have fun, I guess you could start making up Bible verses and quoting them in support of your argument.
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LOL that is a brilliant idea. How did you know I had religion in mind when I made this thread?
 
Usually when people get in arguments with me, they think something I said is being said on behalf of all people. But I only speak for myself. So they'll go, "yeah, but this this and this" and then I point out the specifics of my situation and why something works for me. Then they get all asshurt because... I don't know why. I guess not being able to control someone via the internet is upsetting.
 
pel1300 said:
LOL that is a brilliant idea. How did you know I had religion in mind when I made this thread?
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Umm yeah, creating a thread for the sole purpose of attacking religion (Christianity) is wrong buddy. Why not attack other religions too? Oh yeah, I forgot...because this is the U.S. and it's a-ok to attack Christians but nobody else.

Romans 13:12

"Small a man is he who attacks those who mean him no harm."
 
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I try to pick a point that is completely true and pisses them off and run them into the ground with it (doesn't matter if it's a small or large point). It normally throws them off and they start screwing up in other areas.
 
nyong said:
Umm yeah, creating a thread for the sole purpose of attacking religion (Christianity) is wrong buddy. Why not attack other religions too? Oh yeah, I forgot...because this is the U.S. and it's a-ok to attack Christians but nobody else.

Romans 13:12

"Small a man is he who attacks those who mean him no harm."
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You're being sensitive.

I didn't make this thread to attack anything.

It just happened to be reading a religion thread on another forum when I was making this thread.
 
pel1300 said:
You're being sensitive.

I didn't make this thread to attack anything.

It just happened to be reading a religion thread on another forum when I was making this thread.
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*WHOOSH!*
 
pel1300 said:
You're being sensitive.

I didn't make this thread to attack anything.

It just happened to be reading a religion thread on another forum when I was making this thread.
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Sorry, that was my poor attempt at humor. I was trying to make a strawman, and that verse was made up.
 
Argue without actually acknowledging the other person's points. Really effective way to piss people off, including me.

Also, if your position depends on an argument or chain of logic and it gets attacked, accuse the other person of changing the subject.
 
nyong said:
Umm yeah, creating a thread for the sole purpose of attacking religion (Christianity) is wrong buddy. Why not attack other religions too? Oh yeah, I forgot...because this is the U.S. and it's a-ok to attack Christians but nobody else.

Romans 13:12

"Small a man is he who attacks those who mean him no harm."
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:lol

"What the hell is wrong with this g.... oh. Ohhh." :lol
 
Not really an argumentative situation but I was recently chilling with my cousin who has a cousin on his fathers side who has ADD. Really, really annoyingly bad ADD. The dude will NOT stop talking and acts annoying on PURPOSE. I don't care what doctors think.

Well anyways, back to the situation. Having spent an extended amount of time with this 14 year old, I've found that its impossible to have a serious conversation with him. People with ADD seem to like too make up shit on the fly to bend it to their advantage (or this one in particular). So, basically, I stopped having a serious conversation with him and started saying random dumb things back to him (basically, mimicking him but not being transparent about it). It was fun seeing him not know how to handle this situation (I'm sure the emotion he was trying to get was "frustration"). He then started to shut up and leave me alone.

So, what I'm try to say is, if your dealing with someone with acute ADD, act like you have ADD yourself and it'll shut them the fuck up.

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On another note, I think it was White Man who posted this? Or someone else? Basically, if you get into a dick waving contest when it comes to obscure musicians and who is the better music connoisseur, you start shooting off random made up names and stuff it in the face of the person. See them flail about as they try to figure out who your talking about and enjoy the lulz
 
This has nothing to do with the point at hand, but it's funny nonetheless: In highschool my history teacher let us choose our names for our debates, so one of my friends decided to give himself a pimp name, so there I was on debate day debating agains.J.J Smoothdaddy.
 
Alphahawk said:
This has nothing to do with the point at hand, but it's funny nonetheless: In highschool my history teacher let us choose our names for our debates, so one of my friends decided to give himself a pimp name, so there I was on debate day debating agains.J.J Smoothdaddy.
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Yes, well you should've taken advantage of that with "So, JJ Smoothdaddy, IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME"
 
Alphahawk said:
This has nothing to do with the point at hand, but it's funny nonetheless: In highschool my history teacher let us choose our names for our debates, so one of my friends decided to give himself a pimp name, so there I was on debate day debating agains.J.J Smoothdaddy.
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So ah, where's the funny part?
 
