meaghano:

I remember the first time a boy told me to do this. It was relatively recently, actually, and I didn’t know this was a thing nerds said to each other on the Internet and we were in the middle of a relatively inflammatory (I’m sorry, I really am) moment in the descent from hope that was our, well, interaction and I couldn’t believe he just told me to die in a goddam fire, I mean I almost threw my hands up right then and there, asking myself if a man had ever literally wished me dead to my face before or even said such a mean thing in my chat window (in all caps, no less) and I had to wonder what had gone so terribly wrong in the chasm between two human beings that one person was actually telling the other (me) to die in a fire, not die in a bed or die in a hospital while someone performs elaborate rescue techniques while administering powerful steroids to restart your heart. Die in a fire. A fire! Not drown. Not die in childbirth bring your progeny into the world so that the last thing you see is the person who wished you would die in a fire and the fruit of thy (charred) womb. No. Die in a fire. Like Joan of Arc sans Inquisition (more like the Inquisition of my dignity, amirite). So I’m thinking like my GOD, this is really Unhealthy right, I mean how much more can we emotionally abuse each other until I actually will go out and start a fire just so I can die in it and never have to have my soul crushed via gchat again.

Actually, I said:

me: die in a fire!?!?1?!???

 And he said:

:) :) :) :) :)

And then I probably screamed about it to Peter and Peter told me it was a Thing People Say. And I looked it up on urban dictionary and sure enough.

Anyway: die in a fire.

 This is a reference to flame wars.

A flame war is a heated argument between two individuals, that results in those involved posting personal attacks on each other during or instead of debating the topic at hand.

Most forums have rules that forbid flaming. This is because the quality of conversation on a forum can be seriously degraded by a flame war. Topics can be “hijacked” by two people who would rather flame each other than discuss the subject of the thread.

Some websites encourage flaming for the purpose of entertainment. One such website is www.flamewarforum.com.I can’t come to work today because i’m having a flame war on

thanks to urban dictionary for it. you may or may not have caused that wich led to that post , or some just send it when they feel emotionally harmed in any kind of way.

2 years ago