Inner Dialogue Debater Gifts

"Anyway, during lockdown our Jaxen discovered he doesn't actually have an internal monolgue."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

"I really miss being in a committed relationship, Randy." "Which part do you miss most?" "Having someone disagree with you over what you're going to eat, or over what TV shows you're going to watch? Or do you miss having to account for how you spend your time? Or having to explain why you bought yourself something awesome without first getting permission?" "Mostly I miss the back rubs. They don't ask you to wash the dishes first at massage parlors."

Dialogue

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"Now that's a win."

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

'I know it's controversial, but my calculations prove beyond doubt that a nod is BETTER than a wink.'

Always Compatible

'After you grade my report, may I have my intellectual property back?'

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Like Minded

"How do I know God is not real? For the same reason I know people on TV can't see me."

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

And now, for a rebuttal.

The last word.

Woke Jersey Shore

'My opponent hates cats.'

If You Can't Beat Them

Approved Debate Questions

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt

Global warming debate.

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

Debate Club Note

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.

"Free speech" does not mean your ignorance is equivalent to our knowledge!

The partisan cafe

'Just want to give you a heads-up that Danae is outside test marketing her skills in contrarian persuasion.'

Arguing with Edna was enough to make the brain fly out of any logical man.