Connor MacThread of the Clan MacThread

[Phoebe]

In Ancient Sparta, the children were trained as warriors first by fighting one another, and then by taking their chances against the chickens. They would throw the children in one by one, and those who survived were given their first battle armor.

Today remnants of the practice persist around the globe, as you see in this video. The mad laughter of the sadists filming this carnage can be difficult to listen to, but we need to realize there are people like this in the world.

[Mike]

It's a 2 lb chicken. Stand your damn ground, man!

[poorpete]

25 minutes. Done with this. This will be my last post.

Anyways, did you all miss Phoebe's tripple-post? She's out-absurding your absurdist thread!

[Mike]

It's not an absurdist thread. It's a game. And she's either playing it very poorly or she's so clever at it that she's three steps ahead of everyone else.

I reserve judgement.

[Phoebe]

I don't care about winning; I care only to warn people about the chickens. The down side to all of this is I feel guilty about eating chicken. I mean, they're clearly the enemy, but also clearly intelligent enough to train horses and stuff. How can I eat that?

[Mike]

And they play Tic Tac Toe.

[Phoebe]

Mike is correct. And they win. Starting to get concerned that some of the things I'm watching on YouTube are not legal to watch in the United States. There's an entire sport involving pitting two "cocks" together in a fight. I had heard of this before but had only vague notions what it actually meant. There's a crowded ring of extremely serious looking men - and only men. Women are not so stupid as to willingly fight a chicken. Anyway the men sit around and watch the most superior fighters amongst their group, which are of course the chickens. Not one man in the entire time you watch this thing ever has the temerity and courage to challenge one of the chickens. They all watch on the edges of the fight as if they would like to step in, but they're all too afraid to approach a chicken in a fight. Instead it's just chickens fighting each other. These are not normal looking chickens. These chickens really do look like giant cocks with a tail and two feet. It is completely chilling down to the core of a person's soul, because imagine that a phallus not only can run around but instead of being friendly and pleasant has a sharp biting beak on its end. That's all I'm going to say - I think I've illustrated enough of the nightmare already.

[Tahlvin]

Good morning.

[Mike]

Good morning.

[Kyle]

[Mike]

I was frozen today!

[Eliahad]

I was warm today.

[Mike]

I was freeze-dried today!

[Eliahad]

What happen?

[Mike]

I was par-boiled today!

[Tahlvin]

Good morning.

[Mike]

Very.

[Kyle]

[Mike]

I miss our college days too.

[Kyle]