17 Jan 05
Those of you who have spent time playing Unreal Tournament might remember that when you have 5, 10 etc kills in a row without getting fragged, a deep voice says stuff like DOMINATING and GOD-LIKE to describe your performance. do you guys think it would be against chess etiquette to supply this kind of commentary during a game?
eg: you fork your opponent's king and queen: DOMINATING!!!
as you deliver checkmate: GOD-LIKE!!!
17 Jan 05
Originally posted by dfm65You could that... or... you could keep your friends.
Those of you who have spent time playing Unreal Tournament might remember that when you have 5, 10 etc kills in a row without getting fragged, a deep voice says stuff like DOMINATING and GOD-LIKE to describe your performance. do you guys think it would be against chess etiquette to supply this kind of commentary during a game?
eg: you fork your opponent's king and queen: DOMINATING!!!
as you deliver checkmate: GOD-LIKE!!!
17 Jan 05
Originally posted by CrowleyLol, his rating is 900 and there was only a piece in it? Hardly DOMINATED , more dominated 😛 🙂
Bah. I have enough friends...
Game 297735 Move 28b DOMINATING!
17 Jan 05
Originally posted by dfm65oh...sorry..... I thought it said 'cheese etiquette......
Those of you who have spent time playing Unreal Tournament might remember that when you have 5, 10 etc kills in a row without getting fragged, a deep voice says stuff like DOMINATING and GOD-LIKE to describe your performance. do you guys think it would be against chess etiquette to supply this kind of commentary during a game?
eg: you fork your opponent's king and queen: DOMINATING!!!
as you deliver checkmate: GOD-LIKE!!!
😛
17 Jan 05
Originally posted by elvendreamgirlBy way of background it is considered polite to cut your cheese from the side and thus preserve the nose (the point at the front of the wedge shape) such that the cheese can be brought out again in a wedge shape (albeit a smaller one) for the next dinner party.
cheese has a nose??
I was once at a dinner party with a load of ignorant social climbers (I know - what was I thinking?). One girl cut the nose off the brie when the cheeses came out. I have never seen anybody made to feel more humiliated about something quite so trivial in my entire life. The hostess really went to town with her.
In my mind caring about such a thing is just amazing, but witnessing the hostess having the bare faced cheek to point out that her guest was being rude by cutting the nose off a cheese was just delightfully ironic. What an ignorant bitch! 😠
Since then I have a tradition with my mate who was there at the time to always cut the nose off the cheese every time we eat together.😀
To cap it off the hostess refused me the use of her chess set after dinner. :'( I left soon after...
18 Jan 05
Originally posted by Corsairi went through a similar thing at a dinner party, also with social climbers - one of whom was my housemate at the time - the dinner was at our house. after shocking the guests out of their complacency by 'accidentally' loading the CD player with doom metal rather than the easy listening my housemate had carefully planned, i proceeded to CUT - yes CUT - my bread roll rather than break it with my hands. i knew it wasn't considered etiquette but i just wanted to show i wasn't one of them. later on, i passed the port to the right, just to stress the point. in both cases i was reminded of the error of my ways, by people who had probably known such things for, oh, a few weeks or months...
By way of background it is considered polite to cut your cheese from the side and thus preserve the nose (the point at the front of the wedge shape) such that the cheese can be brought out again in a wedge shape (albeit a smaller one) for the next dinner party.
I was once at a dinner party with a load of ignorant social climbers (I know - what was I think ...[text shortened]... t off the hostess refused me the use of her chess set after dinner. :'( I left soon after...