Peace Talks.
I'd like to welcome you all aboard the SS Ballbag for these top-level peace negotiations.
Around the table today we have representatives from the Dad Rockin' Camden Cowboys, the Primrose Hill Hand Wringing Dinner Party Liberals, Lianarr's Baldness Denial Squad, Gooners Unlimited, the Full-On Ipswich Comfort League, Jude’s Funny Hat, The Spotty A R S E D Boring Troll Parade, Father Mark Y-B, Don Ignacio and the Trailer Park Legion of Doom, The Glasgow Library Creepers, The Brixton Bad Boy Panic Attack, The Rainy Day Skeet Patrol, The Tramp Vomit Massive, Flashy and Marchy's Big Production Number, cliterati.com, the Opposable Thumb Up North Brigade, the Text Messaging Youth Club, smog.net and the People's Front of Walthamstow.
And of course the Silent Floating Pod People will be tuning in on Broadband.
Since the outbreak of G. Diss hostilities two and one half years ago we have seen many casualties. I myself suffered some uncomfortable perineum chaffing during the Great Homophobia Battle of 2002. George Van-Win bears the scars of the Tony Martin Face-Off of mid 2003 and the Salaryman is still receiving treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following the inhuman Plagiarism Ambush of, er, some moments ago.
Comrades I say now: the bloodshed must cease!
What sort of world are we leaving for our chil-der-ren?
What sort of example are we setting for those future generations of Internet saddoes?
How much oil could a gumboil boil, if a gumboil could boil oil?
Must we be judged by history as a gang of obsessive, grudge bearing, intransient, curmudgeonly, vituperative, crepuscular, didactic, perpendicular, er… bootylicious, er… incontinent knobheads?
I say stop the fighting now!
Reclaim the Diss for reasoned, sensible debate!
We have all suffered at each other’s hands; now let us use those hands to lay down our arms. Let us use those hands to shake hands.
Let the flame wars cease and let peace reign forever.
We have only this chance; let us not let it be allowed to let slip for fear that will let bad stuff start up again.
Peace.