"Reactions" screaming, taunting, unsportsmanlike tantrums are beneath the sport.

[oiuyt]

I mean, if the cold winter wind blows through chinks around your door, do you stop up the chinks or just sit and inveigh against the wind being so unreasonably cold and uncomfortable?

You could just move to Arizona where the winter wind is merely balmy...

-B

[MyrddinsPrecint]

THIS SUCKS

I just got back to fencing.net tonight, saw this long friggin thread and got all worked up about posting a good reply... then realized you guys already talked it to death.

Yelling should not be allowed. It promotes people to make facebook groups about how great they are in fencing.

Don't worry. You'll get the opportunity again.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

You could just move to Arizona where the winter wind is merely balmy...

-B

And so are the people.

[Freight-train]

All in all, I don't think it's that big of deal. Sure, there is a bit of gamesmenship involved in the shouting at times, but whatever. If you let your opponet get into your head then you deserve the consequences.

On the other hand, sometimes shouts can be quite appropriate, as in Kendo where students are taught to let out a yell as they strike to channel their energy and show good spirit.

Live and let live I say.

[Inquartata]

What was that you were saying about Ad Hominem?

That's not an ad hominem, but a rather famous example of a bifurcated loaded question, to which neither answer can possibly be satisfactory.

Sort of like Epeelion's question, you know?

You could just move to Arizona where the winter wind is merely balmy...

Pssshhh! It would only seem so to you guys from the frozen north! Just because you wear shorts when you're here in December proves nothing about we residents with chinks arounds our doors!