"Chuddy" is not a synonym for stupid. An offended parent challenges a schoolteacher to a duel by insulting him and slapping him in the face, because the schoolteacher gave his kid a bad mark. In a fit of rage, the schoolteacher accepts the duel, loses the duel, and dies. The offended parent is not arrested, because it was a duel, and winning a duel is not murder. Was the schoolteacher "chuddy"?

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

being prone fits of rage lasting long enough for you to agree, arrange and fight in a duel seems like a chuddy trait to me

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider the alternative where the school teacher doesn't accept and nothing happens to them. That fit of rage is doing a lot of lifting. "Get away from me, maniac" should be all you need for face and dignity. I don't know where this idea that slapping someone being permissable because they say the magic words of offering a duel comes from.

[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know where this idea that slapping someone being permissable because they say the magic words of offering a duel comes from.

I agree that it's absolutely ridiculous in a modern context where dueling has died as an institution, but historically for one to refuse a duel from a person of equal or greater social standing than them would ruin one's reputation.