Zombie 5k race

[Brazen]

I've been following this race for a while and signed up to the Facebook group for when it comes to the UK. For now I have to content myself with the Warrior Dash.

I am wary of zombie events. Last time I went to a zombie walk I got bitten by a zombie lesbian. I had a bite-shaped bruise on my arm for weeks.

[The Larch]

Some guys are organizing similarly zombie themed runs over here as well. I signed up for info as, miraculously my hometown sneaked by in the top 3 cities shortlist and a run will be organized.

[grumbler]

Fucking hell

Lots of stuff like this keeps being reported. Never once did I say people were going mad in the streets on a daily basis saying "we love zombies!!". Nonetheless this definitely seems a big modern geek trend.

Fucking hell

"Lots" of this stuff doesn't keep getting reported.  There was a bit of a "zombie craze" a few years back, what with some TV shows, a few books, a movie or three - but that was in Britain as well as the US (Shaun of the Dead was a British movie, in case you hadn't noticed).  There's always been a few people trying to push that market, and there still is, because there is a small but steady market for that kind of stuff (see Brazen, who is hardly American, for evidence that this isn't a US thing even now).  But there's no "zombie mania" here of which I am aware, and not even when we had a "zombie craze" at least the US did have not people "going mad in the streets on a daily basis saying "we love zombies!!"" like you apparently experienced in Blighty (from your definition above).  There's going to be a US-British film released in the next year or so, but that's been in the works for a decade, and even that's been repeatedly delayed because the backers don't think the genre is still viable.

[Jaron]

If a zombie horde attacks grumberville, hes going to yell at the young'uns to stay off his lawn.

[Tonitrus]

If a zombie horde attacks grumberville, hes going to yell at the young'uns to stay off his lawn.

I always did peg grumbler as a lich king. 

[Josquius]

Fucking hell

Lots of stuff like this keeps being reported. Never once did I say people were going mad in the streets on a daily basis saying "we love zombies!!". Nonetheless this definitely seems a big modern geek trend.

Fucking hell

"Lots" of this stuff doesn't keep getting reported.  There was a bit of a "zombie craze" a few years back, what with some TV shows, a few books, a movie or three - but that was in Britain as well as the US (Shaun of the Dead was a British movie, in case you hadn't noticed).  There's always been a few people trying to push that market, and there still is, because there is a small but steady market for that kind of stuff (see Brazen, who is hardly American, for evidence that this isn't a US thing even now).  But there's no "zombie mania" here of which I am aware, and not even when we had a "zombie craze" at least the US did have not people "going mad in the streets on a daily basis saying "we love zombies!!"" like you apparently experienced in Blighty (from your definition above).  There's going to be a US-British film released in the next year or so, but that's been in the works for a decade, and even that's been repeatedly delayed because the backers don't think the genre is still viable.

So much wrong there and all about nothing....
Never mind replying I'm not even sure what the argument you're wanting is.

[Brazen]

see Brazen, who is hardly American, for evidence that this isn't a US thing even now

[grumbler]

So much wrong there and all about nothing....

Precisely.  Bumper stickers aside, there is no "zombie craze" in the US.

Never mind replying I'm not even sure what the argument you're wanting is.

I replied anyway, to let you know that, now that you have reversed your position and conceded your point was "all about nothing," you should feel good about yourself.  Of course, i would urge you to resist the compulsion to make totally bogus claims about society in the US, but I know it is a compulsion and therefor nothing you can control.

[Josquius]

 
You're a good troll.

[grumbler]

You're a good troll.

  I knew you'd get to the ad hominim in the end!  Well-done.  You have gone through all twelve Stages of the Weasel.  You can start over again in your next thread. 

[Ed Anger]

Poor Grumbles. He rolled around with a Geordie and got their shit all over him.

I'll get the water hose.

[Josquius]

You're a good troll.

  I knew you'd get to the ad hominim in the end!  Well-done.  You have gone through all twelve Stages of the Weasel.  You can start over again in your next thread. 

Continuing.

[11B4V]

You're a good troll.

  I knew you'd get to the ad hominim in the end!  Well-done.  You have gone through all twelve Stages of the Weasel.  You can start over again in your next thread. 

Continuing.

Def something mental going on there.

[grumbler]

Poor Grumbles. He rolled around with a Geordie and got their shit all over him.

I'll get the water hose.

I got what I wanted from that (Tyr to back down and then to ad hom), and presumably he got what he wanted (whatever that was).

Sure, making Tyr adopt even more stupid positions after he says stupid shit isn't hard, but it can still be fun. 

Plus, Marti hasn't make those kinds of silly sweeping generalizations about the US based on single data points lately, so I have to engage with Tyr to find out what the US is really crazed about, unbeknownst to us Americans. 

[Josquius]

Yes...I backed down from my stupid position on the topic of I don't know what (my position being : nothing),  and adopted the even stupider position of "I still have no view on whatever it is Grumbler has a view on but it's amusing to see him get so worked up about it". Stupid, I know that, but amusing nonetheless.

I shan't be biting the sweeping generalisations troll ta very much. :p
Anyway. I'm busy tomorrow so probally won't be here to keep goading you into arguing against a wall.