Puns - Yay or Nay

 

Everytime there's a conversation between two people we should a) label it a meltdown, b) talk about it in the current forum rivalries thread, and c) then ban that person, to make it more like the LOI forum with two new posts per week on it.

 

 

I'm thinking of an X factor style contest where people can nominate a few bad posts each day and from 9pm-10pm that night, there is a vote on the most unpopular post resulting in a one day ban for the perpetrator. 

We had a version of this around my way when we were in our early teens. On a Friday after school, everyone got together at the local green and we played a mass game of heads and volleys. The loser had to go home and wasn't allowed go to Wesley disco that night. It was a game with a real edge as that was your weekend totally ruined. Great craic for everyone else though. You can't bate a bit of mob rule to get the blood flowing. 

Coming from the biggest keyboard warrior on the forum

Simpleton 

 

I was very proud of my "being hung out to dry" one

 

 

 

To be honest, I avoid any threat that I know will be riddled with puns but it's unavoidable when lads turn someone's post on skiing or a gripe with their local postman into pun central.

 

What about a vigilante style group who give out beatings to anyone who uses puns online?

Pun-ishment beatings if you like

 

The Pun IRA or Direct Action Against Puns?

 

 

As anybody who has spent more than a few minutes with me will know, I feel puns are a necessary form of conversation, but this constant misuse of the word offended on here is a tad irritating.

It would nearly be impossible for anyone to be offended by them, unless they are half fish, or maybe that towel from South Park.