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{{quote|''[[We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies|We didn't start the flame war]]'
''Peeps were hatin' on it 'fore I left my comment''
|'''College Humor''', [http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3980096/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war "We Didn't Start the Flame War"]}}
Something about the anonymous nature of the internet makes people [[GIFT|behave in ways that they wouldn't when face-to-face with people]]. What starts as a minor disagreement like "how to [[Shipping|ship]] two minor characters," or "what constitutes [[Canon]] or [[Fanon]]," escalates until the users are insulting each other, flinging expletives and profanities and shouting at the top of their virtual lungs. Inevitably, someone will be [[Godwin's Law|compared to]] [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]].
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** The Middle East is a flame war hotbed. And, just like the Bible above, a hotbed for ''real'' wars.
* We don't talk about any region of the world around people who either dwell in that region or people who don't like that region. The war can be easily restarted on the internet if you feel up to it.
* Democrats vs. Republicans, in ALL forms of media.{{context}}<!-- Does this mean something if you live in the USA? It means nothing to the
* Along the same lines, the
* The Su-27 [[Reporting Names|"Flanker"]] fighter plane and its derivatives.
** Nothing comes even close to the ones on the [http://f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewforum-f-22.html F-35] [[Reporting Names|"Joint Strike Fighter"]], and it's still only in testing! However opinions are becoming increasingly positive now that [[Take That|it's beginning to show what it can do]]. ''Enough said, please!''
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