Poll
Question:
Shall the Yi Rule apply in the History Quiz Thread?
Option 1: Yes, no questions about your own country!
votes: 30
Option 2: No, I want no limitations on what questionas we can ask!
votes: 13
Option 3: Jaron, only questions about the ACW, ECW, Byzanteen Empire and Dreadnaughts can be asked!
votes: 2
The Yi Rule states that no question in the History Quiz thread shall be about the country of the question asker.
Questions about your own country are fine excluding the American civil war.
You misspelled questions in a purposeful attempt to rig the results. :mad:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2009, 02:49:21 PM
You misspelled questions in a purposeful attempt to rig the results. :mad:
Yes I did!
N.B. I'm admitting to that to avoid admitting to making a typo.
Edit: Which typo? "Questionas" or "Dreadnaughts" ?
Edit2: "Byzanteen" intentionally misspelled.
Down with Yi, up with Yi rule.
I'm fine with the Yi Rule as long as we count "Europe" as a country.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 12, 2009, 02:56:18 PM
I'm fine with the Yi Rule as long as we count "Europe" as a country.
Go fuck yourself.
Quote from: Viking on September 12, 2009, 02:50:02 PM
Edit: Which typo? "Questionas" or "Dreadnaughts" ?
The typo that most closely resembles "questions." :lol:
Absolutely not.
I like it because it's so arbitrarily obtuse, and thus suits Languish.
I love the Yi Rule.
I like the Yi Rule in principle, but in practice it favours Americans and disadvantages people from countries that actually have a history.
Quote from: Martinus on September 12, 2009, 05:16:40 PM
I like the Yi Rule in principle, but in practice it favours Americans and disadvantages people from countries that actually have a history.
yeah, but with the americans the level of detail goes down to the level of which tailor made R.E.Lee's suits, while the Euro's will focus on the level of kings.
I'd suggest that the rule favours us Euro's since we'd never deign to even consider Lee's tailor while the Americans still might consider the actions of Vlad Dracul.
The Yi Rule is the foundation of the modern Quiz thread without it, It's the middleages. It's anarchy, it's oppresions. The Communists have won.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 12, 2009, 06:19:47 PM
The Yi Rule is the foundation of the modern Quiz thread without it, It's the middleages. It's anarchy, it's oppresions. The Communists have won.
Yi doesn't even support it.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 12, 2009, 06:19:47 PM
The Yi Rule is the foundation of the modern Quiz thread without it, It's the middleages. It's anarchy, it's oppresions. The Communists have won.
I'm with the anarchists/communists. Let the people ask what they want.
Why do you people hate the History Quiz Thread so much?
We all saw how it died a swift death after the Yi rule was
instituted at the old forum, why do you insist on killing it
again?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 12, 2009, 06:39:48 PM
Why do you people hate the History Quiz Thread so much?
We all saw how it died a swift death after the Yi rule was
instituted at the old forum, why do you insist on killing it
again?
Stop spreading lies.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 12, 2009, 06:39:48 PM
Why do you people hate the History Quiz Thread so much?
We all saw how it died a swift death after the Yi rule was
instituted at the old forum, why do you insist on killing it
again?
Stop posting like Spanky.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2009, 06:51:57 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 12, 2009, 06:39:48 PM
Why do you people hate the History Quiz Thread so much?
We all saw how it died a swift death after the Yi rule was
instituted at the old forum, why do you insist on killing it
again?
Stop posting like Spanky.
Who?
Viva Yi rule!!!
Absolutely. Keeps the questions at a reasonable level of obscurity.
Here's an example why we need the "Yi Rule":
"What dietary reason was used as an excuse by the Prince of Poland for his refusal to participate in the Third Crusade despite him being, nominally, a vassal of the Emperor?"
Quote from: Martinus on September 13, 2009, 03:52:39 AM
Here's an example why we need the "Yi Rule":
"What dietary reason was used as an excuse by the Prince of Poland for his refusal to participate in the Third Crusade despite him being, nominally, a vassal of the Emperor?"
The Yi Rule did nothing to prevent stupidly obscure questions. It just prevented questions about American history.
Quote from: Martinus on September 13, 2009, 03:52:39 AM
Here's an example why we need the "Yi Rule":
"What dietary reason was used as an excuse by the Prince of Poland for his refusal to participate in the Third Crusade despite him being, nominally, a vassal of the Emperor?"
Kimchi?
Quote from: Viking on September 13, 2009, 05:06:22 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 13, 2009, 03:52:39 AM
Here's an example why we need the "Yi Rule":
"What dietary reason was used as an excuse by the Prince of Poland for his refusal to participate in the Third Crusade despite him being, nominally, a vassal of the Emperor?"
Kimchi?
:mmm:
Nope, mead.
Essentially when the Emperor called on the Polish Prince to send troops, he replied that his knights won't go unless it is guaranteed they will have sufficient supplies of mead (the Polish chivalry's drink-de-jour) rather than beer (which was considered a peasant drink) or wine (which, I suppose, was rejected as something those pansy Southerners would drink). :P
Quote from: Martinus on September 13, 2009, 07:05:01 AM
Nope, mead.
Essentially when the Emperor called on the Polish Prince to send troops, he replied that his knights won't go unless it is guaranteed they will have sufficient supplies of mead (the Polish chivalry's drink-de-jour) rather than beer (which was considered a peasant drink) or wine (which, I suppose, was rejected as something those pansy Southerners would drink). :P
"What The Fuck? These fucking moooslimbs not only don't make mead but they don't make alcohol at all? What The Fuck? Screw those fucking fuckers I don't give a shit, if I can't have mead I'm not killing heathens!"
oh, sorry, that was the Polish Prince channelling Bill Maher.
I thought it was a fair rule.
But I don't currently play in that thread. It's because I don't feel like it.
The Yi Rule is a good rule. It prevents us Amis asking about the key supplier of saddles during the
Spanish-American War and other somesuch nonsense.
Quote from: Martinus on September 13, 2009, 07:05:01 AM
Nope, mead.
Essentially when the Emperor called on the Polish Prince to send troops, he replied that his knights won't go unless it is guaranteed they will have sufficient supplies of mead (the Polish chivalry's drink-de-jour) rather than beer (which was considered a peasant drink) or wine (which, I suppose, was rejected as something those pansy Southerners would drink). :P
I actually knew the answer to that one. :cool:
Quote from: AnchorClanker on September 13, 2009, 09:39:32 AM
The Yi Rule is a good rule. It prevents us Amis asking about the key supplier of saddles during the
Spanish-American War and other somesuch nonsense.
The Yi Rule is fine with me, but I'm going to need you to surrender your US citizenship because you used the term "Amis". It's UHMURRIKAN :(
It's pretty clear, Languish wants the Yi Rule back. Sorry Yi, it goes back in.
Quote from: Viking on September 14, 2009, 07:15:49 AM
It's pretty clear, Languish wants the Yi Rule back. Sorry Yi, it goes back in.
Groovy with me.
Now the survival of the thread is squarely in your puffin-blood-soaked hands.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 14, 2009, 07:21:01 AM
Quote from: Viking on September 14, 2009, 07:15:49 AM
It's pretty clear, Languish wants the Yi Rule back. Sorry Yi, it goes back in.
Groovy with me.
Now the survival of the thread is squarely in your puffin-blood-soaked hands.
Whale blood soaked thank you very much.