Silly rabbit

[shebit]

Note to self: Do not get into 'debates' with rabid fangirls. Crazy!logic always beats actual!logic, and you will therefore always lose.

To paraphrase (because I was actually much more diplomatic):

Fangirl: Some bloke called David Tennant is beating Viggo Mortensen in an online 'most attractive man' poll. Viggo is clearly sexier, so the Tennant

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[kortirion]

Go girl!!

...to use an Americanism I'm never entirely happy with, but heh...? And the dig about Dubya is highly appropriate - Florida voting anyone? About as fair as Zimbabwe's!!

[shebit]

Sadly I didn't actually use the Dubya bit to her - I really was being diplomatic. I merely pointed out that, despite her protestations that deleting cookies so that she could vote again and again wasn't really cheating, it was, in fact, cheating.

And I used my Aragorn icon for my first comment to her and a Doctor one for the second, to show that I was unbiased.

[katsudon]

Also, if you don't consider vote rigging to be cheating then this goes some way to explaining why Dubya is still your President.

...ouch.

It hurts because it's true. ;_;

Though sadly, I'm still fairly certain that the second time around, he actually won with no more than the normal amount of election fraud. (Yanno, as opposed to the abnormal amount that got him in the first time.) :X Which means we've deserved this second term of utter agony.

[shebit]

I kind of wish I really had said the bit about Dubya to the fangirl, but I was being all diplomatic and logical. Also, seeing as her main train of thought was stuck on 'Viggo pretteh', it might have been lost on her.

[bossythecow]

hahah but how did you decide which of your fandoms most deserved your support?

[shebit]

I nearly voted for Tennant just to spite the fangirl, but in the end decided not to vote at all, seeing as one of my arguments had been that it was silly to get so worked up about a pointless online popularity contest.

I don't actually care about the result, I just had to tactfully point out to her that she was an idiot (and giving Viggo fans a bad name).

[helygen]

"Also, if you don't consider vote rigging to be cheating then this goes some way to explaining why Dubya is still your President."

My monitor came very close to wearing my chamomile tea when I read that! hehehe

How sad that this fangirl believes her fandom to be the one and only. From her responses, I'm guessing she's either very young or very immature. I wonder how she'll reply? *g*

[shebit]

Sorry, wouldn't want you to lose the tea. Also, while chamomile is nice and relaxing for people, it isn't so good for monitors.

The fangirl has a kid, so she can't be too young. I was slightly simplifying her answers, just to get the gist accross while I quietly mocked her, but she really did insult our poor Teninch.

[helygen]

Twelve months ago, I probably would have agreed with her on the Viggo vs David thing, but I'm all converted now. She clearly hasn't seen Ten in action ;)

[shebit]

She'd never heard of David, so she's probably never even heard of Doctor Who.

[luckykaa]

Fangirls will be fangirls. She'll get over it.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of pimping of this poll on a lot of Tennant fansites. It's not like Doctor Who fandom is immune to fangirlism.

[shebit]

Obvously, there are also Tennant/Who fangirls (and fangrrls, amongst whom I count myself), but this girl annoyed me by her insistance that for some bloke she'd never heard of to be winning there must be cheating going on - when in fact everyone but her has heard of him and I have no doubt that he could win the poll without his fans resorting to such tactics.

[brightstar61]

Same argument that the Robbie Williams fangirls used when Sean Bean soundly whipped their *man* last year... i.e. we've never heard of him and he's old and therefore ugly 0_o and couldn't possibly have as big a fanbase as theirs, therefore there must be some cheating going on....etc....

Fandom attracts all types, I guess... but the dumb ones' give the rest of us a bad name...

[shebit]

Go Beanie!

And here, have some more Jack.