Candidates for debate

Long Onion · 21-08-2009 9:23am #1

Since joining Boards, one thing that has struck me is that if you are prepared to debate something, you really need to know what you are on about (though some people still don't get this).

It is a distinct kind of debating given the numbers involved and the ready access to all kinds of information pulled off t'interweb.

With this in mind, if afterhours could arrange for well known figures to have a live online debate, who would you choose?

You can choose two people, living or dead. The first one should be a serious choice the second is your humour choice (this is afterhours)

Give your reasons for choosing them also.

My Choices:

1) Joe Higgins - I think that on a live online debate he would be well and truly shown up as being the militant surrealist that he is.

2) Mary Harney - Just to see if the Mods could stick to the "attack the post not the poster" mantra (and to see the jokes!)

ejmaztec · 21-08-2009 10:27am

I think that most boardsies would prefer there to be more than two, because they've shown their willingness to be involved in a mass debate, on more than one occasion.

Professey Chin · 21-08-2009 10:33am

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-08-2009 10:41am

I think Pat Kenny would be fun. Uninformative, but fun

Long Onion · 21-08-2009 10:43am

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I think Pat Kenny would be fun. Uninformative, but fun

Methinks he would keep interrupting you mid-post until you gave him the answer he wanted you to.

Euro_Kraut · 21-08-2009 10:46am

Tutankhamen Vs Marty Whelan in a debate about turnip subsidies in Estonia.

Danbo! · 21-08-2009 10:48am

ejmaztec wrote: »

I think that most boardsies would prefer there to be more than two, because they've shown their willingness to be involved in a mass debate, on more than one occasion.

*Sniggers*

imported_guy · 21-08-2009 10:49am

i'd have a stab at mary harney or batty boy

biko · 21-08-2009 10:50am

Pighead v FF

ejmaztec · 21-08-2009 11:10am

All of those executed after the Easter rising v the same number of current top FFers. To make it even more interesting, PP and Co would be given better guns than they had in 1916, and the others would be given feck all.

orourkeda · 21-08-2009 11:36am

Joe Duffy.

Just to hear him say, NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I have to take a break. THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS

orourkeda · 21-08-2009 11:39am

Chris De Burgh. I'd ask him how he managed to produce a miss world for a daughter, if his daughters get her good looks from her mother and if he is prepared to take a DNA test and have the results read out live on the internet