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Sunday, 31 May 2015

T3B85

Working on my English debate... :) I did this debate once for Worlds impromptu as Proposition and now I'm on Opposition. :) I'm really glad I get to research this resolution and find the examples which I can FINALLY understand. XP

The motion is THBT democracy is the best form of government for every nation.

Last time, as Proposition, we talked about how great democracy was, and Opposition just brought up singular examples about successful governments that weren't democracies. Our judge gave us (well, them, but for this debate, us--a different us) some good advice about actually making a case instead of just giving examples. Okay that last sentence did not make sense. What I meant to say was that the judge gave opposition good advice, so since I'm Opposition this time, it's good for Tania and I, but at the time, they were opposition so it was good for them.

Anyways. Moving on.

That debate was Erica's first debate and we faced this really, really aggressive debater. (Erica's just like that debate scarred me for life haha) They brought up good examples (which we can now use! yay! :D) but Tania and I are going to try to come up with an actual case instead of just refutation.

There were a whole bunch of awesome one-liners from the debate. So the 3 most memorable quotes were:

(This was what the quote was responding to: "Side Opposition has only given singular examples of unsuccessful democracies.") "Actually, we gave you 5. Basic counting skills." (OH SNAP)

"Assert, Assert, Assert. That might as well have been Side Proposition's caseline today." (That was scary. That was really, really scary. note: Caseline = one underlying principle that sums up your case.)

"All Side Opposition has done today is use aggressiveness to hide the fundamental flaws in their case." (OH DANG SNAPPY COMEBACK COURTESY OF MARGO)

Yeah... so the debate ended being this insult match... which is not the best for a debate... but it was funny XP I'm really looking forward to this debate. :) (Not the insults part, the actual debate part)

T3B84

Ageless debate.

T3B83

OMG PEOPLE ALWAYS MAKE JOKES ABOUT THIS BUT I FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE REFERENCE:

Also I never understood why instead of saying "mind blown" people say "mind = blown" but that might just be me.

Because mind blown is like saying "my mind is blown" but mind = blown is like saying "my mind is blown"... OH WAIT I GET IT NOW! :D

Haha for the longest time I thought it was mind equals blown (which it is) but I literally just realized that you say mind is blown not my mind equals blown.

But it does look funny. :S