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Idle Threats
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Tikari Ishin
Motiveless Malignity
Deepwater Hooligans
#41 - 2017-05-11 17:40:44 UTC
Valerie Valate wrote:
An idle threat is one that the issuer has no intention of following through on.

An empty threat is one that the issuer has no ability to follow through on.

Sometimes people confuse these concepts.



What if the issuer has neither?

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Come fight my rifter in 35-RK9, ship provided for free.

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#42 - 2017-05-11 17:41:44 UTC
Tikari Ishin wrote:
Valerie Valate wrote:
An idle threat is one that the issuer has no intention of following through on.

An empty threat is one that the issuer has no ability to follow through on.

Sometimes people confuse these concepts.


What if the issuer has neither?


Well, then it'd be hilarious.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#43 - 2017-05-11 17:56:27 UTC
Valerie Valate wrote:
An idle threat is one that the issuer has no intention of following through on.

An empty threat is one that the issuer has no ability to follow through on.

Sometimes people confuse these concepts.


Don't make me turn this thread around.
Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#44 - 2017-05-11 18:12:57 UTC
Yaay, we're going to Quafeworld !

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Casserina Leshrac
Sanguine Illuminations
#45 - 2017-05-11 18:25:38 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
I swear if you people don't start getting the difference between 'idle threats' and 'off-topic', and keep going off-topic here... I'll... I'll... I'll start making idle threats in the off-topic thread!


Can you tell me which this is?

(Not an idle threat, but not exactly off topic either)

We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.
Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#46 - 2017-05-11 18:41:38 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
Valerie Valate wrote:
An idle threat is one that the issuer has no intention of following through on.

An empty threat is one that the issuer has no ability to follow through on.

Sometimes people confuse these concepts.


Don't make me turn this thread around.


The kids used to think that was an idle threat, until once I - in fact - did turn around!
Arrendis
TK Corp
#47 - 2017-05-11 18:48:07 UTC
Casserina Leshrac wrote:
Arrendis wrote:
I swear if you people don't start getting the difference between 'idle threats' and 'off-topic', and keep going off-topic here... I'll... I'll... I'll start making idle threats in the off-topic thread!


Can you tell me which this is?

(Not an idle threat, but not exactly off topic either)


I could, but then I'd have to kill you.
Bjorn Tyrson
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#48 - 2017-05-12 18:02:31 UTC
Bjorn Tyrson wrote:
I... shall eat... PRECISELY... 27 cupcakes!!!!


I made it through 12 before all the sugar made me feel sick... i am a failure and a disgrace to my people.
Halcyon Ember
Repracor Industries
#49 - 2017-05-12 18:11:56 UTC
I expect better

Queen of Chocolate
Casserina Leshrac
Sanguine Illuminations
#50 - 2017-05-12 18:16:35 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
Casserina Leshrac wrote:
Arrendis wrote:
I swear if you people don't start getting the difference between 'idle threats' and 'off-topic', and keep going off-topic here... I'll... I'll... I'll start making idle threats in the off-topic thread!


Can you tell me which this is?

(Not an idle threat, but not exactly off topic either)


I could, but then I'd have to kill you.


Considering all the "cool friends" that I am making that would be the growing list.

We stand at the Abyss, drawing the Patterns of Fate - Casserina Leshrac, Savant, Sani Sabik.
Morgana Tsukiyo
Samsara Dynamics
#51 - 2017-05-12 19:42:22 UTC
Bjorn Tyrson wrote:
Bjorn Tyrson wrote:
I... shall eat... PRECISELY... 27 cupcakes!!!!


I made it through 12 before all the sugar made me feel sick... i am a failure and a disgrace to my people.


At least you remained on topic and your threat was idle.

You got that going.

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Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#52 - 2017-05-12 23:28:32 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Put that thing back where it came from OR SO HELP ME......


It's a scene.. for the upcoming company play!

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost
Arrendis
TK Corp
#53 - 2017-05-12 23:34:05 UTC
Jason Galente wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Put that thing back where it came from OR SO HELP ME......


It's a scene.. for the upcoming company play!


Why I oughta...
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#54 - 2017-05-13 06:23:55 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
Jason Galente wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Put that thing back where it came from OR SO HELP ME......


It's a scene.. for the upcoming company play!


Why I oughta...


You'se wise guys!

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
ValentinaDLM
SoE Roughriders
Electus Matari
#55 - 2017-05-13 12:22:11 UTC
I would like to idly threaten Aldrith Shutaq's hair, not him as a person, just his hair, with a fast acting bleaching agent.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#56 - 2017-05-13 13:36:26 UTC
ValentinaDLM wrote:
I would like to idly threaten Aldrith Shutaq's hair, not him as a person, just his hair, with a fast acting bleaching agent.


WAR CRIMES!!!!
Aldrith Shutaq
Atash e Sarum Vanguard
#57 - 2017-05-14 02:27:00 UTC
Don't make me cut you...r dreads.

They look awful.

Aldrith Ter'neth Shutaq Newelle

Fleet Captain of the Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris

Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Lord Consort of Lady Mitara Newelle, Champion of House Sarum and Holder of Damnidios Para'nashu
Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#58 - 2017-05-14 09:43:49 UTC
And this is why the Federation must be destroyed....

I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#59 - 2017-05-21 23:15:15 UTC
Syenna Celeste. Just in general.
Aradina Varren
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#60 - 2017-05-21 23:19:14 UTC
This sort of thing.

Feels Pretty Soft to Me.