Conkers and you

[garbon]

Only god knows what tolerating conkers could lead to!

I've no idea, but I draw a red line at harassing trees!

[Martinus]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

Still. Why would an adult man do that? More importantly, what adult man with a stable job and no kids to humour with antics like that would consider going into the forest to "harass some sweet chestnut trees"?

I find his lifestyle atrociously disturbing.

How ironic that a champion of diversity should utterly fail to understand what diversity means.

I have never been a champion of diversity. 

[garbon]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

Still. Why would an adult man do that? More importantly, what adult man with a stable job and no kids to humour with antics like that would consider going into the forest to "harass some sweet chestnut trees"?

I find his lifestyle atrociously disturbing.

How ironic that a champion of diversity should utterly fail to understand what diversity means.

I have never been a champion of diversity. 

I think he means about how you want your lifestyle tolerated which is a diversion from typical heterosexuality.

[Malthus]

See what tolerating your homosexuality has led to? Now we are expected to applaud while Mongers rapes trees. 

Look, just because they "got wood" doesn't mean they are consenting! 

[Martinus]

I think he means about how you want your lifestyle tolerated which is a diversion from typical heterosexuality.

I know what he means but this argument just does not make any sense. People's characteristics should be judged individually - a worldview where every deviation is acceptable and fine is equally idiotic as a worldview where no deviations from the norm are tolerated.

[garbon]

I think he means about how you want your lifestyle tolerated which is a diversion from typical heterosexuality.

I know what he means but this argument just does not make any sense. People's characteristics should be judged individually - a worldview where every deviation is acceptable and fine is equally idiotic as a worldview where no deviations from the norm are tolerated.

I agree.

[Syt]

Gathering chestnuts? What's next? Hunting for mushrooms??? Madness!!

Seriously, I don't see the big deal if someone wants to gather some themselves instead of paying ridiculous markups at the shops. Might has well declare anyone planting their own fruits or vegetables a deviant.

[garbon]

Gathering chestnuts? What's next? Hunting for mushrooms??? Madness!!

Seriously, I don't see the big deal if someone wants to gather some themselves instead of paying ridiculous markups at the shops. Might has well declare anyone planting their own fruits or vegetables a deviant.

I wouldn't refer to any of those things as harassment, YMMV.

[Grey Fox]

You guys are misinterpreting Marti's issue with.

Going into a forest is the real problem.

I've never played conquer, I have no idea what that game is.

There are 2 Chestnut tree in my back yard, they are still very small tho. Neither of them have produced fruits yet.

[Syt]

Gathering chestnuts? What's next? Hunting for mushrooms??? Madness!!

Seriously, I don't see the big deal if someone wants to gather some themselves instead of paying ridiculous markups at the shops. Might has well declare anyone planting their own fruits or vegetables a deviant.

I wouldn't refer to any of those things as harassment, YMMV.

I don't think Mart took umbrage to the word "harass" but going out to gather chestnuts in the first place.

[mongers]

I think he means about how you want your lifestyle tolerated which is a diversion from typical heterosexuality.

I know what he means but this argument just does not make any sense. People's characteristics should be judged individually - a worldview where every deviation is acceptable and fine is equally idiotic as a worldview where no deviations from the norm are tolerated.

I agree.

I'm astonished that two of the most intolerant people on the forum should agree on this issue, you could literally knock me over with a feather. 

[garbon]

I think he means about how you want your lifestyle tolerated which is a diversion from typical heterosexuality.

I know what he means but this argument just does not make any sense. People's characteristics should be judged individually - a worldview where every deviation is acceptable and fine is equally idiotic as a worldview where no deviations from the norm are tolerated.

I agree.

I'm astonished that two of the most intolerant people on the forum should agree on this issue, you could literally knock me over with a feather. 

I think you may have me confused with grallon. That's intolerance.

[grumbler]

Only god knows what tolerating conkers could lead to! 

They'd try to take over the tree-based-fruit world.  You'd have weird things like Conker'd grapes.

[Ed Anger]

Ugh.

[Tonitrus]

This thread is going down the tubes faster than the Conker'de.