You could also just start shaking your head with your tongue hanging out and flailing your arms, screaming "shitcock" until he/she leaves.
 
My favorite fallacy to use is to take their case to the extreme or any other way to make fun of their position. If you can't have logical debate, might as well make it entertaining.
 
AUS GAF should know about Julia Gillard, be an obnoxious monotone red head succubus and just talk loud and over the top of everyone when they are trying to talk..... makes me wanna choke the bitch.
 
I don't know if this would work on other people, but this one dude pissed the hell out of me with these strategies:


Me: Dude, I don't know how you took it that way, but I meant it this way.
Him: NO dude, I KNOW how you meant it, you meant this!
Me: No, No I didn't. I am sorry if you think I did, but I did not.
Him: Oh? Sounds like to me you really did mean it, and don't want to admit it.

I wanted to smack him, freaking internet. It's impossible to get any nuances in speech across with TEXT bitch.

Me: This also happened, and this did. And we can't forget about this, and if we think about THIS, it leads to THIS conclusion.
Him: THIS Is all wrong! And now look, your entire argument is in pieces.

What about my 3 OTHER fucking points dude?!
 
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy said:
AUS GAF should know about Julia Gillard, be an obnoxious monotone red head succubus and just talk loud and over the top of everyone when they are trying to talk..... makes me wanna choke the bitch.
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If someone writes 4 paragraphs of debate, pick out one sentence that is flawed and expound on it for 500 words and dismiss the rest of it because of this one flaw.

The Mandarkian retort.
 
The easiest way to annoy people:


Toss your hands up and say "Whatever! You're right! No no no no... whateeeeeeeeeever you say. You're the king/queen of the universe. You're never wrong!"
Or something to that effect.


It's a really good way to make them try to defend their opinions.
 
Apparently I once got a middle-aged woman absolutely fuming when she tried to use her age and status over something that it had nothing to do with and I immediately brushed it aside with "I don't care."
 
Immortal_Daemon said:
The easiest way to annoy people:


Toss your hands up and say "Whatever! You're right! No no no no... whateeeeeeeeeever you say. You're the king/queen of the universe. You're never wrong!"
Or something to that effect.


It's a really good way to make them try to defend their opinions.
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I had some one do this to me while I was in the middle of admitting how another person was right and I was wrong. It threw me for a loop.
 
Point out a typo in their carefully worded argument and nothing else.

Or wordlessly put up a non-sequitur .gif and leave it at that. That seems to be a prevailing NeoGAF tactic.
 
nyong said:
Umm yeah, creating a thread for the sole purpose of attacking religion (Christianity) is wrong buddy. Why not attack other religions too? Oh yeah, I forgot...because this is the U.S. and it's a-ok to attack Christians but nobody else.

Romans 13:12

"Small a man is he who attacks those who mean him no harm."
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You just gave me the most awesome idea for a Bible written in the style of Yoda.

"Thy works, unto the Lord must you submit...... Thine thoughts, established will they be."
 
Hitokage said:
Apparently I once got a middle-aged woman absolutely fuming when she tried to use her age and status over something that it had nothing to do with and I immediately brushed it aside with "I don't care."
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impirius said:
If someone is being unreasonable, I say so and end the discussion.

If you wanted to have fun, I guess you could start making up Bible verses and quoting them in support of your argument.
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My mom had a friend who, during theological arguments with non-Christians or casual Christians or whatever (arguments that happened rather frequently as he was a diehard Jesus guy), would make up a random verse in defense of his argument and attribute it to "2nd Colossians," a fictional book of the Bible I presume he made up just to dick around with people. Nobody EVER caught on to the joke in my experience.
 
pel1300 said:
Occasionally you come across an opponent in debate who is pretty difficult to reason with.

In these cases, you are better off just trolling the opponent and pissing him/her off, because to try to debate intelligently will only lead to frustration...

So...let's post tactics on how to piss people off in debate here.

My favorite: Repeated straw man attacks. These are by far the most common(and most annoying). Purposely misrepresent your opponents viewpoint, then attack that misrepresentation relentlessly.
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I find just being right works.
 
I like it when people start citing logical fallacies and they either don't know how to use them correctly or they do so knowing their opponent probably doesn't understand what he or she is saying.

It's especially great when they use the latin as well. Oh well that's an example of a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument coupled with an unecessary ad homimem.

For the record, I forgot all this stuff since I left college. I have no idea what I just said.
 
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